#1 - Sabbat The Necromagus

Not the obvious choice to start with,  I wanted to paint a Dredd miniature and I wanted to buy locally, the only shop in walking distance that stocked any Dredd miniatures at all was 6s2hit and they had a very limited selection.  I've ordered game starter kit from them but so far no joy.  On the other hand the first copy of 2000AD I ever bought contained part 2 of Judgement Day, Sabbat was the the bad guy in charge, I think that's a good enough reason.  He also wears a cloak made of faces and I never really got the hang of skin tones.

Sabbat the Necromagus

I tried to copy the colour scheme from the comics rather than the catalogue page which was a good excuse to pick up a copy, in hindsight I think there's just too much skin and I should have gone with something darker for the cloak or added more variety to the tones I used on the faces, (sort of like the catalogue page...) as it is there isn't much contrast on the miniature and it looks a bit washed out.  Aside from that I was reasonable pleased with the final miniature, first one and I think I captured most of the detail, particularly the face, the wonky eye isn't too noticeable.

I stuck with Citadel flesh tones and used a base coat, wash and layer approach.  the citadel paint range has quite a variety of flesh tones available and I used quite a few on the cloak.  t's a vast improvement to the Bronzed Flesh and Chestnut Wash that used to belong to the original paint range.  I added a final drybrush of Eldar Flesh to the cloak to give it a bit more texture after all having your face stitched into a cloak must be bad for the complexion.

Perhaps I should add some zombies for him to command, on the other hand I came across www.crooked-dice.co.uk and their Paranormal Exterminators look suspiciously like ghostbusters.