Merry Christmas everyone!
And what better way to celebrate this festive period than to venture in to The Chamber of Darkness? What's that? Eating cake and watching TV, you say? Well, to each their own.
The target for this challenge was to paint a model in greyscale. Now, I am sure that there are some very talented painters out there who can paint a marvelous figure in greyscale, but given that my painting talents are less focused on technique and more on banging out any old tosh as fast as I can, sadly my entry is probably lacking the skill to really showcase what can be achieved.
Now, I do have some grey minis coming up (hopefully) before the end of the challenge, but there will be some other spot colours on them, so sadly they were out of the running. I don't particularly want to do a full unit/warband/army in greyscale, so I had to cast around for a loose figure that I could spare for this entry. Luckily, I had some spare plastic bits and pieces from my Bolt Action German force kicking around, so I quickly stuck this fellow together and got out all my grey paints.
And that's it. One greyscale(ish) grenadier, 25 points for the mini and Chamber bonus and away we go to the Larder.
Have a great Christmas!
Good looking grayscale grenadier! Does the job nicely!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain.
DeleteHoi Stuart, briliant Greyscale work! I am in awe, since that's one hall I will be by-passing-by-witch for sure!
ReplyDeleteCheers Sander
Thanks Sander. The hall is challenging, but not too difficult if you pick a model/period you are familiar with.
DeleteMore than enough shades of grey, I'd say. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteI think I used maybe 10 shades of grey, if you include those created by the black wash. I can't imagine any situation where you'd need more than 47 or 48 shades of grey tops.
DeleteWell done Stuart! It's interesting that we're getting lots of WWII figures for this Chamber.
ReplyDeleteI almost did a Space Marine, but went for the grenadier due to more familiarity with the uniform.
DeleteI think they lend themselves easier to this chamber due to still images we grew up on? Maybe? 🤔
ReplyDeleteBut I am liking seeing all the different styles of it though! Nice work here!
That's certainly true. The B&W photography we have all seen only covers a relatively short period of time compared to the range of wargaming periods.
DeleteGreat work on the greyscale grenadier. He would work as a spectral Nazi in a pulp game.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I hadn't considered that option for using the figure, great idea Peter.
DeleteGood work!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteAnother quality job on the greyscale, nice one 👍
ReplyDeleteRegards KenR