Bregan

This mini and base was painted uder 25hrs. Which is quick for me. I guess not having to ponder too long on what to do with NMM highlights has made my painting a bit quicker.

The base was cut out of a plastic container, which was then filled with pebbles and water putty to add weight. Texture was then added, using large pebbles, cork, sand, kneadite etc. I wanted the base to be a crumbled away stockade area.

The base was constructed quite quickly for a tiny Chronopia armoured skeleton (the First Born one). It was then criticised (through Mark's laughter) for the small mini on this imposing base. A larger mini was needed for this big base I had made. Bregan, with his big axe, full armour and spiky bits just so happened to fit the look and feel of the base.

VGC desert yellow, black, white, was used to paint the spikes and the axe shaft. I wanted those areas to be as smooth as possible, keeping in mind the smoothness of the hammer shaft on Sebastian's Virae.

I painted Bregan before the base, but I already knew I wanted that orange weathering powder look. So I needed to stain the bottom of his robes with orange. It is unusual to have stain rings of the rust type on cloth, but I wanted to do it anyway just for the sake of whim.

Since the scene is on a slope, I wanted to have the brown colours darker on the bottom of the slope, gradually working up to lighter colours for the top of the base. This didn't quite work out as well as I would have liked (near the supposed lighter top area), due to the darker colours of the orange brown powders.

The large round rocks were a real pleasure to paint. I base coated them a light blue grey, then highligted through to white, cracks recesses and all. The fun part came next, when I glazed over the rocks with VMC smoke, blacks and browns (which seep into the cracks and recesses. Some of the light blue grey tinge still remained after that, as I took care not to glaze out some of it.

Brown static grass was added after the base was painted. Then with a scalpel I scrapped some soft pastel colours (dark brown, oranges) onto a clean dry pallette. The powders were then added using a clean brush. No water. Just add, dab, stipple and then blow off the excess. If you spray varnish it, the effect will disappear, so this powder adding stage has to be one of the last. Dark brown pastels were used to dirty up the clean looking light brown static grass.

The little flower bud type things are seed pods from grass tumbleweeds. I added them after glueing on the static grass. After the whole base was finished the rocks were given a gloss varnish near the darker areas. I then got carried away and just varnished the whole rock area.

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