Spattering of Paint

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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