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!

Graverot the Ghast

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.

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.

Vanderast - Bloodseeker

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.

Skeletons on the March

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.