Jesse's Semi-Random Semi-Historical Minis

Okay, cool, I'll buy a pot tomorrow. The shade in the pot just looked a bit weird, but yellowy is good for Lannisters.

I have two Guard models finished as well as the alt sculpt Guard Captain.  I only now realize that I somehow got some gold on the Guard Captain's nose and I should probably do more for his skin and hair.  I hate skin.  Helmets all the way.

 

 

 

Taking a break from ASoIaF minis, here are some Perry miniatures I painted up.  Just some dudes with spears led by a knight.  I still have to paint up the shields, and I'm not sure how I want to base them, since the dirt blown fields of 40k don't seem quite appropriate.

For the beige I used Vallejo model color beige with, I'm pretty sure, a heavy wash of Agrax Earthsade, then drybrushed with the model color beige again, then two thin washes of Seraphim Sepia.  For the metal, I used Vallejo metal color Steel as a base, then used a 50/50 mix of that and Vallejo metal color duraluminium, then for the final a 20/80 mix of steel and duraluminium (because I'm too cheap to just buy the whole range, which I really should).  The Vallejo metal colors are airbrush paints, but I've almost exclusively used them as brush paints.

Do you use the Perry minis with any game system or just for painting/collecting?

I would use a wider range of the Vallejo Metal Color line (which is a distinct paint line from the metals in their Model and Game lines). Steel is a good base because it's super dark and has pretty good coverage, but I would build up with some of the lighter but still dark shades. I just bought one of the darkest and the lightest and mix for anything in between which is hard and time consuming. Another thing is you might want to try a watered down black ink instead of nuln oil wash because the GW washes go on sort of matte, while inks are glossier and won't kick out the shine as much. For better advice than I could ever give, check out Vince Venturella's video on the metal color line. Also, any of his other videos.

I originally started getting these dudes to use as a Ninth Age army, but then as interest at the Dojo in the Ninth Age died and my own interest in it died (just too much of a change from Fantasy, maybe I'll check it out later), I sort of stalled on my original project. I got some more to use in an Osprey game called Lion Rampant, which is a simple, skirmish level historical game (though, skirmish for historicals is basically the size of a 40k army). I'd also be open to trying Hail Caesar or something more rank-and-flank at some point.

The Frostgrave minis are cool, and I'm guessing you got either Saga stuff or Gripping Beast minis for the Vikings? If not, you should check those out. Pretty much all the historical minis I have are the Perry's for the sort of late medieval/early modern period, though I did make a stupid impulse decision at Adepticon and bought a bunch of Louis XIV era minis that have sat in a box since Adepticon and will likely never be built.

I figured out a basing scheme for my medievals that I'm happy with.  I'll probably use something similar for the ASoIaF minis.  I'm thinking about clipping them off their bases to do the basing.  Anyway, here are some mounted men-at-arms for either Lion Rampant or the Ninth Age.