Burgundy Sorceress

Sandra Garrity time again!!

Here's another fantastic classic from the Reaper series of our early painting years, but this time it has been executed with the knowledge gained over 15 years of painting.

I enjoyed this set of colors as well, the cooler burgundy reds juxtaposed with the higher chroma teal.  Some gold was tossed in as a further accent.

On the base, I added a few new Gamer's Grass products.  I enjoy the low cut grass tufts, which will be particularly nice for smaller scales such as Flames of War.

She's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/322156036529?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Launcelot

Here's a very fun new miniature from Twisted Game!  You can see that he is quite the Steampunk theme.

He was part of the recent kickstarter campaign, which featured all kinds of amazing sculpts.  And yes, these sculpts are actually done by hand!  So rare... but it certainly shows. :-)

Check out the facebook page with much more!

https://www.facebook.com/TwistedDG/?fref=ts

He's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/322161202577?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Subway in the Swamp

Getting around in the swamp is usually a real pain.  Maybe you have an air boat or something... but those are kinda fragile. And they don't hold ten gun toting hired hands!

That's where creating your own subway comes in really handy.  With this fine machine, you can drill your way right through those pesky Cyprus roots.

This ingenious vehicle is a creation of the very inspired Confederate  Rebellion from Wild West Exodus.

This heavy support vehicle is designed to burrow it's way under and BEHIND enemy lines.  Just what you would expect from an army that has heeded the words of Jefferson Davis, choosing to abandon the cities and take to the swamps.

In addition to the ability to drill safely beneath enemy lines and show up where they least expect, there are three different weapon options.

Soon, you will be seeing much more from the Confederate Rebellion, so stay tuned!!

The Wolf Pack

The Wereshewolf Pack, that is!  At last, the images of the entire group.

As I have mentioned before, my goal was to have some differences in color scheme on each one, without having them look out of place together.

While there are two 'basic' color schemes... a grayish and tan coloration, there is a difference in the overall lightness of each 'set'.  Also, I tried to vary the shadow colors.

The head/hair area was another spot where I could create some differential.  You can see a large difference on the heads of the two grayish Wereshewolves.

Where possible, I tried to get 'opposing' colors in the shadows.  The figure on the far left shows this very well, as you can see the greenish shading in the darker areas.

All four of the bases have some unfortunate victims!

The foliage was done a little differently on each base, since it seemed like a good laboratory to try out some new materials!

I believe that this set of four is now available on the Raging Heroes website.

One last look at the pack!!!

Meet the Major

Here's another member of the officer corps.  As I mentioned before, putting those extra points towards the higher leadership bonus has been very important.  A unit that can't do anything for 5 turns because it is pinned early is almost worse than losing the order die outright.

These figures also have some interesting character to them as well!

While these bases are smaller than most of the kind I've worked with lately, I am still trying to make some interesting little vignettes for them.

Hopefully this commander will lead the way to victory in the next report!! Stay tuned.

Defender of Empire

Meet Octavia from Kabuki Miniatures.

Just like all sculpts from that line, there are a lot of nice sharp details, which make them very nice to paint.  This one was fun to balance out the various shades of gold, along with the reds.

As you can see on the cloak, I tried to have a color transition of a cooler red to something more warm.  Even more so is the transition from a more muted grayed down red to a very pure red.  In this case, Reaper's Clear Red.

The stone of the base made a very nice contrast to all of these warmer colors!

I tried to reflect some of the stone color into the golds of the shield, and also on to the skin tones.

Kickin' up Dust

This is a figure that we snagged at Adepticon from Knuckledusters.

She's a very fun steampunk western style figure that would be perfect for some Deadlands RPG :-)

It's been a while since I got a chance to use the Reaper clear paints for magentas and reds, so this was a great chance to get back into those, and use all the more muted browns and tans as a contrast.

She's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/322153388980?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649