Getaway day...

OK, everything is packed up, and leaving is imminent! So is the Raging Heroes kickstarter.

This is Sister #3 of the Kurganovas.  I have one more post coming of the whole batch together!

One last time... a real strange day

I will only subject you to one more round of Hell Drake images!  It has been a bizzaro kind of day, and a very long one already.

Very strange time today, not knowing what was going to happen, and never actually finding out.  Yes, that makes no sense, but that would be the best way to describe the day.

Just be ready for the start of RAGING HEROES TGG kickstarter!  Man, it's just about here. :-)

Back to the Hell Drake for the moment...

CMON Expo has now concluded, but we won't be getting back just yet.

It was a lot of dun to paint with a group of people for many hours!  We have not done anything like that in ages.  There were some incredible minis floating around, and a whole bunch of talent.

The best part of it is that you get to see all these different approaches to painting.  I know mine is very unusual, to say the least, but it was great to see these different methods play out right in front of you!

Even better, we did this all day, and well into the night.  This way, you are seeing entire minis being painted from beginning to end!

Granted, the figures are not quite as complex as this beast.

Yeah, not wanting to do one of these again any time soon!

The Second Sister from Raging Heroes!

OK boys and girls!  We have another one of the Kurganova Sisters ready for action!  Just as before, she is painted in my new color scheme for my upcoming Imperial Guard/ Sisters of Battle army.

These figures are truly fantastic!  Can't get enough of them!

I had a lot of fun doing the basing on these figures as well.

Here she is with the other Sisters...

Hangin' out together.

Don't mess with them!!

Get ready for the Toughest Girls of the Galaxy!

As I prepared myself for the imminent launch of the Raging Heroes kickstarter, I thought I would finally paint up my Kurganova Sisters in my new army color scheme!

This is just a tiny sample of all the incredible figures that are coming.  Yup, my whole Adepticon tourney army will be Raging Heroes TGG's :-)

And they will be a lot like these ladies that I have been working on, with all sorts of special characters, units, and so on.  

I had a lot of fun painting these in my new Sisters color scheme.  I know that red, grey and black will be the most common colors you will see, but you know me and colors you are 'supposed' to use...

Your flight has arrived

More pictures of the Hell Drake.  Our flight to Atlanta was not hellish, however, which was nice :-)

We are now in town for CMON Expo.  I took what supplies I could on the plane to do a little brushwork on minis here and there.  I also have some of the new Secret Weapon powders (and another interesting new product!) to do some experimentation.

Many thanks to Randall for rescuing us from the airport!  We learned the hard way about the crazy tram and the baggage claim area...

Now to the Hell Drake.  While this is not the largest thing I have painted, it was by far the most complex, for all the reasons I mentioned in the previous post.

Seeing the pictures is quite different from the view I had as I was painting this.  Cathy and I talk about this effect all the time.  When you look at something as long as I was looking at this thing, you can't see the proverbial forest for the trees.

All you want to do is hack it all down with a monstrous chain saw.

The camera can become that impartial observer.  One who does not know which parts you may have struggled with, etc.  It's the closest way to see it the way another person might for the first time.

We have experienced this effect so often, we will often talk the other person down off the ledge by saying "Wait until the pictures are processed!".  I can't tell you how many times each of us has looked at the pictures and claimed that the mini was far better than we initially thought!

The Hellish Hell Drake

Everyone already knows that these are a pain in the you know what to play against, and I am pretty sure they know they are not so easy to paint, either!  As I was standing in the tournament check-in line at Adepticon, I could hear people discussing the painting of Hell Drakes each time the line moved past a board with one (or three!) of them on it.

I think I posted some WIP images of this showing how many individual parts I painted before glueing them all together.  It had to be at least 20.

Painting both sides of every wing was just a tad bit time consuming, to say the least.

I did utilize the weathering powders in more of a 'painterly' fashion on this piece.  It helped me get some interesting effects on the golds in areas that would have been very tough to reach otherwise.

I also used them more in a standard fashion for the streaks, but knowing I could actually use them to paint some of the other colors was really neat!

I have many more images that I will post over the next few days as CMON Expo plays out, so I hope you don't get sick of them!

Time to go!!