Fluro Challenge

Using Fluro colours to paint a 'brown' crab.

Bug Goblins Finished

All together.

Ant Goblin.

Mantid Goblin.

Spider Goblin.

I had a lot of fun with these.

They are Kickstarter exclusives from Imbrian Arts.

Texture Fun

First off. I'm getting new glasses. Turns out 2 years ago, last time I got my eyes tested I should have gotten new glasses then. I didn't.

I can't wait till they arrive. The ones I have now are cactus, held together by tape, and giving me headaches.

This week was just sickness. Horrible head cold like thing, the verge of a migraine. So no painting. Today a little bit of painting, voting was over and done with, as an early voting centre was on the bottom floor. So got that over and done with about two weeks ago.

More time to paint.

So this is the result of two albums of madness. I need to make the mushroom more colourful. Bug is showing it up.

By the way it's children have torn it's head off. This represents my ideas of having kids perfectly.

The desk at the moment.

So, so ugly.

 Last week or the week before... I forget. I received a package from Jody.

A few years back he ran a Kickstarter to fund a few factions of miniatures for his game. All sculpted by himself. Of course I was in. I had previously painted everything I could get my mits on when he first started up Imbrian Arts in Australia. But then he moved back to the States and things were quiet for a time.

Then the Kickstarter came. And went. Life decided to kick Jody a few times, so it has been a longer wait than first anticipated.

The webshop.
 http://www.imbrianarts.com/

The above fellow is part of a set of Jungle Goblins, a bonus set in the Kickstarter. I adore them, they are so ugly. I'm going to paint them all up for the Ozpainters Texture Challenge. I have until the 30th of July I think.

I'm trying to have them painted as a set for the Challenge. Not sure if I am allowed, but it's usually pretty cool and relaxed. They will just need to be judged as a set.

The reason for all the heavy Milliput bases is that the legs are very insect-like and therefore absolutely tiny and thin. There was no chance of pinning them, so the tabs had to be covered over and sculpted.

Waiting for Milliput to dry has taken up a huge part of my scant painting time. But while not scuplting, which I am enjoying a lot, I've been putting paint on this Kingdom Death Rogue. She is very bright, I'm not if I like her yet. A few friends of mine have said she looks cool, I may just be too critical at times. She just looks too bubblegum to me.

Heaps more to do still. Have to change up that pink for one.

Base Creations

Official pics of my rock base for the Ozpainter's Basing Challenge as it closes on the 31st at midnight. I had traveled up to Lithgow and while the scenery past by in the car I realised that I don't see much of what I'd call Australian scenery in miniatures. So the idea of the rock base was conceived.

During the two months of the Challenge run time I got in a real basing mood. Although I buggered this one up by having the water too turquoise. Also it seems to clouded up since last I pulled it out of the cabinet.

This pic below is my work in progress base. Think forgotten lonely temple, then add a thief standing in the doorway. That is my general aim.

Plodding Along

I've set myself up for a hell of a job here, but it would have driven me mad if anything was out of place.

 Ruined this base with far too turquoise resin.

Worktable at the moment.

Need to undercoat something to paint, can't do much scenery stuff in the morning.

Base Challenge Progress

So now at long last I have perfectly straight sides. The forest leaf litter is in place, with more to come as the layers of paint grow.

So far I've discovered that the texturing I've put down on the rocks doesn't show all that well in my picture. Also it's warmer than it should be. Hopefully in the final pic I can get it correctly adjusted.

I'm not short on basing supplies now thanks to Jason, just look at all these goodies he sent me. Really need to make a desert base now, just to use the cacti.

Repairs and plinths

As I enjoy painting my gaming minis to a certain standard. Being until I'm sick of the damn thing. I have to hold back tears when careless players damage them. These four "partners" in destruction have all suffered damage. The picture itself is hilarious to me, the drow is the most trustworthy of the party, although she accidently killed the male sword wielder on the far left, trying to help him. The red headed woman with the bow pointed at her head totally deserves to be shot. She's trying to dob the drow into a church that would kill her on sight. The male sword wielder usually aims for limbs and heads and is standing next to the missing limb woman.

I didn't set the picture up to reflect the crazed dynamics of the dysfunctional group, it just happened. It's all the areas that have been damaged over the months.

The duel dagger woman in the cloak the worst damage, one of the daggers is gone. I did look, I swept the whole lounge room twice over, pulled apart the couch... Nothing.

But thanks to a unwilling donor mini, a free mini sent with my last order of Darksword Miniatures. Really the only choice, the hands are too big on everything else. I was able to at least get started on the repairs.

And I made sure to pin this hand, not an easy job. I have a drill bit sized hole in my thumb to prove it.

Next up is my plinths for the basing challenge. After the Ozpainters facebook discussion on the types of plinths I've set out to make a perfectly straight and correct tight plinth. Experimenting with round and square. Still needed to fix the overhang on the left side of the square one.

Yes I intend to make it completely contained and tight. I even got out the set square for this. My bookkeeping studies are mutating me into a more precise and organised person... Yes, I will accept anal retentive as a noun to use for me here.

Perfect... Well soon enough. Obviously I have to wait for the glue to dry then trim it all up, then undercoat and yes the list goes on.

I wanted to do boulders, I had an unplanned trip up to Lithgow and decided that Australian landscapes aren't very well represented in miniatures.