Category Archives: Work in Progress

Deathworld Fauna – Vote Now!

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While I haven’t posted in what feels like forever, it’s only been a little more than a week in actuality. I’ve finished quite a lot more random bits of scenery, somewhat following-up from my last post which dealt with a similar theme (at least in the pictures). I’ve just got to take some photos, and hopefully tomorrow will be the day!

In the meantime, I’ve been rooting around in my resin bits boxes for more stuff I can knock out quickly, and found these two little beasties. I must have had them for 10 years or more, and in all that time they’ve done nothing but sit inside a few boxes. Time for some paint, then. I figure I’ll treat them much like Bones critters and resin scenery, in that good enough will be good enough – but I’m just not sure on how to paint them yet. I figure I’ll post them here, and in a day or two I’ll have them based properly and can then knock them out reasonably quickly once I see what feedback and ideas people have.

Looks like these are also from Grendel – as so much of my old resin stuff is – These are two of the three critters from the Dungeon Crawlers kit. Giant Centipede and “Leech”. I kinda prefer my own names though. I don’t know where the third one of the trio has disappeared to. I’m sure I’ll find it one day.

Millipede and um.. some other kind of beastie.

This is also my first use of Polls on this thing, though it’s not why I’m writing this post. Naturally, I reserve the right to ignore any results or change my mind on how I paint these little buggers. I’ll also be taking feedback from Dakka and any other forums I post on into consideration besides the feedback here.

For the Yellow/Black and Black/Yellow, I’m thinking of a pattern inspired by this sort of thing, with the emphasis either on the yellow or the black.

Yellowjacket.

For the slimy green on Froggie, I’m thinking something like the out-of-focus bits of this pic:

Slimy Frog.

The red would be more akin to:

Shiny Red Frog

Assuming I finally get some photos taken tomorrow, I should have some more substantive posts up in a day or three.

D&D Monster Manual 3 : Treeman/Treant – aka Reaper Bones 77184: Spirit of the Forest – Speedpaint!

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So I’ve been browsing over at The One Ring forum again lately, and one of the cool things the community over there does is have a monthly little painting competition for LotR models. The January theme was “Monsters” but, you know, January is over – but I found the Feb theme of a unit of models to be a little off-putting (I’m better with individuals, generally – and especially with start-to-finish stuff). Then yesterday afternoon, a thought hit me – grab out an appropriate monster of some sort from the pile of unpainted Reaper Bones figures I have from the Kickstarter, and speedpaint it as a personal challenge. I knew that it wouldn’t be winning the TOR comp, but if I managed to finish it, I’d have a pretty cool prize anyway – a decently tabletop standard finished model for wargaming – KoW being the current hotness (even though I have a couple of completed Ents anyway.)

So I took a look through, disregarded several dragons since it was already 6pm on the 30th of Jan and heat-straightening dragons wasn’t something I felt like doing, and eventually found this guy – Good enough for an Ent or Huorn!

My "Proof" pic for TOR.

Basecoating with Citadel Mournfang Brown Base.

Glued Down.

It turned out to not be a fun easy mini to paint, but pretty horrible, with ill-defined “what the hell is that supposed to be?” “details” all over it. It’s not going to win any prizes – over on TOR or anywhere else, but I was at least on track at the end of the first night for a half-decent tabletop model by the end bell.

Paint finished. Just needing the base and foliage.

I considered OSL for the eyes, but decided against it. I wanted to keep it a little more subtle for this model. I went with green Entish eyes over red Huornish ones.

Finished!

Here we go. I’m just happy I managed to get this guy done in about 28 hours from baggie to finished – and most of that being drying time from washes, inks, glue and varnish. Thanks to this comp, I now have another model for the table, and since I can be as slow as all hell to paint, this is a very good thing.

In the end I ended up going over a lot of the sculpted (and painted) details, since these details were so soft and often ill-defined. Things like the inner-joint areas of the model just being putty that was dotted for “detail”. I’ll take the static grass look instead!

Fisty!

Baby Got Back???

No more photos Left! Geddit? Left! /sigh