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!
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!
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 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!
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.
