Urdaggar Berserker

Apologies for the blurriness, I really need to fix the depth of field on these shots. My camera was/is locked into some mode I've forgotten how to get it out of, but it's really making the image taking difficult.

Urdaggar Boar Warrior

Freeblades Urdaggar Slinger

Freeblades Urdaggar Unproven

Here is the unproven - seeing the pictures always illuminates points to improve on, but the pile of minis I have says "move on". I wasn't sure I liked the pose at first, but he grew on me as I painted him.

They Come From The North

Freeblades Urdaggar

So I've been painting a lot of sci-fi type miniatures, and I needed a break. Not just a different faction but a return to the warm comfort of some fantasy figures. I had found the Urdaggar on sale sometime before and they were clearly in my way in my painting area, so they volunteered.
I had such a good time painting these guys, I highly recommend them. Each has amazing detail and character and overall you can just feel the "culture" they come from — raiding down from their northern realms, adventuring into "civilized" lands.
My favorite turned out to be the unproven because his face was sculpted so well, followed by the bear-shaman, who is just awesome. I don't know if I'll ever play freeblades, but I am planning on getting a few more of the DGS miniatures because of how nice these were to paint up.

Group Shot

I'll post pics of the individual models in the days to come.

Freeblades Blackthorn Bodyguard

Managed to finish up Taneyva, the bodyguard for the Blackthorn faction. I chose to paint her up first out of the Freeblades models as it was one of my favorite sculpts. There are still some places I may go back and fix, but since this is probably just for my own use, I'm stopping on her here for now.

My first thought on initially taking her out of the package was that with such a look, I had to paint her a red head. I haven't painted red hair very often, so I liked that this would be a challenge. I built up layers from brown until I finally got something I was happy with. The legs had some roughness on the sculpt that I didn't notice until well into painting, so I let it go for now.

I tried a lot of new things out, some frustrating, some fulfilling. The biggest one was trying to use 2 brush blending. I had a lot of frustration doing this, and ended up redoing several areas, but there was some improvement. I can definitely see where the technique is faster, and as I'm such a slow painter, I really want to learn things to help speed things up.

Current WIPs

Just a quick update on this week's progress. First, I primed the Freeblades Bodyguard. I decided that since she is the first of this line I'm painting, I'd create a decorative base to celebrate her specialness, and sculpted the start of that out of green stuff.

Continued working on the Bones Seoni, dropping in the main colors, and beginning the face.

I've also got some Infinity that I just started. This is the Bakunin starter set. I'd heard a lot of good things about these sculpts, and while they do have great detail, I had some really bad mold lines and flash. Took a good while to clean them up, hence only half of them are primed here.