Long story short, I found these an absolute bugger to paint.
It’s a shame, because they’re the first official Frostgrave
figures I’ve bought – brand new and with my own money. Not swapped, cadged or
got second-hand, but fresh in their blisters from Annie.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re cool miniatures and, while I had
to take off more flash than expected, they didn’t take much prep work. But for
some reason I just couldn’t get on with painting them.
Maybe it’s my technique – I’m pretty old-fashioned when it
comes to painting minis: I still like to drybrush on highlights for example –
so despite them having lots of nice texture, perhaps they suited a different
approach… Dunno.
It took me three attempts to get the glowing eyes effect
somewhere near right and... eurgh... in the end I gave up and drybrushed a
dusting of white over everything – maybe they’re related to Frost Wraiths or
something.
For the sake of completeness, here they are anyway.
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