Soaps Random Projects

I was away for work in another country for a month, came back to my birthday and the thought of painting more tartan was… unappealing. So what could I do? Paint another of the 15 projects on my desk? NO! Buy more stuff and start a new project!

I had a religious experience; I went to a new hobby shop that opened in Glasgow. Element Games, which I had purchased from in the past online. This may not be new for a lot of you, but I have had two hobby shops for most of my life and it’s more suited to RPG’s and CCG’s than models, A1 books and comics, the other is Games Workshop. My choice was a shop where they couldn’t care less and a shop that pretended to care as they were whipped into doing it.

I went into a shop where I knew what I wanted, they had what I wanted, and I paid and left without being harassed. I thought this was impossible. So, I left a shop having left my money behind and picked up some Moonstone (yes, I now have a local stockist my wallet is shaking) and Trench Crusade Carcass Front and being happy. This has never occurred before.

I picked the Lazarist Prophet to start I really have no idea if that’s correct, I picked it as it was the most leadery person. (No, I don’t know the rules)

Got to painting and thought I would do this quick and dirty. It fits the world and I don’t need another long-term project. Couple of weeks and smash out a warband… No, I couldn’t, I painted it and was not happy, slobbering streaking grime on it was doing the model a disservice. It was messy it fitted the world, but I felt it could be more. Instead of two weeks painting a warband I spend 2 weeks painting a model (on and off).

The first model of a game is the most important if you have been doing this for a while. It sets the theme, effort, pallet for the faction and sets the techniques. If you’re just picking up your fist models to paint, I suggest going wild, but I am too old for that.

Used hatching for the cloth a mix of leather and cloth bandages / straps and went for metallic paint rather than NMM but it’s heavily weathered. basing I kept simple most had some kind of base, so I just added acrylic sand paste to smooth transitions. For the skin I wanted a dirty soot type effect, I looked at miners’ skin tones. With all that incense it’s bound to be around the same.

I also decided to do a freehand. I couldn’t make out what was in the official artwork some kind of William of Orange thing. Changed this to Jesus. But still don’t think it looks like Jesus so insert your favourite saint.

I really should learn the lore or at least the models for this. Anyway, here is the result.