Things are moving along

No pictures yet, but as of this evening I have all the infantry for my Amazons based and primed. That's fifty seven, 28mm scale infantry ready to paint. I will have to do a little research and decide exactly how I want to tackle the paint jobs. I am waffling on whether or not to do warpaint on their bodies, as they are nude. However I don't recall ever seeing any classical sources the showed warriors or Amazons with body paint. I am leaning to the au naturale look. Perhaps the shields and symbols will be sufficient colour. On another note Reaper Miniatures has put a new Sophie figure on their site. Urban legend Sophie. I ordered one this morning, as well as the Celebration Sophie and another miniature. Additionally I ordered the Warlord rulebook to have a gander at it. Well that's all for this time. Seeya soon.

Cheers

George

2005 Holiday Sophie

I have been working on a Holiday Sophie from Reaper Miniatures. The figure is beautifully sculpted and a joy to paint. She was so much fun, that I am going to make her a tradition and paint one every year. I painted her with a combination of Folk Art craft paints and Games Workshop, and Humbrol. I am very pleased especially with the flesh. I painted it a base tone of Folk Art terra cotta. I washed over this with a mix of Future floor wax and a brown/ black ink mix to bring out the details. I then built up the mid tones and highlights gradually by mixing terra cotta and flesh. For the final highlights I used hints of watered down white for the strongest highlights. Her outfit was painted with a dark blue that when washed and highlighted makes a very realistic black.





AS a side note the pictures are getting better, but I am still having trouble with the lighting. Still, its good enough to give you an idea how she looks.

Cheers
George

Nurgle Plague Demon

Still trying to figure out how to use my wife's digital camera. I took some shots of my Great Unclean One. I painted the model last year after having purchased it when it first came out. It sat in it's box for a number of years until I had the itch to paint it. The photos are a bit off. Some of the details you can see in the original are lost in the photos. There is still something I don't quite have the hang of yet. I did the model with a combination of Testors Model master paints, Games Workshop and Folk art paints.







The model came with a few Nurglings. I added to these with a few from my spares box. I based the whole thing on some cold press illustration board. Once I had glued down the Great Unclean One and the Nurglings, I added some plastic scenery bits from an old 40K boxed set I had with painted kitty litter for rubble. The base was flocked with foam model railroad flock ( I need to get more badly but they don't carry it here in my home town). As usual I think the base needs a little more but I am not sure what yet. Well of to work on my next project. Let me know what you all think.

Cheers
George