Sunday morning, I had three hours to spare while Ann was working and as on Saturday the postie had delivered some 3D prints of these lovely six Magi from Iain Lovecraft’s Frost 2 Kickstarter campaign, I decided that I would have a go at painting them up, quickly, to gaming standard using just the paints from the new Army Painter 2 speedpaint set.
I’m planning to base these miniatures on some nice clear bases, so they match the terrain they are placed on, so for now I have attached to temporary painting bases with a drop of glue on one foot. The miniatures have been spray undercoated using Halfords White Primer.
As these Magi hail from warmer climes, there flesh has been painted using Army Painter Noble Skin.
Yellow, is going to be a signature colour on this group. There are two great yellow’s in the Speedpainter range, Maize Yellow and Ancient Honey. I wanted a little more variety, so for dress and hat on this mage I have added a drop of ‘Shamrock Green’ for yellow with a hint of green tone.
I have alos mixed Ancient Honey with a drop of Fire Giant Orange to give another yellow tone option.
All of the miniatures have had a couple of different yellow tones painted on.
The next colour to be added was blue. Once again I have chosen two blue tones, Caribbean Ocean and Tidal Wave. I have tried to paint the areas as neatly as I can, where i have got paint outside the area, I have overpainted with Army Painter Matt White before repainting in the correct colour.
These two ladies have had a couple of areas painted in red tones using Army Painter Speedpaint Carmine Dragon and Moonlake Coral.
The last clothing colour to be used was Ghillie Green. The speedpaints have done a great job highlighting the beautiful engraved patterns on the Mage’s clothing.
The miniatures were finished of with various shades of brown for equipment. black for hair and gold and silver details.
Before taking the miniatures of there temporary painting bases with a utility knife, the miniatures were given a good coat of Army Painter spray varnish.
The clear bases are punched out of some Ultra-Pro Top-Loader cards using a 1″ diameter hole punch.
I like they way that miniatures on clear bases look right what ever sort of terrain they are placed on.
The buildings in the background are 3D printed from designs by Iain Lovecraft. They are from the Frostguard set which is available as an Add On in the current Frost 2 campaign that Iain is running. The game mat is also available as an add on for the Frost 2 campaign along with three other designs that show flagstones with patchy coverings of snow and ice.
I am pleased with how these miniatures have turned out considering that all six were painted in three hours, or 30 minutes per miniature. They are not going to win any painting competitions, but that was not the point. In this article I just wanted to show how the average gamer, could get these painted to a standard to use in a game of Frostgrave, D&D Pulp Alley or similar using Speedpaints just using a morning or evenings hobby time. If you take a look at the Kickstarter page, you will see the sort of job that can be achieved by professional painters really taking there time on the miniatures.
Click here to take a look at Iain’s Frost 2 campaign, which has some really inspiring, professionally painted copies of these lovely miniatures.
Thanks for posting this, it ended up being the best result I could find for seeing how Noble Skin works IRL. Extremely useful.