Dungeons WIP: Garden of Morr

Danger danger work in progress.....

Garden of Morr:

My birthday was back in September and my future brother in law decided to get me one of the best things you can get a guy who turned the big 30... a project!

When it comes to my boardgaming and wargaming addictions if you're like me you can never have too many projects lined up. I always like to have some miniatures lined up for painting consumption on my Saturday mornings. Be it board games or my personal favorite new army components I always like to have a little something to work on. Now I've been bad recently and spent a few extra Xmas bonus bucks on buffing up my Warmachine/Hordes armies but I'll get to them when they are queued up for the brush. For now I'll show you where the last month of my life went.


Now first off here is what the good wizards at Games Workshop think your Garden of Morr should look like.

If I was a pro painter or had endless hours and patience maybe I could get to that level someday but I was born left handed without the ability to write my own name legibly so painted to look good on a tabletop is all you get. When it comes to painting I'd like to think I've gotten a lot better since when I first started but I've got a huge way to go to win awards or the like. I like to paint large quantities in short periods of time so I am the king of drybrushing. Maybe not the king but definitely a noble, steward  or a knight of the dry brush. For those who don't know drybrushing is a quick and dirty technique to get your models looking good enough to play with.

You take a dried brush and dip it into a very small portion of paint. Wipe some of the paint off on a napkin or paper and brush the remaining bits on your surface. It's as easy as it sounds!  I digress back to the Garden...

The first step in my hobby projects I usually have to do is my least favorite and that's removing the molds/models from there sprue if its a plastic kit like this. When it comes to cutting plastics I usually just use nail clippers and an exacto knife but most people usually go with the model clippers that hobby stores sell. It never crosses my mind ever to look for said tools when I'm in said hobby store so my barbaric ways will continue until then. Next I like to trim any of the flash aka extra bits off of my toys with a file or clippers if its that easy. Now the next step for me is to either prime the model with a base coat of black Armory Primer or start gluing the smaller parts together. (If anyone reading this works for Armory Primer I will gladly sell out to you guys if you make an offer but until then its the last freebie you get) Now priming or gluing really depends on how big the model is for me to work with. If its really small I just go ahead and glue it before the base coat goes on. If its bigger or has what looks like maybe problematic areas for my painting I will just glue the parts after I base prime the piece. With the Garden of Morr, I just primed the whole thing in sections after I cut it off the sprues. After this I usually move onto the main event.

I usually then just have at it with a coat or two of super expensive 99cent Americana bottles of paint. Here are a couple of the pieces before I got to the washes that I mix.

I really enjoyed the amount of detail that went into the mausoleum sections which all had plastic tomb inserts.  The interior floors and coffins were all different and had a bit of character.

My favorite piece of the whole set was the statue of Morr. I used a gray and mixed in some green to get a oxidized bronze look. My camera sucks so it doesn't really pop here but I liked the end result.

After about a month my first ever terrain kit is done and I was pretty happy with it. The funny thing is I dont even play Warhammer but really enjoyed that I will be able to get alot of Malifaux use out of it. Also I may pepper my Warmachine games with the set. My buddy plays a ton of Cryx so it wont look out of place! Anyways here are a couple of pics of the set in use during Malifaux. Let me know what you think.

Well if you have any questions or comments about the set let me know. I'd love to hear what you got to say. I know I have read the normal grumbling around the interweb about people hating how GW puts so many skulls in all of there products. To me it's kind of funny. I just dont know how people are surprised to see skulls when every product they make has a skull on the cover. Im just saying...Also on a side note if your reading this Mike your gift really meant a lot to me and I appreciated it greatly.

Until next time
Dungeonslinger...........