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I like 'em! The Asterians turned out nicely, I never ended up with any of those, despite having quite a pile of DZ stuff.

That reminds me, I should really get around to actually reading the DZ v2 rulebook and getting a game in...

Loving your work so far mate, especially the female samurai and chuthlu.

Slinky wrote:I like 'em! The Asterians turned out nicely, I never ended up with any of those, despite having quite a pile of DZ stuff.

That reminds me, I should really get around to actually reading the DZ v2 rulebook and getting a game in...

I went all in on the first DZ campaign, so I have lots and lots of pretty much everything. I shocked myself over winter break sorting through it all.

carlos13th wrote:Loving your work so far mate, especially the female samurai and chuthlu.

The samurai were fun to paint, and if I didn't have so many half-finished models taunting me, I'd start working on those again.

I know how you feel. So many models I started then lost enthusiasm for.

A few more Forge Fathers finished:


The Brokkrs look like construction workers-- work boots, equipment harnesses with wrenches and screwdrivers-- so I painted them as such. This guy seems to have lost his shirt somewhere, and is probably violating an OSHA protocol. I tried to give him stubble on his head, but it doesn't really show up. I'll need to go back and give him another pass or two with the glaze.



Another bald guy, this time with his shirt on. You can't see the stubble here, either.



This guy is apparently a welder. His arms don't quite align with the body-- I should have been more patient with the hot water bending. That said, you can't tell at arm's length, so I'll leave him be.



It was hard to get a good photo of this guy due to his bent-over position. He looks a lot like my dad with the receding hairline and ZZ Top beard.

Finally, a group shot:


These guys painted up pretty quickly. I have another identical set waiting in the queue, right behind the Asterian jetbike I have half finished. I hope to have that ready to share by the weekend.

Brilliant work bud, especially considering the size, excellent.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Brilliant work bud, especially considering the size, excellent.

Thanks. These guys are actually pretty bulky-- they probably consist of the same amount of restic (by volume) as any of the DZ human rebs.

Very nice, and the stubble on the heads actually looks quite good to me, subtle, but definitely there

Nice work on the Mantic minis. It's nice to see more people painting them.

Nice job with those Forgefathers Josh.
I need to get my ass in gear and try to get people in Kansai for Mantic. I just finished a 1st gen mutant that needs somewhere to play. Maybe if I show them your dwarves in space they'll be impressed and come to play.

M.

Slinky wrote:Very nice, and the stubble on the heads actually looks quite good to me, subtle, but definitely there

Thanks. I think I can make it more distinct the next time I try it, though.

Barzam wrote:Nice work on the Mantic minis. It's nice to see more people painting them.

I really like Mantic stuff, which is a good thing given how many of their models I have waiting to be painted.

Miguelsan wrote:Nice job with those Forgefathers Josh.
I need to get my ass in gear and try to get people in Kansai for Mantic. I just finished a 1st gen mutant that needs somewhere to play. Maybe if I show them your dwarves in space they'll be impressed and come to play.

M.

Thanks. I'm the only minis gamer up here, so it's not so difficult to get people to try Mantic games. The difficulty is the lack of players

Deadzone month continues:


Here's the Asterian jetbike I started about three months ago. It was a lot easier to work on the second time around. The edge higlights and OSL look much better at arm's length than in these photos.



A Forge Father mining laser.



And the engineer to drive it. This guy has some weird casting imperfections on his head which I painted as a combover. It's kind of hard to see in photos and in real life.

I have another set of Brokkrs started, and after that I'll be painting FF bikers.

loving your take on the mantic stuff mate. Especially the mining laser.

Beautiful work.

Thanks, guys. This has been a fun project so far.

Second verse, same as the first:





The starter sets from the first DZ kickstarter (and possibly the modern ones as well-- I may never know given that I have all the deadzone models I will ever need.) come with two of each model, meaning I have to paint everything twice. These guys went a little faster than the first set since I knew what all the little blobby restic details were. I got better results from the stubble this time around, but looking at the photos, I see that I need to hit the belts and pouches with a wash to deepen the shading a bit more.

