Continuing on that Mice and Mystics hype...
I've finished the rest of the cockroaches that I didn't get to finish the first time around
They started out scorched brown with a highlight of dark flesh, then washed back down with a dark brown wash.
From there it was a cash of progressively highlighting with Dark flesh adding vermin brown with each layer.
A Flesh shading was was applied afterwards before being finished off with a final highlight of vomit brown.
And that's it
Yeah!
That's all the bad guys done, and all the good guys done!
Woo!
I'll post a picture of the complete set (hopefully in action), to round off the post count to 10 for this series.
In the end I had a decent time painting them, despite the shoddy plastic the miniature are made from.
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So, until next time
Peace!
-DH-
MOAR UPDATE!
Because consistent updates are a thing for now.
Mainly because I have a boat load of things I want to get finished!
So, more Mice and Mystics stuff.
This time it Nez and Tilda!
Not overly fond of how Nez's fur turned out, but Tilda turned out a lot better than I expected.
That's all of the mice done!
I might re do the bases of Lily and Colin to match these guys a bit better... maybe...
On to the last 5 cockroaches!!
Comments, constructive criticism welcome, as well as general chatter :)
Until next time
-DH-
MOAR update!
If only I'd been this productive my whole life I'd have
A) Finished this project when I starte dit, and
B) Probabaly gotten a lot further in life.
BUT I DIGRESS!
There are no work in progress shots for this, just glorious finished models.
This first is Maginos the mage.
This is where the comeback started.
I just fancied doing him on a whim (I knew leaving them all on my desk would get to me eventually!).
The hardest part was trying to get him to match his more white furred artwork, without being too bright.
The way I decided to get around this was to just make the rest with a lot of viable fur darker (Nez and Filch to some extent).
He'll look light enough by comparison.
I really enjoyed doing his wooden staff and the ladybird.
The next up is Filch.
Filch was largely done to be honest.
I just was really uninspired to do his fur and knife... and that was still true while I was finishing him off.
But I really like how the fur turned out; nice and dark, buy with enough flicks of light grey to give it a good texture.
I also decided to spruce up the knife.
First I added the little poison tip, to give him more of a D&D rouge appearance rather than just a thief... but ti still didn't fit well.
It was then I decided on the slightly battered golden hit for the knife and boom!
Perfect.
2 more down.
2 left to go; Tilda and Nez (as well as 5 cockroaches, but screw those guys).
Nez shouldn't be too hard... just trying to make him stand out as interesting will be the challenge.
I'm still not looking forward to Tilda... too much white :|
Anyway, that is it for this update!
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Until next time!
-DH-
Nope, not actually award winning, just finished.
Check the not so great pictures out!
If you follow me on Instagram you'll know I've actually done a lot more on the Mice and Mystics models.
I just haven't got round to posting them.
I've also done a fair amount of work on my Lizardmen Bloodbowl/ Age of Sigmar stuff, which you can see over on The Underhive Hero.
I'll be getting back into posting a bit more regularly now I'm settling in to my job, and now I've passed my driving test, so watch this space (and my others too)!
See y'all soon
-DH-
Sorry for the delay guys, I have been mega busy.
I've been working on The Cardboard Cartographer.
Recently I posted issue 10 about the Spiel des Jahres winner Colt Express, so go check it out.
Also, I have a new job!
Firstly, this had kind of messed around with my days off and such.
Secondly, it involves painting miniatures, so doing it a lot a home might burn me out a little.
I'm taking my time with my personal projects so I can enjoy them.
With that said I have got some progress on the Mice and Mystics models.
I decided to split the remaining models into little, more manageable groups.
So to start with I worked on Colin and Lily
At this point Colin was almost finished, but Lily had a fair way to go.
But after some work, and a lot of touch us later...
So here is the completed Colin
Front
Back
Lily
Front
Back
And a couple of action shots with the centipede
So those guys are done!
On to the rest!
If you're enjoying this project leave a comment, hit me up @DarkHaZZl3 on Twitter, or check out my instagram where I tend to post things as I do them.
So, you know. Spoilers!
Peace out!
-DH-
I know in the previous post I was talking about smashing out the project... and then nothing.
Well, the UK Games Expo happened. That took a whole lot of my time.
You can check out my write up in issue 7 of The Cardboard Cartographer.
Anyway, in the last few days I've been back on the painting hype.
So without further adieu.
I've done a lot of work on the Spider mob miniature.
If you google tarantula this is pretty much one of the first ones that comes up.
I can't say I enjoyed the spider to be honest.
Theoretically, a tarantula would have enough detail to pick out, with the hairs and such, but this model just doesn't.
The hair is not raised enough to be picked up well with drybrushing, so all of the detail I've done is freehand.
Another area I didn't enjoy painting was the legs. They simple don't match symmetrically. Which is absurd.
The fangs and read stinger/ web thing was done with Tamiya clear green to give it a sickly shine.
Moving away from the enemies, and on to the good guys.
These are the miniatures you really want to stand out
With most miniatures the face is the focal point, however, as these miniatures need to be easily distinguishable at a distance.
To this end I've spent a lot of time focusing on their largest area of difference; their clothes.
When you look at the character cards most of the characters in mice and Mystics the clothes are distinctly different colours.
The red Cape; Colin, green cloak; Lily and white habit; Tilda are all visual distinct from a distance without anything extra being required.
Filch, Maginos and Nez are all shades of brown.
Filch has a hood, and as such that will provide him with a dark brown overall appearance.
Nex only wear a set of blacksmiths armour, so his unique colour will be his fur which is grey.
Maginos the mage is a little of both. Like Flich his cloth s are brown, but like Nez has an uncovered head. However, Maginos has a much lighter appearance due to having lighter fur.
I think these factors will ensure that these three characters will be visually distinct from each other. We'll see.
So yeah, it might not seem like a lot of work, but there is an absolute ton of laying on the cloths, especially on the brighter colours.
Anyway, that is all for now.
If you're enjoying this project leave a comment, hit me up @DarkHaZZl3 on Twitter, or check out my instagram where I tend to post things as I do them.
So, you know. Spoilers!
That is all for now.
Peace!
-DH-
