Saturday, 27 April 2019

Burrows and Badgers Barn Owls

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.




45 comments:

  1. Lovely work Simon. Your love of B&B is inspirational. Need to dig some of mine out as a result.

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    1. Thanks 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.

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  2. These are really great figures and your paintwork has done them proud.

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    1. Cheers very much Bryan! they really are great figures to paint.

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  3. Nice! The grass concept is really interesting :)

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    1. Cheers. 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.

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  4. Fabulous looking miniatures, the helmet on the left one is a great conversion and idea.

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    1. Cheers 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.

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    2. Great choice, boob armour on a bird would only look strange imho.

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  5. Great looking Barn Owls Simon, the tone variation is great. Don't be too hard on your long grass looks very useful

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    1. Thanks 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

      Yeah I think it will look alright and do the job I think for now. It just doesn't look as good as I hoped.

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  6. Lovely work on some lovely models

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  7. Those owls look great. Really well done. 😀

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    1. Thanks very much Stew. Got plenty more animals coming. Very much in the mood for them.

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  8. Nice bit of work Simon & the grass looks well :)

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    1. Cheers very much Frank. I hope to try it out this week on a table and see how it looks

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  9. Love those barn owls. Simple but really effective.

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  10. Weird, but wondergully painted.

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  11. These look great! Smart use of the fake grass samples.

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  12. Great looking models and brushwork Simon!

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  13. more and more i see ur models of this game, i get more and more intrigued by it. great stuff

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    1. Thanks 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.

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  14. Great looking owls and I love how you brought out the details on their wings.

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    1. Thanks so much. It was really quite daunting choosing a colour scheme and pattern as Barn Owls have some very intricate feather patterns.

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  15. Incredible 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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    1. Greetings and welcome to the blog! Thank you so much for the kind words.

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  16. Great work, mate. Love the owls!

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  17. I love the wings, they look like poweful and real.
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