Turelio's Hobby Hoard

So I'll start by pointing out that this is part of the reason I've been worn out lately. I've been really busy lately, and it's left me rather drained. Blogging has been the last thing in my mind, sadly. Also, there aren't any images in this post... yet. I'll add them in later, but I seem to have lost most of the images from the last month on my laptop somewhere. Anyway, on with the fun and games!

Well, I finally got round to deciding to post photos. This is the Guild of Harmony Assassin, which I painted up for my brother's 21st a few weeks ago. It was a quick job, and these are unfortunately the best photos I have, as I had to take them in a hurry, and the model is now about 400km away, so not an ideal place to retake photos :D Anyway, my brother is an Assassin's Creed fan, so the colour choice for this was obvious. I put him on a quick Aetherworks cobblestone base and display plinth to present it a bit better.

OK, this is going to be a quick wrap up and update of some models I got finished after Golden Demon this year (The demon models will get posted early new year) . The three of these models were quick ones I wanted to get finished for various reasons. They were never going to be the most well painted models, but they were ones I wanted to paint for fun: Mantic Pitdog: CMON Link This was a model that as soon as I saw it, I wanted to have a go at painting. Even after I purchased the model, I knew I had to wait a bit before starting on it, but I spent a while doodling idea on how I was going to paint it. In the end, I airbrushed on the brown colour, then masked the top half off and airbrushed the white colour. Once finished, I did the final highlights by hand, and then did the leather and gold as I normally would. The model itself doesn't have a base of it's own in the kit, so I filled the depression in a Dwarf base with putty, and glued the dog on. A quick bse and static grass, and...

Another thing I got just before MOAB this year were a few sets of Foundry Paints from Aetherworks . I had been looking through the Foundry books and noticed that they had some colours that were either ones I wanted and couldn't get easily (For instance, orange, which GW has dropped down to two only on their standard paints range), or were ones that I wanted to get just for variations (Such as purple, I tend to go to that for variation for some reason). So the option came up to order a few paints, and... OK, now some people may think that I'm made for buying that many paints in one go. And I'll tell you know, this is the weakest signal of my insanity. The Foundry paints range is actually pretty well planned though. Basically, the Foundry paint range is based around triads. For some reason, I've only seen them in Foundry and Coat d'Arms, and while they do exist in other ranges like GW, people like Foundry tend to make it more obvious as to what the plan is. Basically...

These are some quick photos I took of a bit more work I did on Hwesta during a painting night recently while my back was playing up (And I therefore had no interest in painting Golden Demon entries). While I was painting, these were being uploaded to my Twitter account , which is where I am able to post them straight from my painting table without starting a new blog post. The plan for her is to make the colours a bit more obvious, just so she stops getting targeted as a zombie accidentally again...

OK, this is my DnD character (In the previous post, she is hiding in one of the boxes within a box - Inception style), Hwesta Lasse. The model itself is Asheara from Guild of Harmony, and the base is an Aetherworks insert glued over a GW base. I then added a few patches of Vallejo Pumice Paste to the surface to look a bit like debris. As time goes on, she might get a few extra bits on the base as well. For now, she just has a few base colours on her so that I can use her on the table. I still have to do a lot of base colours on her.

OK, I tried taking a few different shots of the Necromancer. In the end I used the blue parchment background as it gave a closer balance of the colours, even though they still see a little off to me. But I figured I would post these up anyway. So here are some links to the other Photobucket folders with the pictures: Blue Gradient 1 This was on the standard blue gradient, but the colours came out too warm. Blue Gradient 2 The same gradient, different alignment of the shots. Grey Parchment Grey parchment paper. The greens seem a bit closer to the real colours in this set, but the rest of the colours are off.

Last week I finished the Necromancer, but never got around to posting him here. So here are the photos. I was happy with how he turned out. This was my first time trying to paint with muted colours, so I ended up using a lot of grey and browns in his colours. I like how he turned out, however I noted that he stands out obviously among all my other brightly coloured models :) CMON Link as usual

A quick update on what the necromancer is like at the moment. The colours in the photos are a bit off, but the skirt and bandages are finished, and I have moved onto the gems and bottles, as well as the sharp bits on the legs which will be gems as well.

So my original plan of painting hard and getting stuff done for Little Wars never panned out. In fact, I haven't painted anything for months. But I've been meaning to post these photos for a while now and keep forgetting. So here are some random pics... First, my self-bought birthday presents! I needed new brushes, and there were some models I had my eye on for a while which I thought I should get at the same time. SO I bought myself: A set of Doctor Who and Firefly models from Heresy. In fact, I bought two of each. Obsessive behaviour is a killer some times... Still, now I have Doctor Whos and Kaylees, and also a Ghostbusters demon dog thing. And now I have these Who miniatures, it's not going to be long before I end up grabbing a few of the others I have seen floating around :) New brushes! I was holding out for a while to get a set of W&N7's, but these are Kaple brushes which I was recommended. I really love these brushes. I honestly can't believe I have been...

OK, I'm back, and updating now because I can't sleep... I can blame the lack of updates on a few different things, but in the end it comes down to time, and the priorities I was putting on different things. As a result, I've also got very little painting done. Two Paint Klub entries never got completed, and I'm waiting till I get some other stuff out of the way before I try to do any more of those at the moment. But I have gotten back into the swing of things and started painting things for once. And at the same time, I'm starting to work on some entries for Little Wars in a few weeks. So this is what I have planned at the moment... Open: Guild Of Harmony Necromancer OK, I admit I have been trying to get this guy finished for a while. I really like the model, but I can never get far enough into the model without messing it up, and keep stripping it back. Previous colour schemes were rejected until I was happy with a green and beige scheme that I stumbled on ages ago...