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Back when I painted for publication work, I had the terrible habit of painting only the part of the mini that would be photographed. For example this poor elf for the Celtos Sidhe army book (which was never published btw.... booooo!).
Front: Not too bad, eh? Nice nail polish too.
Back: Not so great.... though the nice nail polish saves the day
I have 3 or 4 other minis like this, and I've decided that they will be painted. Completely! It will be a challenge because these "paintjobs" are old, and I don't have the same paints now, but it will be done! Stay tuned for the finished Irdril.
Yep, still working on the warmachine stuff. I think I'm getting faster. A couple of WIP pics of my Kodiak warjack:
I was browsing the Armorcast website and found a basin they made with Hirst Arts blocks. I thought that was an idea worth stealing, so I convinced my boy friend that we had to make a copy. We did 6 or 7 casts of the two Hirst Art molds with the pipes. In the end we had enough blocks to make another piece of terrain. The two are part of a water treatment plant. I imagine the basin is a sediment basin and the other piece is a filtration system. After the basin is painted; I'm going to pour some resin in there to make it look like water.
I'm also working on a manhunter for my Warmachine army. This sculpt is so dumb. If the male manhunter was running around wearing fur and a naked belly, it wouldn't be considered cool, but for the female it's expected....
I'm painting as fast as I can to get an army ready for a tournament in August. Unfortunately "as fast as I can" isn't very fast...
This is one the figures sculpted for the Chick Challenge. I don't know if that "contest" is still going. I hope it is. It was great fun.
The figure was sculpted by Steve Buddle, and he did an amazing job. I love this mini so much. I hope I can do it justice.
I painted the skin using Reaper's Olive Skin triad. I'm really liking it so far.
Melisande (Reaper):
awblade (Dark Age):
Mr. Pudsie here is quite a pain. I'm not happy with how the skin turned out. When I paint the next one, I'll switch the order of the highlights and the glazes. I'm having a hard time getting used to the new GW washes. The pigmentation is just weird. It makes it hard to decide if they should be dilluted or not.
I also managed to place a couple of red fingerprints courtesy of Vallejo Red glaze on this little jerk. Good news is that I managed to control my temper and I did not go into a nerd rage because of it. I really must be getting older and wiser.
I'm going to try really, really hard to finish this one up by tomorrow. I have to go on a business trip Wednesday, and I want him to be done by then!
Playing around with the GW washes. This guys desperately needs a coat of matte varnish on the skin. I thought the new washes were supposed to be matte : /
The skin looks terrible on this one. I'm not sure I'm going to bother with fixing it. Might just finish it and see how she looks.
I'm more happy with this one. I need to fix her eye and I had some trouble with blending her pants (stupid old paints), but I like the coat.
Just need a bit of basework and some pictures that aren't taken using flash :)
Phew, finished that horrid dragonfly girl. Not my greatest paintjob of all time, but I think it turned out decent. Pics to come. For now, here is a picture of the WIP Kalee. I think the flash is washing out her skin big time. I'm playing around with some SE-NMM. Not sure I'm convinced.
FRUSTRATING. I will never be friends with this gal. I want her out of my life. I had another grainy paint incident while doing the shading on the blue. Not fun.
Yesterday I finally managed to convince the prep elf to prep something new. I chose a pretty lady from Hasslefree. Looking forward to painting her. Until then here is another WIP of something that had been prepped and ready to paint forever. One of the old deamonette sculpts that I'd stated paintinging years ago.
Meh. I've painted most of the fun stuff (read: nekkid chicks) that was prepped and primed before my hiatus. Now it's mostly the impossible pieces that are left. That basically means boring figures, very large figures, and figures with way too much detail. The prepping elf does not want to prep any more figures before I finish some of these. The one over to the left is a dragonfly for the Urban War game. She also has a set of huge wings in addition to her huge swords. Do not want to paint.
Then we have my Dark Age Brood army. I actually really like these sculpts, but they are quite big. I get very easily discouraged when painting large stuff.
I do have some good news! I finished Taryn! I actually really like the finished paintjob and the base. I can't wait to get an awesome picture and share it with you guys!
The package from GW didn't arrive today either :( It's more than a week since I ordered it. I want my crappy brushes, dammit!
Ok, the Hasslefree girl and the Celtos siren are finished now. I need to take pictures, but the light is bad today. I ordered some photo stuff which should arrive next week. I hope I'll be able to take good pics using that. Current WIPs are the warmachine girl (almost done with her) and some puds for my Dark 
Age Brood army. Love these little guys.
