Wip fight

I squeezed the dying weekend and a little more hobby juice came dribbling out.  This was spent on basing and underpainting the Eureka Brughel demons and recently arrived Skaven packmaster and rats that I got to spray earlier.

Intrepid of heart, yet noisome on the nostril, my WIP merc's battle a WIP Skaven swarm for Lanie's attention.  Who will be finished next?

Militia/Mercenaries, Merc Ogre, Terror of the Lichemaster halfling, Skaven and giant rats (All citadel minis.)

Yes, my Packmaster has pinky red fur.  Skaven's first colour advert in my first ever issue of White Dwarf had several pinky red Skaven.  Thusly I just had to.  You cannot judge me.  I AM THE LAW.

Simkin (Citadel Mercenaries) appears in the backdrop with his colours blocked in but no flesh work.  Naturally he will be exactly the colours he appeared in WD too.  Seriously, I am glazing layers of orange to get the exact tone as printed.  

I need a life.

(Sigh)

A three color skaven

Damn amine intolerance.   Could not sleep friday night, so did boring things for a bit. Rebasing is my ususal go to in times of antihistamine dazed nights, but after six chaos warriors got new treads I felt that itch to paint.  Something unimportant was required.
I decided to be-slap a skaven about the head with my hairy wand.  No touching up of orcs tonight.
This poor (skaven)blight-er was one of those I recently repaired from the deep morass that was my broken minis tub.  I stuck the legs back on this chap with a couple of pins, during which time I noted that, much like Tom Cruise in interview with a vampire, he was somewhat miscast.  Perfect!

I had visited Steve Deans website a few days ago, and decided to try the old 'three shade layers over black' technique favored by historical grognards, with crisp contrast, strong edging, deep black parting and no blending or glazes.
I knocked him out quickly and finally got tired and went to bed, pleased that one more figure had risen from the lead pile to take its place on the done pile.

As you can see by the picture- he is not so crash hot up close but boy he reads well on the gaming table- much better than most of my figures do.  I can easily make out his rope weapon at five feet- which is surprising.
I must push my brightness and contrast more in general.

Oh, and he is standing on a newly finished hill module for my Skulldred table.  Thats one more thing that was lurking un finished in my studio done.

Skaven

Skaven:  Rat ogre B, A, Plague monk, Standard Bearer

Some partly painted Skaven.  The Grey Seer is based on Ally Morrisons paint job from the era- right down to the red nail polish and blue fur.  Surreal?  Much of the painting back then was- and highly ornamented and patterned.  Skaven where the brain child of Jes Goodwin (who is from Essex like me, turns out) who also designed and sculpted them.  Bless him.  Modern Skaven have more of a rattish face and an overbite - but Jes did 'em best.  You can see Jes' trade mark geometric stances, sense of weight and strong composition- which marked his sculpts out from other designers at the time who had more of a rubbery approach to stances.

Ogre Gladiator, Rat Ogre and Perry Troll

Right to left, Troll (Perry Bros), Ogre Gladiator, Rat Ogre (Jes Goodwin)
The Ogre is based and painted to match his look on the cover of the first edition of Waqrhammer Fantasy Role Play.