Painting Ghouls

By Anthony Karl Erdelji

Before I primered and based the ghouls, I bent some of the extremely posed ghouls in more convenient poses to make them easier to form into ranks. A few of the models are leaning very far to their right and they only fit in the front rank or along the right. I simple bent the offending limbs up or down with my fingers. I also bent some of the arms on other ghouls that I have duplicates of to add a bit of variety. Standard prep work removing flash and primering followed.

Using my airbrush, I basecoat half of the ghouls in Vallejo 815 basic skin tone ( A light, somewhat pink flesh color), and the rest in salmon rose, which is a bit on the pinker side. For shade, I made a thin wash with Vallejo purple and brushed it liberally onto the ghouls. For highlights, they were drybrush with their base color plus white, adding more white for the second drybrush. Additional shade was added to the mouths and eye sockets with Citadel purple ink. The loincloths were painted with a variety of red browns and highlighted with yellow ochre. The wood and steel weapons were painted just like the rest of my army; flat earth for wood, Polly's oxidized Aluminum and black for metal weapons, followed up with Rustall. Basing was the final step.

These twenty ghouls took me three days to paint up and get them ready for the battlefield.

I'm satisfied with the final results, though some did turn out pinker than I wanted. I think a second coat of the wash or a deeper color purple would of toned down the pink. I'll try it on my second unit of ghouls.