Well I worked on the druid this evening. I managed to get paint in various places that it shouldn’t be. A couple of them will be hidden when I paint the bits. The absolute sod is that I got it under her chin!
You can see the green on her chin and also a khaki colour on the top of her head. Extremely miffed by my incompetence.
As you can see I decided on a more autumnal look for the leaves.
So I got another layer on the tunic and made a start on the creeper round the arm.
A very long way to go, but having fun so far. ,
This evening I decided I had better get my finger out and make a start on Loreil Softvale. I went for a ‘dwarf skin’ colour this time as opposed to the ‘crusader skin’ I used on Mizzi
I also got Grace the Pirate cured and here she is in all her glory.
As the great, late Frankie Howard said in Up Pompei…”don’t point those at me dear, they may go off!”
Now I have definitely had a problem with this print as there is a ‘scar’ above her right eye and I must have missed a support under her right arm as there was a little damage there too.
To be brutally honest I should have oriented her in a different way on the build plate as the supports have left some damage on her chin. Nothing a bit of sanding wouldn’t solve, but annoying anyway.
Well Mizzy is getting closer to being finished and spartan from the stress of ghe eyes then I have thoroughly enjoyed doing her. This to me is a bit of a shock as I was a ‘whole army painted in a week and sod the mistakes’ kind of Painter. She has actually forced me to slow down. Is she perfect and error free, heck no. This is definitely a case of the journey matching the destination. The main thing for me is I am happy with her.
I am trying to work out whether to do one more coat on the main bit of her hair or not. If I don’t then it is just the eyebrows,glass and metal to do.
I have downloaded two more of these from Miniatures of Madness. I have the pirate I showed and now there is also Agatha the Warlock to join the team.
So in total three of this range to paint. As the Druid is undercoated I may do her next.
This evening I achieved a little bit more on Mizzy. I got her bottles and bow started.
I am thinking of leaving the bottles as they are and working a bit more on the bow.
I also plucked up the courage and did a bit of work on her lips.
I bought the AP Thunderbird Blue a good while ago because I thought it was a nice colour. It worked well for what I wanted here. My first thought with the bottles was to have two different colours, but I bottled it, no pun intended. I just didn’t think I had enough ideas on what two to choose that wouldn’t spoil the overall effect.
Today I have evidently made my 90th post in a row. 10% of my longest run, but hey nearly three months of daily posts.
This evening I got the third layer done on the bodice and am now happy with the colour.
It is definitely different to the waist now. So I would say that is a success.
I will hopefully get the bow and bottles done tomorrow.
I am eventually going to have to tackle her face. I am slowly running out of other bits to paint.
Oh and WordPress has done the same again. I went from 84 posts in a row to three yesterday. Not sure if it is WordPress or actually Jetpack… whichever one it is, it is getting bloody annoying.
Well Mizzy and I have made up and I did a bit more this evening.
Now her top looks very similar to her waist. It is a totally different colour, but as the paint was so thin then it will take a few coats to darken up. I used Vallejo ‘copper brown’ and ‘ork skin’ this evening.
I am really liking how this coming out. Eventually though, I am going to have to bite the bullet and do her eyes!
I worked some more on Mizzy this evening. I noticed today that she has fingerless gloves on her left hand, so I sorted that first. I also did some leather as well as her sleeves.
I also repainted her eyes white.
As I was doing her I was also working on a 28mm miniature.
Slow, but steady progress.
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.
Bogenwald 