Angron (II)

It has been roughly five years since I painted Angron for the first time. In fact, it was the very first primarch I bought and one of the reasons I opened the blog.

Today, I am sharing here another Angron that I have just painted. This one is not for my personal collection but rather for a friend that asked me to paint it for him.

I have decided to use metallic colours this time to match the original Forge World scheme.

Also the marines that are being killed are from the Sons of Horus and from Emperor's Children because those are the Legions that we have in the little gaming group we have for Horus Heresy.

It was real fun painting another primarch after so long and I am looking forwars to paint Perturabo in 2021.

Somehow the photos are really blurry and one cannot appreciate any detail, but I can assure you it is not as bad painted as it looks like. I am particularly happy with how the dead marines turned out as well as the skulls, fur and skin. I am not so happy with Angron's face, something around the eyes did not turn out nicely. In the pictures it looks like the eyes are simple splotches of black paint...

Painted in 2020

And here is a comparison of both Angrons.

I can clearly see now that the Angron I originally painted was not positioned correctly, neither the hands nor the marines. Same thing for the sword that I never attached.

The Walking Dead: Survivors (III)

This is the last post (for now) for painted miniatures of The Walking Dead.

Here are the last survivors of the gang, with Mr. Grimes and son!

It has been a blast painting them! I had lots of fun, it was fast, easy and they turned out great! So in 2021 I hope to get more.

I will try to post a few gaming pics soon.

I took special care in painting the face of Rick. Grim determination I would call that expression.

The other two are quite tiny figures, as they are kids.

Please check that I painted Morgan's watch. I love those tiny details!

Painted in 2020

Here is the full painted box

The Walking Dead: Survivors (II)

Second batch of Survivors, including the Governor! I really want to get another version of him. I gave him camo pants, I believe it just fits the miniature so well.

I made an effort to create some woodgrain in the bat of the guy with the blue hoodie. Not bad for a first attempt, but I need to improve.

Painted in 2020

As a sneak peek of the missing survivors for next post, here is zombie Rick Grimes, I think it was some kind of exclusive version.

The Walking Dead: Survivors (I)

 Here are the first survivors painted.

I have used the same base technique as with the zombies, and same colours, but once the Agrax was dry, I gave them a highlight on all areas to make them stand apart from the zombies. When you put them together, you can see the zombies are much darker and not so clean, as the wash gives them this old and dirty look, the survivors, while they might have some streaks of grime or dirt, they are overall much more clean, as they should be!

I also painted the faces, eyes and other details that I did not do with the zombies. Overall I am quite happy as to how did they turn out. And I am looking forward to paint more!

Painted in 2020

The Walking Dead: Zombies (III)

Here is another batch of zombies.

Painted in the same way as the others, with a bit of experimenting on flesh tones.

I have slightly adjusted the bases to add a bit of dirt, still pending some paper or boxes that I will add at the end.

Now, onto the survivors!

Painted in 2020

The Walking Dead: Zombies (II)

 Here is the second batch of zombies, another five. Only seven to go.

Done in the same way as the previous ones, and still having lots of fun with them!

Painted in 2020.

The Walking Dead: Zombies (I)

Here is the first batch of zombies for The Walking Dead.

I have to admit that it was really funny painting these figures, from choosing the clothing to the blood splatters, skin colour and even basing! I am having a blast going over them, they are great sculpts, fast and easy to paint, what else is needed?

As I am trying to make them look like they have been roaming around for a while, I followed this recipe:

1. Paint all base colours
2. Apply Agrax wash over the whole mini
3. Highlight a few details (just in some miniatures that I felt was required)
4. Paint base
5. Weathering and blood

As you can imagine, it is quite fast since after step #2 the miniature is basically done.

Jeans and modern clothing

These figures are quite different compared to what I am used to paint. They wear modern clothes as opposed to chainmail or space suits. Therefore, I have tried to make them look realistic. I have used real clothes as model and in some cases t-shirts or pullovers that I really own.

Since so many of the figures wear jeans, I made several tests before settling on a particular colour. In the end, I always made it with a combination of the following two:

Basing

As opposed to other wargames in which the figures are usually on a more or less unified scenery, in The Walking Dead, they can be on top of many different surfaces and I tried to be consistent with that.

I looked around for inspiration, and found that this blog post helpful; and also did some experiments, not all of them successful, but helped me find a technique with which I was comfortable with.

The different types of bases I can have are:

1. Outdoor
1. Sidewalk
2. Tarmac
3. Grass/outdoor
4. Mix of all of the above
2. Indoor

For this batch, I painted only Outdoor bases. These outdoor bases match nicely the printed board I have, as can be seen below.

Skin

I have basically two types of skin, dark or fair. In the case of fair skin, I tried mixing different colours to give the impression of different states of putrefaction. Greys and browns were used freely to achieve different and interesting combinations. You can see the two main colours used below: Neutral Grey and Highlight HSMC from Panzer Aces Vallejo. For the skin I used Dwarf Skin and Pale Flesh. Sometimes mixed with Bone.

I did not paint the eyes for now. I did a few tests and did not like how they turned out, therefore I left them with just a shadow. I might anyway revisit them at a later stage.

And here are the photos, painted in 2020.

Here one can see that the bases fit the board