July! WIP and other stuff too!

Hello all!

So I haven't really gotten around to paint all that much, but I have gotten to work on my favorite summer past time..Terrain!

So my main goal is to build a tiny town square worth of buildings.  I already have one ruined building in my collection, but I also want a building I can use for D&D to make a village square.  So using basic techniques taken from a bunch of random Youtube videos, I got to work.

So using foam-core, cardboard, balsa wood and white glue I got to work.  Slowly over the course of a few weeks I put together this small town house.

It's amazing what you can do with a little white glue and junk you find in your local recycling bin and a few dollar store items.  So now I have to seal it with Modge Podge and get to painting!

Wish me luck!

-Commodus

July is Here! What shall I paint...

Hello everyone!

Well June came and went and I didn't really paint all that much.  Once the weather starts getting nice, hanging out in my humid apartment isn't all that enjoyable.  I did manage to get some painting done over the course of the month as it did rain a few days.

So let us see what I finished off my paint table!

The last two miniatures i needed to paint for my mini D&D campaign.  A Tiefling Rogue (Which is being used as a Tiefling Ranger)  and a Half-Orc Barbarian.  I do like these Nolzur mini's but I do have 2 criticisms of them.

1.  They have terrible mold lines
2.  They have a lot of tiny detail

The two problems sort of compound each other.  The mold lines cover the detail and removing them could damage the detail.  They are difficult to deal with but, overall, for 6 dollar miniatures I can't really complain too much.

With that said and done my adventuring party went from this

To this!

So with these done, and not counting terrain, I only painted 3 minis all last month for a grand yearly total of 77 miniatures!  Not too shabby so far.

So with that said it's time to move on to other summer projects which are in various states of done right now.  I'll hopefully have an update on that soon.  For now lets see what I have on my desk right now.

This right here is the third model I ever bought/painted.  He's been my Empire army wizard since I started gaming back in 2004.  I would say I did an okay job with him but through the years he has become chipped and damaged.  I figured, as I use his mounted version in AoS, I'd strip him and repaint him for AoS as well.

We'll see when I can get around to doing that!

-Commodus

It's a Cruel Summer....So Here's some Terrain!

Hello everyone!

Well its been a bit of a break as the weather...somewhat got better.  Honestly Its been mostly that I just straight wasn't in the mood to paint, but now I am!  I have several half-painted/prepped terrain that I have been working on to help extend my terrain collection.

So lets see what I managed to finish!

Some old Lord of the Rings terrain from the first box set that I attached to an MDF board.  A cool ruing building I can use for Age of Sigmar or LOTR.  Heck even D&D!

With that done I decided to clean up some other stuff I had lying around.  I was bored and wanted to do something different.  Enter this model:

It had a terrible white base coat, so I soaked it in Simple Green for 24 hours and scrubbed it off with an old tooth brush.  Got it based and properly base coated and then....

I have around 16 of these guys and I might just paint them for fun...I have 2 more soaking right now.

We shall see!

-Commodus

May is Here! Summer Slowdown incoming

Hello once more all,

Wow, okay, I haven't updated much in the last 3 weeks.  Mostly because I haven't painted much mostly due to being busy. Also because I've been sick the last week and a half.

But now I'm better and can post what I finished painting which isn't that much...but at least it's something!

There we go!  Last minis I painted in April.  A mimic, a Spider and a Retributor for my Stormcast.  Like I said, not much but at least it's something.

So with these added to the mix I painted 14 Models this month for my 2019 model total to 74 minis to date.

So what do I plan on doing next?  Well I haven't been keeping to my promise to not buy until I paint the stuff I bought recently, and I bought a bunch of stuff recently.  So my goal is to prep and paint them up. 

So stay tuned!

-Commodus

April Showers...Actually Snow, April Snow

Hello once more all!

Well I'm back and I'm still painting.  Now I, once again, didn't get as much done as I would of liked over the weekend as I was kinda sick...but!  I did finish off a few things on my desk, so lets show them off.

So here we are, 3 more Kobolds, a Cleric model for my D&D campaign and one Retributor.  I'm really happy with how everything they came out. I mean the kobolds were just the standard paint scheme I've been using for awhile now.  The Retributor also came out good, now to get the other 7 I have on my desk painted!

As for the Cleric that's mini number 2 for my D&D campaign.  Now I just have 2 more of those to paint as well!

Anyway with that all said, lets see what else is on my desk

Okay, well one of these minis is just a base because he is mid paint job!  But here we have a what i'm working on at the moment.  Hoepfully it'll all be done this weekend (Hooray Easter Weekend!)

Until later!

-Commodus

April Showers Bring excuses to Stay in and Paint!

Hello Everyone!

Well after a slow week on my previous post I had the chance to up the minis I completed this time.  I managed to finish them for a mini campaign I had created for some friends.  As that is now over I can get back to my regularly scheduled painting.

So lets look at what I finished this weekend.

I finished 5 of my Bones Zombies and a Dire Wolf from the Nolzur D&D range.  My recent campaigns have had quite a few undead in it so I've had to bang out a bunch of them.  They came out great and I'm happy with the result.  As for the Dire Wolf I gihlighted the black using P3 Charcoal Black.  I got to say I really do like it as a Black highlight as opposed to my normal technique of a dark Grey highlight.

So with that done and D&D month behind me I want to mix it up a bit and get something else done.  I bought several Stormcast minis to help round out my force.  I'm still waiting for them to arrive in the mail but I have a few I would like to start on to help finish them off.

I have 2 Retributors that I need to put together and base in preparation for the others I have coming in the mail.

Wish me luck all!

-Commodus

D&D Month: March End, What Did I Get Done?

Hello all!

So March is over and...well...I didn't manage to paint much this week.  Life/work has a habit of getting in the way.  However I did manage to beat my record for last month when it comes to models painted.

In total I managed to paint 25 models in March, 3 more then last month.  This takes my total to 60 models painted!

With that said lets take a look at step by step of last mini I painted for this month.

I decided to try something different for this mini by trying to base it in red...I will soon regret this but it was a nice experiment before I try this technique out on Khorne minis.

Got the first basecoat on, sadly for this Bones miniature quite a bit of the detail is hard to get at.  I had to rely on washes to do most of the heavy lifting.

I washed the model in Army Painter Strong Tone.  At this point it was a matter of picking out the details which were hard to spot still.  Seems the Bones version of this mini lost a lot of the detail compared to the metal version (Which I will have to pick up sometime as a test).

Here we have the final product after even more washes and highlights to try to get every nook and cranny that still had red base coat popping out.  Overall I am happy with it but I'll have to practice more with red basecoats.

Well...what to do next...stay tuned!!

-Commodus