Reaper's Men At Arms - 6055

Men at Arms - besides Orcs, every campaign needs to battle some evil warriors up to no good. So without further delay - here are 2 in the Reaper Men At Arms 4-pack (2 axe and 2 sword).

Painting Instructions for Men At Arms
Step 01: Undercoat model with Chaos Black
Step 02: Use Boltgun Metal on all metal
Step 03: Drybrush Codex Grey on base
Step 04: Drybrush Fortress Grey on base
Step 05: Drybrush Skull White on base

Reaper's Man at Arms - 6023

An example model for the painting class for kids. This was painted using Reaper paints and brushes and following the instructions in the learn to paint kit #1.

Finished February 2004.

Reaper's Elbreth Eveningstar - 2618

Oh no! Party getting eaten by big purple monster. Don't worry...

It's a bird, it's a plane...

No - it's SuperElf!!

Oh seriously, I was originally thinking of something borish like brown or green and then it hit me - it's an elf - I can paint it any color I want! All I need now is an S on the cape! There are two front scans - the lewd colors cause all sorts of problems with the scanner optimzation coding, so the first scan is with lighten midtones turned on. The second is the standard / normal scan.

Painting Instructions for Reaper Miniature's Elbreth Eveningstar:
Step 01: Undercoat model with chaos black primer
Step 02: Use Golden Yellow on cloak
Step 03: Use Sunburst Yellow on cloak
Step 04: Use Bad Moon Yellow on cloak
Step 05: Use mix of Skull White and Bad Moon Yellow on cloak
Step 06: Use Ged Gore on boots and gloves
Step 07: Use Blood Red on boots and gloves
Step 08: Use mix of Blazing Orange and Blood Red on boots and gloves
Step 09: Use Regal Blue on shirt and pants
Step 10: Use Ultramarines Blue on shirt and pants
Step 11: Use Lighting Blue on shirt and pants
Step 12: Use Ice Blue on shirt and pants
Step 13: Use Scorched Brown on fur
Step 14: Use Bestial Brown on fur
Step 15: Use Snakebite Leather on fur
Step 16: Use Bubonic Brown on fur
Step 17: Use Boltgun Metal on swords
Step 18: Use Chainmail on swords
Step 19: Use Mithril Silver on swords
Step 20: Use Bronzed Flesh on face
Step 21: Use Elf Flesh on face
Step 22: Use Pallid Flesh on face
Step 23: Use Codex Grey on rocks
Step 24: Use Fortress Grey on rocks
Step 25: Use Skull White on rocks
Step 26: Use Goblin Green on base grass
Step 27: Use Camo Green on base grass

Reaper's Kang, Half Orc - 2514

It's been awhile since I've had a chance to paint and I needed a rogue half orc for an rpg. Reaper to the rescue! Kang, Half Orc is another great looking figure by Reaper. Since this is for an rpg - I placed him on the more traditional 1" square.

Although I completed him on a rainy Saturday, I chose to use the layering technique for two reason. A) I'm quite comfortable using the layering technique versus wet blend and it's been awhile since I've painted and B) I was also working on several honey-do projects in-between layers.

I've provided a left side and right side view but they are very distorted as the hands cause the figure to sit very far off the scanner glass and depth of field is too great. But, you can get an idea, so I have provided them as well as the front and back view.

