Irish Bonnachts:  following a wash of Devlan Mud mixed with a bit of black all that remained was basing.  I do a 3-stage drybrush - Burnt Umber, Iraqi Sand, then Iraqi Sand again - before a couple of sprays of Testor's Dull Cote.  A generous amount of static grass, silflor tufts and leaves finishes the job.

I actually finished these a week ago but waited til I had knocked together a simple little lightbox out of foamcard before I took a final snap.

Irish Bonnachts:  I use Vallejo Natural Steel (mixed with some black) and Brass for the metal and Flat Earth for the wood.  If I want a greyer steel, I will add a bit of white.  Shield designs are from LBM Studios.  Next will be a heavy wash...

Irish Bonnachts: It's Friday and I have my favourite left wing radio talk show on while I add a few blobs of paint.  Have been away at the photo studio this week, helping with the pics for the Age of Ravens book.  I gave the flesh two quick highlights and painted the hair.  For the brown I just painted a thinned coat of Vallejo Charred Brown. The blond is GW's Snakebite Leather then a highlight mixed with white.  In my painting plan excel sheet I have a list of 8 or 9 hair colours that I use - various shades of brown, blond and red.

Irish Bonnachts: Ok, so with a cup of tea and the latest episode of Spartacus Vengeance on it's time to tackle some skin. Just a quick slop of Vallejo Medium Fleshtone straight over the brown undercoat does the job.

Irish Bonnachts:  With the latest episode of The Walking Dead on, I did a quick bit of highlighting.  For this unit I am working in batches of 8 figures; often I will do more but it depends on the project.  Not too much highlighting is required 'cos the shading step will really bring out the detail.  I mainly use Vallejo paints and for the clothing I used German Grey, Flat Brown and Game Colour Earth.  Just a quick highlight or two, nothing too exacting because this is about getting a unit finished quickly to a good gaming standard.

Irish Bonnachts: So, for the rest of February I plan to finish a unit of 32 Bonnachts.  Figures are from Crusader with a few First Corps command added. I started by undercoating black then Army Painter Leather Brown.  The plan is to do these pretty quickly!