28 Years Later (Approx)
Back To The Painting Desk
Bit of a mix of figures for this entry but all carry a common theme when it comes to their painting – take something from the process of completing each figure/set of figures.
Giant/Troll – recovered from the bottom of the box without their main weapon, the large branch and a poorly cast face. This required remodelling to create the branch along with the thumb of the hand holding it. What did I learn? – I need to practice sculpting thumbs. The poorly cast facial features just got a ‘Ramones hair style’ fix.
The figures with the ‘Judge Dredd’ paint theme are old Blood Bowl miniatures, converted with some green stuff and plastic weapons I found lying around. The figures come from one of my ‘lets give Blood Bowl/gaming a go’ that never came to anything, so I needed to do something with the figures. What did I learn? – when converting and batch painting, don’t start painting until all the figures are converted as, unless I’ve taken an exact note of the painting technique, I’m unlikely to get the mix right across the whole range. Very frustrating and took a lot of going back over areas with washes/glazes.
Final figure is a Middle Earth/Mithril miniature bought many years ago. I had previously painted some of this range for an inn diorama. What did I learn? – I had forgotten how subtle the detailing is on these figure, (in my hands) dry brushing/washing struggling to reveal this. The sculpting is also delicate and I found affixing the hawk very stressful as I was worried about wrecking the figure when drilling for pinning. The sword the figure once held also broke as it was so thin, hence the hand-bow replacement.
Knight Maximus - first painted towards the end of the 80's for my girlfriend, now wife. He was mounted on a very crude dungeon diorama made from cardboard. This time he is positioned in front of a resin piece of which I have no recollection of acquiring but recently found at the bottom of a bits box and modified by extending the floor area. Maximus was stripped and repainted with an attempt at OSL, on him and the floor/wall. Despite its age I think this is a beautiful (GW) sculpt, made before the digital age, but with such character and uncomplicated design. I just love the pair of gloves folded through the belt.
Range of figures, I imagine, representing characters chanced upon as you and your fellow adventurers travel far and wide. Some good, some evil.
Pleased with the fade across the demon/harpy wings, the cloak on the dwarf scholar and the torch flames of the chaos sorcerer.
Not so happy with the tentacled talons of the ‘insectoid’ character as there is a mould line down one side. Thought I had removed these, without losing the ridging but the painting highlighted the missed areas. Any advice out there on how to remove mould lines from ridged piping, etc?
