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Painting – Spring 2016

May 10, 2016 10:31 am / Leave a Comment /

Painting efforts continued into Spring, working on more figures for Warmachine and Hordes. Both of the figures here are larger warbeasts, each standing about 70mm tall, about half the size of a can of Coke. The first is the Warpwolf from the Circle of Orboros.

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I love how the colors turned out on the wolf. I looked over numerous images of Siberian Huskies, trying to get the facial fur right. I even gave his eyes a tint of blue.

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This figure was part of the starter Battlebox for the faction. I have a female warlock and a pair of two-headed wolves to finish that group. May be a while before that happens.

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Another warbeast is the Dire Troll from the Trollbloods faction. I don’t love the pics as much. It could be how much blue was used, or the contrast against the brownish background.

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This figure came with pieces for three distinctive versions (the Mauler, the Blitzer, and the Bomber). We magnetized the pieces and painted them all, allowing us to select which one to field in a battle. This is the Mauler.

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The Blitzer.

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Pyg Troll on the machine gun.

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The Bomber.

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And a fun Pyg Troll lighting fuses.

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I just finished up another model for the Legion of Everblight, which I’ll post soon. I have some minis from the game Blood Rage to work on, as well as a few more from the Toughest Girls of the Galaxy

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Ia Ia !!

July 29, 2015 4:18 am / Leave a Comment /

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I’m finally back to painting, and so I might as well post a thing or two. This is the Cthulhu figure (can’t really call it a miniature) from Reaper Minis and their first Kickstarter. For ten dollars, who could resist the Lord of the Depths?

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The figure is utterly huge. I thought I got a bit burnt out when painting the fire giant. That was nothing compared to this guy. The airbrush was a necessity. Without that, he’d still be Bones White.

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I’m going to need to figure out a better method of photographing the larger minis, especially when I have something else coming next year.

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Basing and Morvahna finished

May 6, 2014 6:07 am / Leave a Comment /

I forced myself to push forward and make a suitable base for my painted Morvahna. Truth be told, I hate basing. And it’s probably because I don’t consider myself good at it. Gluing kitty litter to bases, painting cork, none of it ever seemed to work right for me. And so I don’t enjoy doing it. I feel if done poorly, it takes away from my painting. Still, sometimes I can achieve good results.

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I followed the steps laid out by James Wappel, who is excellent with his bases, painting, you name it. He’s done tons of these bases, and so I tried to mimic him. The first results were… disconcerting. (The clay I used was white originally)

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275 degrees for fifteen minutes. Check. 4 minutes in a toaster over, and the smoke started. Took a few days to get my morale back. =) Once I got a suitable piece of baked sculpey clay, I glued it to some cork on a base.

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Then I primed and painted it up. I need more work on marble patterns, but fortunately Wappel has notes on that as well.

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Overall, I’m pleased with how she turned out. I do hate the digital camera for pointing out all my inconsistencies and flaws, but I knew it would do that. I can see why many photos are smaller on sites – if you blow up the image larger than the actual miniature, you’re bound to see flaws and artifacts introduced by the camera.

Onward!

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