Dungeon Saga Human Barbarian figure

Have axe, will smash

This week was the Human Barbarian figure from Dungeon Saga.  He is very much the typical half naked, big axe, lots of skulls kind of barbarian.  The hair is totally Dothraki from the Games of Thrones TV series.  Yes, those are leaves stuffed into his belt.  When this barbarian has to go, at least he is clean afterwards.

Green leaves are best to wipe with

For the flesh I tried something different from my usual.  Being an outdoor kind of guy I made the skin colour a bit darker than normal.  I started with VMC Medium Fleshtone and shaded down with VPA Shadows Flesh.  I went darker with one of my new favourite colours VMA Armour Brown.  This brown has a fair bit of purple in it so shades down flesh very well.

Flesh shading that is finally looking ok

I’ve been trying to shade down with dark blues on most colour ranges but this time instead I used VGC Cold Grey.  This kept the dark shade with a purple tone rather than going too blue which was my problem using dark blue on flesh.  My final shades were pretty much half Armour Brown, half Cold grey.  I’m pretty happy with the result as the shadows have that purple tone I have struggled to get but which I see some much of in other people’s figures.

The highlights were VMC Dark Flesh and then a small amount of VGC Dead White.  Since finishing the flesh I purchased some VMC Light Flesh.  This flesh colour is very pink so will work well on female figures and on the large scale figures where you have more room for a range of shading/highlighting.  Also I can get lighter without getting whiter.  I find most of the Vallejo flesh colours have a bit of yellow in them so will see how this works out.

Pick me!

Next up is the last of four standard Dungeon Saga characters, the Human Mage.  Then maybe Keldan, Death Dealer, and finally back to some 54mm figures.  Need to start working on the figures for Cancon 2017.