Born Painting Miniatures

Presenting my recent project: the miniatures of Warhammer Quest Blackstone Fortress!  With all the support behind this game I was very excited to paint up this demo copy for a local game store.  There are 44 models in the set and the game looks fantastic.  While being in the 40k universe it is a cooperative role playing style board game.  Check out the video from the midst of assembling the models: The models were fun and easy to build with some requiring a hard squeeze to get fully flush.  After priming and a bit of airbrushing this is what they looked like: Work in Progress Player Characters Rogue Trader Janus Draik and Ratling Twins Rein and Raus Priest Taddeus, Navigator Espern Locarno and Zealot Pious Vorne Ranger Amallyn Shadowguide, UR-025, Tracker Dahyak Grekh Rogue Psykers Traitor Guard squad 1 Traitor Guard squad 2 Spindle Drones Ur-Ghuls Chaos Lord and Space Marines Ne...

After airbrushing, repainting and reassembling the knight, I decided the base should kind of match the rest of my recent Imperial forces: the Catachans. The feet were glued to a custom resin base with a lava flow texture.  Testors putty was used under some of the "toes" to make it more stable and flat to the surface.   The next step was to add texture to the dirt areas.  A layer of sand was glued down and it was left to dry completely. Then it was ready to be base coated.  All of the surface was painted black.  Watered down Mournfang brown was added to the dirt and some grey layering added to the water area. More detail was added by dry-brushing tan and bone on the dirt and also layering blues and grey onto the water. I shaded the dirt with agrax earth shade.  The water was shaded with Drakenhof Nightshade.  While the washes were drying, I cleaned up the rim of the base with black. The next step was gluing grass flock a...