WIP update 20/02/15

My level of motivation has been rather low this week, so I do mostly short session, progress is slow, but satisfying. On the bright side, I got all the gold skulltullas ( That's been hanging over me since 1998)
Anyway, pictures:

A big great bunch of shading done, went a bit lighter on the face, I will define it more when I do the details later on. I will do the lights next, probably going more towards sandy colors than flesh ones and do some texture work to imply fur at places, but not too much so it don't compete with the muscle definition.

I'm so lazy that's all I got for now, thanks for watching.

palette view for this stage:

WIP Update 15/02/15

It's about time I learned how to sculpt.
This conclusion was prompted by the increasing need for custom bits in order to have the bases and characters tell the story I have in mind. Namely on these two next projects:

This reaper lady will feature two sculpted props, the first being a streetlight the second a pair of feet sticking out of a bush.

I also received these two rackham Ogres ( Well, I dont know what they are actually.) in a miny exchange a while back and thought they would fit well together in a little scene... however it turns out
I have only one head for the two of them... rather than decide which one will be turned into spare bits I opted for resculpting... using my brand new army painter hobby saw ( A good buy btw) I hacked the head of a very old and useless mini. Only the face details will be usable as I need to add a lot of volume to fit but I thing this could work out. If I learn how to sculpt that is.

Besides that and some craft related stuff, not much news in the way of painting, only this little piece if metal and a gem.

Thanks for watching.

Happy mini day!

On February 14th 2006, either to fight boredom or loneliness, I put a brush to metal for the first time.
Interests in life come and go, so does love, but I always find myself coming back to minis, and ever since it has been my medium of choice for whatever part of creativity there is in my life.
Not being a romantically minded person, in the conventional sense anyway, I associate this date a lot more with acrylics and pewter than I do with Flower-scented-chocolate-hearts, or oral sex.

So I bid you all, ladies and gentlemen, attractive or otherwise, no one needs to feel rejected, a very happy and colorful mini day.

WIP Update 04/02/15

Hurray, I have new fully functional brushes ! Now let's see how long they last...

I have finished the first pass on both the NMM and red 'life support gears' I wanted to advance them at the same time to see how they worked together.

She now has paints on all her parts, so next I guess would be a crapload of glazes, nitpicking and tweaking, picking up the freehand and details and finally repainting a gazillion light points.
Who said painting minis was easy! ( Probably no one, ever.)

Also painted the base some, not unhappy with the marbling/granite floor.

And in order to avoid sci-fi overdose, I advanced the other projects, lot of rough and prepping; and thus, Queen Libby on her generic 'big cat' is ready for painting.

Thanks for watching.