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Chris Palmer

     Just wanted to let my readers know that I didn’t get a Bones figure completed for this week.  I was busy painting figures for demo games we’re going to be doing at the upcoming Cold Wars convention of a new rules set and figure line that Old Glory/Blue Moon is going to be releasing soon called “Wars of Ozz”.  Here’s some shots of the Wizard Zoraster, some of the Munchkin figures I’ve been working on, and one from a playtest we did Friday.

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I was up in Maryland last weekend and had a chance to rejoin the HAWKs for club night. Along with Chris Palmer, Greg Priebe, Duncan Adams and Zeb Cook, we staged a rather large play test of Wars of Ozz. The rules are coming along. Each play test uncovers some minor issue that needs to be addressed or more clearly described in the draft rules, but the basic mechanics are working pretty well.

We have Wars of Ozz official figures of Munchkins, some Winkies, and some of the other allies, but as we continue to play test the rules, we use ersatz figures as stand ins.

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Chris Palmer

   I’m still knee deep in painting stuff for next month’s Cold Wars convention, so once again I didn’t have a lot of time for painting Bones.  Therefore, I selected the simple  Hungering Dead group from the Bones 4 Core Set to work on.
     I prepped the figures in the usual way, soaking the parts in a dish of water with a couple drops of dish-soap added, then giving them a light scrub with a soft toothbrush, and then rinsing and drying them. I then assembled the figures with Gorilla Superglue gel.  Somewhere along the way, I lost one of the heads (it may have gone down the drain while cleaning), so I replaced it with a suitably ghoulish plastic head from the Frostgrave “Cultists” set.  After assembly, I glued them to 1" black-primed fender washers with Aleene’s Tacky glue.  I then glued the washers onto a tongue depressor with a couple drops of Elmer’s white glue.

    My plan for these guys was to try a real pale living-under-a-rock maggoty kind of color.   So, to begin with, I painted them a mix of Crafter’s Acrylic “Light Antique White” and Folk Art “Almond Parfait” (a pale take with hits of pink and yellow).

     When dry, I experimented with giving them a coat of Citadel Contrast “Apothecary White”.

     When dry, I drybrushed them with some Americana “Snow White”.  I wasn’t happy with that as they were looking too plain grey, and so when over them a little with Citadel Dry “Hellion Green” to add some color back in. I then filled their mouths with some Citadel “Reikland Fleshshade” wash, and when it was dry, picked out their teeth with the “Snow White”.  Next, I painted their eyes using Crafter’s Acrylic “Daffodil Yellow” for the “whites”.   

      Next, I painted their loin cloths using, left to right, Citadel Contrast “Wyldwood”, Citadel Contrast “Creed Camo”, and Citadel Contrast “Space Wolves Grey”.  I then did the hair on the righthand one with Citadel Contrast “Black Templar”.

   Well, I’m generally pleased with how the coloration turned out, and I think in general they look pretty good for fast paint jobs.

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Chris Palmer      Some of my readers may remember that last October I posted some figures I had painted for an upcoming new 28mm range that Old Glory/Blue Moon were developing for release this year, called Wars of Ozz.  Buck Surdu is developing the rules to go with he figures, and I was invited in to be part of the playtesting team. 
     We have scheduled a bunch of demo games of the rules for the upcoming Cold Wars convention, (Friday night and all day Saturday), so these past couple months we’ve been busy painting up units for use in the game.   Here are some of the ones I’ve completed recently.

I also did up some sections of Yellow Brick road to use in the game (which I used in the above photos).   I used Christmas garden bricked streets which I subdivided into 2" widths, and then painted yellow with a small roller.

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Chris Palmer

     This past week I kicked my painting for next month’s Cold Wars convention into high gear.   So, I didn’t have a lot of time for painting Bones.  Therefore, I selected the Monk from the Bones 4 Core Set Townsfolk group to work on since it’s a simple figure.
     I prepped the figure in the usual way, soaking it in a dish of water with a couple drops of dish-soap added, then giving it a light scrub with a soft toothbrush, and then rinsing and drying it.  I then glued the figure to a black-primed 1" fender washer with Aleene’s Tacky glue, and then placed the figure in my painting grip.

     I began by painting his face and hands with Reaper MSP “Rosy Skin”.  I then painted his cassock with Americana “Light Cinnamon”, and his sleeves and collar with Americana “Fawn”.

     Next, I painted his cape with Americana “Neutral Grey”, and his shoes with Ceramcoat “Territorial Beige”. After that, I painted his hair with Americana “Asphaltum”, and the rope belt with Folk Art “Barn Wood”.

    I let the figure dry for a while, and then I gave his face and hands a coat of Citadel “Reikland Fleshshade” wash.   When that was dry, I gave his cassock, sleeves, collar, belt, and shoes all a coat of Citadel “Agrax Earthsahde” wash.  I let that dry, and then went over his cape with Citadel “Nuln Oil” wash.

     When all the washes were dry, I painted his eyes and then highlighted his face and hands with Rraper MSP “Rosy Highlight”.  After that, I highlighted his hair with first, Accent Mustard Seed", and then a little Folk Art “Butter Pecan”.  I then highlighted his cassock with the base “Light Cinnamon”, and then some of the “Light Cinnamon” mixed with a little of the “Fawn”.

     Next, I highlighted the collar and sleeves with the base “Fawn”, and then a little of the “Fawn” with some Americana “Bleached Sand” mixed in.  Then, I highlighted the cape with the base “Neutral Grey”, and a little of the “Neutral Grey” with some Americana “Grey Sky” mixed in.  After that, I highlighted his shoes with the Americana “Khaki Tan”.  Lastly, I painted the entire base with Americana “Mississippi Mud”.
      I let the figure dry overnight and the next day I gave it a coat of Americana “DuraClear Matte” varnish. I then used some white glue to glue some fine sand to the base.  When the sand was dry, I painted it with a coat of Americana “Raw Umber”. When this was dry, I drybrushed the sand with the “Territorial Beige”, and then with some of the “Butter Pecan”; lastly I drybrushed it with a little of the “Bleached Sand”.
      Another overnight dry, and I sprayed the figure with Testor’s Dullcote".

    I’m pretty happy with this one.   A simple figure, but a lot of character, and fun to paint.

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Chris Palmer

     This past week I painted a pair of the Spirit Beasts from the Bones 4 Dreadmere Expansion.  There was something about this figure that made me think of the Patronuses in the Harry Potter books and movies (And, yes, that is the proper plural; I looked it up!)  So, I decided to try for that glowing white/blue appearance that is the key feature of their appearance.
         I prepped the figures in the usual way, soaking the parts in a dish of water with a couple drops of dish-soap added, then giving them a light scrub with a soft toothbrush, and then rinsing and drying them. I then assembled the figures with Gorilla Superglue gel.   After that, I glued them to 1.25" black-primed fender washers with Aleene’s Tacky glue.  I then glued the washers onto a tongue depressor with a couple drops of Elmer’s white glue.

   I was going to try these with my new Citadel Contrast Paint, as I thought that would be ideal to give them their blue shadows.  So, I began by prepping them by painting them entirely with Americana “Snow White”.

     I then made a mix of some of the Citadel Contrast “Tallasar Blue”, and some of the blue-tinged Citadel Contrast “Space Wolves Grey”. I thinned this mix with a couple drops of water, and then applied it to the entire figures

     When the Contrast coat was dry, I drybrushed the figures with some of the “Snow White”, and then went back and painted further highlights directly with a brush using the “Snow White”.

    The shot below, using the camera’s flash, helps improve the “glowing” effect I think. 🙂

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