The painting muse has turned back around to Burrows and Badgers this week. This time finishing off a pair of Barn Owls. One of which I have modified by adding a slightly different style helmet. These are both from my first order from Oathsworn miniatures leaving just the Shrew Knight left from that batch to do. I am not sure what scheme to do his beetle yet so will start on the kickstarter batch next as I quite fancy doing a frog and another mouse.
I went for two very different colour schemes for the feathers on both of them. I started with tau ochre on the right hand owl followed by a strong tone wash. I then did several drybrushing layers adding a bit of bone to the ochre each time finally using bone on its own. I then washed it with soft tone.
The other owl I started with Ushabti Bone, washed with soft tone then lots of drybrushing again adding a bit more white to the bone each time. I then did pure white feather tips.
I've also been knocking out some more scatter terrain out of my fake grass samples I picked up a few years back. I am not 100% sold on them but they will do to help cover the table.
Those are very cool work!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Fran!
DeleteLovely work Simon. Your love of B&B is inspirational. Need to dig some of mine out as a result.
ReplyDeleteThanks Simon. I am really enjoying the sculpts its nice to be able to read books like Redwall and the mice of Camelot series and have similarly themed minis to paint up whilst the imagination is hot.
DeleteBeautifully done Simon.
ReplyDeleteThank you Michael!
DeleteThese are really great figures and your paintwork has done them proud.
ReplyDeleteCheers very much Bryan! they really are great figures to paint.
DeleteNice! The grass concept is really interesting :)
ReplyDeleteCheers. I am not sold on it quite yet. I will cut up some more and then lay it out and we will see what it looks like then.
DeleteExcellent work!
ReplyDeleteThank you my friend!
Deletewell done old boy
ReplyDeletePip Pip old chap! 'Doffs cap'
DeleteThey're fab.
ReplyDeleteThank you mate!
DeleteFabulous looking miniatures, the helmet on the left one is a great conversion and idea.
ReplyDeleteCheers very much Wouter. It needed something to make it a lot more different than its friend. At first I tried to turn it into a female but didn't like the boob armour I added so removed it and just left the helmet.
DeleteGreat choice, boob armour on a bird would only look strange imho.
DeleteGreat looking Barn Owls Simon, the tone variation is great. Don't be too hard on your long grass looks very useful
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Dave. There was quite a lot of choice when I did some googling. I may add some gold on the white ones armour somewhere just to give it more of a variety
DeleteYeah I think it will look alright and do the job I think for now. It just doesn't look as good as I hoped.
Lovely work on some lovely models
ReplyDeleteCheers very much!
DeleteThose owls look great. Really well done. 😀
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Stew. Got plenty more animals coming. Very much in the mood for them.
DeleteNice work Simon :)
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Tamsin!
DeleteNice bit of work Simon & the grass looks well :)
ReplyDeleteCheers very much Frank. I hope to try it out this week on a table and see how it looks
DeleteLove those barn owls. Simple but really effective.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Mike.
DeleteWeird, but wondergully painted.
ReplyDeleteCheers Joe!
DeleteThese look great! Smart use of the fake grass samples.
ReplyDeleteThank you kind sir!
DeleteGreat looking models and brushwork Simon!
ReplyDeleteCheers very much Ivor. Glad you like them.
Deletemore and more i see ur models of this game, i get more and more intrigued by it. great stuff
ReplyDeleteThanks mate. It is a really cool setting. I am reading through the Redwall series of books which are inspiring me to paint these as they are in a similarly themed Fantasy setting. Though This game has magic and black powder weapons.
DeleteGreat looking owls and I love how you brought out the details on their wings.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much. It was really quite daunting choosing a colour scheme and pattern as Barn Owls have some very intricate feather patterns.
DeleteIncredible work. I just love miniatures. You've done a really great job. Hats off to your work.Thanks for sharing. Keep posting.
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DeleteGreat work, mate. Love the owls!
ReplyDeleteI love the wings, they look like poweful and real.
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