I want to start this Paint Desk post with a huge thank you to the GirlWhoLauged, for designing the Conflicts in the Imagi-nations Logo!
Their wonderful work is a welcome edition to the blog. The GirlWhoLaughed streams on Twitch every day in the mid-mornings and evenings. at the time of this writing she’s doing a charity event on Sunday February 16th, so please check her out at https://www.twitch.tv/girlwholaughed, and thank you again!
With that being said, lets move on to the Paint Desk! Finishing up with the last batch of soldiers, the goal is…well finishing them up. This means the rifles, skin, the metallics (bayonets, barrels, and the rings), uniform stripes, and basing and flocking.
Here I’ve painted three different colors for the wood of the rifles to give them a little more variance using Vallejo Model Color Yellow Ocher, English Uniform, and Vallejo Game Color Leather brown.
Similarly, I divide up the models to make different skin tones. Now historically most Napoleonic armies didn’t have much variety, but thankfully this is the Imagi-nations so we can take some liberties!
I realize I didn’t get any pictures of painting the metallic bits using Vallejo Game Chainmail Silver but you can see the end steps here. I’ve also done the red stripes on the right sleeves using The Army Painter Warpaints Pure Red as well as some of the epaulets depending on if I could get to them or designated them as a sergeant (which is mostly for aesthetics for this upcoming game). The final step is a wash using Vallejo’s Game Wash Black to blend everything together better.
Finally, using some Elmer’s white glue, some Army Painter Field grass, and 1″x1″ baes, I affix the miniatures to the base. I start by spreading the glue on the base with an old brush, then putting a little glue on the figure’s base with the same brush, and once I have all four miniatures down I sprinkle the static grass over top of them, and gently blow off the excess. And that’s that! There’s a few steps I think I’m going to cut out like the their uniform straps as its time consuming and doesn’t really add much to the over all model.
With that, I think I have enough models to start the campaign with, so It’ll finally be a wargaming blog vs a painting one. Thank you all again for your time and I look forward to rambling in the next post! -Christopher
