Monday, October 9, 2017

Undead Halfling Rogue & Conversion: Bones 3 Figures

    This past week I finished working on my current project of painting the Elves, Dwarves, and Halflings from my two Bones 3 Add-On Undying Lords sets; and painted the Halfling Rogue; one basic one, and one I modified by changing the sword  to a spear, and removing the axe.  There are still the Undying Lord of Death, the Undying Minotaur and Undying Lizardfolk from these sets; but they will all have to wait for another time.
     To read last week's post where I painted the two Undead Dwarf Fighters, click here: Undead Dwarf Fighters.  To see my two Undead Elf Archers from two weeks ago, click here: Undead Elf Archers
      I prepped these figures in the usual way; soaking them in a dish of water with a couple drops of dish-soap added, then giving them a light scrub with a soft toothbrush, and then rinsing and drying them.   I then did the conversion work, and then glued the figures to black-primed 7/8" fender washers with Aleene's Tacky glue, and then glued the washer-mounted figures to a tongue depressor with a couple drops of the Elmer's glue under each washer.
       I began by painting the metal parts, and skeletal parts with Black.  I then drybrushed the skeletal parts with Americana "Antique White", followed by a light drybrushing of Crafter's Acrylic "Light Antique White"
     Next, I painted the shirt on the lefthand one with Americana "Khaki Tan", and then did his pants with Crafter's Acrylic "Forest Green", and his cape with Aleene's "Deep Khaki".  I then moved on to the righthand one, and did his shirt with Accent "Golden Harvest", his pants with Vallejo "USA Olive Drab", and his cape with Anita's "Burnt Sienna".
      I then painted the spear shaft, and axe handle with Americana "Mississippi Mud", and then painted all the metal parts with Americana "Bittersweet Chocolate".  I also used this color to paint the grip on the sword.  Then after everything had a while to dry, I gave the two figures a wash with Citadel "Agrax Earthshade" wash, doing as best I could to avoid getting any on the skeleton parts.
     Once the wash dried, I began highlighting.  I worked on the lefthand one first, highlighting his shirt with Americana "Bleached Sand", his pants with Americana "Jade Green", and his cape with Apple Barrel "Apple Maple Syrup".  Next I did the righthand one, highlighting his shirt with Apple Barrel "Lemon Chiffon", his pants with Ceramcoat "Territorial Beige", and his cape with Americana "Burnt Orange".  Next, I worked on the rust effects on the weapons, first using Duncan Aged Metal "Iron" to apply some reddish rust patches, and then applying some Accent "Golden Oxide".  I also did a little highlighting on the spear shaft with Folk Art "Barn Wood".  Lastly,  I painted their integral bases with Americana "Charcoal Grey".
     When I was done painting the figures, I used some white glue to glue a mixture I made of some fine brown sand, and courser black sand to the base.  When this was dry, I drybrushed the sand and the figures' own bases with Ceramcoat "Territorial Beige", and then with some Americana "Antique White".  When dry, I glued on some bits of grass tufts.
      I let the figures dry overnight and the next day I gave them a coat of Americana "DuraClear Matte" varnish.  Another overnight dry, and I sprayed them with Testor's Dullcote"

     I'm really pleased with how these guys turned out.  I'm looking forward to having a chance to use all these different skeletons in a game at some point.

8 comments:

  1. Really funny and characterful miniatures! I'd like to see them with the other undead to compare them hightwise. Love the colourful way you painted the cloaks! Looks like the fellowship of the ring went astray in the Dead Marshes.

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    1. Thanks, XarfaiEngel! I was drawing my color inspiration from memories of a half dozen or more viewings of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, so your thoughts on the colors are spot on. :)

      That's not a bad idea on the photo. I'll try to take some group shots and post them on Thursday.

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    2. I also wanted to add...as I was looking at the pictures while writing the article, I realized I really wanted a third one of these figures to replace the little hatchet with a frying pan to make a "Samwise had a bad day" figure. :)

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    3. Yea, I was kinda execting one with a pan. They are great nonetheless.

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  2. That spear conversion turned out nicely, and I like how you are using iconic colors for the skeleton versions of the demi-humans.

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    1. Thanks, Lasgunpacker! Yes, I did draw on the typical coloration for the "living" versions of these archetypes to do my painting; to help give a visual clue that they weren't supposed to be simply human skellies.

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  3. Great work, you're really making me wish I'd gone for a second set of the Undying Lords! But that halfling conversion is crying out for a shield!

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    1. Thanks, Unknown!
      Yeah, I went back and forth on the shield... I eventually decided against it, mainly because I didn't have anything that would look good as a halfling-sized shield...

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