Repenter
This Repenter was a lot of firsts for me. It was my first warmachine miniature, and actually my first time doing anything with a more "industrial" feel to it. It was also the first time I had to come up with a color scheme for an entire army, not just a single miniature.
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Gord Ironhead
Gord was originally purchased to serve as the captain of a friend's Mordheim squad, and remained unpainted for years even after it was given to me when its owner quit playing. I eventually decided to go ahead and give him a really fast paint job just so I'd have another dwarf painted and ready for use.
Elquin The Daring
Elquin was chosen to represent an elven Earthdawn character, and with that character came a few color-related challenges. Elves of that world typically follow a philosophy called the Wheel of Life, where each of the five stages is represented by a different outlook on life and different color schemes of dress. Talon followed the path of the scholar, the colors of which are red and yellow.
Blighted Nyss Raptors
I was really excited to paint the Raptors back when they were released while the game was still in Mk I. I really liked the sculpt and I was also a huge fan of their rules on the table. Painting blighted ulk was definitely easer than the Protectorate Vengers' horses.
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Blighted Ogrun Warmongers
I knew how I wanted to paint my Warmongers for quite some time, I just had so many other models I wanted to paint that they fell by the wayside. When I finally got to them I took my blighted Nyss skin recipe and replaced the Sky Blue with Quaker Gray. The resulting color was very similar but was a more muted blue.
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Incubii
Painting Incubii introduced a challenge I hadn't experienced yet on any of my Legion models. I had established very similar but distinct skintones for my Nyss and warbeast models, and the Incubii had both stretched over each other across the figure. That meant maintaining the preexisting schemes without the areas just looking like half were mis-painted.
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Forsaken
This little creature is one of the more blighted nyss in the Legion's forces. Although I'm not completely sold on the sculpt, it's stylistically an interesting piece. The limbs are very evocative of their bigger versions on the Carnivean and Seraph, which makes it fit in well with the army on the table . The elf itself just looks good and blighted in general but I just would have preferred something a bit more dynamic.
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Blighted Nyss Archers
The blighted archers were one of the first Legion units I painted, and show some of my early steps in establishing my highlighting/shading on their dark blue leathers. When I added the unit attachment, which was painted and photographed in a different batch a few months later, to the gallery I realized a couple things. First, that I had gotten used to working with the legion colors and produced smoother results. And second, that the color balance on the unit's pictures was way off.
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Tariq, Dune Ranger Sergeant
Tariq was a fun and relatively simple miniature to paint. Typically I pick miniatures to paint based on need for various table top games, but Tariq is one of the few figures that I purchased and painted simply because I wanted to paint it. Despite being one of my older pieces, it stands up pretty good next to many of my newer pieces.
The armor was done similar to Boris's armor - painted with a mix of Parchment and Goosefeather, washed/inked/stained with a dark brown, then highlighted back up with the original colors. The metallics were shaded with a wash of black mixed with Vallejo Smoke and highlighted by mixing in some Mithril Silver. The skin was the standard Vallejo mix I used back at the time, left a little darker than usual.
- Manufacturer & Line: Reaper - Dark Heaven Legends
- Mini Name: 14094 - Tariq, Dune Ranger Sergeant
- Painted: 2005
Boris, Evil Fighter
Actually deciding what colors to paint on a miniature is usually very difficult for me. I'm a more technically minded person, and grasp the application of colors and shading much faster than actually deciding what colors go together well. However when I saw Boris in the blister at my local store, I immediately knew exactly how I wanted to paint him up.
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