Painting Instructions for Kang, Half Orc

Step 1: Undercoat model with Chaos Black
Step 2: Use Bronzed Flesh on skin
Step 3: Use watered down Flesh Wash (about 3 to 1) on skin
Step 4: Use Bronzed Flesh and start base highlights
Step 5: Mix Elf Flesh into the Bronzed Flesh for further highlights
Step 6: Add more Elf Flesh into mix for final highlights
Step 7: Use Scorched Brown on leather
Step 8: Use Bestial Brown on leather
Step 9: Use Snakebite Leather on leather
Step 10: Use Bubonic Brown as highlight on leather
Step 11: Use mix of Bubonic Brown and Bleached Bone on leather
Step 12: Use Chaos Black on metal bits on leather
Step 13: Use Boltgun Metal on metal bits on leather
Step 14: Use Boltgun Metal on short sword
Step 15: Water down Sky Blue ink - mix with a bit of Boltgun Metal on short sword
Step 16: Use Mithril Silver on highlights of short sword
Step 17: Use Dark Angels Green on loin cloth
Step 18: Use Snot Green on loin cloth
Step 19: Use Scorpion Green on loin cloth highlights
Step 20: Use Bilious Green on final loin cloth highlights
Step 21: Use Scab Red on hair
Step 22: Use Red Gore on hair
Step 23: Use Red Blood on hair highlights
Step 24: Drybrush Blazing Orange on hair for final highlights
Step 25: Use Pallid Flesh on eyes
Step 26: Use Vermin Brown for eyeballs
Step 27: Use Vermin Brown on teeth
Step 28: Use Bleached Bone on tips of teeth
Step 29: Use Chaos Black on base
Step 30: Drybrush base with Shadow Grey to Ghostly Grey

Reaper's Stern Kestrelman - 2338

Stern with the giant two handed sword is very cool. Complete in March 2002. This miniature was painted using the layered approach - starting with the darkest colors and layering the lighter colors until the final highlight. I also went to a lighter highlight in the hair than I normally do - I'm quite pleased with the result. Another first was the application of the silver on the armor was many trials of a dark metalic, wash, a bit lighter metalic, wash, and treating the metalics like any other part - shading and highlighting. There are several non-painting things about this mini - first, the base is one of Reaper's optional hexagonal bases - very cool. Second, use of static grass. Third - sculpting of the rocks - it's so basic, but my sculpting abilities suck - so this is a big deal.

Recently we've had some discussion regarding backgrounds for our scans in a local painting group - the theory was black is best. I have always used white in the past - so I did some experimenting with different backgrounds made from construction paper. Using a regular 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. I made a 45 degree cut in each corner so that the sides are 1.25" (that cut was 1.75"). I folded each side to make a box top and then placed over the mini. Scanned it on an HP 5P scanner - used the HP Deskcan II software to automatically calibrate and here are the results.

The end results are a test with black (as above), light blue/grey, green, white. Since the paper sits 1.25" off the scanner - it tends to darken a bit more than what the paper really is. Select each one and take a good look at big picture. Let me know which background you like best by posting your comments.



Painting Instructions for Stern Kestrelman

Step 1: Undercoat model with White Primer
Step 2: Use Dwarf flesh on face
Step 3: Use Bronzed Flesh on face
Step 4: Use Elf Flesh on face
Step 5: Use Dark Flesh on hair
Step 6: Use Chaos Black on all armor and steel
Step 7: Mix Chaos Black and Red Gore for cloak
Step 8: Use Scorched Brown on Leather
Step 9: Use Boltgun Metal on all metal armor
Step 10: Use watered down Flesh Wash and Regal Blue mix on armor
Step 11: Use watered down Chainmail on armor
Step 12: Highlight with watered down Mithril Silver
Step 13: Use Red Gore on cloak
Step 14: Use Red Gore and Blood Red mix for cloak highlights
Step 15: Use Red Gore and Blood Red mix for basecoat on sword
Step 16: Continue adding Blood Red to mix, then Blazing Orange, then Golden Yellow to cloak and sword
Step 17: Water down Golden Yellow and wash over sword
Step 18: Use Vermin Brown as first layer of highlight on hair
Step 19: Drybrush Leprous Brown on hair
Step 20: Drybrush mix of Leprous Brown and Bleached Bone on hair
Step 21: Use Bestial Brown on all leather
Step 22: Highlight leather with Snakebite Leather
Step 23: Final highlight leather with Bubonic Brown
Step 24: Wash final highlights with Snakebite Leather
Step 25: Use Chaos Black on sides of base
Step 26: Drybrush Camo Green on base
Step 27: Use Chaos Black on rocks
Step 28: Drybrush rocks with Shadow Grey
Step 29: Drybrush rocks with Space Wolves Grey