As always, a group shot:


I have half of a booster set in the works-- bike, chief engineer, and bombot and driver-- about 1/3 finished. As always, comments and criticism are welcome and encouraged.

Those Forge Fathers are coming up pretty bloody nicely, Josh. They look like guys who do a lot of hours working construction in the hot sun.

Are they the restic ones or HIPS? I think I have both, but until I start my Squat project, probably in concert with Kharadron Overlords..

The steel warriors are hard plastic, the brokkrs are all restic. The latter have been easier to work with than expected-- the exaggerated features don't suffer from being cast in restic as much a finer details would.

I really like the forge fathers, really "natural" looking dwarfs. I particularly like the one with the welding face mask.

I think your choice of skin tone really makes them look like a group of hard laborers like Az mentioned.

Really love these guys, looking superb. Agree with folk, they look like they work for a living.

Thanks, everyone, for the kind words. When I first started this project, I didn't have any thoughts on their skin tones beyond not wanting to paint another set of caucasian models. That said, I am happy with the results. I always liked the idea of squats, but the execution-- both a fat space bikers and undersized IG--always fell flat. I think Mantic really hit the ball out of the park with these Space Construction workers.

Here are some more FF:


I've shown this guy before, but while painting the guys below, I finally realized that brokkrs are wearing chaps over their jeans. Once I saw what those lines really are, I couldn't unsee it, so I repainted his legs. I may or may not go back over the rest.



Here's the chief engineer. Sorry the photos are so dark. I switched over to an Android phone, and I'm still learning how to use it.



Another engineer, this time holding the remote control for the bombot there. His arms are amazing, like that guy who overdeveloped his biceps for Jesus.



Finally, a biker. Because space dwarves have to have bikers somewhere in the list.

Lastly, a group shot:



I have one more set identical to this one, but I'm going to take a little break. Next up, I will be painting some more models from Scythe for a friend, and at the same time I'll be working on the armored trolls from Dungeon Saga that have been taking up space since I lost steam on that project way back when. As always, comments and criticism are welcome and encouraged.

Very nice work.

love the Asterian jetbike, a great job on a very cool looking miniature!

Great job on these mate. Good photography too

I took a little break from DZ/WP models:



These two models are the heroes from the 5-6 player expansion for Scythe. Loyal readers of this PMBLog remember the other models in the set. These two were easy, if time consuming, to paint. I kept the glazes to a minimum this time around, focusing more on effective layering. I think they turned out well, although the blurry photos makes that difficult to believe. These guys came with four identical mecha models each:


I'll hand these off to my gaming friend this weekend. One day, I hope to actually play the game.

Speaking of playing, my son and I have been playing a lot of Dreadball since the second edition rules came out. DB has proven to be one of my favorite games, right up there with Frostgrave/Ghost Archipelago. My renewed enthusiasm inspired me to dig out my DBX models and get them ready to play:



The top photo shows the Glambek Ghosts, a team of extra-dimensional energy beings who can become immaterial. My son calls them "Power Men," which is a pretty good name. They are cast in translucent blue plastic, which we painted over with Mr. Color clear blue paint. I hit the crackly energy bits with a white highlight. I think the little ball in the front is supposed to be a prone model.
The bottom photo is the Sulentic Shards, a team of rock people. My son calls them "Rock Guys." They were cast in the same material as the Power Men, and I had intended to use the same clear paint on the crystal parts, but the paint on the rock parts blocks light from passing through, which killed the effect. I ended up going over those parts in turquoise instead.

Next up: the remainder of the Warlord of Galahir expansion for Dungeon Saga.

Scythe models look great, very effective paintjobs, and I am v impressed by the neatness of the lines on that kilt tartan!

