If truth be known I am what is best described as KerfuctundBuggered! So for that reason I decided not to even attempt any painting this evening.
I had an hour painting session with the Geek Club today and really went to town on the goblin rock band (or Runt Rockers as they prefer to be known as).
There is no grey anywhere on them anymore.
Hopefully I will feel a bit more on top of things tomorrow .
Well this evening I did my first pass on the cloth. For this I chose Space grey from Vallejo. I am not sure how much medium I used, but it was about 4:1
This is a totally different way for me to paint. Normally it would be slap the colour on and move on. To be fair to myself I am normally painting whole Armies or warbands.
This (or rather I am forcing myself) to work in a different way to usual. I am having to slow down and mop up pooling more. I would sometimes not bother as it would be covered by another colour or hidden in the mass of miniatures. You can see where I have removed some of the darker pooling below. Still not perfect but a better attempt.
I shall carry on with this and see how I get on over her and the other three busts.
This evening as expected I was absolutely drained from our leavers assembly. It was rammed full of people.
I did manage to get another layer of paint on Mizzy’s skin.
I also got the goblins onto their bases and also glued onto their frogs.
I am hoping to get some more done on this lot tomorrow.
So I made a start on Mizzy. I really just did the skin and pedestal, but it’s a start. I got a bit of staining, but it might actually work to my advantage as to where it is. It is really standing out against the white, but once the cloth is done it should look fine
I also got the flesh done on the other undercoated bust. It seemed a shame to waste the paint.
This evening I got round to painting the white bits on these goblins that had been left unfinished.
Now, I will need three more frog riders to make up a unit. Perhaps something to print this weekend.
I also got the final bust off the plate. Once again it is from Miniatures of Madness. She is called Loreil Softvale, a druid.
Now the miniature version is as above (with legs- obviously). It also comes with a NSFW version. She is nude, now I am not a prude by any stretch of the imagination but… I really, and I mean really don’t get it. Why do people want them? Yes I get that someone might want to paint a lot of skin and eventually have a use for their pot of nipple pink paint. Each to their own I guess. I am seeing a lot more (oooh err) NSFW appearing in kickstarters. In some cases clothed and unclothed. Interestingly they are never male, or at least I have never noticed any appearing.
This might be bias as I am not interested so don’t bother looking.
Okay rant over for the evening… I will try and start on the bust tomorrow.
Well I retried the bust from yesterday and she came out fine. Obviously the bed had moved and needed re levelling. I now have four to choose from.
The two grey ones are Tytan Troll. The guy on the right is from the Curse of Strahd (some D&D adventure I think). I thought the goblin with the top knot looked funky. The smaller of the undercoated one was a free one from My Mini factory…. Diego Irrazabal. This one printed in five sections. Base, torso, head and the two arms. The big one is from Miniatures of Madness. She is Mizzy the Articifer. She has a matching 32mm miniature and diorama too. I have her through the tribe. I get one bust a month. This one came through that.
I also mentioned goblins… well here are my swamp goblins so far, by so far I mean ones that I can find.
My KR cases came today… luckily I have goblins as I messed up the sizes. Yes I could have probably sent it back, but these sort of fit and to be honest I can use the inserts fir my 15mm armies.
I just have to decide which bust I am going to start tomorrow. What do you reckon? left to right:
Until tomorrow…
Today I was trying to work out why my seventy plus day run had become five. In doing so I realised that as of yesterday I had posted 2318 times since August 26th 3017. This August I will be starting my 8th year on this blog.
Well today I worked on the two chemical storage tanks. I basically coloured all the grey bits seen in the photo below.
I also worked on the elf, there was a lot of glazing on the hair, especially on her right and on the back. I also bit the bullet and had a go at the eyes. I decided if I tried to use paint then I would totally cock it up. So instead I used a sharp pencil. I wanted green eyes, but one of my kids borrowed my coloured pencils and has now lost them. I think it has worked… a bit piercing, but not bad for the first-ever attempt.
She does have eyebrows, but they are not really visible in this photo.
I might actually get her finished tomorrow.
Is dangerous, or so they say. I really wouldn’t like to corner these…
I wonder if they train them with cheese in their own dugouts? If so they might bring the bombs right back.
I also threw some more paint on the elf..
I had to take some time off work as the stress of the closure has really just about finished me off. Trying to get an emergency Doctor appointment to see if they can help. It’s an absolute bugger, but I was not in a good place.
Well I have had a bad weekend stress wise, so what better way to help than some retail therapy.
I decided to get myself a couple of Kaiser Rushford miniature cases to try and sort out my miniatures that are in cardboard boxes everywhere.
Bogenwald 