Aellic Mornbringer
Adventurer
I want to open with a big thanks to everyone who has contributed in this and the other painting threads. You inspired me to finally launch my own war at fighting the grey tide I've been accumulating for over a decade and never doing anything about. The tips and suggestions have been invaluable.
I ultimately decided to go with Army Painter's Speedpaint 2.0 "Most Wanted" paint set. Due to it being winter, I opted to start with a brush-on primer and went with one each of Vallejo's black and white primers. I have a sneaking suspicion I'll be investing in an airbrush by summertime.
Brushes I went with the threads' consensus and chose a cheap pack to start with. I'm aiming more for the "good enough for table play" standard vs. competition painting.
Lastly, I'm still trying to decide between which magnification option I'm going to go with. My nearly 50 year-old eyes just aren't up to the task without assistance.
Here are the fruits of my first labors...
The bugbears are from a Bones KS 11?? years ago. (another reason I opted for brush-on vs. rattle can primer. This set of Bones minis are definitely that plastic that doesn't react well with the spray primer.) The model on the left is primed black with a white drybrush. The model on the right was primed in all white. Same paint scheme applied to both. I like features of both. The black prime/white highlight is definitely more forgiving for an amateur starter like myself and while the colors overall run dark, I don't find that a bad thing. I'm currently priming a third identical model with white primer on the skin and black primer everywhere else, white drybrushing the black surfaces and then painting it again with the same color scheme to see how that comes out.
The phase spider model is from WizKid's Nolzur's line. I bought a bunch of them on sale and rather than painting them all to look like phase spiders, I plan to paint them a variety of different ways for "generic" large spiders. This is an orange & blood red combo I decided to try on a lark.
I ultimately decided to go with Army Painter's Speedpaint 2.0 "Most Wanted" paint set. Due to it being winter, I opted to start with a brush-on primer and went with one each of Vallejo's black and white primers. I have a sneaking suspicion I'll be investing in an airbrush by summertime.
Brushes I went with the threads' consensus and chose a cheap pack to start with. I'm aiming more for the "good enough for table play" standard vs. competition painting.
Lastly, I'm still trying to decide between which magnification option I'm going to go with. My nearly 50 year-old eyes just aren't up to the task without assistance.
Here are the fruits of my first labors...
The bugbears are from a Bones KS 11?? years ago. (another reason I opted for brush-on vs. rattle can primer. This set of Bones minis are definitely that plastic that doesn't react well with the spray primer.) The model on the left is primed black with a white drybrush. The model on the right was primed in all white. Same paint scheme applied to both. I like features of both. The black prime/white highlight is definitely more forgiving for an amateur starter like myself and while the colors overall run dark, I don't find that a bad thing. I'm currently priming a third identical model with white primer on the skin and black primer everywhere else, white drybrushing the black surfaces and then painting it again with the same color scheme to see how that comes out.
The phase spider model is from WizKid's Nolzur's line. I bought a bunch of them on sale and rather than painting them all to look like phase spiders, I plan to paint them a variety of different ways for "generic" large spiders. This is an orange & blood red combo I decided to try on a lark.
