The Psychiatrist

In the gloomy streets of the Underhive, a lonely Psychiatrist is wandering.

Splashing steps of some slimy feet echo in the abandoned halls of an old refinery.

The Psychiatrist picks up the pace and straightens his collar...

The splashing sounds increase. More legs, bigger legs...

The Psychiatrist starts to feel he's not alone.

And at last, they've come to him! The ritual has been succesful.

All the small offerings, all the flues he's been infecting on his patients,

all the helpful syringes for their ailments...

The God of disease and decay has finally answered the Psychiatrists prayers.

Now here is a miniature I really like, it's from the Chronoscope series of Reaper Miniatures. The soft white plastic used in this Bones range is quite iffy however. In case of any spears shafts, big wings, outstretched limbs or such I don't really appreciate the litheness of the material, and it's a bit hard to clean up and convert too. BUT this guy (among so many others from Reaper Bones) is so cool that it didn't even cross my mind to go converting him.

As far as I remember, the model was basecoated with Game Color Off White, and given a few layers of very light grey washes/glazes, concentrating on the recess. Forgot the names of the greys though, maybe Blue Grey Pale and Ash Grey or Sky Grey (from Vallejo)? Then propably watered down Smokey Ink was added to the greys as well to define deepest shadows. For highlights some thinned down Off White. It's very rare I thin down any paints exept for washes/glazes. Supposedly the skin was Elf Flesh, few careful layers of Red Tone and then up to Off White highlights again. Some Citadel copper and wash for the buttons and goggles? Looks like Gun Metal, Soft & Dark Tones, Game Color Flesh Wash were used for metals, and final higlights done with drybrushed Necron Compound?


For the base I used the same method I  have based most of my 40K Iron Warriors army with:

1) Hot glue a pile of little sharp rocks and interesting bits (cogs, pipes, skulls, shrapnel) to the base.

2) Hot glue (or super glue if there's a nice flat spot available) the miniature on top of that.

3) PVA sand on some spots. I use sand with very random sized grains. There's some static grass, flock and plastic scrap in there as well. The sand is mostly used to cover any ugly droplets of hot glue, hide  joints and provide general sturdiness.

4) Paint with some mid brown all over the base, Gun Metal on the metallic looking bits if there are any. Wash with Soft Tone (maybe add Dark or Strong Tone around feet or in some darkest holes. Generous blobs of GC Flesh Wash on any areas that should be rusty, then tiny drops of Army Painters Dry Rust on top while the washes are still partly wet, so the paints will mix up a little. Maybe even some Citadels' Fire Dragon Crimson or Ryza Rust on spots? Finally drybrush with Game Color Khaki, two or three light layers and concentrating towards the edges.