Speed Painting

[shawndidge1]

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[MortiS-the-Lost]

Great stuff!

Your Heroes look good - I'm particularly fond of the classic Citadel Thrud miniature (I've got the newer Heresy Miniatures one myself, but you can't beat the classic)

The picture of the HQ monsters is much too small for me to pick out too much detail but what I can see looks great so far

shawndidge1 wrote

i need the puppet wielding miniature

He seems to be a popular miniature around here at the moment, you can find some information on him Right Here

[The Skald]

Cheers m'dears  much appreciated  - but trust me Mortis, you're not missing much with the "small" photo! I'll try posting some close-ups once they have a bit of detail picked out to give 'em a bit of a lift (not too much though, these are meant to be the quickstart 'mob')

I've just finished the sorcerer and gargoyle, plus a couple of carrion crawlers from the Parker D&D boargame but it's far too late to dig the camera out - I'll post pic's tomorrow (er, later today!)

[The Skald]

OK, so remember these are speed painted to get my 'monster pool' off the ground - the close-ups are cruel!

"It's fun to stay at the.......... er what comes after 'Y' ??"


These were the fastest to do - now I just need to remove the cat hairs!


and here's some of the greenskins, plus a reference figure from my "other hobby"


I'm missing a couple of goblins, skeletons, a mummy and Fimir from the full set, but two nights painting gave me 29 figures to play with  
I'm currently working through the mini's from the Parker D&D game and ....... is it just me, or can anyone else see a definite resemblance here??

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Looking pretty good there

 Tamiya Smoke (which I'm guessing is an Ink, Wash, Glaze or Shade) seems to be serving you quite well on most of those figures - try using it for Black-lining between areas of different materials on your Chaos Warlock and Great Gargoyle. The same technique would work well on the Carrion Crawler you posted in another thread

The Skald wrote

is it just me, or can anyone else see a definite resemblance here??

Just goes to show that wherever, wherever you are, Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far.

Keep the good work up

[The Skald]

Thanks Mortis, the camera's been a bit cruel with the close-ups on those figures but yep, I'll give 'em a touch up.
Tamiya "Smoke" is a wash that was popular before washes became such a common technique (I'm talking late 70's early 80's ) From that, we went on to make our own shading washes by simply dropping a tiny bit of paint into a pot of varnish - again, way before all these commercial products or fancy recipes were available on't'interweb. In fact, before the interweb!!!!

I guess the above makes me an official "old fart" member of the Forum!

[MortiS-the-Lost]

I forgot to ask what your other hobby is - the large figure there reminds me the ones I've seen at a model village in Devon.

It also makes me think that one suitably converted and painted could be stat'd up as a Giant

[The Skald]

Oops! sorry Mortis, I missed your question, but I've already let the cat-out-the-bag over on the "General Discussion" thread  
They're 16mm to the ft (approximately 1/19th scale), and a German company called Schleich do a fantasy range about the right size that allows for a bit of silliness (the figures over on the other thread are old Burger King promo's)



Anyhow, the reason I'm posting here is to report that I've waded through a load more of the Parker D&D figures with simple block painting followed by washes, a bit of dry brushing on a few, then matt varnish. A couple of evenings work ~



Just the Gnolls and Bugbears to do and then I can move on to some less 'toylike' figure