Freeblades Blackthorn Bodyguard

Managed to finish up Taneyva, the bodyguard for the Blackthorn faction. I chose to paint her up first out of the Freeblades models as it was one of my favorite sculpts. There are still some places I may go back and fix, but since this is probably just for my own use, I'm stopping on her here for now.

My first thought on initially taking her out of the package was that with such a look, I had to paint her a red head. I haven't painted red hair very often, so I liked that this would be a challenge. I built up layers from brown until I finally got something I was happy with. The legs had some roughness on the sculpt that I didn't notice until well into painting, so I let it go for now.

I tried a lot of new things out, some frustrating, some fulfilling. The biggest one was trying to use 2 brush blending. I had a lot of frustration doing this, and ended up redoing several areas, but there was some improvement. I can definitely see where the technique is faster, and as I'm such a slow painter, I really want to learn things to help speed things up.

Current WIPs

Just a quick update on this week's progress. First, I primed the Freeblades Bodyguard. I decided that since she is the first of this line I'm painting, I'd create a decorative base to celebrate her specialness, and sculpted the start of that out of green stuff.

Continued working on the Bones Seoni, dropping in the main colors, and beginning the face.

I've also got some Infinity that I just started. This is the Bakunin starter set. I'd heard a lot of good things about these sculpts, and while they do have great detail, I had some really bad mold lines and flash. Took a good while to clean them up, hence only half of them are primed here.

March News

This year is flying by faster than ever, and somehow February is already over. To celebrate the beginning of March, I've put up my first ever Ebay Auction: The Lovely Graverot.

I also seem to have painter's ADD -- I've started painting way more figures at one time than I can handle. So I'm doing a little early Spring cleaning, and clearing off my work table and leaving just 2 or 3 figures to finish before I return to the others. Here are a few I've started:

I'm excited to have gotten my first Freeblades minis in, and I'm going to paint up a few of my favorites, with the Blackthorn Bodyguard being the first. I've always liked Fantasy skirmish games, and I really like the player-centric and friendly attitude of the DGS guys.

Stay tuned for more progress!