Seriously good work here, really great stuff. As mentioned very neat and clean. Love the selection of models too.

Your painting is really hitting top notch standards Josh. You may have lost the clear plastic effect on the Rock People. But they still look amazing.

Wonderful stuff as usual.

Slinky wrote:Scythe models look great, very effective paintjobs, and I am v impressed by the neatness of the lines on that kilt tartan!

Thanks. The tartan was pretty simple, or rather I kept it as simple as possible. The poor lighting helps, I think.

Camkierhi wrote:Seriously good work here, really great stuff. As mentioned very neat and clean. Love the selection of models too.

Thanks to you as well. Those Scythe models made a nice change.

Archer wrote:Your painting is really hitting top notch standards Josh. You may have lost the clear plastic effect on the Rock People. But they still look amazing.

Yeah, I'm fairly pleased with how they turned out.

bbb wrote:Wonderful stuff as usual.

You are too kind.

After the previous batch, I thought I would spend some time finishing off the models that have migrated their way downstairs from the Closet of Shame into the Drawers of Shame. I got sidetracked pretty quickly from that, but not before I finished these guys:


These are the trolls from the Warlord of Galahir expansion for Dungeon Saga. I had to cut them off of their 50mm dungeon bases because a) the bases were badly warped and b) I want to use them for Kings of War if I ever actually play. I probably should have positioned them a little better on their bases, as they really don't rank up on the right side. Here they are with some of the other trolls I painted up last year:



Aesthetically, they match up well enough. I have at least six more trolls, maybe as many as nine, so these guys will add a little variety to the units.

As always, comments and criticism is welcome and encouraged. Next up, some apprentice wizards from Midlam.

Really love these guys. Great work.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Really love these guys. Great work.

Thanks, Cam. I enjoyed painting them. I rather like all the Dungeon Saga models, despite the complete lack of variety.

Back when I posted the last update, I had planned to continue/finish the models for that particular DS expansion. As it happens, though, I seem to have partially converted a local friend from (exclusively) boardgaming to miniatures. He bought a bunch of Frostgrave stuff, and I gave him a couple of badic painting lessons to get him started. That got me thinking about FG again, and inspired me to finally paint up these models from Midlam Miniatures. This particular set are all apprentices .


This is Confusius (they all have funny names), who is having trouble figuring out how to use a wand. The model doesn't have a lot of extraneous detail, and so was a breeze to paint.


This is Hattrix, who has a very large hat. I realized after I had finished her that she is dressed like Dr. Strange. I would have gone back over her leggings in black, but I spent a little too much time layering them.


This is Bookwyrm, tasked with carrying all the Grimoires. He has two pairs of glasses for some reason.


Explodio here is mixing potions, something you're not supposed to do, if I remember my AD&D correctly. My phone refused to focus on this model for some reason.


Toadini is wielding a toad. The model looks a lot like Matthew Lewis in the first couple of Harry Potter movies.


Scrollux has a lot of scrolls. I painted this model's robes in various browns in an attempt to make it look like a medieval scribe. Did it work?


Sanloss appears to have summoned something from a non-Euclidean dimension. It's hard to see in this poorly-focused photo, but he's bleeding from his eyes.

Naturally, an apprentice needs a master:

This very old Chaos Sorcerer has been sitting, unpainted, in a box for close to thirty years. I also started a couple of Bones wizards from the first KS, but for whatever reason they just don't appeal to me at the moment. They will languish, half-finished, until I find the inspiration to finish them.

I'm not really sure what to work on for the rest of the month. I need a project, but I just can't seem to settle on one. I'll brainstorm for a bit, and them maybe put up a poll for you , my loyal readers.

As always, I close with a group shot:


Comments and criticism are welcome and encouraged, as always.

Great stuff as always! Lovely job on that old sorcerer. And the apprentices are neat. i like the natural tones. Makes ‘em look poor and downtrodden, like all apprentices should be.

Valete,

JohnS