The Insanity Begins
This weekend I started the long journey of painting my BL minis.
Luckily I have one extra archer and two extra goblins. I used the archer as basic practice. As we say in the R&D world: "Good, I've finally begun making mistakes."
In other words, he turned out hideous.
It's not surprising since I've only ever painted a single mini more than 20 years ago, and that was a hack job on a much larger mini.
Still, I'm optimistic. I have over 200 little suckers to practice my technique. Worst case scenario, I'll pick up a used BL set some place and/or play w/ ugly minis.
I'll throw out updates from time to time.
Labels: quixotic goals
posted by Ted @ 4:04 PM
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4 Comments:
Thanks for the update. Post some pictures as you progress. I'd love to see your results and get tips.
I have a second copy of War of the Ring (bought before they announced the Deluxe Ed)that I plan on painting the minis someday.
Definitely paint lightly. It is then possible to come back and paint over what you don't like.
Did you prime in black?
Embrace the dry brush technique. You get all the shadows and highlights with little work, especially if you prime in black first.
A few quick comments during lunch here. I'll throw up some photos tonight.
With the expansions, I am probably pushing 300 minis. Realizing I want to actually *play* this thing, I have made the strategic decision to keep my standards low.
There's a saying in photography: a good photographer is some one who has taken 10,000 bad photos. At the end of this I'll have 300 bad minis, and I'll be on my way.
I primed in black, and I tried some washing and dry brushing. I am going to switch to white for the rest of this project for the following reasons.
1. My dry brushing techique sort of stinks right now. Plus, I realized I was spending a lot of time and strokes painting my paper towel instead of the mini. Too much time.
2. The black primer showed through almost all the colors and I had to use multiple coats of almost all colors. Too much time.
3. These guys are small. The details are even smaller. If I can just get some color on the board then it'll be a vast improvement over the gray.
One surprise I found is that it's just hard to get the brush to some spots.
My wash results were mixed. I think it's tough to get the right thickness.
I plan to spend more effort on some of the special units like the creatures. There are few of them, and they are a lot bigger. After a few hundred minis my technique should be a lot better, too.
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