Another week of lots of different happenings, though not enough finishing so far. The humidity finally started dropping and looks like we are going to have a good week coming up as well. This will allow for a lot of priming and and finishing to be done. Be sure to click on any pictures that interest you for a larger view.
Historical:
On Wednesday, with a nice drop to 47% humidity, I got a lot of priming done and the rest of my SAGA Scots warriors primed and ready for painting, which will hopefully be this week.
I also primed three Dark Age Archers, will will be used across multiple different games.
Continuing my work on SAGA miniatures on Wednesday I started my base colors on my last Scots Thane and first warrior and finished them on Friday.
Friday night I finished the the base colors, and following a technique Kenny Boucher of Next Level Painting recently displayed, I varnished the miniatures with a gloss varnish and once dried, applied the flesh wash and dark tone wash. This seemed to work a lot better than usual and did not leave any "coffee stains".
On Saturday, I finished up with some highlights and laid down the dirt for the basing using Vallejo Earth Texture 26.219 Brown Earth.
I also did this for the other Thanes and Warlord. While I should finish the bases for the Thanes this week, the Warlord is waiting on a wolfhound coming from Footsore Miniatures. Unfortunately their furnace broke right after I ordered them and so shipment has been delayed going into the second month now.
I also placed the LBMS transfers onto the shields. I will touch up the paint this week and attach them to the Thanes.
Also on the historical side on Wednesday, I textured the Normandy base with Rust-Oleum Multicolor Textured spray paint in Desert Bisque.
Sci-Fi:
No work on my Boromites as I am still debating on continuing with touch-up and dark tone or stripping and starting over. I would like to get them on the table though so I might just push through with them.
Fantasy:
My Dwarf Runic Golem arrived and after some cleaning and washing I glued him together and primed him. I cannot wait to paint this large fellow up!  |
| Standing next to Shep's Chronomaner shows just how Large a construct he is! |
In the same delivery from Alternate Armies I also received their Eternal Guard which will make for some nice armored skeletons in Frostgrave!
I started with the base colors on Mugzy's Sigilists from North Star Figures, as well as their flesh and eyes. Their trim and cowls will be in white, while the fur lining will be in a snowy grey.
I also did some sculpting work on the wizards' bases, a skeleton's cloak, as well as some spear hafts and sword blades to replace the flimsy PVC ones on the Reaper miniatures. The Green Stuff is only slightly more firm than PVC at that thickness though, so I am not sure how well it will work out.
Terrain:
I finally broke out my hot wire foam cutter and tried out some terrain building with insulation foam. Here are two 3" x 6" walls that will be useful if any of the kids' wizards take the wall spell.
I also build the corner of a ruined building to give the Frostgrave board some height beyond the Stone House Miniatures wall segments. I started off planning on doing the walls in field stones and realized how much time it was going to take I decided the ground floor was good enough before being switched to cut stone.
The outside join came together pretty smoothly and only needed some minor compound to smooth the lines.
I did realize I am going to need to find some thinner foam or a way to uniformly split the thickness of the foam as the two wall pieces did not come out even thickness. I think I could figure out a couple of plywood jigs to do the trick.
Well that does it for this week, be sure to stop in Wednesday to see the painting guide on the King Under the Mountain himself, Thorin Oakenshield!
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