Expansion 1.0: Spidiculous

I hated painting Spidiculous. I really love the model. It’s so fun and wacky and insane, it just can’t help but look good on the table. But man I hated painting it. Should have done it in sub-assemblies instead of fighting all those legs all the time.
That said, instant reward getting to paint the 6 little Spidiculings rigth after. They’re just so super cute. Look at that big smile. Just wanna hug them, and squish them and call them…Will apparently.

Look at that smile ❤

Since Spidiculous doesn’t really have a ‘base’ where he touches the ground, there’s a nekkid dude reaching out model.I believe he’s supposed to be reaching for the ‘nekkid lady lure’. But I thought it would be more fun wrapping him in ‘spiderweb’, fighting his way out of it.

I believe this was the last of the 1.0 expansions that had Survivors as well. Not that I don’t have any survivors left to paint. Lots of pinups still. But done with the Expansion 1.0 ones…I think.

Paints used are Scale75 unless otherwise noted. I didn’t get all colours noted as I was painting. So this is not a complete list

• Purples: SS Camo Dark Shadow, Elandil Violet, Braineater Azure, Coven Purple (Army Painter), Matt White (Army Painter), Werewolf Brown, Fairy Blood
• Greens: SS Camo Dark Green, SS Medium Green, Panzer Yellow, Dunkelgelb Yellow, Savage Beige
• Skin: Basic Flesh, Birch, Wild Beast, Phoenix Egg
• Gold: Victorian Brass, Strong Tone (Army Painter)
• Metal: Dull Aluminium (Vallejo), Dark Tone (Army Painter)
• Bone: Birch, Soft Tone (Army Painter), Thar Brown
• Red: Blood Red, Strong Tone

Captain Banana Spear and his Watergang

I’ve tried so many times. Boiling water, ice cold water, a short overnight sleep in the freezer. But the spear (and the axolotl’s sword) bends back every time. So I’ve stopped fighting it. Guess that’s what you get with Reaper minies. It’s a shame though. There’s some real sweet details on them (like the seahorses on Mr. Spears breastplate-thingy). Without further ado, I present Captain Banana Spear and his Watergang. If you can’t beat them, join them…I guess.

I have no idea what to use these for. None whatsoever. They were just too much fun not to paint them.

Paints used are Scale75 unless otherwise noted.

* Axolotl Skin: Birch, Creme White, Phoenix Egg
* Eyes: SS Camo Dark Brown
* Leather: SS Camo Gray Brown, Rage Brown, Rotten Puss
* Stitches: SS Camo Dark Brown, Birch
* Wood: Thar Brown, Strong Tone (Army Painter)
* Sword Handle: Leaden Sky, Blue Tone (Army Painter)
* Metal: Magnesium (Vallejo), Dark Tone (Army Painter) + Blue Tone (Army Painter), Dull Aluminium (Vallejo)
* Floppy Axolotl Ears (Maaaawh): Fey Pink (Army Painter), Pixie Pink (Army Painter)
* Shield Markings, Book, Cloak, Sword Sheathe: Carribean Blue, Blue Tone (Army Painter) + Water
* Otter Brown Fur: US Dark Brown, Strong Tone (Army Painter), Pearl Grey
* Otter Light Fur: Pearl Grey, Light Tone (Army Painter),
* Snoot (boop!): US Dark Brown + Flat Black, Pearl Grey
* Dark Leather: SS Camo Dark Brown, Dark Tone (Army Painter), Pearl Grey
* Reds: Deep Red, Soft Tone (Army Painter), Pearl Grey
* Clam Inside: Ishtar Pink, Light Tone (Army Painter), Titan Buff (Golden)
* Clam Outside: SS Camo Dark Shadow + Anthracite Grey, Titan Buff (Golden), Strong Tone (Army Painter)
* Pearl: Titan Buff (Golden), Alchemy White

“I’m a true Nord. Simple as that.”

Stormcloak Skirmishers done. Actually they’ve been done for a while. I’ve just been really bad at getting around to taking pictures. Really fun to paint. The modeled details were quite good. Doesn’t leave much room to add your own touch to it, but it does make it a lot easier to decide how to paint them 😉

All paints are Scale75 unless otherwise noted.
* Skin: Basic Flesh, Flesh Wash (Army Painter), Hykey Yellow
* Leggings: Graphite Grey, Nacar
* Leather Tunic: Orange Leather, Strong Tone (Army Painter), Thar Brown, Red Leather
* Tabard: Bering Blue, Blue Tone (Army Painter) + Inktense White, Artic Blue
* Feathers: Blood Red, Strong Tone (Army Painter) + Health Red, Thar Brown
* Gold-ish: Victorian Brass, Strong Tone (Army Painter), Rotbrown Red + Hykey Yellow
* Silver: Thrash Metal, Dark Tone (Army Painter), Heavy Metal

Johannes, Uwe and some Dunkelshelf changes

Yeah, I know. Johannes is missing an arm (and a really nice torch, attached to that arm). I wanted to paint her sub-assembly style. So told myself, I’ll just put that arm right over there. Now, it’s not like the arm is missing. I mean…it’s right there. It’s just that I no longer remember where there is (to quote Terry Pratchet). Still, she’s such an amazing figure (look at those details, wow!), even without her arm. So decided to finish her. Right now I’m toying with the idea of either ordering an extra Johannes and get her, her arm. Or maybe green sculpt some bandages on her, to make it look like she’s simply missing that arm.

