Draconis does….. The Silver Bayonet

May be a bit quiet here for a while.

I will be making some terrain for The Silver Bayonet,  but it will be on a separate project for TerrainFest.

Draconis Does….. TerrainFest 2024

5th November 2024

Quick turnaround on these.

Continuing to try to use minis I already own, these two are representing Vrykolakas, which are feral vampires. In the lore they have wings instead of arms though, so these aren’t quite right tbh.

The left one is an old GW Chaos Fury I found while looking for the troll, and the right one is from Westwind, ‘Dracula in bat form’. They were given the standard attempt at a zenithal prime.

Then I rolled out the contrast paints. The fury was painted with a mix of flesh, purple and medium, and the Drac was painted with flesh, with a touch of purple added in places.

For the fury I picked out the fur with a mix of brown black and purple, added more flesh tone to the head, some pink to the snout, and added red talons with Khorne red up to evil sunz.

For Drac I added some brown for the fur areas, picked out eyes and teeth then added Tamiya Clear Red (TCR) to the face and hands. Job done 😊

….I’ll get on with some terrain at some point…..

4th November 2024

A troll is required in the third scenario. I knew I had several old trolls, and went looking for my old C20 Hill Troll in particular (1987).

Well, I couldn’t find that, but I did find a couple of 1984 C20 Trolls, and an ADD59 Troll as well.

The friend, that I will be playing SB with initially, said he preferred the look of ADD59, so I went with that.

First out I had to strip it back to bare metal, and then find a round base (50mm) for it. I have gone with round because it is a skirmish game and round seems to work best for this.

After adding some sand/gravel basing material I then sprayed it black. This was followed by several stages of drybrushing (and highlighting in places the drybrush wouldn’t fit). I went from a Bronze Green (AK, that I used on my tanks), through two other greens (GW Warpstone Glow and Moot green) that I had used on the gobbos, and finally finished with yellow just on the upper arms, upper back and face.

The claws were picked out in dark Prussian blue, then highlighted up a couple of stages. I painted the teeth with a yellow brown (leather), highlighted up a couple of stages by adding ivory. Mouth and tongue were Khorne Red/Black mix, highlighted up. For the eyes I went from Khorne red, through Mephiston and Evil Sunz, then painted an orange pupil. I perhaps shouldn’t have used so many reds, as the pupil doesn’t stand out as well as it would have done against Khorne red I feel. I gave the troll a gloss varnish coat all over – this was to make it look as if it was wet. (Doesn’t photograph as well though).

So, with this finished I now have all the bad guys needed for the core book’s four cooperative scenarios (and some for later scenarios).

Now I will need to look at doing some terrain……

1st November 2024

I found these goblins while I was looking for the giant rats, and as I said previously I am trying where possible to make use of minis I already own rather than buying new. They were primed with the other Reaper bones minis.

I decided that I wanted to try to give them quite bright skin, so opted to take the skin tone up from a darkish green through to yellow in several stages. At this point I also decided to go with a dark pink for the inside of the ears. As such, I tested it out on one of the gobbos 😊

Happy enough with that, I began the process of rolling it out onto the other 7 minis. The clothing I decided to paint with various shades of brown, mostly contrast, so that the skin would remain the main focus.

Once that was done it was the usual stages of picking out details, weapons, bandage wraps on the arms and legs (in hindsight I should have just washed these rather than painting in over black), eyes and teeth.

For the ones with torches I thought I would try to do a bit of object source lighting on them. Its nothing something I have tried often (but I was quite happy with what I did on Darth Maul in one of my Star Wars projects), but just wanted to try to push myself a little. Started out by thinning down some yellow contrast and putting it down in a reasonably large area that would be hit by the light of the torch. Then I added progressively smaller areas, building up strength in the yellow highlight area. I also added a small area of lighting to each of the bases.

I think it worked reasonably well, but would probably have been better if I hadn’t already highlighted the skin tones up to yellow.

Here they are all ready to go for their one scenario.

26th October 2024

I worked on these two at the same time as the rats. They were painted with a very similar philosophy 😊

The bats were painted over with Black Templar contrast, as was the Black Dog.

The Black Dog was quite simple. I gave it a very light drybrush of grey, then picked out the bone spikes and teeth etc. Then painted up the tongue and inner mouth, washed and highlighted the bone spikes, suitable red eyes and done.

The Bat Swarm had a bit heavier drybrush on the bats themselves. The gravestone was washed and had a few (too subtle) edge highlights. Some details were picked out on the base, and it too was done.

But I realise I have two base rim colours going on with all the minis for this.

Obviously it doesn’t stress me out….. Obviously

25th October 2024

The giant rats, like many other enemy types, are only used in one scenario. As such they will receive a reasonable, but speedy, paintjob.

To start with they were given a coat of either Wyldwood or Black Templar contrast over all the fur areas.

Then I picked out the tails, inner ears, paws and some snouts in a flesh pink. Adding this stage really helped to give some definition.

This was followed by an agrax wash all over, including the stone platform they sit on.

Then just some finishing touches of teeth, eyes, some very minor fur highlights and basic basing – and they are ready for play. They won’t win any beauty contests, but they will do the job.

25th October 2024

Earlier this week, in the spirit of using models that I already own where possible, I dug out my old reaper Bones minis to see what creatures could be usable.

I found minis that would work for the Goblins, the Giant rats, the Black Dog, and one Bat swarm (to add to the two I have painted from before). Also some potential swarms, ghosts and mummies, but I will come back to those

They were given a quick clean up, all washed in soapy water, glued to bases, bit of gap filling to cover slots and base warp and given a zenithal prime (although the grey seems to have gone on a little too heavy on some of them).

21st October 2024

Well, these chaps have jumped the queue a little, as they aren’t needed until the second book. But since a friend had printed them and given them to me with the wolves, they got primed the same time.

Pretty basic paint job on these. I chose two contrast paints, Wyldwood and Basilicanum grey. The five minis were then painted using these or a mix of them.

They were still looking a little plain, so I painted in the ‘vines’ with an earthy green followed by a brighter green (Warpstone glow) to make them a bit more interesting. Then the eyes were painted in white, followed by a bright green wash.

And here they are all finished.

The greens aren’t as bright in real life though.