Painting in April and First Experience With Paint Pens

 I didn't get as much painting done as I had hoped in April, but I spent a lot of time painting and flocking unit bases for Midgard.

So here we go.

First off a couple of resin trolls from Ramshackle Games. I placed an order with Curtis for a few items, including a pair of trolls Trolls - Skargil and Bagera. As usual, he threw in a few freebies included two extras of this pose, so I thought I play around with different skin colours.

 

Next another Ramshackle games model, a Tentacle Brain. I'll probably use it as a Martian in my War of the Worlds survivors games.

A snake/demon thingy from my Blacklist Games kickstarter.

An Ent/Treeman, a 3d print I picked up cheap online.

A pair of Frost demons/trolls/yetis for my Jotunheim armies. Again cheap 3d prints.

Also Ramshackle Games, a model from the Society of Intrepid Explorers set.

A couple more Wild West zombies.

Finally, my first experience of acrylic paint pens. There seems to have been quite a bit of hoo-ha online about these recently and I have seem some interesting photos of models painted entirely using these pens. So I got a set (at the bargain price of 100 colours for £35 quid!) and had a go at a 3d printed troll I had lying around.

First off- just block painting the model using the pens. This was very quick to do, it only took me about 10 minutes to do this. No need for shaking paint bottles, putting paint onto the pallet and cleaning brushes.

No a couple of pictures after an umbar wash and decorating the base. I was quite pleased with the end results.

My thoughts so far (bearing in mind this was my first use of paint pens).

Very quick to use and no mess. The colours went on well, only needing one coat. The dark purple painted over the green with no problem, but I wonder how well a light colour would go on over a darker one?

One problem was that the width of the pen barrel meant that I could not get in to some areas that I could have reached using a brush. Foe example, with this model I could not colour the underside of the loincloth. How much that matters, given you cannot really see it, I'm not sure.

In conclusion, I am quite impressed. I can see these being really useful for finer detail and things like belts etc. I have yet to see how the metals work, but I'll be trying those soon.

I don't think I will be replacing all my paints pots with these, but at first glance, I think I will find them useful.