James Wappel Miniature Painting

While most of the figures I have been painting lately have been brand new Song of Ice and Fire minis, I still work on figures that have...

This very old hunk of metal really took me back to the early days of our painting experience.I remember when I first saw the old Confro...

You have heard me talking about the advantages of using oils, mostly in terms of working on very large amounts of figures all at once. ...

We are on our way to Reapercon!  Or, by the time this is posted, we might be there already. Once Fort Wappel is all set up, I look ...

The oil paints have proven to be incredibly useful for so many projects in the last few years... and not just painting vehicles.  I hav...

These centaurs from Confrontation are a reprise of some that I painted many years ago.  Just like the original batch, the 'tusks...

It had been a very long time since I had done this much of a patina on a figure, so I had lots of fun on this guy! I used the Se...

I think this might be my favorite of the old Confrontation minis.  This is a massive hunk of metal, but I love the pose!  The only othe...

Back to the old Confrontation figures and some reminiscing about how different the sculpts and even the poses were at the time. 13-...

Into the way back machine to check out some more Confrontation minis! I never realized that they did several sets of figures whi...

The classic Confrontation figures continue with this  "Ogre" sized version.  This was a fairly large infantry style figure fo...

I remember seeing this figure posted to various painting sites way back in 2003... part of the Rackham craze that had a major effect on...