The dwarf army is progressing! The mancatchers are done and the bear rider captain is done except for the darklining. I painted her up today. She wasn't a 2 hour paint job, unfortunately.
The missing figures came in today's mail so now I have all the models I need to complete my army list. Next on the block will be 4 archers (piercers). They're the last of the multiple figures, which is true army painting. It's assembly line work but in a way it's fun.
Then I have 2 unique models. One is pretty simple, one has a lot of detail. I'm going to work on the detailed one next and save the simple one as a treat for finishing all of these up. I'm rather proud of myself for getting these done to my painting standards. I probably could have been a lot farther had I not decided that I wasn't going to rush them just to get them done. I'm never happy with the result when I do that.
I've been playing with doing colored washes over the metallics. I started on the mancatchers with a blue wash over the gold to bring out the details and tone it down a little. The bear rider captain (Ursula) got the blue wash over all of her armor and a red wash over the gold on some of her weapons. It adds a nice variety to the metals and I'm looking forward to experimenting with this more.
I've got some time left tonight so I'll probably take that last piercer out of the package and get him ready for priming. I have to glue his arms on and I like them to set for a while before I start painting.
As I've been painting these I've found quite a few mold lines that I missed when cleaning them up. I was tempted to clean them some more and prime those spots again but I know where that leads. There's always mold lines unless you're completely obsessive about it. These aren't for a painting competition. They're tabletop army figures. A few mold lines won't matter. I try to clean them up nicely and if I miss something really obvious I'll go back and get it but I won't worry if I find one here or there.
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