Sinspawn Complete

Finished the Sinspawn earlier this week, and I'm just now able to post the pictures. Skipped by a few WIP posts, mostly because he moved along so quickly. I had a lot of fun painting him, and never would have had it not been for the exchange. Now I'm off to get him in the mail where I hope he will find a good home.

Sinspawn WIP

Painting started today - got everything base coated and blocked out lights and darks.

Reaper Mini Exchange - WIP

If you've ever been on the Reaper Miniatures forum and watched the community, you'll know what a great and supportive place it is for painting, gaming, and socializing. Every year some dedicated members hold several miniature exchanges; usually Fall, Spring, and Summer, with perhaps one or two more jammed in. I try to take part in these at least once a year, and this year is no exception. I joined the Summer exchange, which started in May — and now it's already almost August and the deadline is fast approaching.

I had a hard time getting started on this one for some reason, and once I did find something I hoped was suitable, it took a long time to actually get it.

I chose the Pathfinder Sinspawn, as I know my recipient is a Pathfinder player and mentioned they needed bad guys.

I'm going to push this one through quickly so I can get it out next week if at all possible. Here's my beginning progress so far: opening, cleaning off flash and mold lines, and basing him/it. Most of the time so far was spent sculpting the base out of green stuff.

Stay Tuned for more progress!

So Far in April

Ok, I may have not been able to maintain my self imposed goal of posting every week, but I'm OK with that.  Life has been very busy with work and other obligations.

Also, I must admit...I've been pulled into a serious distraction called StarCraft 2 -- but its been tons of fun!

I have managed to get a few things done, including the Pathfinder Bones version of Seoni.

I've also continued work on the Infinity Nomads starter set, and have completed the first Moderator. She was my prototype for the set, and I copied the studio paintjob because...I liked it. True, it's hard not to like Angel Giraldez' work – He's got some amazing work and its always inspiring. And I wanted to see if I could do the Nomad bases the same way. I think it came out pretty good.

Valeros Done

Touched up the areas that needed help the most. He's not perfect, but others are waiting. Valeros proved to be a good experiment, and I tried out everything I knew on him to see how different things would react to the Bones polymer material. My only real difficulty was that I had a hard time getting thinned paint to not pool up on parts, making it difficult to do transitions for me. Maybe with more experimentation and an adjusted technique, I can get what I want out of them.

For anything with a high level of painting, I'll probably stick with metals, but for fast jobs and tabletop quality paints, Bones have some great potential.

Pathfinder Valeros WIP

I've painted the undead bones up quickly to take their place in the Necropolis Army, but I wanted to get into a bones miniature a little more seriously, and see how my style of painting (glazing) really works on them. It wasn't entirely on purpose, but I settled on Valeros. I had been messing around with him, and he was on my painting table. He certainly has enough details on him to make him a challenge, and I started in on him.

I'm almost done, but I need to work on a few transitions and clean up the dagger and the base. Then I'm calling him good.