Tonight I worked on the frogs and got a bit further forward.
I an really pleased with them apart the light blue one at the front. I went with yellow spots, but really don’t think it looks right. I might just repaint him yellow, as it would work with the red.
Well okay that is a massive over exaggeration, but I have to admit that these are probably the brightest things I have painted since the Imperials from the Italian Wars.
The really pale blue isn’t really working so it is either another colour over the top or another coat or two. I have yet to decide. The unpainted one is there as I didn’t want the paint to run into the wet blue.
I also worked on the tusks on the big beastie. Not perfect, but better than the very first attempt…
Well a certain swamp monster made the journey home today with his teeth a lot lighter than last week.
I will hopefully work on them more over the weekend.
This evening I had guests over. My sister in law and her partner were up visiting from England so I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked… in reality I got more done than expected. Expectation was zero.
I had put a number of layers of the dipping inks on the red armour. It stopped working like it should so I decided to try a bit if glazing and badly executed edge highlighting. Unfortunately my red was of the vintage of the orange and yellow!
Tomorrow I go over the lacing in white then choose a nice contrasting colour to go over it.
Ye gods I am tired today… I took one look at the painting desk and yawned ‘naaaahhh’. I didn’t sleep too well last night and have had a full on day today including visits from councillors as well as the head honch of the education department.
I did remember to take a photo of the Goblin on the swamp beast…
I do like him, but there is something not quite right colour wise, I just cannot put my finger on it. It might be the armour or it might just be the colours on the beastie.
I do think that I need to do something about the beastie’s teeth and get the eyes filled in too.
To be fair to myself I am painting these in school, without my brushes and without a wider selection of paints.
Well that’s the final dwarf done…
Here is the full warband with the crossbow being the final one.
Not sure where to go next. More Mordheim or something different.
Snow is melting now, by by all accounts it might be back on Tuesday.
This evening I got another couple of dwarves done. This takes the total to five out of the six starting miniatures.
This leaves only the crossbow to go. Luckily he is half way done…
Hopefully I will get him done tomorrow.
I managed to get a bit more done on my goblin general…or rather his mount.
So another Snow Day… getting a bit same old, same old. Snow still coming down intermittently.
This evening I finished these two…
That leaves three to go on the dwarves.
Well all schools were off today and I was on Child protection training all day. My daughter and I were going to do some more stuff on Ark, but sadly it needed a 7GB update so I painted while we watched ‘The Mitchell’s Versus the Machines’.
I would have got a lot further but my good lady forgot to turn the bath off. Water intake outpaced the overflow and to cut a long story short we have no dry towels. On the upside we have a concrete floor under the Lino and it is a single story house.
So back to the painting I eventually went. I managed to get this far…
Still a long way to go, but getting there, with these three anyway.
Snow is still here and the temperatures have dropped way below zero.
Today was Friday after school Geek Club. I decided to take some of my goblins into school and paint them during Geek Club. I didn’t get as far as I wanted as my boss phoned up, but a start is a start I suppose.
I decided to do the general on his swamp creature as well make a start on a couple of the unit leaders.
The general miniature is really lovely and I spent ages trying to decide on the colours. Bright and poisonous or lurking colours.
I split the difference and did a bit of both, it was only when I was painting the head that I realised that it looked a bit like a shark’s snout. Hence the blue green colouration. Stripes are going to be yellow I think. The belly will be a light colour as befits a creature that lives in liquid.
Now the background for these is that the goblins are in red cloaks. I am not sure about this. I am thinking dark green instead. I suppose, my world, my rules.
