Turelio's Hobby Hoard

OK, these are some work in progress shots of my Eureka frog troops. I posted one of these a while ago which was done up a bit like a test subject. I had a good idea of what I wanted them to look like, but needed to make sure that I could get them done properly. The main thing I did differently with these was that when I airbrushed them, I did different areas of them in different layers, masking them as I went. So I did them red/brown area on the back, and masked it off in dots. I then airbrushed the bellies, masked them off, and did the rest of the skin. Once finished, I peeled off the liquid latex mask that I had put down to leave the green skin with the darker dots on the back and pale bellies, but without having to carefully layer up each colour and fix up mistakes. Once the main colours were done, I just had to finish off the smaller details, which on these models were mainly the hammers, the webs on the toes, and the eyes. On a few of the 'higher ranking' miniatures, there...

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.

After finishing the Doctor today, I went a bit nuts on half-basing things. I started out with some Fiendish Fabrications bases I was going to paint for a friend of mine along with a showgirl and doll for Malifaux. I realised the other day that if I paint all of them with a basecoat on the airbrush, I can drybrush them all and oil wash them in about the same amount of time I could do two without the airbrush. And that way they all match: I also decided to do some plaster casting to make a few display plinths. Armed with a few cupcake trays and plaster, I mixed up a batch or two and made some bases: The Doctor on a 30mm base fits on top of the smaller bases. The larger one just fits a 50mm base, so I've lucked out on the size of these trays! I just have to see if the fridge magnets in the little ones are strong enough to hold a model with magnets on the base, otherwise I might have to make a few wire coils to go in there next time...

OK, so since the last post, time sought of dragged on. I got nothing extra done for demons (I managed to break the Dreadlord), and everything went downhill from there. Last Saturday, MOAB was on, and I put together some Tyranid Warriors to take with me to paint on the day. I remembered pretty quickly how frustrating I find it to paint Tyranids with all their plating, so lost interest pretty quickly. I saw some pretty neat bases there, so decided that I would get some on Sunday, and get another model based on one of them just to see what they were like. I had an idea for a while to do one of my 10th Doctor miniatures ( See Here ) on a cobblestone base. There was one which was nearly exactly what I was looking for in a pack of five, and that was the kick start I needed to paint him. Saturday I cleaned him up, Sunday I did no painting, and for the past few days I have been itching to get things done around the flat in order to convince myself I have time to paint him. A few nights ago I d...

Last post, then sleep. Sleep wasn't something I got much of last night, as I was trying to do some work on this guy; my next GD project: But then not long after I got the base done to this level: ...The power went off, leaving my to do little odds and ends with a head-mounted lamp while I waited for the electrician to show up and find the cause of the problem. Leaving me with this: ...Then it turned out they couldn't fix it, meaning I had to get up early this morning to feed some cats I was minding for a friend, then head to the real estate to get it sorted by their electrician. How took seven hours to turn up (Hence all the side projects as the desk is blocked pretty well from light). Anyway, normal painting schedule should resume as normal from tomorrow morning (Here's hoping...)

I've been lazy. To a degree. Anything I start ends up sitting on the desk unfinished for a while. So this is what I have been working on: A Goblin Jester for Demons (The Lost Demon category), and a Morgue Assistant from Wyrd. The Morgue assistant base isn't 100% complete yet - I have to add some water with some blood in it to fill up the grate.

This guy has been finished for a few weeks, but I hadn't posted pics of him anywhere until tonight, as I was waiting for him to arrive in Sweden, where he was sent as an exchange. Anyway, this is a Night Goblin Boss (Named Ture by his new owner). I wanted to do some darker clothes with lighter skin to make the face and hands stand out, and also put him on a barren base so he was a display model, but not overly complicated. And, as always, links: CMON: http://coolminiornot.com/250077 MyModelCase: http://www.mymodelcase.com/miniatures/view/198

The model due at the end of the month for Paint Klub is Skulltaker. Over the weekend I started working on him, or at least, the base: All the pieces lined up and ready for assembly The original plan for how the steps would be laid out. I knocked the pieces and they formed a spiral shape, so I thought that would be more fun. Wait for it... The base goes together - HORRIBLY! Turns out I got the angles wrong, and the middle step wasn't nearly large enough for the model to be in scale (I've learned since I painted the Jester model) so it was back to the original plan... Back to reliable ol' Plan A. How I missed you... A bit of Tamiya putty around the edges to blend the layers together a bit (It will be fixed up properly later) and some pipes in place... The piece connected to the base itself. I need to run some putty around the edges and then sand it back to blend it together. Skulltaker! Or, part of him. Just to get a feel of how he looks on the base. The plan is to have blood...

This is one of the random thing I have done recently. For ages I have been obsessed about finding out how to find the width of the GW bases for when I construct stuff around them so they actually fit. The other night I realised if a use some cheap Uhu Stick glue to stick paper to the bases, I can trim around them and measure the gap in the paper, figuring out the size of the base. So I end up with this on my desk Saturday morning: Should the Zomb-Apocalypse occur, and only GW base dimensions can save us, I'm well prepared.

Two posts for this guy, one now, and one for the finished pictures. I took some WIP shots while I was working on him, but I couldn't post them at the time as I had to rush to finish him. He's lots of fun, and definitely a model I will be coming back to at some point to do an unrushed job on him: The base halfway done... The base complete... The skin basecoat applied (again)... The model completed, just needs to be attached to the base. The model attached, waiting for some final details. Almost done... Not long now... Then I can sleep...

The second round of Paint Klub is on next Saturday, and as of Friday morning just gone I had yet to start putting together the model, and had only cleaned up a few pieces. So I put in an all nighter last night to get the base almost finished, and have been working for the past few hours to get the model into a near ready to paint state. So, I built the base first... I wanted it to be a bit like a mine, with a little bridge he is standing on. The model itself is on a 20mm base, and the model has to stay on this for the contest, but I decided I could always build it up and make it a bit bigger...

Some alternate photos of the Malifaux models. No extra work has been done on them since last time. However Andrew (His Blog) suggested it the other day using a gradient he had and changing the lights slightly. These haven't been through the usual Gimp editing I do, just resized in MS Paint.