OD's SoB Prep Blog

[Old Dwarf]

11/15/14- I started on the 12 Hungry Dead this morning & frankly I'm not overly
impressed (maybe it's just a let down from working on the cool monsters). The
figs have 3 poses -6 are of the same guy,3 Prospector type & 3 female -the
Female & Prospectors are ok but the guy with 6 poses doesn't look Western,
they appear to be wearing T-Shirts! .

I been trying to paint each up differently to offset the limited poses mainly
by painting up the faces as putrid flesh( War Paint Necrotic Flesh) or as
skull faces (Ripper White).The same with the clothing, it's a bit of a
challenge finding appropriate western colors & using different combinations
for the shirts/ pants/ coats but I want each fig. to look unique. At least the
female miniatures dresses offer more of a color choice.

I still have to do the hair, again trying to use as many colors as possible,
then I'll dry brush some grey & white highlights. I'm not doing much in
the way of highlights on the Hungary Dead as their suppose to be dirty
just a little on the obvious places like the knees or hat brims.

I plan to give the finished figs light dry brushings of Harvest Brown
to dirty them up & do the same with blood red in appropriate places.

I must say for a company that debuted with Zombies the Hungary dead
figs. are just so-so . They do however look a lot better painted up than
just with their black base coat.

The Dead are done I just want to put on a little around some of their mouths &
fingers but for now I'm breaking with a Heineken! The Dead take forever
(I guess they figure they have the time) partly because your working
back & forth with so many different colors but mainly because you
really need to be detailed to make the these miniatures pop as the
figs. themselves aren't all that interesting nor is the detail all that great.

They do look good if you make the effort-I did find that they dirtied up
nicely with just a light brushing of GW Codex Grey which gave them
that faded out. I dropped the Harvest Brown idea as it wasn't needed.

Adding the blood spatter was a great idea (I get them every few years)
it really set off the figs. So the Dead are at rest!

Now the final chapter for Wave 1-8 Heroes.-Looks like tomorrow
the battle with the leaves begins so I getting a little head start
on the Heroes today.

I've done the flesh parts & will soft tone ink them later then I'm
doing each Hero separately rather than try to group paint them.
Frankly if you compare the KS fig. renderings to the actual human
Miniatures the actual figs. lose. Again not really a great of detail,
like the Dead they can be painted up to look good but it will take
work.

I'm collecting up all the Hero Cards for painting references, I'm sort
of planning on taking a day on each Hero.

OK perhaps that last bit about 1 Hero a day was a bit over the top.
I just finished the Preacher & The Lawman, frankly there just isn't that
much detail to lavish paint on.

I modified the Lawman a bit making the vest & pants a dark grey to
avoid the sea of black you get on the Hero Card. Love the Army
Painter Insane Detail Brush-was able to pick out the Lawman's Badge
& give it a highlight.

Finished for the day- I think I'll try to do 2 a day from now on.