Pieces and parts... another Venom

OK!  Working on another Venom.  Just as I did with the Razorwing, I tried to paint this guy with as much stuff un assembled as possible.

It is certainly much easier to paint the cockpit and pilot this way!  Obviously the banner was not attached either.

What surprised me was how much easier it was to paint the crackling lava freehand with just the upper skin of the vehicle.  I will post those images later tonight.

Here are some views of the cockpit and the magnetized splinter cannon.

The gunner...

The base, made from backed sculpey...

And the whole thing together.  From this point on, it was mostly freehand and then assembly!

FANtastic... finding one more Ilyad figure

I know I have said this at least 3 times before... that I have uncovered the last Ilyad figure in my archive.  Well, somehow I managed to discover one more!

This is one more fun figure from one of my favorite miniature lines.  As always, I lament their demise.

I also liked this color scheme.  Green and purple combos show up quite a bit on my minis. :-)

The clean details in both sculpting and casting really help a painter out!  Seeing this gal reminds me of the Raging Heroes figures I have been painting...

Deepest Africa... more Fenryll minis

We continue with the Fenryll miniatures I dug up from the archives the other day.  The colors on these are pretty good examples of what I want to do with the "How to" painting video on this flesh tone.

  I have been prepping a few Reaper minis for this particular video.

When doing a darker color such as this, you have lots of opportunities to work warm and cool shades withing the flesh tone.  Basically, you are concentrating warmer colors where you would have more blood flow close to the surface.

Also, the surrounding colors will have a significant impact on the choices for your flesh tones.  In this image, you can see that I was trying to have the warmer browns contrast with the greenish troll head.

I've got a few more of these to go yet!  Putting the white war paint on them also helps to provide a measuring stick to the color temperatures of the flesh tones, as it is either neutral or slightly cooler.

Never operate without a safety net

Here is one of the items that is supposed to keep the little gangs of girls alive a little longer... hopefully. Pretty much every rule change in 6th edition is designed to make Dark Eldar die easier, but maybe this would help.

In confined spaces, the shardnet can at least prevent a few more attacks.  That is, if it can stay alive with all the overwatch shots, etc.  Between that and all the other grenades I gave them, I am hoping they can still do something in a game.

I have learned that they are mostly useless against space marines, but that is just about every unit.  If Feel no pain had stayed the same, the DE would have a shot, but not any more.  Going up against stuff with low saves helps them a lot, but I doubt there will be many low save armies at Adepticon.

Anyway, work continues!

Possibly Fenryll Miniatures?

This was a pretty interesting pair.  I don't even remember painting them, which means it must have been in that 2005-2006 period.  I think these are made by Fenryll, but I could be wrong, which I tend to be on these things. :-)

The zombie figure was quite nice.

The pirate figure was very cool as well, with a nice pose and some great little details.

Overall, a nice little couple!

How do you stop a Rhino from charging?

You take away his credit card, of course!!

This mini was painted back in 2006 for MSB Toys.  I painted several figures for them, but this was one of my favorites.

I had fun making the sculpey rock base, as always!

Hitchin' a Ride... the Archon's Venom

Here's some more work on the Archon's Venom.  In the view above, you can see that the skin of the Venom is mostly ready for the freehand.

These next few views show the gunner and a 'passenger' that is keeping the Archon company.

I am looking forward to seeing this thing all finished and put together!n  I have to paint a little banner as well.

The undercarriage had a bit of glowing effect added to it...

The port side with some more grisly trophies.  Gotta have those when your squads are so small or so pricey!  No ATSKNF for me :-(

I was doing some work on the Razorwing as well.  Most of the time was spent on the missiles and lance weapons.