Painting Guide: Radagast

As a bonus figure in the pack, Radagast the Brown was included in the starter set, and while he does not have a part to play in the escape from Goblin Town, he is an excellent sculpt and comes with a sculpted base as well.  The base has a lot of hidden details I did not catch until I started painting/highlighting the base coat.

0.  Radagast started with a Matt Black under coat.
1.   Paint the flesh using Tanned Flesh.

1a. Wash the skin with Soft Tone.

1b. Highlight using Barbarian Flesh.

2.   Base coat the hair and beard in Monster Brown.

2a. Highlight the hair in Ash Grey.

2b. Add a second highlight Matt White.

2c. Wash with Strong Tone.

3.   Paint Radagast’s trousers in Oak Brown.

3a. Highlight the trousers with Leather Brown.

4.   Paint Radagast’s shirt in Desert Yellow.

4a. Wash the shirt in Strong Tone.

5.   Paint Radagast’s shoes with Oak Brown.

5a. Highlight the shoes with Monster Brown.

5b. Wash the shoes with Dark Tone.

5c. Add a second highlight of Monster Brown.

6.   Paint the log and staff in Oak Brown.

6a. Highlight with Leather Brown.

7.  The two spiders are painted Matt Black.

7a. Highlight with Uniform Grey.

8.   Paint the staff top in Crystal Blue.

8a. Wash with Blue Tone.

8b. Highlight with Hydra Turquoise.

9.   Paint Radagast’s coat in Leather Brown.

9a. Wash the top of the coat in Strong Tone.

9b. Wash the bottom of the coat in Dark Tone.

9c. Highlight the details with Fur Brown.

10.   Paint the satchel in Leather Brown.

10a. Wash the satchel in Strong Tone.

10b. Highlight the details with Monster Brown.

11.  Paint the leaves with Goblin Green.

11a. Wash the leaves in the satchel with Strong Tone.

12. Paint Sebastian in Oak Brown.

12a. Paint Sebastian’s face with Skeleton Bone.

12b. Highlight Sebastian’s spikes with Skeleton Bone.

12c. Add dots of Matt Black for Sebastian’s eyes and nose.

Some last notes:  

A. The eyes were painted between the Flesh Tone Wash and the Barbarian Flesh Highlight.  The eyes are done with a 5/0 brush.  First paint a horizontal white line and then place a black dot in the center.

B. AP Soft Tone is a good wash for flesh and other light colored items.

C. AP Strong Tone is a good general brown wash similar to Citadel's Agrax Earth Shade. 

D. AP Dark Tone is a good black wash similar to Citadel's Nuln Oil.

I added some Army Painter Summer Grass to the base and then painted the edge of the base in Leather Brown. 

Before we have the painting guide for the goblins we have the terrain tutorial I have been talking about.  In addition, beginning next week, I am going to be alternating between the painting guides and battle reports.  Shep played his first game of Frostgrave tonight and I will be putting together the 72 picture battle report this week.

I must thank TALE OF TWO PAINTERS for the inspiration for these tutorials.  Unfortunately, I do not have step by step photos like they do as I found their site after I was a quarter of the way complete.  They painted the miniatures using Citadel paints.  I felt a guide using The Army Painter brand was warranted, especially as there is no readily available conversion chart for Citadel and AP brands like the other major miniature paint brands (Vallejo, P3, Reaper, etc.).  When I painted these miniatures I only had the 42 bottle 2015 Mega Paint Set II, so there was a lot of mixing of paints to get the right color.