I have not painted miniatures for some time, at least before the Covid pandemic. There is one reason basically. We are now using a VTT for playing our TTRPGs. I have been painting miniatures for a long time. In fact I used to play Warhammer 40K in epic scale. I still have a bunch of Citadel paints from 20 plus years ago. I had no inclination to paint any miniatures until a couple of weeks ago.
Here are the rest of my paints.
A gentleman that sits next to me at our work place runs a campaign for his cousins and he purchased Heroforge miniatures that are based on their player characters in the campaign. He is showing me the miniature, he tries to pull it out of the box he has it in and he breaks off the sword I then try to get it out the plastic container that he has it in. Unbeknownst to us there is a rubber like cement in the plastic container and the base is attached to the wall of the container by the a fore mentioned adhesive. As I am taking the miniature out of the container. I break it off at the ankles, Of course I feel really badly, not as bad as I could have because he broke off the sword. I tell him I will fix it and paint it for him as I feel so guilty. I pin and glue the parts back together. Instead of three parts, now it is one.
I wanted to practice a little bit before I started the Druid character that we snapped pieces off of. I had a Bloodmane, Gnoll Champion made by Reaper Miniatures in metal. I did not know the name of the miniature nor the manufacture right off the top of my head, as I had to ask the Google. I think I retained some of my knowledge, now off to the Druid.
I think this is a pretty good sculpt and it was fun to paint. Sorry for the photos being a little out of focus.
The photos did over saturate the blue kilt. It is not that bright of blue on the miniature.
My coworker really did not have any specific way that he wished the Druid to be painted other than that she have red hair as the player has red hair. He was quite specific what kind of red hair as he stated; “Not over the top red hair”.
Here is the completed miniature.
I was going to paint her Cuirass as if
were made out of Birch Bark. Believe it or not there are several
painting guides that describe how to do this and I believe I could
have adapted them for miniature painting. However, once I put my
Optivisor on and primed it, I realized that the Cuirass was not
smooth. On the chest there were swirls and on the back there were
vines. I need a little more space and smooth surfaces to be able to
use the Birch Bark technique. None the less I believe it came out
pretty well. I am not a professional painter by any means. I think
I paint at an average game table proficiency. I subscribe to the arm
length rule. Does the miniature look good at arms length? Yep, good
enough for me!
This project has really inspired me to get
back into painting miniatures, both fantasy and military miniatures.
I supported a Kickstarter Resin Printer some years ago. I learned,
but never ever support a Kickstarter Resin Printer campaign. Long
story short, I got a printer. A lot of people had issues printing
with it. I never had an issue with it printing. My issue was with
the resin Vat. Once you unscrewed the screws to change the FEP sheet
on the resin vat. The nuts would start to freewheel and one could
not tighten them up. I had a useless paperweight.
I
purchased about $50 worth of miniatures a weekend or two ago. I
thought to myself that I might as well get another resin printer if I
am going to purchased miniatures. I have all the safety equipment, I
have a vented space to get rid the stinky vapors.
So a purchased Anycubic Photon Mono M5s Pro. We will see about that journey once I get it zeroed in and making good miniatures.
Thank you for
taking time to read my post.
Till next time, take care.
