Painting in August

 Here are my offerings for August. I am really pleased to keep the flow going, although I didn't get as much actual painting done this month. I have started on a grand rebasing project on my 28mm collection. This is primarily so that the armies look better when playing Midgard using sabot bases.

First up the painting.

Some more demons for my Jotunheim/Reign in Hell games. Two little flying critters...

...and a big horned beastie.

Then some wood elf cavalry. Nice looking resin figures but a real pain. They were awkward to assemble, the bows snapped off at the lightest touch - I broke one off just trying to paint it!. Then the resin itself was a bit odd, with shiny patches in places. These shiny bits did not take acrylic paint well, so I ended up giving them an extra coat of enamel spray paint to be able to paint them.

Then on to the grand rebasing project. I started with the Late Roman and Saxons/Franks infantry. The bulk of the armies are Gripping Beast  minis, painted nearly 20 years ago. Since then I had added bits, some pre-painted from Bring and Buys, so they were looking a bit hap-hazard. As I have been getting use out of them again with Midgard, I wanted to fix the bases so that they all tied in better when using sabot bases.

The Roman Infantry.

And the Barbarian hordes.

Painting in July

 I was really pleased to be quite productive in July, after June's hiatus.

First up a Balrog/Fire Demon. These are a pair of 3d prints i picked, part of a batch of demons/devils. My first attempt make the fire too bright, I wanted the impression of oily flames, the sort that would be producing a lot of dark. black smoke. 

I based one for the dungeon/underground, but I'm not sure how to base the other one yet.

Another big demon with an axe from the same set. This will be joining my Jotunheim Norse-myth based armies for Midgard.

Two smaller devils from the set, these will be summoned bodyguards for a Chronipia sorcerer.

A unit of wood elf bowmen/rangers for Midgard, that I got from a supplier on Etsy.

A pack of frost imps/ Again these were in the set of 3d prints, they will be a flying skirmish unit in Jotunheim.

Sone fiery spirits/ghosts, again for Jotunheim.

A Giant Snow Eagle, another flyer for Jotunheim.

A change of direction, some of Ironclad's new VSF releases, southern colonial types, perhaps?

Finally for July, I expanded by Barrow Downs terrain with some 3d printed stuff. Three small barrows, some ruined causeway roads and walls. These are really nice prints and so, soooo much lighter than my existing solid resin pieces.

Let's hope August goes as well. Probably not a lot of painting as i am planning to revisit the basing on my 28mm historical armies to tie them in better for Midgard games. Starting with Saxons/Franks and Late Romans.

Painting in May

 I didn't get so much done in May, real life got in the way for the first couple of weeks.

I did manage to paint a dragon for Midgard Heroic Battles. This was a 3d print a friend printed off for me.

Some frog people, some cheap 3d print off Ebay. I thought they had a lot of character and would fit in with my Boglanders.

Some more tentacled aliens from Ramshackle Games.

Another of Curtis' sculpts from Ramshackle Games, an orc shaman on a dungar. I've no idea what I will use this for, but I am sure to find a use somewhere.

Finally, some more war trolls for Middle Earth, based up for Midgard. These are the rest of a box of 1/72 trolls from Dark Alliance.

June is going to be a bust as far as painting goes for me. I just hope I can get back in the swing of things in July and regain the momentum.

Painting in April and First Experience With Paint Pens

 I didn't get as much painting done as I had hoped in April, but I spent a lot of time painting and flocking unit bases for Midgard.

So here we go.

First off a couple of resin trolls from Ramshackle Games. I placed an order with Curtis for a few items, including a pair of trolls Trolls - Skargil and Bagera. As usual, he threw in a few freebies included two extras of this pose, so I thought I play around with different skin colours.

 

Next another Ramshackle games model, a Tentacle Brain. I'll probably use it as a Martian in my War of the Worlds survivors games.

A snake/demon thingy from my Blacklist Games kickstarter.

An Ent/Treeman, a 3d print I picked up cheap online.

A pair of Frost demons/trolls/yetis for my Jotunheim armies. Again cheap 3d prints.

Also Ramshackle Games, a model from the Society of Intrepid Explorers set.

A couple more Wild West zombies.

Finally, my first experience of acrylic paint pens. There seems to have been quite a bit of hoo-ha online about these recently and I have seem some interesting photos of models painted entirely using these pens. So I got a set (at the bargain price of 100 colours for £35 quid!) and had a go at a 3d printed troll I had lying around.

First off- just block painting the model using the pens. This was very quick to do, it only took me about 10 minutes to do this. No need for shaking paint bottles, putting paint onto the pallet and cleaning brushes.

No a couple of pictures after an umbar wash and decorating the base. I was quite pleased with the end results.

My thoughts so far (bearing in mind this was my first use of paint pens).

Very quick to use and no mess. The colours went on well, only needing one coat. The dark purple painted over the green with no problem, but I wonder how well a light colour would go on over a darker one?

One problem was that the width of the pen barrel meant that I could not get in to some areas that I could have reached using a brush. Foe example, with this model I could not colour the underside of the loincloth. How much that matters, given you cannot really see it, I'm not sure.

In conclusion, I am quite impressed. I can see these being really useful for finer detail and things like belts etc. I have yet to see how the metals work, but I'll be trying those soon.

I don't think I will be replacing all my paints pots with these, but at first glance, I think I will find them useful.