Monday, December 23, 2013

Back up and running...


OK, I am just starting to get everything unpacked... Time for one quick set of images.


Canonness and Icon bearer.  Fun with hunks of metal!


I had been looking forward to seeing these two together, especially since I was able to print out a new backdrop at long last!


Yea to not having to clone brush a million white scratches and black skid marks from each image!


They sure look scary!


The platform...


Yes, another day, another base :-)


You will recognize this base from a previous post.  Eventually there will be a miniature to go with it!


Sunday, December 22, 2013

Why does this thing have to be so heavy?


This is a figure that I have waited years to paint.  It is definitely very different from the typical banner bearer!


As I mentioned a few days ago in one of the basing posts, I made the base a little bigger so that I could offset the weight of the icon.  Good thing I did!


A very interesting figure...


Saturday, December 21, 2013

Time to re-grout!


I hope you are not getting sick of bases!  I never do ;-)


Yes, more bases for the Sisters.  I don't often get a chance to do white marble, so these are fun!


Of course, lettering is always fun for a closet calligrapher.


They always look fun in groups!


I don't plan everything out in advance... it just sort of 'happens'.


More fun that way!


Friday, December 20, 2013

Reverend Mother...


More fun with nuns!  This time, a Canoness


It goes along with the same color scheme as the previous Sisters.


More on the way!!!


He'll claw your eyes out...


Ah, running with scissors at its best!

This was a conversion I did many moons ago for my old Demonhunters army.  I made it, and a few other pieces of a similar nature, not long after that first massively converted squad of Grey Knight terminators that won the Gold at GD.


I was taking regular Space Marine bodies and converting them into terminators, since all the was available at the time was the old metal versions.

This project really taught me the differences in the properties of  green stuff and brown stuff.  Each one has a very different purpose.


Brown stuff holds an edge very well, but it can be very brittle.  Green stuff is more flexible, but it has a 'memory', which makes it less viable for other things.  I have learned a lot about green stuff since then, as well as Apoxy Sculpt.


Thursday, December 19, 2013

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!