Get back in the fight, you dogs!

Here's the first of the minis that belong to the latest batch of bases!

Commissar time.  Better not fail that leadership test...

Grays are always fun to imbue with some nice subtle variations... a little more green here, more purple there.  More blue, more reddish, you get the idea :-)

And the base was fun too!

Another basing bonanza

Back to basing once again, getting ready for the next round of miniatures.

The next set includes more Sisters, and a Commissar.  This larger profile base is for a Sisters icon bearer, which I have learned the hard way leans over a lot, even with counterweights.  A platform like this will allow me to offset the footprint and get a better center of gravity.

This one is for a Canonness, whose robe will cover up a large portion of the design.  So, I tried to keep an open area...

And another view of the set.

For those not familiar with the process, there are dozens of posts about these Sculpey and cork bases in the basing section of the blog.

The Dark Coven

This batch of images shows the largest single group of Raging Heroes Fantasy Vestals.  A half dozen in all.

Each one of these was very fun to paint.  The variations in poses were no problem to base.  I went with my classic marble scheme.

It is very cool to see these images of the large gathering!

Fall in line!

You are asking for trouble if you walk up to this!

So much dynamism to these poses!!!

If I was to create an entire Dark Elf army, I would have to say this darker flesh tone is the way I would like to go.

This will probably be the last set of these for quite a while :-)

More ladies in red...

OK, time for more Sisters!

Here's the second mini, following the same color scheme as before.  Having painted these in slate, brass and green, this is quite different!

But, that is the joy of painting minis... seeing what something would look like in a whole new set of colors. :-)

The ladies in red...

Here's the first of the minis meant for those bases!

I wanted to do a cooler, somewhat subdued red for these.  The idea was to compliment the white marble on the bases.

This views gives you a good glance:

Back to Base(ics)

Here are some new bases for a batch of Sisters of Battle.

I am following the color scheme that I mentioned the other day on the Warhammer 40k group.

It's the usual cork and sculpey method.  Next, the Sisters that stand on top of them!

A devil of a time...

Sorry for the delay folks!  Lots of DVD burning and a million other things.

I am not sure what it is about this color of armor, but it is very fun!

It might have to do with the kind of variety of shades that I can put in the all important midtones.  You have heard me mention those a lot here.  I mention them in the videos just as often!

This area is where miniatures are "won and lost".  While highlights and shadows are very important, they don't exist without that all important middle.  This is where you can put in all those subtle color shifts and so on.  It sets up those lights and darks.

So, always remember the middle!!!!!