The army of Ariandel

A few photos and a short video showing my method. There’s no real technique to it: just lightly hack into the milliput with a craft knife.

The next regiment for the project were some Victrix Dark Age Archers. To prepare the models for painting, I applied the same method as before: assemble, make cloaks from masking tape, sculpt fur pelts from Milliput, and finally, use the left over Milliput to hide the pudding bases. Next I wanted to add a little variety and originality to the models, so a few arrow bundles were added to some of their bases (taken from a Perry Miniatures English Army Command spruce). Then a simple undercoat of black, followed by a dry-brush of blue-grey then white completed this stage: As these models are unarmoured, and I didn’t want them to look like a sea of blue, I focussed on painting just the legs and arms blue, and the rest of the clothing a range of browns. Everything was then given a brown wash, and based using dried green tea, rocks and tufts: Finally, like with the previous unit, all the bases were given a light scattering of GW snow paint, and then everything was matte varnished (this time I ...