Rats!

Time to paint Bones!  I read up on peoples' experiences with them, and gave some rats a wash after cleaning the (very few) mold lines and flashing off them.  I decided to see how various paint mixtures went onto the plastic, as well.

The leftmost model had Undercoat Black with a drop of with alcohol thinners, the middle was thinned with water, and the right was paint straight from the bottle.  Well, from the bottle, onto the palette, onto the model, but close enough.  Overall I like the way that thinned paint goes over the plastic; it doesn't cover everything perfectly on the first coat, but it does leave all the details clear.

I followed up by mixing a little more thinned black and doing another layer over all of them.  This brought them all up to the same level.  Some mixed pink went onto the noses, ears and tails to give them a few details.

I shall call them blackie, blackie and blackie.

I decided to try do the fur and flagstones using my nemesis in the world of painting techniques: drybrushing.

I always manage to leave too much paint on the brush, and get a thick layer of paint on the details I want to highlight.  I had bought a flat synthetic brush recently though, which I was willing to abuse rather more than usual.  I took it slow, putting a mixed grey onto the flagstones, and a dark brown, followed by a lighter highlight of straight Calthan Brown on the fur.  I slopped too much grey onto the base of the middle rat, but everything else wasn't too awful.

A dab of magical Devlan Mud wash onto the bases to give them a bit of grime, and I called it a day.  It didn't hurt that it helped bring out the flagstones again after I'd painted between the cracks.

Is certainly isn't the prettiest of paint jobs, but they are rats.  Anything south of 10hp isn't going to be around for long enough for people to admire it.  I also took the last photo way too close, I need to look into trying to get better at taking pictures of my minis.

First Bones done!  They are just as easy to paint as advertised.  I admit that the detail isn't the best, but they certainly are worth the money, for models like these.  Looking at some of the other models, I think that the larger the mini the better detail comes out, but I shall see when I get there.  Next up, painting the other 9 of these little ratty bastards.