Stu strikes again!

I don't know where he keeps finding them, but Stu Has another 'lady friend'.

Maybe he heard the screams as the zombies closed in...

And then decided to pop a cap in some Zombie brains!

Uh, oh... Da Preacha man is at it again too.

There'll be no funny business on Preacha Man's watch.

Those zombies don't stand a chance!

From Kislev with love

This was a figure I originally made for my Adepticon army.  He was intended to be Chenkov, until I went with a Raging Heroes figure instead.

It had been so long since I made the conversion, I forgot that I used a WFB Kislev miniature and some I.G. bits!  His color scheme really matched the Highland Guard pretty well, so I will shoot some pictures of them together.

He is also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321441337152?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Burning bright

A few more Reaper Minis from the vault!

It's always fun to so some of the orange object source lighting on cooler flesh tones such as this.

The see through clothing effect is tricky.  Certain colors are easier to do than others.  I guess white is the easiest.  This turquoise is somewhere in the middle.  Not so bad, since the cooler greens can be reflected in the shadow areas of the skin tones as well.

I put some turquoise in the floor colors as well, so that I could make sure some of that would be reflected...

Another art chapter.

Not long before I shifted from 2D art to miniature painting, I was doing a lot of Celtic Mythology inspired paintings.  I am still trying to track down more of the images.

This one was probably the largest and most elaborate, although I can think of some others which would give it a good run for its money! :-)

This is one of a number of designs that I painted on Celtic drums (bodhrans) numerous times.

This one is Epona the Horse Goddess.  I painted a good portion of this by candlight during a big rain storm in our booth at the Ren Faire.  Not much else was going to happen anyway, so time to entertain the 'guests' trapped inside!

This is one of the very first images that I painted, called "The Caretaker"  It has puppies!

Big and Rich

Giant dudes like this get mighty heavy in metal!  It weighed a ton... makes one glad for Bones figures, doesn't it?

This thing was massive, obviously.  That made it very difficult to hang on to.  Having worked on some bigger Bones figures, it is really nice to have the lighter figure, but also a more absorbent surface.

That means that the paint will stick on there despite all the extra handling that something of this size gets.

And some dwarves to go along with him!  Dwarf Rune priest...

One of my favorite Reaper dwarves.

And a few buddies!

First with red hair...

And then white.

A fun batch that was painted some time around 2008-2009.

Sand castles

Time to play in the sand once again with these North Africa campaign color schemes for Memoir '44 vehicles.

It's an especially fun scheme to carry through.  It's all been practice for a Secret Weapon RAV 6 x 6 project.  Shhhh... don't tell anyone!  It's a secret. :-)

Anyway, it's going to be a lot of fun to see these guys mixing it up with the British Commonwealth forces!

At some point I will get some pics of these guys together with the Crusader tanks.

Off to battle!

An art thief

OK... I ran across some art and prints the other day while I was looking for a miniature.  Yes, I know that sounds really crazy, but some of the older minis have started to breed with the 2D art.

I have painted this Reaper miniature a few times over the years.  I finally have the chance to set the miniature and some 2D art in the same post!

For now, this is the only figure for which I have done this experiment.

Here we go... a drawing that I did on pastel paper of that same Lola the Thief miniature.

You can see that I approach painting the miniatures in the same way as I did my 2D art.  Building up a value pattern, creating a center of interest, working edges, and so on.

The biggest difference are the lack of a backdrop on the miniature (the base is not quite the same!), and not having to paint the "other side'. :-)