I've finally gotten around to start painting the deathroller miniature. This blog entry outlines a bit of the process.

I started by working on the hobgoblin base, painting a couple of very simple base colours. Brown for the base and a deep green for the skin.

Then some lighter browns and greens for highlights and some very small details for the eyes and mouth area. On top of this, a pretty heavy coat of brown wash and the base is done:

For the deathroller itself, the process was similar. A couple of base colours (red green brown and metal). Then some brown wash for the metal parts to add dirt:

Then more browns and washes for more parts of the model:

Some more green trimming and some highlighting of the metal parts (drybrushing metal colour on top):

And finally the pilot seat. Again, very simple metal colour, brown wash and some detailing for the dials. The seat itself if various shades of brown and bone:


At this point, the pilot is the only thing remaining to be painted. I ended up doing a small conversion, removing the beer stein. Shouldn't drink and drive, right?.. (This may have been due to a mishap during spraying the base colour where the arm was unfortunately lost. Maybe.). Either way, I ended up borrowing (uh, yeah, let's call it that) an arm from a dwarf lineman (of which I have too many anyway).

The pilot isn't painted at this point, but I imagine it'll be a similar process: Base colours (brown, red and green) and plenty of brown wash (my colour scheme allows me to use the same wash for everything, making things very simple). Some detailing and highlighting and then it'll be done. Beyond that it's mostly a matter of gluing the three pieces together and add some grass for the base and the model will be completed. We'll see when I end up getting around to actually doing that though ;)