March is done, give me a drink! Well... maybe not, after all. The Rotgut booze prepared by the good doctor Jean Rousseaux - and sold only for 6 pennies the bottle! - is not exactly the kind of medicine you would expect from a physician: a mixture of alcohol and juniper berries... flavoured with the powdered warpstone, gently provided by Lady Margritte von Wittgenstein.
Needless to say that the peasants and farm-workers of Wittgendorf that are addicted to the Rotgut booze are both mentally and physically damaged.
Still, the 10 models painted this month are in a rather good shape (if one excepts the bandages hiding minor mutations). The miniatures come mainly from two Citadel ranges: the C46 Militia & Villagers, and the F4 Mercenaries. Only two models have been converted to receive a spear. In terms of painting, I have used purple and light blue in the skintones to suggest that there could be something wrong with some Wittgendorfers.
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The villagers are led by Kurt Kutzmann, doctor Rousseaux's loyal assistant. Intoxicated by the booze he's selling to the peasants, he's totally idiotic, and giggles all the time. In terms of miniature, I have painted a citizen from the Marauder Miniatures MM62 range.
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The Wittgendorfers:
See you next month!
Let's assume that we are returning from a round of drinks kindly offered by Dr. Rousseaux, so we may not be completely lucid in our opinion...
ReplyDeleteThe choice of miniatures outside the original range seems fit very well to us: from their faces it is clear from a mile away that they are dangerous idiots, from whom it is better to stay away. Even your desaturated color palette suits a shabby unit. That they do not show obvious mutations can be explained by the fact that they are the best of what the village still has to offer; in short, those who still manage to wield a weapon. The militiaman who seems most characteristic to us is the drunkard who has well thought of carrying around a bottle of rotgut to give himself a little courage in battle!
We don't want to sound too fussy, but in "Death on the Reik" Kurt is described as having hands covered in a thick brown crust, as if they were turning into logs of wood. Did you purposely omit this feature?
Thanks Rodor for your detailed analysis. I have hesitated with Kurt's mutation, and finally went shy. The idea of painting brown stains on his hands didn't fit with the colors I had used on other diseased skins.
DeleteL'impact en unité à chaque fois est hyper cool et pourtant prises individuellement les figs ne sont pas fifou. Et ta peinture les vend bien, toujours aussi efficace :)
ReplyDeletemerci pandera. oui, certains modèles, je me demande encore pourquoi je les avais achetés. M'enfin, ils sont peints, c'est l'essentiel !
DeleteJ'adore ce que tu arrives à faire avec de si vieux modèles ! C'est top.
ReplyDeleteMerci ! J'avoue que sur certaines figurines, je me demande pourquoi diable je les ai achetées, tellement elles sont ingrates à peindre...
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