This is a single piece plastic mini from 1995. 13 Years old now. I really think for a 1 piece boxed game mini from that era, it's holding up its own compared to modern minis.

It was complete nostalgic joy to paint, having painted one 13 years ago when I was 14. I like to think I've improved somewhat and done the mini justice. ONly took a single saturday too, so that was sweet.

I'm really happy with the colour scheme. I checked out the eavy metal Kislev range and it was all deep reds and blues. I also noticed the leader if the Kislevs rides a polar bear, so I thought I'd have a skinned one on its back. After researching polar bears on google images, I was shocked to see they're like a bleach bone colour. So I worked through that and up to white (in my head they're white, so made sense to me rather then copy the google image exactly). I wanted blonde hair for my barbarian... I guess a child hood playing with he-man ingrained that into me. His skin is my usual reciepe (some red gore in the base coat to give it that pinky living flesh tone). I worked hard on the blends on this one and I think they hold up great in these pics.

Sword was fun to do, I added glaze medium to the mithril silver and it took on this lovely smooth consistency. 4 coats later and I've got the smoothest silver I've ever painted. Smoothness was very important, as I planned on using washes to shade the blade for that nmmum technique. Blade is relatively small and not very wide and has a flat central section, so made it reasonable difficult to work out where the reflections should go. Luckily using metallic paints means its quite forgiving, and I think I get away with it better, then if I was using greys and white.

http://www.thepainteddragon.co.uk/gallery2/d/841-1/Barbarian+1.jpg
http://www.thepainteddragon.co.uk/gallery2/d/843-1/Barbarian+2.jpg
http://www.thepainteddragon.co.uk/gallery2/d/845-1/Barbarian+3.jpg

Rather nice, rather nice indeed...

(I never did work out why he only had four abs when they're that well defined though)

I have to ask though... nmmum? What?

Rather nice, rather nice indeed...

(I never did work out why he only had four abs when they're that well defined though)

I have to ask though... nmmum? What?

Non Metallic Metals Using Metals.

Basically the technique applied to nmm but using actual metal paints. Doubly realistic and better then just flat colour or an edge highlight.

What a needlessly confusing name, cheers though.

What a needlessly confusing name, cheers though.

Well its also known as MMM... Metallic Metal Metallics, now that is daft. Least what I'm trying to say illustrates that i'm using NMM technique using metal paints.

Makes sense to me.

Looks fantastic! Reminds me of King Conan, who oddly I was discussing earlier today...

Our store has that model as well, I usually use it to represent a Barbarian for D&D. I don't remember his hand being that bad looking though, both of them model wise just look horrible. But it is an older model, and everything else is cool.

-K

Looks fantastic! Reminds me of King Conan, who oddly I was discussing earlier today...

Our store has that model as well, I usually use it to represent a Barbarian for D&D. I don't remember his hand being that bad looking though, both of them model wise just look horrible. But it is an older model, and everything else is cool.

-K

Strangely enough I had the conan the barbarian (original 1981) soundtrack playing while I painted him!