As I mentioned in a previous post about the Realms of Chaos Warband, I actually rolled up 3 beastmen, not 3 hobgoblins. So it was time to finally paint the beastmen. I believe that these are all Bob Olley sculpts and they were great fun to paint. I went with the standard brown beastman scheme and tried to keep the accoutrements in as many natural colors as I could; it's not like beastmen would possess the industry to make their own or with complex dyes or the skills to maintain such that they'd looted. I also followed the same metallic methods I used with the orcs.
Additionally, this was my first attempt at painting oldhammer style faces on the shields. I used James Taylor's excellent tutorial on the subject. The only modification I'd make to his instructions is to do some outlining with a darker version of the base after the ink wash. That made it much easier for a non-artist like myself the visualize the face to be painted. But these were a blast to try. I've held off of attempting these for a long time because I'm very uncomfortable with freehand. But for anyone who hasn't, I highly recommend giving it a go!
Anyway, here are the 3 beastmen individually:
And as a group:
And finally, a better view of the shields:
And comments or critiques (especially critiques on the shields) would be more than welcome!
I think beastmen look the best when they're different and the excellent painting toies those really different sculpts together well.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I feel that way about most fantasy chaos. That's why I'm painting them in small batches for a warband, so I have time to paint them individually without the pressure of getting 20 or so done.
DeleteGreat job on these. I really like what you did with the faces. I've only ever painted one on the banner of my goblin unit. It's so small it never gets noticed.
ReplyDeleteIf it was bad, it'd hey noticed, so there's that 😜
DeleteBilly goats for the win!
ReplyDeleteI've got a stack of these dudes to paint up. Hopefully I can do some freehand shields like you too Andrew :)
God I hate doing freehand! But, with James' tutorial, it wasn't too bad, give it a try 😁
DeleteI love those old Beastmen. Very nicely done sir. The shields are especially charming - think my own beastmen will get the same treatment.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Can't wait to see them (no pressure ;) )!
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