Painting more D&D miniatures

Introduction

At the same time as the other batch of D&D miniatures, I painted these, but with a different approach. As they wear mostly metallic armor, I decided to start from a silver primer.

Metallics

I took inspiration from the painting tips, but I only did a basecoat, wash and a single highlight.

Spray Leadbelcher, then wash and highlight with Silver. I did the two on the left with Nuln Oil Gloss,  the half-orc on the right with regular Nuln Oil (to give a dirtier feel), and the elf with Coelia Greenshade, for a hint of magic throughout the armor.

Other details

There is medium and light skin, brown leather, white cloth... all with just a basecoat, wash and highlight, inspired by the painting tips. I tried to do things in parallel wherever possible.

• Heavy Skintone, Reikland Fleshshade, Heavy Skintone
• Elf Skintone, Reikland Fleshshade, Elf Skintone
• Off White, Seraphim Sepia, Off White
• Heavy Brown, Agrax Earthshade, Heavy Brown (for the wood)
• Heavy Brown, Agrax Earthshade, Leather Brown (for the leather)

The only thing unusual here was the orc skin. Heavy Green, Biel-Tan Green, Scorpion Green worked surprisingly well, with the light green diluted from the wet palette.

Then, for some Contrast work. I coated the flying coat (?) of the air cultist with Aethermatic Blue, and did the fires of the fire cultist with Iyanden Yellow, then Gryph Hound Orange. A bit of metallic shine from underneath only adds to the effect.

Strawberry blond hair

Time to experiment with something, to keep things interesting.

Basecoat Heavy Orange.

Overall Seraphim Sepia.

Highlight Orange Fire.

Highlight Orange Fire mixed with Off White.

Wash Fuegan Orange.

After varnish

Paint the goggles in Soulstone Blue.

Basing

Woodland base.

Finished!