Small progress

Well, here we are again. Another year gone and a new one just beginning. I reckon that my new years resolution is going to be painting more often, finishing my first audio book, getting my sculpts onto myminifactory or something and gaining progress as a Biologist.

Not a bad list so far. But let's get to the models!

I've gotten a smidgen of progress done on my reef Troll from Privateer Press. I hope to finish it tonight or tomorrow! Of course pics will follow.

Happy New Year one and all!!
 

Ahoy Me Harties! There Be a Reef Troll Here!

Oh my goodness! What is this? Why it's a Reef Troll! 

I decided to go with a dark green skin colour for my trolls, and so far it's making this guy look a whole lot like a green sea turtle. It's coming along really well so far and I can't wait to show you all what he looks like with all the bells and whistles painted up! 

I want to try and get the trolls I have so far done by the time I get my order of Brinebloods that came out a couple days ago! I'm really excited to see the new models (particularly the Pyg galley crew, those look like fun to paint up!) 

 Alright everyone, have a phenomenal week and I hope to get another post up in the next few days!

What's Next? August Edition!

 Hello again everyone and thanks for coming on down! I'm previewing what's coming up next in the blog! I'm going to try and do a wip Monday every week!

Oh yes indeed, those are Brineblood Marauders you see! I also have an unboxing video for that, and I'll be releasing that shortly! My first ever unboxing, likely on YouTube, that I will link here! How exciting! 

That's also most certainly a Battletech command Lance you see before you! Oh I'm very excited to get all of this painted up!

A Passion Project

 

I'll have to take some better pictures from my light box, but for now (due to unforseen and unfortunate circumstances) this will have to do for now.

I tried to paint the bird parts like that of a red tailed hawk, and the back half as a cheetah. Two animals that are very dear to my heart. The red tailed hawk because when I interned at a wildlife rehabilitation facility I was an absolute treat to be able to care for this critter, and the Cheetah because I would like nothing more than to go to Namibia and work for the Cheetah Project, a non-profit dedicated to ensuring the survival of the Cheetah species.

Much of the Cheetah fur colour was created using Zandri Dust layer paint from Citadel paint, and then adding white slowly layering up to the colour you see in the top pictures there. I feel like I need to perhaps try to get more depth into the model somehow but in all honesty I'm uncertain how to do that on such a flat surface right now. 

I made all of the stone structures on the base myself. I sculpted them using an oven bake clay and shaping them to look like ornate pillars had fallen in a baren land. For the cylindrical part of the pillar I simply rolled it out with a long piece of plasticard lengthwise in order to get the length I needed. I then cut off the ends on both sides and then smashed it up a bit after baking to get the effects you see.

The stone spheres there were just balls of oven bake clay that were cut (very carefully I might add) so that I could stick them on the base and have them look ruined and broken.

That's all for today. Hopefully you enjoyed this post. Let me know in the comments what you think, comments l, questions and concerns are always welcome.

Red (Un)Dead Redemption

 Hello once again everyone! 

I've been hard at work to try and get something finished with all of the things I have going on at home, and juggling work. I was able to snap a few pictures of some unfinished Cryxian Bonejacks that are just so close to being done!

I had a rain day today at work and so I was unable to work today, and being stuck in a camp all day, though not the most conducive to my painting, is still a decent time to get some stuff done.

These were previously painted some years ago that I had hurriedly gotten ready for a tournament. I decided to go back and get them in better shape than they were looking, but don't take my word for it....

So here are the before pictures, and I think these bonejacks look much better now than they did before.

That's all for today, next up will be some Brinebloods!

Stap! Just Stap!

Well would ya look at that?! I'm progressing my CIS force for Star Wars Legion! 

I've come up with a simple yet effective colour scheme for them that looks great and doesn't take long to do!

I also took the opportunity to try out a technique using sponges in order to create a weathering effect on the engines to make it look as if there is scorching on the back end of them. I also used the same technique on the gun barrels to give a red glowing effect for the lasers.

Overall I think these pieces were quite successful in my attempt to not only try out a new technique, but also to ensure a simple paint scheme and keep the pieces from looking too monotonous with the variability in laser fire glow.

 

A couple Xorn

 Why my oh my! What could this be? Oh it's a couple of colorful Xorn! (Note to self get better pictures!) 

I wanted to go with some colorful colours for these guys, firstly so I could test my skills just a little and push myself on working with colours I don't usually work with (orange, and green mostly) and trying to make these colours a part of the main focus of the model and really draw in the eye of the beholder as it were. (Ha!) 

I hope you enjoy the look of these Xorn as much as I enjoyed painting them. If you have any suggestions, comments or questions, or if there's something you want to see me paint up, let me know in the comments below. Bye for now everyone.