{"id":143,"date":"2018-09-19T07:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T14:13:53","slug":"painting-miniatures-from-shadows-over-camelot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/19\/painting-miniatures-from-shadows-over-camelot\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Miniatures From Shadows Over Camelot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I played <em>Dungeons and Dragons<\/em> (D&#038;D) for a long time. Part of the fun was buying the (formerly) lead figures and figuring out how to paint them. When they&#8217;re done, they can look really impressive. What a lot of folks don&#8217;t realize is that they&#8217;re basically a tiny little paint-by-numbers project. \ud83d\ude42<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of the games that recently hit our table is <em>Shadows Over Camelot<\/em>. As part of the game there are various enemies that have to be defeated including invading Saxons, marauding Picts, and siege engines (aka catapults) outside of Camelot. You can see what they looked like below.<br \/>\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-145\" style=\"max-width: 500px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-33-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-145 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"Slideshow\" aria-label=\"Slideshow\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_145\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_145\">\n            <ul aria-live=\"polite\" class=\"slides\">\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-146 ms-image\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"slide-146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"906\" height=\"885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-catapults.png\" class=\"slider-145 slide-146\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"unpainted-catapults\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-catapults.png 906w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-catapults-300x293.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-catapults-768x750.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-147 ms-image\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"slide-147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1374\" height=\"1614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-saxon.png\" class=\"slider-145 slide-147\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"unpainted-saxon\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-saxon.png 1374w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-saxon-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-saxon-768x902.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-saxon-872x1024.png 872w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-saxon-1200x1410.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-148 ms-image\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"slide-148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1238\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-pict.png\" class=\"slider-145 slide-148\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"unpainted-pict\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-pict.png 1238w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-pict-242x300.png 242w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-pict-768x953.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-pict-825x1024.png 825w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unpainted-pict-1200x1489.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><br \/>\nI say &#8220;looked&#8221; because I&#8217;ve taken steps to address this. The catapults have all been painted (all 12 of them). I have also painted the Holy Grail. I&#8217;m still working on Excalibur and the Saxons and Picts.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Grail was really easy. There are two techniques (other than just dabbing on paint) that I learned while painting D&#038;D miniatures: dry brush and wash. The two are exact opposites. With a dry brush technique you dip your brush in paint and then wipe most of it off, leaving only the barest minimum of paint. Then you lightly run the brush of the high points of the miniature. If it&#8217;s done right, you get nice random \/ organic-looking highlights. A wash is the exact opposite. For a wash, you pick your color and dilute it. Severely. The final solution could very well be ten parts water to one part paint, especially if it&#8217;s a darker color (which it usually is). Then you dip your brush in the extremely watered down paint, and then dab the brush on the miniature.<\/p>\n<p>What happens next is magic. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The diluted paint runs off the brush (it&#8217;s almost water, remember, so it&#8217;s quite fluid) and goes down into the cracks and crevices of your miniature. That means instead of painstakingly trying to outline various features, the paint does it for you! I think the results speak for themselves in the picture of the Holy Grail token below (click to enlarge).<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/19\/painting-miniatures-from-shadows-over-camelot\/soc-painted-grail\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-grail-300x300.png\" alt=\"Painted Grail from Shadows Over Camelot\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-grail-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-grail-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-grail-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-grail.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted Grail from Shadows Over Camelot<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe same technique (wash) was used for the catapults. I started with a base of brown and then painted the details on top of that, and washed the finished item with the same brown tinted with black. The paint flowed into the nooks and crannies and really makes the details pop out.<br \/>\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-156\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-33-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-156 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"Slideshow\" aria-label=\"Slideshow\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_156\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_156\">\n            <ul aria-live=\"polite\" class=\"slides\">\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-158 ms-image\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"slide-158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-catapults-01.jpg\" class=\"slider-156 slide-158\" alt=\"Painted Catapults from Shadows Over Camelot\" rel=\"\" title=\"Painted Catapults from Shadows Over Camelot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-catapults-01.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-catapults-01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-catapults-01-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Painted Catapults from Shadows Over Camelot<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-157 ms-image\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"slide-157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-catapults-02.jpg\" class=\"slider-156 slide-157\" alt=\"Painted Catapults from Shadows Over Camelot\" rel=\"\" title=\"Painted Catapults from Shadows Over Camelot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-catapults-02.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-catapults-02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/soc-painted-catapults-02-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Painted Catapults from Shadows Over Camelot<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><br \/>\nI am going to paint the Saxons and Picts too, but I could not wait to post these pictures. I&#8217;ll come back and post more &#8220;pict&#8221;ures when I&#8217;m done. \ud83d\ude09 (see what I did there&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played Dungeons and Dragons (D&#038;D) for a long time. Part of the fun was buying the (formerly) lead figures and figuring out how to paint them. When they&#8217;re done, they can look really impressive. What a lot of folks don&#8217;t realize is that they&#8217;re basically a tiny little paint-by-numbers project. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modifications","category-painting","tag-shadows-over-camelot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}