"Burning Frenzy" - Descent: Legends of the Dark - Berserkers - Part 1

Touched by the demonic darkness of the Ru

and frothing with murderous frenzy, 

Uthuk berserkers have forsaken drill 

and formation as well as armor and shield.

- Fantasy Flight Games

Before these recent exciting birthdays (my daughter's, and the blog's), I had started to paint some of the very awesome miniatures from Descent: Legends of the Dark. Today, we're looking at the Berserkers!

Because models do not necessarily appear on the blog in the order that I paint them, I am starting to lose track of exactly when I painted these guys. It was a couple of months ago anyway, and I believe they were the last miniatures that I painted with my old airbrush. That being said, I only zenithalled them with the airbrush (bringing them up to the level seen above) before pulling out the hairy brush. 

In the official artwork, these guys are illustrated with pallid skin, to stick to that I mixed Contrast Guilliman Flesh with Contrast Medium. 

I then painted all of the bone elements with Contrast Skeleton Horde. 

The hair was simply painted with Contrast Black Templar. 

I am really happy with the colour of the red rags, it's a mix of Contrast Flesh Tearer's Red, Wyldwood and Contrast Medium. I'll have to remember that recipe, I think it has a nice medium level of saturation and great depth. 

With all of the Contrast colours in, I moved on to the details with standard acrylic paints. 

The only details that I spent much time on were the eyes, ear rings, and a highlight on the skin (S75 Pale Skin) and bone elements (Rakharth Flesh).

With the model itself complete, I quickly completed the base. 

After shading the base with Agrax Earthshade and Nuln Oil, I gave a light drybrush of Rakarth Flesh onto the rocks. 

This scheme was really quick, and I think, pretty effective. 

Thanks for joining me, I'll see you next week on The Art of Caesura!

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Next Week:

Animalistic and otherworldly...