A Couple Of Player Characters For D&D

A couple of player characters for D&D

First is a half orc warlock I’m playing in an evil campaign. Made in eldritch foundry. Arrogant, cranky and a blast to play. I saw the skull pauldrons and couldn’t resist

Second is a dwarf fighter I’ll be playing in an upcoming campaign. I was looking at dwarves on myminifactory when i found this fella and figured he would work pretty well so i bought the file, swapped his axe blade for a warpick.

The design is from Trudvang, a norse mythology inspired setting with some truly spectacular art direction.

The original model is by Myr Tabletop on myminifactory

Some friends and I were playing an RPG over discord and i felt like doodling. I got out the pens and pencils and once I started I couldn’t stop. Pretty happy with how it turned out.

The party is going around on a spell jammer, doing mercenary work. All the characters are absolute weirdos and it’s wonderful.

I’m playing as a magical ooze inhabiting a diving suit.

It’s having a snack :)

It begins!

A quick update. I’ll be expanding the Slaanesh cult quite a bit. Do I really need 19 more cultists? No, but is it in the spirit of excess to add 19 more cultists to my already quite large gang? Hell yes it is!

I’ve been sitting on a box of Cawdor for a while and waiting until i felt i could comfortably order some Unmade for some kitbashing

My progress so far with some Redemptionist bits thrown in for good measure. I still need to mess around with the heads in blender a bit so I can start printing.

I’ve remade my old gang leader as i thought he deserved a bit of a glow up. The stilts and even beefier chain glaive really help make him proper menacing.

One of the reblogs of my last post has inspired me to make a step by step walkthrough of how i painted the flesh of that spawn.

To start off the paints i use here are

Macragge blue spray (citadel)

Matt white (army painter)

Hive dweller purple (army painter)

Familiar pink (army painter)

Sigvald burgundy (citadel)

Kislev flesh (citadel)

Rakarth flesh (citadel)

Pallid wych flesh (citadel)

The fang (citadel)

Any of these can be replaced depending on what you’re going for and have access to, this list is only the paints i use in this post

Since i didn’t really take any good pictures of the progress on that spawn I needed a new specimen.

For this task i chose the executioner found in the dungeons and lasers npc miniature pack.

My usual first step when painting anything is a base of Macragge blue with a zenithal highlight.

A zenithal is not necessary for this technique as it’ll get covered up anyway but it does provide some nice guidelines for lighting

Once the base coat is on I hit all the flesh with a dark burgundy. I used my airbrush because i have one and but this step can be done perfectly well with a traditional brush.

For this step I mixed Hive dweller purple and familiar pink from the speed paints range until i had something that looked about right.

Now comes the fun part, starting with a mix of Sigvald burgundy and Kislev flesh i went over the muscles keeping the direction of the light in mind and leaving the undersides of the muscles alone

I then worked my way up mixing in less burgundy for each layer until my brush only contained Kislev flesh

Next i highlighted further with Rakarth flesh and did the brightest spots with pallid wych flesh

Finally I went in and glazed a the undersides of the muscles with The fang

Painting skin like this takes quite a while but it’s generally pretty satisfying the whole way through. While I doubt I’d be mad enough to paint an entire army like this it really is a fun way to make skin really pop on smaller projects.

Thank you to @happyhyenaminis for inspiring me to make this post.

I mentioned this gang in a previous post I and figured it was time to show them off. They're a Cawdor gang turned to the worship of Slaanesh.

Formerly devout followers of the emperor and proud members of the Redemptionist cult, now screeching the praises of a new master.

Seeking atonement for their sins through purifying fire, their prayers were answered but not by the emperor. Something in the flames spoke to them, it spoke of the lies told to them by preachers and propagandists.

Maddened by their experience and turned from the imperial creed, they set out into the underhive to spread their faith. They believe that pain will liberate them from the limits of their mortal bodies and souls and are only happy to share the suffering that others may see the truth.

Members of the cult leave their old identities behind by burning themselves beyond recognition, donning heavy iron masks to be their new faces and adopting new names.

This gang has been in the works on and off for a while now. most of the models are just Cawdor and Redemptionists with a head swap and sometimes a little bit of sculpting. the heads are from Reptilian Overlords Miniatures.

I find that Necromunda's relatively low model count means that you can put quite a bit more time in every model while still keeping it manageable.

It's already a sizeable gang but i do have plans to expand it further. plans include The Unmade from warcry as well as another Cawdor kit to make some of the more deranged members of the cult. I’m also working on a stig shambler I’m building from some spare bits as well as two more spawns made from accursed cultists in the works to represent the higher tiers of chaos spawn