Dolmenwood Pokédex Project Ep 1

Finding the Monster

I didn’t get a chance to prime the other guy this week, so I went through the bestiary and found this entry: a Wodewose—wild people of the forest, 6 to 7 feet tall, covered in coarse hair, moss, and lichen, wandering in the deep woods.

I’ve had this model already primed. I wanted to use it to test out slap chop because I thought it’d be a really good candidate. I’ve never gone full slap chop method before, so we’re going to change that.

The Slap Chop Setup

I’m using a pastel green instead of straight gray as our mid-tone, and Vanilla White for the highlights. Getting a big poofy dry brush and working this in real quick.

I want a little bit more color in here because I’m worried there’s still a lot of black on this model. I don’t want it to be crazy dark—I want it to still be bright and colorful while keeping that contrast in the feet.

New Year Goals While Painting

I’ve been thinking about goals for the new year. A couple days in and I’ve had some broad ones in the back of my mind:

Paint every day: Before doing videos, I would have thought that’s impossible. But I’ve been recording and editing a video every day. Sometimes it seems like too much to paint, but if I can make a video every day, I can definitely get paint on a model every day.

Paint or sell everything: Anything that’s not painted by December 15th, I’m going to sell it, give it away, or trade it. The only exceptions are my Chainmail miniature collection (waiting to get the full collection before painting) and my Mage Knight Metals collection.

Play more games: I want to play at least a game every week, preferably two—including War Table and IRL games. I want to get at least one game of Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game with fully painted armies. Found a Discord group that plays online in Tabletop Simulator, so that might be the way.

The Contrast Paint Conversion

I definitely have to say, after not being a fan of contrast paints or speed paints, now that I’ve used them more and learned how to use them, they’re pretty awesome.

On that Crucible Guard jack, I airbrushed them, used them as inks, used them as washes, used them as glazes, base coated with them. Pretty awesome how versatile they are once you get comfortable and have the right tools. Definitely don’t use a stable hair brush with them.

Color Choices

• Shamrock Green on the feet—very bright, holy cow
• Algae Green for the skin tone—this is more what I was hoping for
• Forest Sprite on the body hair
• Chartreuse on the head hair—way more yellow than green, very cool
• Familiar Pink on the cloth—this is so translucent it actually looks kind of faded, like raggedy cloth

I almost feel like maybe these models were designed with slap chopping in mind. There are set texture areas that are kind of blocky—the model is mapped out in a way where you could very easily and quickly paint like this.

The Model Origin Mystery

I love this model. I don’t know where it came from—I got it as a gift. Someone said they got them from Amazon. I’ve had them since my birthday last year. They’re the same kind of material as the Dolmenwood miniatures—gray, a little bit flexible, mostly hard, with pretty good detail.

If I can find out where they came from, I’ll post it in the comments.

The Result

There’s no eyes on the model—nothing even sculpted in there. I kind of like keeping it dark like it’s in shadow from the hair.

For a Dolmenwood campaign where this will probably be there to get merched by the party, pretty great for a quick evening of painting.

This is Dolmenwood Pokédex number one, day 114. Hope you have a good start to your new year. Catch you tomorrow when we’re back to Warmachine.

Transcript

Okay, I didn’t get a chance to prime this guy this week. Uh, so I was going through the beastiary and I found this entry, a woes, wild people of the forest, 6 to 7 ft tall, covered in coarse hair, moss, lykan, and wander in the deep woods. Uh, and I’ve had this model already primed. Uh, I wanted to use this model to test out slap shop with uh just because I thought it’d be a really good one. So I, uh, I’m going to put a little bit more white on this.

This I think it’s kind of too dark right now, but we’re going to see what just how fast slap chop is. I’ve never I’ve never gone like full slap chop method before. So, uh we’re going to change that to >> All right. So, I’ve got I’ve got this pastel green. Going to see going to use this as our gray.

