Painting the ancient and the rare...

OK folks, this is a set of very old (and, I am told, very rare) miniatures from the old Citadel range called Pan Tangeans.  Obviously, these were not the most detailed sculpts ever made.  They were not the easiest figures to paint, that's for sure...

I don't remember why they were all painted in various color schemes, but that was the request, I believe.

The tigers were interesting, at least. :-)

I am pretty sure these were painted back in 2005, so that represents a little ancient history for me as well!

I guess I will keep running across crazy galleries like these for a little while!

Dark Elf Dreadlord

Here's something that was hiding in the archives!

Not quite sure when this one was painted, but it had to be years ago.  Probably when I was painting those assassins...

Here's a link to those guys:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/02/something-bit-different-dark-elves.html

Back to work!

It's for the birds... Odin

OK, another colossal big guy from Eastern Front Studios!

This time, it's Odin.  I think the plaque is 4 inches across, to give you an idea of size.

Obviously, a big pile of baked sculpey carved away to create the ice base!

I will be doing an ice pile on one of the kickstarter painting videos "Painting the Blues away", since that will be a great exercise is painting many different shades of blue!

The freehand was very fun.

The Big Guy...

The Big Head...

More freehand...

Big Bird!

Touch this and you will get more than warts...

Time for another piece from the archive... a giant toad!  This was from Eastern Front Studios.

The base is a wooden plaque that is probably 6 inches across.

I think this is one of the first things I ever painted using my book of reptiles, amphibians and bugs as reference.  Eventually I would use it as a guide for all of my Lizardman army.

Since this was so huge, it let me choose a much more complicated pattern, which was fun!  You get a good look at that here.

I made the rocks, lilipads, etc., from sculpey.  Once that was baked and painted, I glued it to the wooden plaque.

My, what big teeth you have!

Close up of the base.  I painted several transparent layers on the 'water' part, using some gloss varnish in between each one.  This was faster and easier than trying to do it all with one of those water effects products.

Sci-fi Vestals from Raging Heroes!

As the Raging Heroes Kickstarter draws ever closer, here is something to whet your appetite.

I have a few squads of these Sci-fi Vestals from Raging Heroes for my Wyches.  They are very highly detailed minis, which is why I am using a number of them for my painting videos.

The faces and hair are very cleanly sculpted and cast, which is not always the case with other companies for whatever reason.

The view from above...

Here she is with the first color test of the squad...

These are really amazing minis, so I will keep posting them as I get more painted!  Stay tuned!

Ladies, start your engines!

As Adepticon nears, it's time to race to the finish!  This is the first color test for the Reaver jetbikes.  As I have mentioned before, I had to change a lot of my original plans for the various units.

My first thought was that each unit would be a different color, to represent the various racing teams.  However, there is just not enough time for 8-9 different color test minis!  So, I had to go for a unifying  color scheme.

Initially, I thought this would get boring, but as I do each unit type, I see that the variations in the units dramatically changes how the color scheme and freehand work from one piece to the next, which is very cool!

As you can see, I have been continuing the freehand that first started with the Grotesques.

I will be doing this same set of colors and freehand on the Venoms and the Raider.

The blood effects on the bladevanes were a lot of fun, and something new for me.  All of my previous efforts involved splatter and other patterns that were created by gravity.

This time around, the blood would defy gravity a bit as it was pulled along the surface of the bladevanes.  There were many things I hoped to achieve with this part of the painting, but the appearance of motion and speed was not somthing that I had in mind! :-)

I don't know why it did not come to mind sooner, as the soot and scorch mark effects I have done on other flying vehicles certainly did something quite similar.

Just as it was with the first Grotesque, this first piece had a few areas that were painted more than once as I tried to figure out what would be the most feasible, and easiest to replicate many times.

As I was working on this, the game was on!  The only thing Baseball likes more than watching baseball (even a spring training affair) is the Sox beating a certain other Chicago team 15-3.

Wild horses... painting unusual stuff part two

Here are some more of those unusual figures from Maidenhead Miniatures... and Australian company.

They had a ton of centaur figures.  Some were bigger, some were smaller.  This one was mounted on a 40mm round base (I think it was called a Heavy Centaur).

These are based on 25mm squares.  Obviously, the light centaurs!  They could certainly be an interesting D&D creature.