I try to keep up my tradition to keep up my Minion busy and post something every week. It got tricky, when this first Saturday was so soon after the Free Fire period. I had to make a compromise, though. There should be 11 slayers, but I had to choose and finish just five of them for today. The rest will come next week.
These are old metal slayers from 1990s or something, very much hair and beard, big axes and minimal amount of legs. Quite nice to paint, there are some details, but not too much. Being single peace casts, there are no hard to reach spots either.
The dwarf in the middle has a different orange on his hair and beard than others, a bit darker. I guess I use that for the rest, because it is more vibrant and easier to highlight than the other. They look bit pale. The bases are 20mm squares, some sand and Goblin Green - as it should be. These diagonal bases are bit tricky, really difficult to know which side is front - if any?
One trick I used with these was choose simple colours (dark skin, orange, red, brown and gold) which would all look good after a Reikland Flesshade wash. These are colours which look good after the wash, for example greens and blues can be used and you get uniform effect, but blue and green would look dirty. The colours I chose are brownish, so they look nice. Feel free to follow my (laziness generated) tip. After painting thousands of minis, one learns something. I haven't learnt how to paint good eyes, but this time luck was on my side and the eyes look quite nice. Of course the maniac look fits these minis well, being some other minis, the eyes would look horrible.
Thank you for this, next week more the same and then a theme entry for Sunday. 5 28mm minis for 25 points and 1 squirrel.
Squirrel total: 2; 28mm Napoleonic British, 28mm Fantasy Dwarfs
What a great bunch of Doom seeking Dwarfs Teemu! I also like that you share some tricks for us to get the same levell of painting as you have shown here. Can't wait to see what you come up with next week!
Cheers Sander
Grimnir's beard, these make me happy. Rocking job!
ReplyDeleteGreat entry Teemu, I'm very jealous - I love those slayer models
ReplyDeleteVery nice work on these!
ReplyDeleteA great looking bunch of berserkers. Nice job Teemu.
ReplyDeleteGreat models Teemu and excellent work. Thanks for the tip.
ReplyDeleteWonderful bunch of Slayers, Teemu!
ReplyDeleteThank you all, more Slayers next week!
ReplyDeleteGreat work, these remind me of my first Blood Bowl team!
ReplyDeleteVery colourful figures Teemu!
ReplyDeleteWow! My favorite dwarf models from GW and i envy you for having them! you did a great job on those beards too! nice work, Teemu!
ReplyDeleteNice to hear David! Six more coming next week.
DeleteGood work! Look forward to seeing the rest of this Dwarf unit.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of Beard Oil ! Lovely - KenR
ReplyDeleteMighty fine work, Teemu!
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