Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord

I started working on this guy tonight. I felt the need to paint but still couldn't bring myself back to MacBain.

I like the piper he is a fun model, but I really do not like the studio scheme. It's really bland with too much Khaki for my tastes. I would imagine someone who was crazy enough to go into "battle" with a set of bagpipes would "spruce it up a bit"

All thats really left on this one is to wait for the wash to dry, put him on a base and seal him up.

This picture was taken under my Day light lamp I'm not sure why but everything I do in dark grey just shows as black in the pictures.

2 for 1 night here at the Blog!

Tonight was a bit of magic. Everyone in the house decided (or was told if under 18) to go to bed early.

So what is a man to do? Well if that man is me (and it was) I went and painted. I started out with Orin Midwinter PP solo. The sculpt is a bit dated and the head is particularly bad but hey its a model and so deserving of paint. I went pretty much by the studio color scheme and I really like the subtle gold accent on the cloaks.

He was quick and easy so I decided to knock out another model. Who better than Dirty Meg? Such a cool looking model with lots of tools. The trick I think with her was to add as much color into the accents as possible because of how much metal and how big the apron is compared to the model. I really like how she turned out. 

  Now to let these two dry over night. put them on some nice bases, varnish them up and call it a really good painting day.

Snap Jaw!

I painted this model up about 6 months ago but didn't have a suitable base for him. I finally got some swamp bases from Secret Weapons Miniatures and was able to get him squared away.

Normally I would not leave a model glossy but I figure he is a Gatorman and he would be all wet from jumping out of the murk.

Let me know what you think.

Harlan Phineas Versh, Illuminated One

I went downstairs to paint last night with the full intention of working a bit on MacBain. However I felt completely uninspired to work on him and caught poor Harlan who had been sitting on my painting table for a few months with just the first coat of brown on him, he was just sitting there looking all sad and forgotten....

TL:DR I painted up Versh real quick. This was another one of them "Let's see how it looks in an hour" models. I think it came out really well. I like the tones of browns, I really like the green of the pants and am especially proud of the boots. The only real spots of color that stick out on this model are the golds and the book I did in purple just to add a stark contrast to everything else. I debated between that or red but felt the red would be too close to the brown.

Now just waiting for my new drill bits to get here in the mail and he will be put on a Secret Weapons Miniatures trench base that is already done.

If anyone actually cares, here is the color list

Brown Base - P3 Boot Strap
Grey - Vallejo Model Color -Dark Grey
Gold - Vallejo Model Color - Bright Gold
Silver - Vallejo Model Air - Aluminium
Green - P3 Traitor Green (never used this one before)
Skin - Vallejo Model Color - Flat Flesh with Devlin Mud wash
Purple - Old GW line cant remember the name off the top of my head.

MacBain! 1.0

The one and only Drake MacBain, Ladies and Gentlemen. This model is amazing. It has a ton of detail and really good lines for shading and highlights. At first I was thinking this was going to be another in the line of 1 hour models. I soon realized that it just was not going to happen. So lets see what we can do with him..... I am going to try to get him to a really high table top quality. I will attempting some 2 brush blending on the armour and maybe some shading/highlighting instead of line highlights on this guy. So we shall see how I do.

Here he is primes so you can get a good look at all the detail.

These are what I was able to get done so far. Mostly just laying down the base brown for what will be gold and brass later. The brown I used is Vallejo Game Color Beasty Brown, its a good mid tone and works well for just about all golds. 

The "grey" you see is P3 pig iron. Its a dark metalic that you have seen me use on other models. The flesh is Vallejo Model Color Flat Flesh which is one of the best base colors for skin I have seen yet. 

You will notice in the pics that the sword arm is absent. I took it off for easier painting and will be put back on when its time to complete the model. 

I hope to get the rest of the base colors down tonight. Stay tuned.... Its about to get real (as the kids say). 

Kell Bailoch 1.0

Yay for days off between 24 hour shifts. I primed this dude up and tonight I was able to sit down and get some paint on him. He is part of my "How well can I paint it in under an hour" experiment. He is kinda fun and even though I stopped at the hour I am going to go back and finish him up with a few highlights on the boots, coat, hat and face, because it just looks like he is screaming out for a bit of stubble and I have never tried it before so lets give it a go.

I'm still thinking about basing for him. He is a sniper so he should have some kind of shrubbery around him. maybe even some tall grass. Again something I have never done so this will be a real adventure.

Ok Color Lists
Coat is Vallejo Model Color - Russian Green.
Rifle Stock - Vallejo Beasty Brown.
Metals - P3 Pig Iron (I am really falling in love with this more and more, its a deep rich metallic color, more so than Chain Mail from any line I have found).
Boots and Leather Straps - P3 Bootstrap Brown
Bandana - Vallejo Model Color - Carmine Red
Skin - Vallejo Flat Flesh tone with Secret Weapons Miniatures Flesh Wash.
And of course everything got a wash of Devlin Mud (aka talent in a bottle).

And now for the part of the show where you get to see pictures.

Thoughts, Musings, and a wee bit of Rambling.

I have been working pretty much strait through since the last time I posted. I haven't had a chance to paint or put anything together so nothing much to post about on that front. I am glad that I finally had a day off, and have been hanging out with the family as it should be.

I did prime up Drake McBane and Harlan Versh while the kids where napping/outside playing with the leaves, and will work on them in the next week or two.

I have been having quite a bit of fun doing the whole paint it fast by hand thing and I might keep that going for a while and knock out a bunch of Warmachine Solo's and Casters.

I got the new needle for my Patriot 105. It works well but I noticed a bit of a difference in spray pattern so I broke it down and did a deep cleaning hoping that fixes the issue. The needle is not yet bent so at least I have that going for me.

The next thing (well what I am working on right now) is a review of the Vallejo Game Air line. If you recall from a few posts prior, Vallejo was kind (crazy?) enough to send me a bunch of the new line to try out and review. I am going to post that all together as one review from start to finish so no 1.0, 2.0 updates, just a clean walk through of the whole thing. I am thinking I should probably create a reviews tab for stuff like that. If anyone knows how to do this please let me know.

Other than that... I am eagerly awaiting the Secret Weapons display tiles I kickstarted over a year ago. Looks like those should be here in the next month or so and that will be a really cool side project.

Well that's all for now, I'm going to go hang out with the family.