And then uh for like our white, we’ll use vanilla white. Uh going to get a big dry brush. Big big poofy one. Just work this in real quick. And this pastel green uh instead of just a like a straight gray.

And this model I I just this is old from before. So, I just want to get a little bit more color in here because I’m worried there’s still like a lot of black on this model and I just worry that it’s not enough to like I don’t want it to be crazy dark. I want it to still be pretty bright and colorful, but I do want to keep that contrast in the in the feet. And so while while I’m doing this, this will be another paint paint ramble video. I’ve been thinking a lot about like the goals for the new year.

And I think I will need a little bit more paint maybe. I’ve been thinking about goals for the new year. Although we’re a couple of days in and I I’ve definitely had some like in the back of my mind like some broad ones. Like um I’m gonna do my best to put paint on a model every day, which uh before doing the videos, I would have thought that’s impossible, but I’ve been I’ve been doing a video every day. Uh which there’s a lot of stuff that you can do in a hobby, you know, that’s not painting.

Uh, but in in my head sometimes painting it just seems like man it’s too much to paint. But I realized like I recorded a video and then edited the video kind of. Some of some of my videos are very poorly edited but I can record a video, edit it and get it posted every day. I should definitely find a way to get paint on a model every day. And that’s going to be like the most important thing.

Um, so there’s that. That’s like the key one. And then kind of related to that is I want to paint, sell or pretty much paint or sell. Paint paint or get rid of. Like I want to trade too, but if I trade for something uh I want to paint it too.

So anything that’s not painted by December I don’t know. I think I’m going to probably do like December like 15th maybe. So I have like that time to get rid of it. If it if it’s not painted by then, I’m going to sell it, give it away, trade it. So, with really the only exception being like my chain mail miniature collection, cuz I want that to um I want that to just be new in box for like nostalgia.

And I’m going to paint those, but I’m waiting until I get the full collection to start painting it. Uh which I know is probably silly, but I’m almost complete. And my my mage metal collection. Um some of that I want to paint this year, but I kind of the same thing like I want to collect the whole thing like new in box first. before I really dig into it.

But everything else, uh, if it’s not painted by the end of the year, December 15th, I got to sell it or get rid of it. So, I don’t know. I guess if you’re watching, you probably don’t want me to finish cuz that means I’ll be giving a lot of it away. But, I plan on selling most of it before then to fund other projects and ideas. And then something else I’ve been thinking about is commissions.

Oh, there’s a mold line right there. I thought I got all the mold lines off, but there’s one there and there’s one there. That’s pretty bad. But uh I think for just for this the Okay. We can live with some mold lines here.

Um I want to I want to play some games that I’ve been wanting to play for years. even if like that doesn’t become a regular thing. Like I want to play a game of Middleear strategy battle game. Like I’ve been I’ve been wanting to play that game uh for like three versions now and and this news version came out and I bought all the books and I thought that I had found a group that played locally but they switched and they they don’t play it anymore. They play a different game uh which I don’t really have an interest in playing.

So I thought I had found a group then that kind of fell apart. So I had bought a I had bought a bunch of stuff for some armies but I wanted to somehow someway get a game of middleware strategy battle game in with fully painted armies. Um I found a Discord group that like plays online in TTOP simulator. So that might be the way that that has to happen. And and you can see I switched.

I’m in the vanilla vanilla white now. Just during the final bit of dry brushing I think. But uh so middle charge battle game. Want to get at least one of those games in. Um I want to play at least like a game every week and preferably two.

And that includes like War Table, like War Machine, War Table, and IRL games. And I I want to get a game of like Conquest, like Middle Tra, Conquest, uh, Infinity are all game systems that I really wanted to like kind of try out and dig into, but there’s a pretty awesome Infinity scene here, but just the timing in the area doesn’t work out for me. So again, that might also be like where I’m playing online kind of thing. But the main focus is painting and also sculpting. All right, so here’s here’s where we are.

