Spattering of Paint

Well the colour correction for this image was a but haywire, so apologies if the image is a bit dark/pink on your monitor.

Still - having completed the starter sets for Anima Tactics I decided to jump straight into the minis I'd picked up because I thought they looked good, starting with Yuri.

The white/gold armour was a bit fiddly, but I think it came out OK. I decided to stick with the non-metallic paint so that it was consistent with how Kronen Roxxon was painted - they share the same faction after all.

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Another mini pulled from the past years - this time the human female rogue once again from the Wizards of the Coast original Star Wars line.

This is still one of my favourite miniatures in my collection. The yellow even managed to come together well.

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The other half of the Anima dark starter, Bael was relatively painless to complete after Cheshire. Completion should allow for some test games with which to entertain oneself.

Trying a new photo taking setup, which has had some variable results. Will probably keep adjusting over the coming month. Hopefully I'll stumble across a method that results in images requiring less colour correction, which quite often is resulting in some quite darkened images compared to what I see outside the camera's lens.

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After handling the the miniatures packaged in the dark starter for Anima Tactics I really wasn't looking forward to painting them. Lots of fiddly details all over the place would make for a nightmarish job, and I was pretty confident that I wouldn't be able to do them justice.

After finishing the first of them - the so-called Dark Cheshire, I think I have to say that my fears were well founded.

All in all, I'm just happy that I didn't make a complete botch of it...

Still the feathers could be vastly better, and I should have used a different shade for the sword than the same grey used on the clothing.

Hopefully the second mini from the starter will be less of a painting nightmare. But I doubt it.

As an aside - amusingly they managed to mis-spell Cheshire in the Anima Tactics rule book. Oops.

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Back before the days of pre-painted collectable miniature games, Wizards of the Coast produced a small line up of 30mm Star Wars miniatures for use within their d20 roleplaying game.

My collection is far from complete, but I do have a small number of these figures - and even managed to get them all painted to a reasonable standard.

You can see the simpler basing work I used to do here as well. Just paint green and add flock. I've been debating re-basing these recently. But probably not a high priority.

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I took a break from the Anima Tactics painting to finish up another Reaper miniature. I'm exceptionally happy with the final result. Especially that halfway through I almost reversed course and started over thinking that the blue look wasn't going to end well.

Oh, how wrong I was. At least in my opinion. Others might disagree...

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The second of the two miniatures from the Anima Tactics light starter box was next on the list.

This was quite a chunky piece of metal to paint, and attaching the sword securely to the rest of the model was somewhat painful. But I suppose it only had to be done once.

Again, for a miniature which I didn't particularly like before I started, I think the final result came out quite well. The armour and cloak blend together seamlessly, and I even managed to get some flesh coloured paint into the lower half of the face without messing anything else up.

The sword certainly shows room for improvement though. The stupidly large size seemed to pose an obstacle. Ah well - live and learn!

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Well it didn't take me long in my search for exciting miniatures to paint to come across the Anima Tactics line published by...well I'm a bit confused who it's published by. It seems to be a collaboration across the original Spanish company, FFG and Cipher Studios. Nyeh - wherever it comes from, it seems to be a line filled with some completely awesome figures.

Figuring that it would at least be nice to have the option of playing the game I figured I'd pick up both the starter packs, even though I didn't think the miniatures on offer there were the best of the pack. And for the same reason, even though I've picked up a few of the better sculpts (in my opinion of course) I figured I should paint those first.

The first half of the light side starter pack is shown. In fact, although I didn't think much of the sculpt, I think I actually quite like the final result. Some of the detailing on the white could be better - but that would require a finer brush than I currently own!

The green bird is apparently glowing according to the box art, but figured I'd avoid attempting to paint this effect for fear of making here look a touch ill. Instead I applied a final layer of gloss varnish to the bird so that it at least looks shiny.

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One of my projects from a couple of years back was to complete a company of mechs for the 12th Ghost Regiment. Inevitably this project fell to the wayside alongside everything else over the past couple of years, but perhaps I'll get the project back on track once more.


Time will tell.

