A Quick Painting Guide for Heavy Rust

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We're always learning new techniques, aren't we?

Originally working on a small group of Nighthaunts as a quick eBay flip and painting challenge, I tried a few new approaches on the models.  Having sold one commission of them, I ended up with an inclination to paint more, and now have getting on for 2,000 points worth to get to at some stage.  Also I picked up a few methods to get some nice effects.  One of them you can have a look at below:

That's it really, No self respecting historical warrior would use a weapon in such condition, but for fantasy miniatures, or for other rusty implements or equipment, this may prove handy.

Enjoy!

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People of the Grassland

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Progress on the Malians' has yet to reach the paint stage, but I did finish a fairly heavy conversion of another twelve miniatures:

 

These represent the various Savannah natives, converted to Islam in name at least, if not wholly in spirit.  Limited sources describe Javelin armed men, with a long spear, sometimes also bows and shields.  As there will be plenty of bowmen in the force I've opted to leave those off here, lest they appear armed to the teeth!  

These were originally Ila, from Northstar Miniatures Darkest Africa range; first order of the day being to chop off all their head dresses.  There was a lot of clean up on the models, due to a rather flashy mould, but the underlying sculpts are good, and physically, exactly appropriate.  

Upping my sculpting skills with furled headscarves and moulded leather shields, again based on a mix of limited primary sources and secondary interpretations.

That's two units ready to go under the brush.  My other major commitments are out the way (more on them soon) so I should press on!

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Terrain for a New Age!

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2021 so far has been about two things hobby wise, a substantial commission taking up most of the miniature painting time, and a flurry of terrain building for the games studio, now I have the luxury of a permanent gaming space and plenty of storage.

So to breeze through the terrain:

American run down house

This is one of the Renedra plastic kits, easy to build and really quite big, also different enough from the Perry American house that the two are not visually identical.

Mausoleum

Dread Statuary

These are from an Endertoys 3D print set, I got from Amazon for £20.  Lots of parts and good value.  But yes, you can totally see the printer lines; these are done from a plastic extrusion (?) style printer - the older type.  Still no complaints for the price, and super quick to paint.

All these pictures are pulled from my Instagram by the way. @Dean_AKI_UK.

Ancient Mediterranean Village

Pig Sty, my favourite piece!

Two storey house detail

These were made from Foamcore, as you may be able to tell, but I used Wills plastic Pantiles for simplicity.  The foamcore is skimmed with a wash of heavily diluted wall filler, the wooden beams are bamboo skewers; and the pig sty roof - my favourite piece - is a little bit of genius (humble, much?).  For that I picked up a bamboo sushi rolling mat and cut out a section to cover the roof, making sure to superglue the bindings where I was to cut them (well before cutting)  this made a simple roof suitable for a low quality farm building.   To add to the effect I snapped a couple of beams.  The fence is made of more bamboo, just chopped up and glued togerther.

12 feet of 5" wide River

9 feet of 3" river and some specialist pieces

Okay so maybe these are the pride and joy; and if I get round to it, totally worth a full tutorial.  My makeshift foam river was a real let-down; so I undertook a major renovation, shifting to MDF rivers sections in two widths.

Well, that feels like quite a lot actually!  So much so, that I should save the figure painting for another day.

A-bientot!

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