incrementally grows his Volcano Dwarf army.
For the first step, I did just a few colors. I almost always do flesh first. I used a peach-colored marker for this. Note also the Pigma brand brown "brush" marker. These markers, with eight colors available, are very nice, and you can get a variety of line widths by varying the pressure and by bending the bristles down for more coverage. I usually paint with a reddish-brown for leather, and this particular marker was about the closest to what I like to use.
The second stage of painting was just more of the grunt work of laying on colors. I chose the most useful markers for the color and detail I wanted to try to get. You can sort of jam the marker tip into small areas with even a broader-tipped marker.
Most painted Battlelore figures I have seen paint the flag holding hole, which is present on every fig, like a tree stump. I have done the same.
I don't usually worry too much if I misplace a bit of color or miss a spot with the desired color. Sometimes I will just touch up anything with black. You can see many imperfections in the colors on the surface of the figures, and realize how much I am relying on the dip to help out!
Step three sees the last of the marker color laid on. I did straps and such as best as I could within my skill level, the limits of the markers, and the time I wanted to spend. One horse has been left in the white gesso primer color. I put some black spots on his rump (which you can't see since that fig is the head-on one) to cover a stray blue spot.
