SteamFrost

So after stopping work on the living room floor tonight, I logged on to the OWC forums to find the most excellent news. Looks like Wizards Tower may be letting us use a few tables every Tuesday night. Which means… I may get to game on a weekly basis! Our club tends to get together every Thursday and Friday at an other store, Fandom II which is located at the core of Downtown… which means it’s hard to find parking and since I live and work in Kanata, a suburb of Ottawa and I tend to finish work at 5pm… getting downtown for some gaming tends to be a tad hard.. especially when the store closes at 9pm. Wizards Tower on the other hand is way closer for me to get to so I’d have more time. This is great

So last night, I got back to work on my March OWC painting vow but got side tracked by other newer minis.
So I got to work on finishing and painting the bases for my Talion Sea Dogs. I decided all the units for this army will have bases that look like they’re on the sand, probably add cannon balls on some bases, shuvles on others… just to add to the Pirate feel.

The Warcasters will be perched on rocks, with the tide splashing up against them.

For the Solos, I was thinking of having them standing near the edge of the water… now… what to do for the Jacks… hmm…

Once I was done the first 6 bases, I went on to paint an other one of my Skorne Acuarii… they don’t look that fun to paint at first glance, but they rock… prime them white, add a thin coat of red so you can still see the white through it… then I add my wash (GW Chaos Black, mixed with equal parts water and VMC Medium Glaze), once that’s dry, I use VMC’s Liquid Gold on all the raised parts of the armor. Then I wash the mini with a mix of GW Brown Ink and water. This adds a nice dark tint to the robes and makes the gold look less… new.

After that wash dries, I start painting the robes, highlighting them with tons of really thin coats of VMC Flat Red mixed with GW Scab Red (this is when a Wet Pallet comes in real handy). When I’m satisfied with the richness of the red, I start with thin coats of just the VMC Flat Red.

Now it’s detail time, paint the belts, buckles, the harpoon and the skin.

Like I said… it’s a fun mini to paint