Uwe is pretty straight forward. But so much fun to paint. Wanted him colourful, but at the same time, his clothes shouldn’t look straight out the seamstress’ shop. The coulours are a little ‘washed out’ on the photo, making the cute seashells on his shoes blend in with his skintone. It’s a shame, cause in RL that detail is just perfect.

Got Hermans house painted up for the Dunkelshelf. And made some changes to the layout. That’s probably something I’ll do for as long as the shelf exists. Anyway, I moved the church into the background. Means you can no longer see the front door, where I liked some of the details. But you can see more of what’s going on back there, since it was blocking out a lot. Aaaaaand, I’m thinking with the church near the Prancing Peacock and the Dunkelshelf Slum area, the priests are where they’re needed (at least in their eyes). Sinners all around. Also added a walkway to the broken bridge. Like the feel of it being patched up like that. Moved the fountain to the front. Wanna play with some water effects on that one, so it would be a shame it was hidden in the background. And also now I have more space to play with the market area.

Paints used are Scale75 unless otherwise noted.

Joahhnes
Skin: Basic Flesh, Flesh Wash (Army Painter), Pale Skin
Coat: Petroleum Grey, Dark Tone (Army Painter), Mojave White
Leather: Leather Brown, Basic Flesh, Mojave White, Petroleum Grey, Mid Brown (Army Painter)
Reds: Deep Red, Basic Flesh
Yellow Leather: Gelbraun Brown, Light one (Army Painter) x3, Birch
Feather: Thar Brown, Birch, Mojave White
Gold: Gold (Vallejo), Copper (Vallejo), Antique Gold (Green Stuff World)
Metai: Thrash Metal, Dark Tone (Army Painter), Heavy Metal
Wood: Walnut: Mid Brown (Army Painter), Graphite

Uwe
Skin: Basic Flesh, Flesh Wash, Pale Skin
Shirt: Birch, White Sands
Trousers: Braineater Azure, Fairy Blood, Mojave White
Jacket: Deep Red, Basic Flesh, Birch, Health Red, Åetroleum Grey
Leather: Leather Brown, Basic Flesh, Mojave White, Petroleum Grey, Mid Brown (Army Painter)
Beard: Graphite, Dark Tone (Army Painter), Birch
Shell: Ishtar Pink, Light Tone (Army Painter), Birch
Bone: Thar Brown, Light Tone (Army Painter), Birch
Feathers: Surfer Orc Flesh, Undead Flesh, Tiamat Orange, Mediterranean Blue, Thar Brown, Birch, Mojave White
Gold: Gold (Vallejo), Copper (Vallejo), Antique Gold (Green Stuff World)
Metal: Thrash Metal, Dark Tone (Army Painter), Heavy Metal

Summer Vacation Linus

I love and adore Linus. And not just because he bears my name. I seriously love the figure in and off itself. So I might have bought quite a few of him. And while he looks absolutely stunning in his original form, here’s the guy going off on summer vacation. Even servants need a little time off now and then.

And not only is he standing there, enjoying the soft cool breeze, drinking something alcoholic. He is also waiting for his date to show……

Didn’t do much to him really. Sculpted a hat out of green stuff, cut off the candle and glued on a tiny glass. Which has broken off so many times it now sits wonky. But I’m putting that down to Linus being drunk. Lastly I drilled away the keys, and added some flowers. Pretty pleased with how he ended up. Quite annoyed with hos difficult it was to take a picture of his face. Think the shadows from the hat just completely messed up my phones capabilities to do a decent job.

Also, yes, it is fully intentional that he has a quite unhealthy skin tone. He’s slowly developing a background story here, and that plays a part of it.

Dunkeldorf – Prancing Peacock Gifts

I was gifted some early miniatures for the second Dunkeldorf Kickstarter. Beautiful sculpts, with great details and so so sooooo much character. I could go on about the high detail level, the fantastic customer service and the amazing people behind this project. But if you take away just one thing from Dunkeldorf, it should be that these are amazing miniatures in all their ‘normal-ness’. They have fat bellies, scars, hunched backs, drooping breasts. Their not ‘heroic adventures’, just people trying to carve a life for themselves in the town of Dunkeldorf. And I seriously love that ❤

Linus Witzner

I can’t begin to describe how incredibly honored I am that Linus has been given ‘my name’. So the minute my pledge arrived, he was the first to be painted. And what an absolute joy to paint. The details are amazing, and there’s still enough ‘flat’ areas to add your own touch.

