It’s taken a couple of months, but I’ve finally got around to painting some of my West Wind Pulp Cairo crowd. These are the first three gentlemen, a water carrier, a rather ugly fellow and a lame old man. Of the three I think the old man with the green turban painted up the best.
It turns out to be a little harder to paint civilians than I thought because you have to make some more interesting colour choices than say with Zombies or German soldiers. Even so I find myself falling back to the typical earthy tones I enjoy painting.
Ah well, all these figures are just innocent bystanders, so their paint jobs don’t have to be that outstanding! I have another seven civilian figures to paint, but doubt I’ll get through all of them before we start playing Pulp .45 Adventure again.
To tie into some of the “tutorial” related comments in a post on Hyun’s site, I’d love to see a tutorial of your painting steps you do for your minis if you’re up to putting one together. Colors used, washing, etc. I really like your painting style, and enjoy seeing the painted pulp minis you’ve been posting lately.
Thanks for the compliments Jason! I certainly have the technology to post just such a tutorial (ie. a digital camera and thousands of unpainted figures :).
Personally I’m never really that happy with my figure painting, as I tend to focus on getting figures finished as quickly as possible rather than spend any time doing a lot of blending/highlighting etc.
But I’m happy to put together a tutorial if you’d like :). I also have a bunch of projects on the go at the moment too that I desperately want to get to the stage that they’d merit actually posting about.
You know how it goes, real life keeps getting in the way of my favorite hobby :)
Honestly, I think that’s the quality I like best about your figure painting – it looks to be a very clean, quick-to-paint style, and table-ready mini once it is done. I know we all wish we could paint Golden-Demon quality minis all the time, but the reality is we want to play a game with them, too.
I wonder if the fact I’m white priming (which puts me in a minority according to a past poll here) helps to contribute to the ‘clean’ look?
White priming certainly contributes to the speed at which I paint figures, because getting decent coverage is much quicker over white primer imho.