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.
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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.