A Wizard in Winter

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Here's the wizard finished off and painted, I added a few mushrooms to the base, the little purple 'Madcaps' are plastic ones from a Night Goblin sprue while the larger red spotted mushroom on the right is made from a split pea. In case your wondering the 'tree' behind him is a branch from a Woodland Scenics tree armature. The miniature it's self is 'Max Mentalus The Wizard' by Ral Partha.

[krippie]

hey that looks awsome

[BobbieTheDamned]

He's looking great Mortis!

The shading on the robe looks really good, just crisp enough without him looking like he's in a pinstripe skirt! Looks like you've defenatly kept to your normal level of ridiculasly neat painting! His beard looks really nicely done too. I find facial hair can be such a pain to paint, especially if its not the best sculpting.

Only thing I'd question was the skintone but I've got a feeling that's probably a camera thing or my monitors colours or something.

[MortiS-the-Lost]

RobertTheDamned wrote

Only thing I'd question was the skintone but I've got a feeling that's probably a camera thing or my monitors colours or something.

yea the lighting made the skin look a little yellow, in real life he has a Treguard-sque leathery tan

[MortiS-the-Lost]

she loved it BTW people

[Umboman]

Very expertly done & its inspiring to see how pieces are put together-lack of imagination on the base can spoil an intersting/well painted figure.The rock,branchs,mushrooms,etc really paints a picture & that blue is perfect.

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Umboman wrote

Very expertly done & its inspiring to see how pieces are put together-lack of imagination on the base can spoil an intersting/well painted figure.The rock,branchs,mushrooms,etc really paints a picture & that blue is perfect.

Thanks, I don't normally do display pieces like this, most of my miniatures are intended to be used for games and there fore end up with a lot more simple bases to minimize 'clash' with different playing surfaces.  Plain black bases are the easiest way as your eyes tend to ignore the black (A neutral gray or brown works well too).
For a lot of my miniatures I use textured plasticard for a stone-floor look which works well in a dungeon setting for my Quest games and the ruined streets of Mordheim and dosn't look too out of place on other fantasy terrain types.
One thing that was very popular during the 90's was painting miniatures base Goblin Green no matter what the setting, it had a tendency to look awful on anything but a Goblin Green!

Agreed, an interesting base can liven up a miniature as a display piece, but I think too much emphasis is put on the base in some cases, the judges of Games Workshop's annual painting competition  Golden Daemon love modeled bases and over the years the competition has become nothing more than a biggest base contest, with the miniatures themselves taking a side line. Thus this is about as much as I will add to a base and only then because it was a display piece.