Wights

 Greetings and welcome to my contribution to Deadcember! Me friend left his game board at my house so I thought I would utilize his graveyard for the group shot of my freshly painted Wights.

Now on to the individual shots. I have to state that these guys where extremely hard to get decent pictures of. I’m blaming: 1) I’m not great at taking pictures to begin with. 2) the natural sunlight combined with the Nihilakh Oxide Citadel paint and pure white highlights. The camera had a hard time focusing on especially the faces. I may try taking pics again with artificial light to see if that is better. 

Ok, enough excuses, on to the miniatures themselves.

First up I've got a Citadel Lord of the Rings Barrow Wight B from ME-73.

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Next up is a Marauder Wight B from the MM51 Undead Characters.

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Last up is another Wight from the MM-51 series this time Wight A

                                                   

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The Marauder Wights actually have Marauder shields thanks to a generous friend who gave me a sprue of old Marauder shields a while back. 

On to the painting. The ghostly parts were primed white then painted with GW Nihilakh Oxide and edge highlighted with Vallejo Pure White. This was the first time I used the Nihilakh Oxide and it turned out pretty descent in real life, the pictures just don't do it justice. It has a real nice glow effect. These miniatures represent a transitional period were I started getting into using glazes. The armor was base coated with black then painted with Army Painter Plate Mail Metal and highlighted with Army Painter Shining Silver (I know a lot of people poopoo on Army Painter paints but their metallic paints have the best viscosity for my style, and you gots to roll with what works for you). When the metal was dry I glazed it with brown and black inks to try and give it a rusty look. The purple spot color was Vallejo Model Color Blue Violet glazed with Vallejo Game Color Hexed Lichen for the medium shades, then some violet ink glazed into the deep shadows. The gloves on A and B were painted with P3 Boot Strap Leather glazed with GW Agrax Earth Sade. The pouch on B and the shaft on A's polearm shaft were base coated in P3 'Jack Bone and then glazed with P3 Boot Strap Leather. 

I plan on trying to keep up with this "how I painted this miniature" thing for as long as I can. I like it when I've seen it in other blogs, at least for me it is inspirational. But sometimes in the heat of wet pallet painting it may be hard to recall what colors did what. 

Thanks again for stopping by. Be strange but don't be a stranger!

Tutorial: 28mm doors

 I figured I’d show y’all how I make doors:

I use card stock that comes from cereal or beer boxes.

  

 First I like to cut a strip that’s 1” wide. Then I chop into a rectangle, I believe this is 1” by 1 3/4”. Then I cut up some 1/8” ish strips:

You want to make a ton of these because they’ll be the vertical planking for the doors.

I chop the 1/8ish strips to where they are about the same height as the door.

 

Then I take a shitty dollar store brush and smear glue on the strip.

 

Then I glue them down in vertical fashion, leaving enough room between strips for paint/washes to go.

 

When I wind up with a few, I put them in a press I came up with to keep them flat while they’re drying. The press is two pieces of laminated MDF and two dollar store clamps (clothes pins would work too).

After they’ve dried for a couple of days, I chop the vertical parts off to be even with the rectangle door and make some cross braces.

Glue the braces on horizontal and embellish them with some rivets and a handle. Rivets are tiny beads from Dollar Tree and the handle is from a cheap jewelry making kit from Hobby Lobby.

Attach it to a building.

Frame it in.

Then you’re done!