"Reaper Bones Barrow Wardens Painted" Topic

This week I completed the three Barrow Warden figures from the Bones II, Expansion I set. In looking at the figures, and thinking about how I wanted to paint them, I got the idea of them being from the barrow they guarded, and the image of them being buried in their armor… I had the thought of how old rusted iron looks after it's laid around in the dirt for a while. So the idea hit me to paint them entirely in a decayed rusted scheme. Then I thought I wanted to do more than just give them plain skeletal heads, so I got the idea to give them some sort of magical looking green glow-y heads. I thought the brown rust, and the green heads would look good together.

For the complete artilce on how I painted them step-by-step, please see my blog:
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Great job! They do indeed look rusted and corroded. Nice brushwork and color choices.

Great work on the armor!

Armor looks good, very nice rust effects.

Those are amazing.

I've got some undercoated and I think I will copy the way you painted the armour. I have thought replacing the heads as they look small compared the the chunky armour but maybe they just need a coat of paint.

Cheers
Kieran

Thanks everybody for the kind remarks! I'm glad you like them.

I think that skeleton heads may actually look diminutive when compared to armor meant to be worn over a fully fleshed out body. But I concur they look better once painted.

I like the green Skulls.