Hear Me Roar

Alright. So first a confession. I stopped painting there for a while. Then I started again with the figures I am about to show you... But my painting ADD kicked in and I started painting two other different groups of figures.. After a good month of jumping around from figure to figure I gave myself a deadline... Paint these two before I leave on holidays for a week..

So as I sit here packing up for my trip tomorrow morning, I present to you Beowa in human and bear form from Mierce Miniatures. Cut it close, but I made it ;)

BEOWA - HUMAN

Sorry for the poor pictures of this guy - they get a little better for the bear - I am just rusty ;)



I think I am finally getting a little more comfortable with how far to highlight certain areas. Still hate painting red though. Only way to get good at it is to paint a model with half the surface area red!

Here, on the cloak, is a better example of my use of highlights. Definitely a lot more pronounced then some of my previous efforts ;)

Yes, I noticed the little flesh paint on his armband, and I have since rectified the problem!





BEOWA - BEAR

Where I struggled both take pictures of, and at times painting, the human form.. I feel Beowa-bear has got to be my best attempt at painting yet. I am pretty proud of him... no glaring errors that I am aware of. I also feel I had much improved brush control while painting this model. Enough talking, pictures!

In particular I think my blending on the browns in the leather has improved (if you haven't yet, take a look at my previous posts to see what I mean ;)
I also attempted a bit more of a zenithal light source, as is most evident in the reds and metals.
As always, I know I am far from a pro, so constructive criticism, or compliments, are always welcome in the comments down below :)
Now back to packing!

Drake: Rivercrest Scouts

I decided I would step away from resin to try my hand on a new painting medium for me; metal.
I recently (well.. a couple months ago now) received a package from the kickstarter Drake: A Dragon Wargame. So here is a review of the figures, and some pictures of course!

There were 6 figures in 3 different poses (2 figures each) and before I started painting them of course I had to assemble them.

Pose A

 This Figure came in just 2 pieces. The quiver and the main body and required very little cleaning. This one is probably my favourite of the three poses, there is a lot more muscle definition and motion. My only complaint is, as a result of it being cast in so few pieces the bow sort of bleeds into the cloak, not overly bad and that is more looking for a complaint then anything.

 I spent some time trying to figure out what colours to paint the scouts, in the end I decided to go with a grey-blue, giving them a subtle camoflauge. However, over the highlighting stages, it quickly turned a lot more blue than anticipated, but I think I am ok with the results.

 

Pose B

 This one is my least favourite, I didn't see much detail on the arms and some of the surfaces (the pouch and strap across chest) were very shallowly detailed and hard to pick up on anything. If I remember correctly this guy was a little harder to clean as well, and was in 4 pieces. I also had problems putting him together as there was very small contact points on the arms, and for the bow I actually had to glue the bow to the cape as well.
My second figure for this pose also had a miscast bow, but it wasn't overly bad and I was okay with it. 

 

 

Pose C

 What can I say that hasn't already been said in this review.. not much. so instead just look!

 

 

Here is a hot of all 6 of them..

I haven't based them yet because the tabs do not properly fit into the bases provided (some to big some to small) so I will likely be purchasing some non slotted bases and pin them onto those instead.

This post may have come across as negative but to the contrary I really enjoyed painting these guys and cant wait to paint some more from this company! I don't think these are anywhere near my best painted figures, but that's just because I've been spoiled with the highly detailed figures mierce provides!

As per usual.. comments are more than welcome! Let me know what you think! Now, back to some resin I think... ;)



Aaaand... I am Back! With a Surprise!

Hey everyone! I really must apologize for the lack of posts. It really has been too long of a time, I will be more diligent to prevent this in the future. I've been very busy with stuff that I won't go into, as this blog is not a story about my personal life, as exciting as that may be :P

 

I did however, manage to get a bit of paint on some figures, so with that enough babbling, here is Eric Longaxe in all of his glory! Hopefully the pictures are good enough for the time being.

At first, I was looking into trying some different skin paints, unfortunately there wasn't any close by so I made do with what I had, and I must say in the end I was glad I did, I enjoy the bronzed look he has. It fits well with the rest of the colors I used. I think he will look great with a unit of infantry at his back, maybe with some trolls to reinforce him as well ;).

 

And now, a (bad) comparison between Penda and Eric;

 

 Here, and in following pictures, you can see how much I've improved in some areas (at least I think so), such as smoother shading on the skin, and all around better brush handling, I also got much more comfortable using thinner paints, which might have helped with the smoother shading. I think I got better control over metallic as well.

The title did say I have a surprise so here it is, the Norse standard, Kjartan (spelling?)

 I really was afraid of whether I would like this miniature or not, but once I took a paintbrush to him, I found him incredibly fun to paint, not to overcomplicated, but not lacking in detail either. He has probably been the most enjoyable figure I have painted in the last couple years! His color choice goes along well with Eric's, while remaining different enough to look unique.

I still have to base the two of them, but I am trying to look for some good products to use for water effects, so if any of you have any suggestions please let me know in the comments below! :) thanks

Finally, a picture of all three together! Thanks, and until next time! Adios