Christmas Day Game WiP

Last night, I began putting paint to figures for this year's Christmas Day game - a folk horror scenario set in winter, on the American frontier in the early 1770s.

 First up, a colonist:

 

I was torn on painting style, but knew that "toy soldier" would not cut it for this scenario and the horror atmosphere. For the first attempt, I went with a base color-wash-second base color approach. This figure is *not* done yet - I am just testing to see how it looks.

 

So far, I dig it.  

I still have the musket barrel, shoe buckles, powder horn and flesh to attend to. Although, I do like the flesh as it is - just a white base coat and Agrax Earthshade - there is as large area on his face where it pooled and needs to be brought back down to something a little less "fell in a mud puddle".

 

 Up next, the first of the antagonists (SCS Direct wolves, from one of their monster boxes):

I will be painting up 10 wolves and wanted something quick to paint, but that conveyed the menace they represent. 

Inspired by a suggestion Roger (of The Hobby Blog for Model railways, Wargaming and Military modelling) made in a comment on a previous post, I went with a dry-brush only approach, and the result is just what I had in mind.

For my own notes: Black basecoat, Hippo Grey dry brush, Bridgport Grey dry brush, White drybrush. Easch dry brush layer was progressively less heavy as well.

Frankly, I was quite pleasantly surprised by how much detail these figures have - it was impossible for me to see it on the unpainted figure. So, I had expected the dry brush to yield, well, not much.

Eyes (maybe, and if so, in something unnatural) and basing and I will call these done. And then just 7 more to go 

My hope is to knock out the manfactured figures rather quickly over the next week, so I can have the rest of the time to make some home-made monsters and do any necessary terrain acquisition/creation.