Did someone say Thanksgiving?

Look whose coming to Thanksgiving dinner!  Better put another bird or two in the oven!  More pies!  More fixins!

These guys are looking to chow down.

I would make sure you have plenty of pie for them, because they have guns, and are not afraid to use them.

I will be curious to see what these guys might do in an actual game.  Anything that involved shooting always came up garbage with me, especially if it was any kind of specialized shooting!

Just ask anyone who has seen me roll dice...

They certainly look more threatening when they are all together like this!  I still might make the cloak a red checkered table cloth...

So, a big Thank You to all the folks who have taken the time to check out this blog over the year, helping to make it what it is!  It is much appreciated.  The blog flew through the 1.3 million page view mark a few weeks ago.

The Sorceress and the Sickle

Here's a figure that I had gotten as a possible subject for either the Freehand Cloak video or the Object source lighting video.  Even the Painting with Powders video was a possiblility.

I ended up using other figures for those.  However, this one was prepped and partially painted already, so I just finished it off.

I really enjoyed painting this.  All of the elements had a wonderful 'flow' to them.  The hair, the sickle, the cloak, etc., all had so much motion swirling around.

Also on ebay here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321261305271?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

From Olympus, with love

These arrived the other day.  The latest from the War Gods line!  War Gods of Olympus!!

Here is the raw set of minis.

Hecate prepped!!  Fantsatic.

Ares prepped.  Also amazing!!!!

Hades prepped.  Truly spectacular!

And then the Bronze Owl.  He will be lots of fun!

I am making some nice bases for these figures, and I will post images of then as they are painted.  Mr. Fitzpatrick really outdid himself on this entire line, that's for sure.

Great casting.  Very solid, easy to deal with.  No nasty mould line surprises, etc.

Yar! No need to walk the plank...

What does the undead Pirate say?  I don't know.  He probably does not drink a lot of rum.

The base is one of the test pieces that I made for one of the basing videos.

I had some fun mixing the reds for the coat.  I mixed in some seafoam green with the reds to get more of a cooler Burgundy.

A little different this time

OK, you have all seen the red & black Stormtroopers in previous posts (or perhaps not).  I just had to give one of these guys a try in something other than  red.

It felt really weird!  I had never painted an IG that was not red.  No biggie, since all the Guardsmen that are coming up over the next several months will have nothing to do with red. :-)

Better get used to green!!!

Auction link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321260032231?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

All hail the King

When I realized I still had this guy sitting around, I had to paint him up using the exact same methods that I used on the classic Reaper Troll which I used making the green skin video!  He's like the supersized version. :-)

All kinds of color transitions on him that don't necessarily show up in the pictures.  Very subtle changes from warm green to cooler greens, some very greyed down to the point of being more brown than green!

The pose and sculpting also allow for some dramatic lighting, which is also fun.  I am going to be painting the Gnoll King, which is very much like this pose.  I painted one so many years ago... I have to give it a try!

He's on ebay right now:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321260033957?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

There must be pie somewhere...

Sensing the delicious scent of pie, this little guy is determined to find it!

If you can't stand the heat, look for the kitchen!