Something fun for the last Drow

OK... this concludes the series of Drow on the lava bases.  It has been a blast.  As I have mentioned before, these were used as practice and test figures for many different video topics.

Painting Lava bases, Freehand, Drow skin, and so on!

I wanted to do something very different with this banner, so I went with my usual pattern that I had also painted on the skulls.

Oh yeah, and this was also a test for the Vallejo Fluorescent paints!

She is also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321323350178?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Spring flowers?

My goodness... they are talking about temperatures above 30 degrees next week.  I will have to put the air conditioners in!!  The snow will melt... catastrophe!

Sorry about that.  It has been a very strange week.  Essentially flipping my daily schedule by 12 hours instantly has me feeling like I just took a trip half way around the world.

O.k., this was an interesting old figure.  I think it is a classic Julie Guthrie sculpt.  I used the Army Painter Meadow Flowers for the first time.  That is so much nicer to use than the previous brands of flowers, where it was essentially a brillo matt that had to be torn off the mass and glued to the base.  It was never very convincing, and certainly not easy to use.

This stuff was so easy to use, and it looks quite nice.  I wanted to have a splash of bright color on this, since everything else was so muted.  The little flowery bits sat up on the top of the tufts perfectly.  Heck, there are even two different color in the same package!  Very cool.

She is also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321322703774?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Those darn squiggly swords

Yes, another squiggly sword to work on.

The mob continues to grow.  There are a bunch I have not even taken pictures of yet :-)

More to come!

Fun with Secret Weapon washes

Hey folks... snapped some images while I was painting a ton of minis the last few days...

I was utilizing my set of Secret Weapon washes, having some fun along the way!

You can see a few disks being used as a palette... those were the "Oh crap... hit the wrong button!" disks which are now being recycled. :-)  I put about 7 or 8 wash colors on the palette, and went to town.

I had Heavy body black, Armor wash, baby Poop, Ruby, Green black, Stone, and so on.  It is a lot of fun to mix them together, especially on Nurgle stuff like this.

As I have mentioned before, a few of the wash colors have that very nice opaque quality, such as concrete and Stone.  When you mix those with the other more intense, transparent washes, you get some fun results!

I also like to mix these in with regular paints, which creates interesting results.

They were perfect for items such as the banner.

Again, some of the colors are quite intense, but the more muted tones are perfect to mix in, instead of thinning them with water.  Mixing those intense wash colors with very light 'regular' paints make excellent semi-transparent colors to use on skin for subtle transitions.

It gets pretty messy with my 'Paint and Remove' method.  I like to splash on more than needed, and then use my finger of paper towel to remove that excess.

I use these washes a lot on the painting videos.  They were very handy on so many of the various subjects.

Running Man

Back to that unit of converted Terminators.  As you know from the previous posts, I took regular space marines, extended the arms and legs, added lots of green stuff and brown stuff, and voila!

I did five of them for the original Golden Demon squad.  It was fun to make the poses very different from the old metal terminators which were the only ones available at the time.

Here he is painted!

I will keep posting these images now that I have finally discovered them!

And a few more group shots of the entire unit...

Stay tuned!

Hot stuff

Want to stay warm this ice cold winter?  Paint some lava bases!

This particular figure was practice for a number of videos.  Painting Lava, OSL, NMM Flesh tone, you name it!

It is a delicate balancing act to keep all those opposing forces working together.  The super saturated warmer colors of the lava can overpower the skin tones very rapidly, making the risk of chalkiness that much higher.  Also, keeping subtle transitions on the metals can get a little crazy.

Still it is always a fun exercise!

She is also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321321359899?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Another feather in your cap

Yup, more yellow, black and metal.  The unit is rapidly reaching that point where it is not a bunch of dancing pieces of plastic on sticks, but a growing mob of guys!

That's where things start to get interesting.  It starts to look visually like progress, but also means some inevitable headaches with trying to make them rank up, movement trays and so on.

All the bases are magnetized already.  Providing some flexibility with future units size is important... since we know that rules can fluctuate very wildly from one edition or army book to another.  What, my unit of 20 guys now has to be 200 to do half as much?  

That never happens.