Still, in the meantime, no reason not to show this off here. I was quite pleased with the final result (even if the sculpt is grossly out scale with respect to other mechs of the same weight). The hand painted Draconis Combine symbol on the left shoulder came out particularly well.

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The Reaper drive continues with the addition of the blue orchid assassin (whatever that is). I picked up this mini, not so much because I liked the sculpt, but more because I figured the dominant cloak would make for an interesting painting task.

I decided to go with a blue cloak in the end, as opposed to something black - after all would you expect the man in the blue cloak to be an assassin?

I probably should have used a slightly different colour for the boots in retrospect. Having them the same colour as the leather armour looks a bit strange. If that's my only gripe, however, I think I can consider this a job well done.

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The Reaper miniatures continue to move off of the end of the painting desk, with Boris being the latest edition to the painted collection.

The (dragonscale?) armour came out a touch brighter than what I originally intended, but I ended up quite liking the final result. The final colour complimented the bone colour quite well. I was particularly pleased with the bones jutting out of the shoulder plate.

I shifted away from using metallic paint as well. Think I prefer the flat paint look. Although my NMM still clearly has a long way to go.

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Struck with a wave of enthusiasm after finishing the first two paint jobs, I broke into yet another Reaper fantasy miniature. This was certainly one sculpt that I was looking forward to painting as I started!

And I'm exceptionally happy with the result. As a whole everything seems to come together really well, and the orange seems to offer a good contrast against the darker skin tones used on the abundant flesh regions. The eyes could probably be improved, but unfortunately would probably acquire a smaller brush.

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There are more recent completed paint jobs on route, but in the meantime here's one of my paint jobs from just before I had to stop a couple of years ago.

It's a Marauder IIC 3 painted in a bright green parade scheme for Clan Jade Falcon. The miniature itself was based from the standard reseen Marauder IIC miniature. The left side of the engine was hacked out and replaced with the missile launchers from the reseen Warhammer IIC, and the weapon barrels smooted down with a file.

I still consider the result to be amongst the highlights of my Battletech collection. It's one of my long ongoing plans to complete a star of mechs in this scheme...

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Given the recent restart to these painting efforts it seemed to make sense to initially work on a set of unique pieces, as opposed to a larger unit. As such I took a look at the line of Reaper fantasy miniatures, some of which I really like.

Hopefully over the fullness of time some of these will get a use in a roleplaying game or two.

The first Reaper miniature to be painted is shown in the image to the right. Again I'm relatively happy with the result. The cloak worked quite well, even with the limited highlighting - especially from the back (not seen here unfortunately). Not convinced by the especially yellow hair in retrospect. But hey - live and learn!

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Well this looks like quite a good idea - might have to pick this up when it's released:

http://www.classicbattletech.com/index.php?action=products&mode=full&id=291

It strikes me as far more sensible than the old method of releasing entire new map sheets every so often. It's certainly good to see the game expand in a slightly new and improved direction!

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Well arguably this took a bit longer than expected, but I'm happy to report that painted miniatures have started to roll off the production line.

Given that the new paint set was purchased from the War Games Foundry it only seemed right that the first miniature to be painted would be one of their sculpts. Luckily I had one lying around - an orc I seem to recall I gained as a freebie somewhere along the line.

Overall I'm quite pleased with how this came out. The facial features could be better, as could the blue coat (somewhat hidden in the pic). But given that this was the first miniature painted in about two years - no major complaints!

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Well a second dip into this blogging malarkey. Although this time I think there's a plan - more so than last time at any rate. Over the past couple of years many things ended up falling by the wayside in the drive to get things back on an even keel. And as things appear to be returning to a slightly more sane schedule I'm finding I have time to pick some of them up again.

And one of these was my hobby of miniature painting, something I've just not had time to even consider since I entered the working world. Stepping back to the brushes was delayed by the discovery that all my prior paints had dried up. However, £300 and the quick delivery of the complete War Games Foundry paint set and I'm back.

So the idea is to use this blog as a digital record of completed paint jobs. No doubt some of my older stuff will make an appearance too. We shall see. Hopefully this is the start of a productive year...

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