Month: November 2017

07262: Tuilin, Female Elf

Here is Tuilin, from Reaper. My wife, daughter, and some folks on Facebook all chimed in on the color scheme. I started with the white dress and then started asking opinions about what to do with the trim, staff, gemstones, and the rest of the fiddly bits.  My daughter specifically requested that yellow flowers be in the grass.  Who am I to disappoint a 5-year old?

This is my biggest attempt at painting white clothing, which is difficult to pull off without it reading as gray, blue, or dirty. Also, this is my first attempt at black hair, which I’m happier with than the dress. The key is making the highlights tight enough to avoid making the hair read as gray, white, blue, or just splotchy.  The blending of the shades in the dress folds is not as smooth as I’d like it.  I didn’t have the patience to keep blending and blending.

 

77256: Brass Bull

This is Reaper’s take on the D&D Gorgon.  I kept him steel plated, rather than brass. He was quite simple, not many colors on this guy.  I used a thinned smokey ink glaze over top of the metal colors, which I like a lot.  It makes the creature look less shiny and new.  I also like the fade from black to silver on his horns and hooves.

Grenadier Vampire

Another of the right-hand-raised undead from the Monsters box set.  White, black, and red are probably the hardest colors to paint well.  The shading is so sensitive; white is had to avoid making muddy, black is hard to make not look gray, and red is hard not to make orange or pink.  So this guy took some work, and obviously I still need practice.

77313: Hill Giant Krug

My brother and his family bought me some scratch-off lotto tickets for my birthday.  Waddya know, I won $25!  So I used the money to buy three giants, inspired by an old D&D campaign, in which the characters raided the homes of hill giants, frost giants, and fire giants in rapid succession.

This guy was lots of fun to paint.  Clearly, my photography skills are not A+ as these photos are a bit washed out.  The vegetation on the base are various kinds of actual moss.

Grenadier Lich

Nearly done with the undead from the Grenadier Monsters box set.  Right hand raised?  Check.

It took three tries to get this guy done.  I originally had him black but didn’t like it so stripped him back down and tried red.  I didn’t like that, either, so I stripped him down again.  Then, my friend Mike over at Swords and Dorkery, painted this mini in purple, which looked great, so I did likewise.  Hopefully Mike will remember that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery…

Grenadier Wraith

Another undead from the Grenadier Monsters box set.  This guy is the only undead of the set that doesn’t have the right-hand-raised feature.

I cut off the original broccoli base and put him hovering over a marble-like floor.  He’s supposed to be glowing from inside his hood and sleeves.  I think I should have pushed the glowing effect a little more, as in these photos it comes of too dim.

Grenadier Skeleton

This is yet another of the undead from the Grenadier Monsters box set.

I attempted to do something a little more interesting than the usual plain pale tan or sand colors for the bone.  I’m not sure if the various colors come through in the finished piece.  This mini continues the theme of the undead in the set having their right hands raised, though with the sword, it makes a little more sense for this guy.  I put this guy in some soggy wet mud, which I kinda like.