What did you do today.

[YellowStreak]

Work on the Beastie's for Dragon Rampant continues:


Quick paintjobs, but I think they look alright all ranked up together.

[Miguelsan]

I found my new ride. Unfortunately there is a far, far away line for it

M.

[Konrad]

@JR- "Dragonkitties" has a nice ring to it. I think you should do a whole unit. Make them your Sternguard or something.
@YS- Release you Beast! Very cool.
@MIguel- reminds me, I still have to finish my 1/144 Falcon. Trying to do it wash and drybrush, but with mixed results as there are parts of the model with lots of surface area. Sort of wash, sponge, dry, drybrush, wash again.....

I've been mostly fixing things. I was halfway done with a carefully sculpted hand, only to realize that it was a right hand on the left arm......(insert face palm)
Also chopped down one leg on another Digga and re-did a foot.
I'm sort of stuck on details at the moment. Working on a pair of holstered pistols and have been making a tiny, ladylike crossbow. The GW ones are too clunky. Only broke it once so far......Feel bogged down, but learning a bit more with each mistake.

[Primarch]

@Konrad - がんばって!
@YS - Nice Beasties. I have a force for Lion Rampant that should work for Dragon Rampant easily enough. We should give it a try sometime.

[Auxryn]

Finished my frigates today. Probably won't finish all the cruisers by Sunday, but at least I'll be able to put them on stands.

[me_in_japan]

@Ystreak - I do like the GW beastmen. Everybody should have some. They do indeed look good all a-group'd.

Today I finished.....another Tiefling! Nearly done, now, though.

I......'m not sure what to say about this sculpt. On the one hand, the face is great - nice sneer, clean sculpt (easy to paint) and, y'know, characterful face, as elvey faces go. Also the armour is well done - clean lines and interesting choice of weapon. Certainly, it was a fun mini to paint, no doubt about that.

On t'other hand, there are a couple of things that throw this sculpt off. The first is that it's the most ridonculous example of boob plate I've seen in ages. Srsly. When wearing armour, where does it say to expose your chest, belly, thighs and ass? Ok, yes, she has a shield, but ffs people. The second thing that bugs me is...well. Damn. Dem canonballs surely aint natural. Considering the high quality of the rest of the sculpt, what the heck happened there? Tis very odd indeed.

Anyway, pics. It was a lot of fun to paint, and given the overall high standard of the fig ye kinda have to assume the aforementioned criticisms were a deliberate choice by the sculptor, so fair do's.





ps @ jus - since you asked, a Tiefling is a type of demi-daemon thingy from D&D. It's what you get 9 months after a visit from a Succubus or Incubus. They're a somewhat distinct species, though, with subsequent generations looking less daemony (or more, depending on their family tree, I spose.)
You asked about skin tones - there are two different ones. The paler one (as seen on canonballs up there) is GW tentacle pink + Scale 75 kalahari orange at about a 2/1 ratio, with shadows by adding VMA mahogany, highlights by adding more tentacle pink and eventually scale 75 white sand. The darker skin tone (as seen on the bugbears) is GW purple (not sure which one - mine is long since decanted into a dropper bottle) + VGC scarlet red + Scale 75 kalahari orange, with the same shadow and highlight as before. Seems fiddly, but once it's all on the palette its just a matter of mixing, really.

[The Other Dave]

Yeah, that's pretty egregious. Not, like, Kingdom Death egregious, but still.

Speaking of, I managed to pull myself away from Endless Space 2 for a couple hours last night to get started on some dwarves. They're dwarf rangers and the sculpts are pretty terrible. Not huge-boobs terrible, just super low detail, derpy faces, the whole nine yards. It's especially noticeable since I'm painting Gimli in the same batch and he's great. Ah well, don't look a gift horse in the mouth and all that. They'll look OK painted up I'm sure.

Also over the past few days I've been reading up on the Solomon Islands campaign - that might be my next little project after my current 28mm fever dies down.

[Primarch]

@M_i_J - I guess when one of your parents is a fiendish seductress from the lowest plane of the abyss, it doesn't do much for your self-esteem.
Nice painting though.

[jehan-reznor]

@MiJ Shocking just shocking Anita sarkeesian has been notified

[Konrad]

@Mij- it's just exageration of scale. You know, like how cartoon characters have big eyes so you can read their emotions more easily and GW figures have tended to have big heads and hands and weapons so you can see them at arm's length. Right?
But yes, there are more elegant solutions to the design challenge.The Diggachicks agree and dispense with boob plate entirely.