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Things Get Built AND Things Get Painted - The English, The Ooze, and The Eerie...

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I've been busy yet again, bit I've managed to start getting into more of a routine, which means more hobby! This is the most recent progress at my desk... First off, ALL THIS TEAM YANKEE! This is a Charlie's Chieftains box I got just before the end of the year. I magnetised the turrets, but need to go back and green stuff them for more security. This will be a basic tabletop army, but construction wise, there are very few mould lines to clean over the entire box. I really appreciate that this took a few hours, but it was so much less time that if I had to clean each individual track. A gelatinous cube was built as well. I already had one done, but after finding the one I thought I lost, I figured I should put it together. I plan on doing a few glazes in places to make details stand out, but these are always fun to use, especially when they swallow the healer. So why not two? Finally, these two little Flameskulls. One gave my dnd group some trouble a few games ago, then tw

Things Get Painted - Tiny Orcs!

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I've been really busy lately (for good reasons, so I'm happy to be busy). I did manage to knock these out over he course if about a week though. Initially they were for a challenge against two friends (more on that in a future post), but they saw table time in DnD this weekend as some goblins interfering with the heroes (and critting one!). For the green skin, I used the same method I've been trying lately with washes and drybrush steps. It's not perfect, but works well for the tabletop. It does seem more suited to heavy textures though.