A warped perspective...

Much to my horror a while back, I realized that the warp gate that I wanted to use for that terrain video had GW bits plastered all over it.  That meant constructing a whole new terrain piece. :-(  Very sad for me, since that turned out to be many hours lost.

At least I got to show of my ancient veteran welder's glove!  Safety first...

Since most of you probably don't have a $200+ mat cutting machine as part of your hobby equipment, I created a cutting rig that should be easy for anyone to make for themselves pretty easily.

Goin' 'round in circles... so it seemed.

The new warp gate with power generator towers that are NOT made by a certain cranky miniatures company.

Conduits everywhere! Gotta spread that juice around.

Ready for painting!

The White Comet

One more bike!  This time with a chain sword.

I have to say, these have turned out to be more fun to paint than I expected.  I figured they would mostly be a nightmare.  Happily, that is not the case!

As the squad progresses, I learn how to do each area more efficiently.  Of course, I will have these mastered just when there are no more to paint!! :-)

Also, I think the fact that these are more of a cool/neutral gray has piqued my interest.  I never get the chance to paint pure white, so this is very cool!  I will be painting some other figs with this scheme as see how that goes.

Beware of falling rocks

It was a very strange day today.  Not quite how I expected it to play out.  But, in any case, here is the conclusion of the Hills and Rocks video.

Here's the 'not black' black layer of craft paint.  That stuff is so fantastic, and freakin' cheap!!!

Brushing on some 'happy greens' to make some moss...

And then you end up with some nice terrain pieces for your table!

I look forward to using these in Lustria!!

Added to my collection. :-)

Looks like someone is having their own convention...

Figure Painter Magazine... and me

Not too long ago, the good folks at Figure Painter Magazine approached me about an article.  As series of questions were asked, and answers were provided!  Hopefully people find them informative and entertaining!

Figure Painter Magazine is an online publication, and they do some serious magic with their painting articles.

I was especially happy to see the story I wrote for the Tainted Pharaoh included!  Yea!

A variety of images are spliced through the article, as I tried to give them as much of a cross section of what I do as possible.

There are some 'nuts and bolts' discussed, as well as how I ended up doing this crazy painting thing!

Here is the cover, and a link:

http://www.figurepaintermagazine.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=33&product_id=55

So, once again, many thanks to Shane, who worked so hard on this, and was patient enough to sift through all the images I sent!  I appreciate all his hard work.  Hopefully you like it too! :-)

The rough and rocky road...

Terrain!  Yes, another week that's dedicated to a subject matter :-)

You always forget how much fun it is to make terrain, since you only do that every so often when you need something new for your gaming tables.

The Box 'o junk.  Save those shards!

Everything ready to go...

Let's start cutting some rocks!

Hills in a hurry...

Next up... painting.

Ordering from the Menu...

So, the project entered a new chapter over the weekend, as Marty lent me a hand in a task that proved to be far more frustrating and difficult than I had expected.  

The task at hand was creating the menu screens, and getting the links to match up, etc.  You do this part after videos have been rendered.  There were a number of small things that kept conspiring to make things more annoying.  Of course, sometimes the only way to find out if it worked was to render it again or to burn another test DVD, etc.

There is a template now, and that certainly makes life easier moving forward!

Now I know how difficult it can be to find your exact 'anchor points' to indicate the chapters.  If I make some notations during the editing process, that will go a lot faster! :-)

By the way, this is a 60 TV screen!  Yes, indeed.  I had never seen something that giant in person before.

The jars of wash looked like 5 gallon buckets of paint!

Lots of text blocks interspersed throughout to make things easier to absorb.  As often as possible, I created additional text blocks with definitions of art terms as I mention them, colors, brushes, techniques, and so on.  This is partly for non-English speakers, who could then type that text into a translation matrix or something if they wanted to...

The supervisors were right there, making sure everything was up to snuff.

Green with envy

More fun with colors!!!  This time green.  The miniature was from Raging Heroes, a favorite of mine.

This was a rather complex figure, but it offered some unique ways to experiment with all sorts of greens.

The wings in particular provided me with a chance to show some high saturation colors, so that they could be played out next to much more grayed down greens...

This seemed to be the best way to show how 'warm' and 'cool' greens could be played off of each other.

Then it was time for some glazing!

Getting there!  The dreaded timer nearby...

And then side by side.

Once again, many thanks to the good folks at Raging Heroes for allowing me to use such wonderful figures!

I have an earlier post which shows the assembly of these figures.  I will be putting that link on the videos, so that people can use that as a guide.  They really go together quite well!

Another Raging Heroes figure is coming up soon, which was used for the Bloody Mess video.  Stay tuned!