I have not been in the mood to paint recently, but tonight I decided I would give it a go again.
I painted my 15mm giant that I printed out. This was done whilst playing ‘Hunter Call of the Wild’ on the PC. The pJnrs were to my left, the models were to my right and I was sat in a hide trying to call in some Blacktail deer. They never came but a bull elk did.
It’s not the best photo as it was taken on my tablet rather than my phone, but hey you can see where I have been.
I had to run the club today as one of them was off yesterday and the rest were desperate to finish theirs.
We got sand onto the bases today and metallics onto the gun barrels.
We will get the bases painted and flocked/tufts tomorrow.
I am really proud of them as they tried so hard.
Here is my effort…
Last night after posting, I decided to get some paint on the 28mm otter. Now this guy came from Naga Miniatures and is one of many anthropomorphised animals in their collection. I honestly cannot say what he is meant to be representing. It has him down as a paladin. He does have a mix of dress and equipment. He has a macuahuitl and a metal shield as well as landschneckt style pantaloons. I don’t really care as I really like him.
I got him finished this evening… I might go back and do the cordage on his quilted gambeson.
This evening I got my finger out and started on some of the 15mm Samurai forces.
I have made a sort of Bandit force that includes some Ronin and a renegade monk.
The above were all painted with the Dipping Inks. I am really pleased with the majority of them. The only one that is a bit weird is the black shadow dip. I like it, but the guy front right has his kimono painted with it. It is more a grey green. Basically to me, it is a naming thing rather than a useless colour. For full disclosure I had heard this and ordered it anyway as it is a useful colour.
I still have the following dips to try out.
Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow. I am now off to order the shrine set from 3DAlienworlds.
You can see it here… https://www.3dalienworlds.com/shop-description.php?ID=1516184633
There are loads of cool bits 😉
Tonight I got the Sohei just about finished. Basically the metallic bits to do.
I will hopefully get their opposition painted soon. You could really tell that I hadn’t painted for a while as a lot of the Contrast paint had settled.
Speaking of paint…
I got my new Dipping inks through… I used a couple on the Sohei.
I also did some painting on rocks with the kids at school. Here is my effort…
The printer is still going non stop, I had a sod of a time printing the trebuchet arm. I may actually redo it.
This is the post you have all been waiting for (well in my head you are).
Do the Green stuff World Dipping Inks reactivate?
The Answer from the Shetland judge is ……
Nope! With the caveat that if they do, then I can’t see them doing so.
The white paint is quite thin to allow another colour to go over the top. There is definitely no bleed through like there was on the Army Painter. Sooo….
My verdict… I am off to buy some more when they are still on offer… if the offer has ended… still buying some more. Now I was going to buy some of the new GW Contrast Paint… not any more…
Well as promised I gave the five paints a go on the goats this evening and to be honest I am impressed straight off.
So as you can see, from the above they look really good and do what they are meant to. Interestingly the papyrus dip looks more skeletal than the skeleton brown.
Now I had one minor issue, and by minor I mean minor…
5 seconds later I had a hole.
Soo what are my first opinions…love these. The colours look good. Now as i said I got these at a reduced price. Tomorrow comes the big test to see whether I jump on a whole lot more.
That test is reactivation…I deliberately painted the whole miniature to see if it would cause issues with colour bleeds when I repaintthe bits that need a different colour… the two little goats will be a different colour tomorrow evening.
James got invited to try something different this evening…
He was dead chuffed getting second place after a joint shoot off for first.
Well, I have worked on this army for two weeks now and the end is in sight… tonight I got the Wraith cavalry done…
By my reckoning it leaves the big beastie and the rider to go….
Upon saying, nearly done, I still need to do the varnishing, oil wash and flocking… but the painting is nearly over!
I also redid the Giant and added a bit more to the build plate. I dropped some 28mm Imperials down to make some different guns… not sure why to be honest!
It has been a productive day, but I think I need a break from painting soon. Luckily Joe is coming over for a game tomorrow evening… a good excuse to have a break.
Today I was in and out a fair bit but I did manage to get some painting done… to be honest I am getting a bit sick of painting 🤯. But needs must as they say!
So first up are the Dinocrocuta… these are almost finished….
Really just the two armoured ones to work on.
I also did a lot more on the ghouls…
And finally I got going on the crossbows…
Once the crossbows are done then I have eight riders of various sorts and the big beastie to do. Although I complained about lots of painting, I only really have myself to blame as I added two dozen miniatures to the pile.
Today I cracked on and got the remaining nine Zombies finished…
This now gives me two units of twelve for Dragon Rampant, or a horde for other games.
I also spent a good while ‘building’ a set of zombie crossbows. There are nine distinct ones and three that are mirrors of some others. I know I said I wouldn’t print any more, but I still had some resin in the vat and it should be enough for the twelve miniatures. Now as I mentioned the Ian Lovecraft ones are a lot bigger than the rest so I took the height down to 92% and the other two planes at 88% to try and match in with the current batch. I will find out tomorrow if I have cocked it up 🤞🤞🤞.
And finally I need a bit of help on deciding on the colour for the Dinocrocuta… I decided to go away from a natural brown colour to something a bit more fantasyesque…
I have got the red/black or the white/grey. I like them both and cannot decide on which way to go. Both take seconds to do, so neither is harder than the other… what do people think… which would work well for an undead army?
