The Town of Bolyany
Once a small farming community around a central market-town hub, Bolyany was sparsely populated but always busy, farmer’s wagons poured into its market square every day and traders from all around the lake would come to buy produce. The root crops were withered and meagre by any standard, but still superior to any grown elsewhere around the lake. Local tribes-folk now inhabit the place, a twisted husk of what it once was but still growing some form of crop, namely blood-red sour beets and extremely large varieties of hideous turnip, and pretty much the only source of food around the lake. The sullen masked people whisper prayers to nameless gods, but mostly keep to themselves and tend to their eerie gardens.
Old Growth Turnip Patches
The most abundant and edible resource around Lake Bykaal, these ancient turnip patches are equal parts concealed and defended by Bolyany’s few remaining locals.
These
#Turnip28-styled Freeguilders were made as a response to an off-hand comment made by
Nuno in a hobby chat. He
mentioned that no-one had made any Turnip28 models for the campaign; There
followed a deep bits box dive (I knew I had some 6th edition starter set
Handgunners, still on their sprues!) a late night of clipping and gluing, a
bit of texture paint and flock, then painting over two more evenings.
Yes, he has a bat on his back. No, no-one has told him.
The twin-rooted turnip of Sigmar!
WIP shots from before they were painted:
Is the grey tone/monochrome done with contrast paints, or airbrush/multiple rattle cans, or some other way? I quite like the effect but I'm a little bit unsure where to begin...
ReplyDeleteRattlecans!They were basecoated Chaos Black, then zenithal base-coated with Mechanicus Standard Grey. I dry-brushed them all over with Ushabti Bone then washes them with Nuln Oil. After that I picked out details with browns and purple. The zenithal base-coat and wash do most of the work.
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