Finished Isabeau and she's about to be sent away on her journey. I managed to sprain my wrist, so that made the finishing details much more difficult than was expected. I usually never do freehand, and that was the challenge I was taking on painting this. Given the difficulties I had, I'm pretty pleased with how she turned out.
As always, feedback is welcome! Thanks for looking.
This year I'm again painting for someone in the Reaper summer exchange. For some reason, this time around has become especially challenging due to lots of life interference and painting mistakes. I'm unfortunately working on Plan B, and will finish this up in the next few days. This is Isabeau Laroche, Female Paladin, sculpted by Werner Klocke.
Basically finishing up the base and the shield.
Feedback welcome!
Here is Reaper's Corporate Assassin from their Chronoscope line. She was a fun quick mini to paint up, and I plan to pull her into cyberpunk style games.
I know it's been forever and a day since I've been able to do an update. I could list the many reasons that have proved to be obstacles, but I will forgo drawn out explanations and get back to sharing some miniatures :)
Although I haven't been giving this blog the love it deserves, I have been still been painting and gaming and life is good. Obviously my main passion are games that revolve around miniatures, but I had the chance to play a few other games. If you haven't checked the card-based game Sentinels of the Multiverse it's well worth checking out. Well balanced, and cooperative, it has some pretty refreshing dynamics and is a ton of fun. I was also introduced to Munchkin which is another card game. Totally cooperative until your friends backstab you to steal the win.
As for mini games, I've been playing Song of Blades and Heroes, Reaper Warlord, Rezolution, and Infinity. I hope to create some battle reports in the near future. I'm definitely a painter over a player so regularly have my hat handed to me, but it's still a ton of fun.
I hope to post some of my latest completed models over the next few days. Starting with this one from Reaper — this is the Bones version.
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.
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!
Managed to finish a quick but fun figure before I return to Infinity. Here is Malek painted up to a tabletop standard. I hadn't painted with real metallics for awhile, and I struggled with them a bit. They could use a bit more shading in parts, and if time permits I'll go back and touch him up. Calling him good for now though.
Admittedly, it's been a long time since the last post. This is due to several factors, which include a broken camera, workspace issues, and a super busy schedule dealing with the reality of life outside of minis.
The Infinity Nomads are still in progress, and I'll have updated pictures soon, but I diverged a bit from the Sci-fi figures and painted up the terrible Bone Horror for fun (terrible as in he's scary). This module isn't the most popular of the Warlord line, but I think he's turned out as a success. I kept away from lots of colors and kept him pretty monochrome, which I think helps create his mood.
As always, let me know what you think!
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.
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.
This week I returned to the lovely world of the undead, and finished Graverot the Ghast. I struggled with a paint scheme for him, and ended up trying for a pinkish gray color on him. I saw someone do this on the Reaper forum, but my memory being what it is, I can't remember who. This is subtle may not be entirely apparent in the images. Once started, he was a lot of fun to work on, getting into all his musculature. This also includes my attempt to sculpt a little interest into the base, by adding some skulls.
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.
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.
I really love the pose on this guy, and how he stands apart from the rest of the Vampires in the Necropolis faction. Let me know what you think.
One of the larger projects I had going on was the Necropolis undead army, which is continuously ongoing it seems. I'll have to work on re-posting these, but instead of just putting the original images back up, I thought I would try and re-shoot them with a better camera. We'll see how much time that takes, and if it gets bogged down, I'll just put up some of the older shots.
Until then, here are a couple of skeletons from the Bones set to tide you over.