I have all the pictures for creating another skintone tutorial (this time using Reaper paints on the figure to the left), but blogger is such a pain to use so I will be posting on the website instead. I'll post a link to it tomorrow.
That evil skank Taryn is pissing me off. Blending her cloak is a good dose of anti-fun, so I grabbed another mini that was primed and ready to paint. Not the hottest sculpt in the world. She is a little manly and some of the details are quite rough, but I like the simplicity and the boobies.
In other news, I didn't recieve my GW order today. Hurry up, GW. I need ze ztuff!
Thank you , Pete, for providing her with a name. What was I thinking buying a mini with a name that long? I guess I'll give her a red cloak. It seems to fit the name.
Also, she's an annoying, evil mini to paint so progress is rather slow. She's one of those minis with what seems like details for the sake of details. Who needs all those belt buckles, buttons, tiny little skulls? Personally, I'm pretty badass, and I get buy with just one belt buckle, a minimum of buttons an no exposed miniature skulls.
In other news, if I buy this, do you think they will include the dude to take pictures for me? 
I'm also working on a manhunter for my Warmachine army. This sculpt is so dumb. If the male manhunter was running around wearing fur and a naked belly, it wouldn't be considered cool, but for the female it's expected....
I'm painting as fast as I can to get an army ready for a tournament in August. Unfortunately "as fast as I can" isn't very fast...
Very large Privateer Press goat:
Here in a fight with an angry Freeboter lady armed with a frying pan:
This is one the figures sculpted for the Chick Challenge. I don't know if that "contest" is still going. I hope it is. It was great fun. 
Mr. Pudsie here is quite a pain. I'm not happy with how the skin turned out. When I paint the next one, I'll switch the order of the highlights and the glazes. I'm having a hard time getting used to the new GW washes. The pigmentation is just weird. It makes it hard to decide if they should be dilluted or not.
Playing around with the GW washes. This guys desperately needs a coat of matte varnish on the skin. I thought the new washes were supposed to be matte : /
I'm more happy with this one. I need to fix her eye and I had some trouble with blending her pants (stupid old paints), but I like the coat.
Phew, finished that horrid dragonfly girl. Not my greatest paintjob of all time, but I think it turned out decent. Pics to come. For now, here is a picture of the WIP Kalee. I think the flash is washing out her skin big time. I'm playing around with some SE-NMM. Not sure I'm convinced.
FRUSTRATING. I will never be friends with this gal. I want her out of my life. I had another grainy paint incident while doing the shading on the blue. Not fun. 
Yesterday I finally managed to convince the prep elf to prep something new. I chose a pretty lady from Hasslefree. Looking forward to painting her. Until then here is another WIP of something that had been prepped and ready to paint forever. One of the old deamonette sculpts that I'd stated paintinging years ago.
Meh. I've painted most of the fun stuff (read: nekkid chicks) that was prepped and primed before my hiatus. Now it's mostly the impossible pieces that are left. That basically means boring figures, very large figures, and figures with way too much detail. The prepping elf does not want to prep any more figures before I finish some of these. The one over to the left is a dragonfly for the Urban War game. She also has a set of huge wings in addition to her huge swords. Do not want to paint.
Ok, the Hasslefree girl and the Celtos siren are finished now. I need to take pictures, but the light is bad today. I ordered some photo stuff which should arrive next week. I hope I'll be able to take good pics using that. Current WIPs are the warmachine girl (almost done with her) and some puds for my Dark 
Age Brood army. Love these little guys.
I have all the pictures for creating another skintone tutorial (this time using Reaper paints on the figure to the left), but blogger is such a pain to use so I will be posting on the website instead. I'll post a link to it tomorrow.
Hasslefree Nekkid Chick (aka Boobasaurus 2) - working on skintones:
Taryn the evil ho (aka Taryn the evil ho) - I finished her cloak, I'm working on sleeves and hands now. Sorry about the blurry pic. The camera wanted to focus on the boobs in the background:
That evil skank Taryn is pissing me off. Blending her cloak is a good dose of anti-fun, so I grabbed another mini that was primed and ready to paint. Not the hottest sculpt in the world. She is a little manly and some of the details are quite rough, but I like the simplicity and the boobies. 
Thank you , Pete, for providing her with a name. What was I thinking buying a mini with a name that long? I guess I'll give her a red cloak. It seems to fit the name.