After watching Kujo Paintings tartan tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoxHISEa7Lw I decided to spice up his coat on the inside. Wanna get better with my freehand, and this was the perfect excuse. So while not following the tutorial to the letter, I really like the end result, with the amount of time I put into it.

Also wanted a more ‘textured’ feel to the outside of the coat, so did a little stipling, And really like the soft feel it added.

Have been buying some terrain scatter stuff, like fireplaces and the like. And wanted to use it as backdrop for my Dunkeldorf stuff, but haven’t gotten around to paint any of it yet. So did feel a little sad, it would be another ‘portrait’ image. Until I realized I had the perfect furniture of all times. Hero Quest!

(yes! I do realise he’s on a wooden floor base, and it’s stone on the terrain. Haven’t received the wooden flooring for this terrain yet)

Paint recipe. As always mostly Scale75 unless otherwise noted

• Skin: Corpse Pale (AP), Harvester Flesh, Felsh Wash (AP), Basic Flesh, Moonray Flesh
• Eyes: Moonray Flesh + White Sands, Nuln Oil (GW), Innsmouth Blue, SS Dunkelgelb 44
• Tartan: Deep Red, Mars Orange, SS Dunkelgelb 44, Nacar
• Shirt & Trousers: SS Dunkelgelb 44, Nuln Oil (GW), Nacar
• Coat: SS Dunkelgelb 44, Corpse Pale (AP)
• Leather: Brown Leather, Strong Tone (AP), SS Camo Top Lights
• Yellow: SS Camo Ocher Brown, Flesh Wash (AP), SS Camo Top Lights
• Metal: Victorian Brass, Strong Tone (AP), Elven Gold
• Socks: Thar Brown, Flesh Wash (AP), Corpse Pale (AP)

Close ups of the tartan. Really please with the outcome for how quickly it was to make

Bertha

I think she’s my favorite so far. The fact that she had scraped her knee on one side, made it easy to decide she was bleeding through her bandages on the other leg. I also wanted her to stand out a little, and not be too grey and brown. So went for yellow cloth and made her staff a little ‘done up’. She might look grumpy, but she’s a softy on the inside, in my version of Dunkeldorf.

All paints are Scale75 unless otherwise noted

paint recipe:
Skin: Basic Flesh, Reikland Fleshshade (GW), Basic Flesh + Mojave White
yellow: Gelbraun Brown, Mojave White
Chainmail: Leadbelcher (GW), Nuln Oil + reikland Fleshshade (GW), Leadbelcher
Light Leather: SS Camo grey Brown, Agrax Earthshade (GW), SS Camo grey Brown + Mojave White, Agrax Earthshade (GW and yes, again)
Red leather: Camo red Brown + Rotbraun Primer Red, Agrax Earthshade
Poison: Camo Medium Green, Agrax Earthshade, Autumn Green

Herman

I wanted Herman to really stand out, so went for a high contrast using purples and yellows. I think his cloak ended up looking a little ‘bathrobe’ like. But I bet he doesn’t care :p

All paints are Scale75 unless otherwise noted

Paint recipe:
Skin: Olivegrün Green, Pink Flesh, Reikland Fleshshade (GW), Pink Flesh + Mojave White
Purple: Black Leather, Flat Black, Black Leather + Mojave White
Coat: SS Camo Ocher + Nacar, Reikland Fleshshade (GW), Nacar, Orange Leather
Inside Cloak: rainey Grey, Orange Leather, Druchii Violet (GW), Nuln Oil (GW)
Fur: Brown Gray, Nuln Oil, nacar
Gem: Deep Blue + Nacar, Titanium White (Schmincke), Retributor Armor (GW), Reikland Fleshshade (GW), Stormhost Silver (GW)

Günther

It really wasn’t all that easy choosing which character to begin with, but in the end I chose Günther. Cause I just love his hat! ❤ And the little brush hanging from his belt, is just an amazing attention to detail.

All paints are Scale75 unless othewise noted

Paint recipe:
Skin: Basic Flesh, Deep Blue + basic Flesh, basic Flesh + Sand Yellow + Mojave white, reikland Fleshshade (GW).
Greens: SS Camo halion Green, Petroleum Grey, Sand Yellow
Fur: Brown Grey, Nacat
White: Nacar, nacar + Rotbraun Primer red, Titanium White (Schmincke)
beard: Rotbraun Primer Red, Agrax Earthshade (GW), Orange Leather, sand Yellow
Black: Petroleum grey, Mojave White, Nuln Oil
Shoes_ Walnut, Agrax Erathshade (GW), Walnut