Kyra and Lavarath Done

I actually finished this up last weekend, but didn't get around to taking photos until today. This is the first dragon I've ever painted. It will probably be the last dragon I'll ever paint. I made that comment on Facebook and was asked why. My response is that I didn't enjoy painting it as much as other types of models and it just plain sat around on my desk for too long. Part of that is my fault, but there was just so much going on with this model that it took forever. Granted, it has more than more dragon figures do, like a rider, complex armor plating dynamic posing, etc etc. I'm going to go back to my sci-fi figures for a while I think.

The base is a wood award blank from Hobby Lobby that I stained with the stain I usually use for dipping my figures. Originally I was going to do a whole mountain top thing for the base, but now I've lost interest in that. The model isn't attached yet, and it may take me a while to figure out what I'm exactly going to do with this, so things may change later on.

In unrelated news, I finally added pictures to the year end update. See them here.

Here's the pics of Kyra and Lavarath. One of these days I'll figure out how to photograph metallics without the glare.

Kyra & Lavarath WIP 4

Got Kyra almost completely base coated and finished the front piece of the saddle.

Candy, By Your Command

Pictures as promised. The picture of Candy isn't all that great, which is probably a good thing since the painting isn't either. The Basestar is a little more blue than in the picture, but the metallic paint made it difficult to get the exact color.

Out of Practice

No pictures yet, but I did some work on Candy last night. I've determined that I'm horribly out of practice when it comes to skin tones on 28mm figures. Bad enough that I'm considering stripping the paint and starting from scratch. Everything else is ok, but I managed to screw up the skin, which is a large portion of the model in question.

That's Some Good Grass Man

No, not that kind of grass. :)

Today I mounted some Woodland Scenics grass mats to 2'x4'x1/8" hardboard panels so that I can swap that out with the hex mat without getting spring mix flock all over the star mat. Also, if I need to change the wood on the table, I don't have to flock it again. Took some pics with various scales of models. (click on the pictures for larger versions)

Here we have CAV (N-scale):


Some 6mm sci-fi (mostly DRM, the aircraft are repurposed Silent Death craft):


28mm Sci-Fi (an Imperial Guard group about to be on the receiving end of an ambush from some Pig Iron troopers)


And 28mm fantasy (a Bull Orc faces off against a Minotaur)