My daughter’s character is now finished.
I am rather pleased with it and she is really pleased with it.
It has come a long way from the bare white plastic… I spent quite a while on this one, probably longer than I would have with one of my own.
Tomorrow the party have to try and rescue an idiot youth from a wily old troll. This task is made all the more difficult due to the fact that two of them are hobbits!
Hurrah my bases have arrived from Pendraken… I reckon this lot should keep me going for a while 😁
I based up 6 bases of archers and 9 of hand weapons.
My plan was to have 4 miniatures to a base (I would normally go for 5 or 6 but the fantasy miniatures are a lot bigger than the historical ones). I managed 4 archers and only 3 to the other bases.
I think the 3’s will look okay, but the size of the bases caused me problems. I will work out how to base them… the Amazons had a painted base with flock so I might follow the same route.
My daughter has joined our gaming group and is playing a wood elf character in our One Ring campaign. Being a kind father that I am I purchased a miniature for her and am now painting it.
Still a very long way to go, but I am getting there slowly.
We did have a lot of fun on Hero Forge making up characters but at $10 for the download and $20 for a physical version we went for the cheaper option of £3.25 for a reaper bones mini.
I am calling these done apart from a bit of tidying up and then the bases finishing. I might give the faces a bit of a wash as they do look a bit pale.
It would have made my life easier if my fine detail brushes hadn’t given up the ghost.
I think they will look a lot better when they get the sand or flock or whatever I decide upon onto the bases.
Because the bases are so raised then I can’t really just paint the bases. Which is a bit of a pain as whatever I put on is going to look massive by comparison.
I eventually ordered 200 40x20mm bases so when they arrive I will blast on with the infantry. As I am on a bit of a roll with 10mm I might crack on with some more Mongols.
I also managed to get a bit of paint onto the Gigantoraptor, these dinosaurs also fall into the neglected miniatures category.
Still another 5 to go out of the neglected dinosaurs. A triceratops, a tyrannosaurus, a parasaurolophus, a stegosaurus and a hatzegopteryx (a massive flying reptile in case you didn’t know). The total bugger is that four of them have earlier ones already painted. It would be good if I could match them in.
Well when I say almost done I actually mean the first unit is almost done.
Just the skin and hair to do, along with tidying up and a bit more highlights. Not quite sure where the zoomed in image went, but this one will do. I have stopped hating these now, I still don’t like the barding but, it will have to do 😬
As I had the brown paint out for the bases I gave this chap his first undercoat. I say first as I intend to give him two to hide the printer lines. They can really be seen on the following photograph
To be fair though I reckon I could tweak the printer settings to eradicate these a bit more. This was a test print to see how it went. But I suppose to look at it another way it weighs 4 Grams and at 0.018p per gram then it cost pence… and when looked at from this distance…
The lines are a lot less noticeable. I can tell who he is and that he is armed with a bow. So to be honest I am not going to worry about it that much. I will try another print sometime in the future with the Fat Dragon miniature settings dialled into the printer.
Tomorrow I hope to finish off the cavalry. There will be a short hiatus with the infantry as my 40×20 bases need to arrive.
I did a bit of painting this evening…
I managed to get a fair bit done on these tonight, well in the amount of time I had. Still a lot of shading and highlighting to do but I need to do the weapons, flesh tones and hair. Then onto the bases.
The velociraptors got a quick bit of blue, again that needs shading, but the smaller dinosaurs are using up the spare paint on the palette.
Then onto the infantry all 125 of them 😱. That reminds me I must buy some 20x40mm bases.
Only had a little bit of time tonight to do these. Part of the evening was looking for a new, second hand car and the rest was working out some more of my adventure for ‘The One Ring’ RPG.
Still a fair old way to go on these but a teeny bit of progress is indeed progress. They are at the old I really, really hate these stage. Part of it is because of the barding which to me isn’t really an Elvish thing, the other part is because I get to a certain point in most models and hate them. Probably they are still a bit messy. As each layer goes on they will get better and the happier I will get with them.
As I was drawing maps this evening my two youngest also drew maps. My daughter drew this one.
She has also decided to write a story based on the map.
My son also drew a map…
Evil Daddy told them to turn off technology, but they really enjoyed doing it so a win, win situation.
I managed a smidge on the cavalry tonight…
I decided to do them all the same colour for the horses and the barding. The next question is what colour for the mane and tail.
As I was messing about with grey paint I decided to paint a pair of Troodon. A quick couple of minutes to get them done.
I will get some flock onto the base tomorrow.
I would have got some more done, but my good lady and I decided to watch ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’.
It really was amazing, I had seen some of the footage before, but obviously not in colour. I will watch it again soon.
Well I actually got my butt into gear and found some bases and got the cavalry and mages glued down and primed. Considering that these are 10mm they are amazingly detailed.
These are just primed with some Coat D’arms rust colour. I am still in two minds whether to make the riders a uniform colour or not.
I could do the barding all the same colour then add in a bit of differentiation into the cloaks and tunics.
I will have to wait and see until tomorrow. I had better watch the hobbit again to get some ideas of Mirkwood Elves.
Bogenwald 