Sweet Pork

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I painted some ghouls for an upcoming scenario.

My initial thought was to paint them pale and pasty, as this seems to make sense in my mind for humans that are not well and shun the sunlight.

Then I remembered about Citadel Ghoul Grey so figured they must be grey?

But then I read WFB's bestiary and it said they had dark rancid skin, well that is not pale, or grey like ghoul grey...?!


In the end I went for this which seems more lore accurate but I am not sure how much I like it?




On the plus side these were much quicker to paint than my Stirland lads, so there is that.

But then I did use a quicker technique, maybe that is why I am not as pleased with them.
I guess it just goes to show that if you want a certain result, there are no shortcuts. 

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  1. Andy McMaster14 February 2025 at 21:26

    They look spot on. What make are they?

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    1. Mike14 February 2025 at 21:36

      Cheers, they are oldish GW ones.
      I picked them up off ebay.
      They were listed as 1998 Vampire Counts Ghouls.

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    2. Andy McMaster14 February 2025 at 21:53

      I need some more ghouls for my Devilry Afoot stuff. Lots of 3D stuff around but I prefer metal...

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    3. Mike14 February 2025 at 22:07

      Metal is the way, I also have some from Otherworld Miniatures, but upon checking their site they have stopped trading?

      https://otherworldminiatures.co.uk/2019/02/welcome/

      https://www.thewargameswebsite.com/forums/topic/25mm-wfb/#post-199283

      Maybe they are about on other peoples shoppes?




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    4. Citizen Sade15 February 2025 at 18:08

      The Otherworld ghouls ended up with Crooked Dice. As did their shadows, wights, some of the zombies plus a few other bits and pieces.

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  2. fanskaven15 February 2025 at 08:54

    Could you please explain your quick painting technique? I love the skin tone.

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    1. Mike15 February 2025 at 10:27

      Thanks, I would not say it was quick, just quicker than normal.

      Normally I blend my paints to get the shading and highlights..

      No washes for shading, no drybrushing for highlights.
      It is all about adding other paints to the base colour to get the lighting effects.
      It is not quick and the results are more subtle and they don’t look ‘dramatic’.

      The ghouls however were mostly done with a triad of paints.
      A base green for the skin, and a darker pot of green for shadows and a lighter pot for highlights.
      Then it was sort of blended by using a brown inkwash to try and tone down the obvious lack of blending by sort of washing over the areas where the different paints meet.
      Then some grey for odd detailing/highlights.
      The shading sort of looks like stripes.
      It is very obvious.
      From a distance this looks ok, but up close I think it is quite messy.

      However these took about 2 hours per model compared to about 8 hours per model which is my normal speed.

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