I think we’re going to keep [snorts] think we’re going to call it a day on the dry brushing. Maybe just a little bit more here on that foot. This one’s going to be in shadow, so I’m okay with that. And I like keeping like the eyes and the like that deep set face in. Maybe get a little bit more here.

But yeah, we’re a lot brighter than where we started. And up underneath there is good. I love this model. I um I don’t know where this model came from. I got this model as a gift.

I got a bunch of like these ones with this weird base. I’ll probably end up painting quite a few of them for Dolmanwood, but I got a bunch of them uh as a gift and they uh they said that they got them from Amazon. So, I’ve had them I got them as a gift for my I think my birthday last year. So, I’ve had them for a while because my next birthday is going to be next month. But, uh, if I can find out where they came from, I will post that, uh, in the comments or something.

But, they’re pretty cool. They’re they’re like I don’t want to bend this one, but they’re they’re the same kind of material as as the Dwood miniatures. They’re like this gray, a little bit flexible, mostly hard. Uh, and the detail is pretty good. And this mold lines on this one suck.

I thought I got those, but it is what it is. All right, I’m going to hit this with a heat gun real quick just to make sure that this is dried. Okay, so I hope we’re dry. Uh we’re going to start we’re going to hit this um the wood staff with brownish decay. So we’ll kind of see where that leaves us.

But I haven’t used this uh this is shamrock green. So we’ll see. I don’t know. We’ll see what it looks like. I think this one’s going to be the darkest.

I’m going to try it on the feet. Oh, wow. That’s very, very bright. Yeah, that is a bright green. Holy cow.

Okay. Uh, I guess we’ll do the other one. I definitely have to say after not being a fan of contrast paints or speed paints, now that I’ve used them more and like learned how to use them, they’re pretty awesome because you can use them for so many things. Like uh on that Crucible Guard Jack, like I airbrushed them, I used them as inks, I used them as washes, I used them as glazes, I base coated with them. Uh, pretty awesome how versatile they actually are once you like get oh Once you get actually like comfortable and you have the right tools, I would definitely don’t use a stable hair brush with them.

This this algae green and I’m thinking I want to use this for Okay, that looks better. for what I’m looking for for like the the skin tone and if we’ll see. Oh, yeah. This is more of what I was hoping for uh for the legs. Uh and like mo there’s a couple of mossings like this or like moss like dwarves even.

So, I think it’d be a pretty cool set for a Dolmanwood, but also I almost feel like maybe they were designed and sculpted with slap chopping in mind cuz there a lot of them are like this where there’s like set texture areas that are kind of like blocky like this. They’re not blocky, but like they’re the model is mapped out in a way where you could very easily and quickly paint like this. All right. Very cool. So, here’s where we are now.

Very cool. All right. For sprite. Going to do this on like the body hair. Probably need a little bit more than that.

So, I just finished with the forest green on the body hair. There’s a lot of green on this model. I think when I come back in and highlight it later, I’ll do something different. Chartreuse. I’m hoping this is way more yellow than it is green.

And we’ll do this on the hair. Oh yeah, I like this. This is very cool. There was a choice that I made, but was it the right choice? I don’t know.

I think it makes sense to keep it all kind of I know that like that would just be like raggedy cloth. But I’m looking at this familiar pink right here and just thinking, go for it. Okay, familiar pink. Uh, we’re going to do it because this whole point of this is having fun. And I know that this would really be some raggedy cloth.

Oh, there’s a lot of my And actually, this this is so translucent that it’s actually going to look kind of faded. Just being careful. to not get tongue on the green. Yeah, that that’s that is the right choice. This is awesome.

So, I’m going to get a different baseboard, but calling this one this one done. There’s no eyes on the model. Like, there’s nothing even like sculpted in there. So, I kind of like keeping it dark like it’s in shadow from the hair. But for uh Dawnwood campaign where this will probably be there to get merched by the party.

pretty great for quick evening of painting. Thanks for watching. Uh this is Dolwood Pokédex number one, day 114. Hope you have a good start to your new year. I catch you tomorrow when we’re back to war