Repainting a skull faced D6

To cut it short, a friend gifted this to me. It looks awful. I decided to improve upon it...

...by painting the skulls in bone (Contrast!) 

Again, I prefered Wraithbone over Bonewhite basecoat for covering power.

New AoS bases for Blazing Firecats

I originally envisioned these models as functional Flesh Hounds, but they never made it to the tabletop. Now, with all these incentives I get to play Khorne, I decided on giving them new bases as well. Who knows, maybe I'll field an entire army of Flesh Hounds one day.

New AoS bases for Flesh Hounds/Warhounds

I painted these Warhounds as Flesh Hounds of Khorne a long time ago, and used them across Warhammer Fantasy, 40k and Age of Sigmar. I resisted when they got changed from biker bases (75x25mm oval) to 50mm round - I had already magnetized oval bases and rectangular movement trays, so none of that.

Now with the new Flesh Hounds kit out they got new base sizes again: 60x35mm oval. After having a jolly good laugh at everyone else, I decided to go with the flow.

Repainting Bloodletters (1)

Introduction

Among my first painted miniatures were two squads of Bloodletters. At the time, I was happy with how they looked. Now, I considered it was time for some retouching.

Retouching a knight and adding a cobblestone base

Introduction

A mini I found languishing in between my unpainted stuff. This guy was fully painted (but not by me), but was not based. I forgot to take a before picture. I decided to try something new, and create a cobblestone base using milliput and a custom rolling pin. I did not take pictures of the process, but it proved to be a success, and I'll replicate it soon enough.

Retouched Plaguebearer swords

Rebasing the elf White Lion

Continuing the trend of fixing up old miniatures, I got out this White Lion of Chrace that I painted for a competition some time ago.

Repainting Sir Galahad from the Shadows over Camelot boardgame

Before

Definitely the best paintjob of the lot - since I did not paint this! Back when I was still painting at the Red Goblin store, the goblin on duty had a bored evening and asked me for something to paint. I like the way the dirty yellow coat and the black and yellow tabard came out - nothing to repaint here.

After

Repainting Sir Percival from the Shadows over Camelot boardgame

Before

A bland figure in full suit of metallic armor and white coat.

After

Sculpting rocks using Milliput

For all the knights from the Shadows over Camelot boardgame, their base was smaller than the metallic washer I glued them on.

For the guys standing in grass or on sand, the filling did not matter, as it was to be covered with flocking anyway. However, for the last two, I wanted bare rocks, so I sculpted the filling a bit.

Repainting Sir Gawain from the Shadows over Camelot boardgame

Before

The eyes are definitely too stark.

After

Repainting Sir Kay from the Shadows over Camelot boardgame

Before

Definitely the worst paintjob of the lot. I messed up the eyes by turning the mini around and not painting both of them from the same angle.

After

Sadly, the face isn't sculpted very well, so the second try still doesn't look 100% right. I corrected the eye again with skintone, but the picture doesn't quite show it.

Repainting Sir Tristan from the Shadows over Camelot boardgame

Before

I like this mini as it's not wearing a boring full metal plate.

The cloak is way too bland - just a purple basecoat.

After

Repainting Sir Palamedes from the Shadows over Camelot boardgame

Before

Only basecoated, as usual. The checker pattern is sculpted on the shield.

After

Daemon Prince replacement horn

For some reason, my Daemon Prince loves losing one of his horns. This is actually the second time I am replacing it.

Fixing ruined tufts of grass

Before moving my minis to their new home (a display cabinet), they languished for some time on open shelves. They accumulated a thick layer of dust, so I gave them a shower before moving. Unfortunately, this ruined some tufts of grass I had on some bases. Instead of standing upright, the grass strands were all laid down, or arrayed every which way.

I used a hobby knife. Accidents are bound to happen, but at least the grass was off.

Cut the grass tufts in four, just as when they were originally applied.

A little finagling was needed with a toothpick, but the new grass tufts are well and placed!

Repainting the Picts from the Shadows over Camelot boardgame

Before

I was very happy with how these guys originally turned out. I was especially proud of the "freehanded" body paint. As far as only basecoated models go - they still don't look bad. Time to enhance! 

Technically I already did some work by gluing them on metallic washers and rounding out the gaps with milliput.

After

Fix the basecoat

Sick Green fixes any spots where the green clothes are chipped, as well as overlaps from the skin. It also works as ridge highlight.

The flesh has chipped more and in some places showed the underlying grey plastic due to the missing primer. Elf Skintone to fix all that.

Heavy Brown to fix any color overlaps on the shields and the belts, and chipping on the boots. I also repainted the fur trim for color variation.

Washes

Biel-Tan Green for enhanced shadows and popping out details on the clothing.

Agrax Earthshade on the shields, weapons, boots, belts.

Reikland Fleshshade on all the flesh, as well as the bronze jewelry and bracers.

Highlights

Chainmail Silver on the shields (10 and 5 o'clock positions) and weapons.

Heavy Brown on the shields (2 and 7 o'clock positions) and the fur trim on the boots.

Elf Skintone to highlight the flesh by accentuating the muscle groups and facial features.

Bronze highlights on the bracers and jewelry.

Details

As for the Saxons, the faces aren't very detailed, so I applied the simplified eye painting by again leaving out the shading of the eyeballs. Just white undercoat and black pupils.

Highlight black hair as per the black cloth painting tip.

The blonde hair was washed with Fleshshade along with the skin. Now I highlighted with Sun Yellow.

I washed the ginger hair with Agrax Earthshade.

Then mixed up Heavy Brown and Gory Red (coming pretty close to the original color tone) for highlights.

I wanted a pale blue so I mixed Magic Blue with Bonewhite (although looking back, simple white probably worked better) to highlight the body paint.

Bases

The milliput and the washer underneath were painted in white primer, then dark green.

A thick layer of PVA glue should fix the added static grass. I don't have the exact type of grass originally used for the basing, but it's close enough to blend in from a distance. I did not apply PVA glue as sealant, however, as it looks plain bad on a non-demonic miniature.

Finished!