Above: I kind of love this guy. It is an old (mid-80s) Citadel “Fighter” back before everything had to adhere to a list. So he makes a good adventurer miniature because he has a bunch of gear. Axe, purse, arrows, bow, dagger. I like this generation of Citadel because they just threw everything on, not to look kewl or to conform to a game mechanic, but because they thought a dude should look prepared. I worked quite a bit on the tartan on this one (Leslie, btw) and I’ve now got the process down. It involves inks covering small flaws and pointillism. I hate pointillism in 2d art, but it seems to work a bit better at this scale.
Left: 87? 86? I think so. After all that shit about Citadel making miniatures that look geared up, this guy forgot his armoured boots and any kind of gear. He just brought a badass hammer and a badass wolf hat. So I guess his errand has a pretty tight scope of expected encounters. Right: Plastic dwarf that I like a lot. After the ninja I did a while ago I realised that a lot of miniatures get more boring if you paint them in dark, albeit realistic colours. When I think dwarves, I think dark green, rich browns and maroon, as though all the dwarves in my frame of reference wear Carharrts. Where’s the fantasy, man? Anyway, I didn’t want him to be bright in the other way that you make miniatures bright and pop, by using heraldic colour combos, so I went with orange and pale blue, which you rarely ever see in heraldry (Netherlands aside) and not together.
