Behold! My 2022 Painting Challenge!

[sekundes]

Okay the mummy test model is complete, I think I'll go back and finish off the skeletons and the remaining mummy before I move on to the zombie.

Here's the only picture I have of my first mummy paintjob, just nasty:



And here is the new mummy:

[Anderas]

What do you want to do with the bases?

[lestodante]

great improvement, the style is way ore clean now.
Painting the bases will be the final touch up, it is mandatory!

[sekundes]

great improvement, the style is way ore clean now.
Painting the bases will be the final touch up, it is mandatory!

What do you want to do with the bases?

I have no clue what to do with the bases which is why I'm just painting through the models first. I have an extra Fimir primed up specifically to figure out a base design on; so at some point I'll do that and go back and finish them off; I won't leave them as they are of course haha. I'll take suggestions if you find a good example that'll fit with my "paint it like the artwork" approach.

[lestodante]

if you don't want to experiment too much and prefer the fast way, you can paint them in dark grey.
KrautScientist (aka EternalHunt) did a good job with his set and looking at your previous paintjob, your old minis bases remebered me the ones he painted.
Link to his topic is here: KrautScientist finally paints his HeroQuest set

[hombreimaginario]

if you don't want to experiment too much and prefer the fast way, you can paint them in dark grey.
KrautScientist (aka EternalHunt) did a good job with his set and looking at your previous paintjob, your old minis bases remebered me the ones he painted.
Link to his topic is here: KrautScientist finally paints his HeroQuest set

I wanted mine to be as subtle / not distracting as possible, so sort-of-stone grey for me, but yeah

[sekundes]

UPDATE:

After successes with the skeleton and mummies I decided to move on to the zombie. This was my first considered failure as my attempt to match the character art ended up as too green and Hulk-y. I underestimated the relative lack of detail in the zombies musculature and foolishly attempted to emphasize it through too dark linework. I am going to strip the pair of zombies and send them to the back of the queue for another attempt. I already have a new approach in mind, here was the failed attempt:



After this setback I proceeded to batch paint the remaining skeletons up to the point where they will be highlighted and have begun to batch paint the fimirs, I also prepared the test model with a base concept which I will go ahead and apply to all models going forward. It's essentially a dark stone base as I used in my previous Heroquest paintjob and what has already been recommended in this thread by others.

[Rath of Un]

I love Army painter paints! those are looking awesome!

[sekundes]

Okay so here's the finalized base design, I went with a simple stone gray and lighter gray highlights. It's simple and is neutral enough that it blends well with most of the board. I did a small black border on the bottom tier of the base edge just to frame it all and match the black bordered tiles.



With that out of the way I can focus on painting the fimirs, although I'm getting the itch to do a hero already so tomorrow I may just start painting one of them. I know I want to save the Wizard for last since he was my favorite one to paint up last time too.

[sekundes]

I lied. I was still a little dissatisfied with the base, so I went ahead and doubled down on the detail and painted in cracks and emphasized the separation of tiers by darkening the line separating the tiers. I also outlined the models feet in black paint to make them pop from the base a bit more. I think it looks much better now. Okay, NOW I'll move on from the bases, I really like them at this point.