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Beautiful work... again... Paradigm.

Call it a Kitten. And excellent work

Nice work on the Elf Prince. Top work as ever.

EDC

Nice stuff, I like the free guild, nice paint jobs and the sculpts are good too, lots of character and they fit in quite well with the empire stuff. The Aelf prince turned out nice as well.

Great stuff Para! Love that Freeguild sarge, and the rest of them for that matter.

The elf is fine too. I mean aelf. Hmm.. in terms f suggestions, not sure.. maybe he could be a bit more shinier, since he is an aelf, and a prince no less. It may just be the pics but in the group shot, the horses barding looks a shinier than the aelfen prince's armour.

I'm sure you can do it in a way that still keeps him quite gritty and in line with the rest of your stuff. Either way, he still looks great even as is. Keep it up!

Thanks folks.

ckig, I had the same thought last night, and so shiny-ed him up a bit, the result is in my eyes a significant improvement:


At first it might not look like much has changed, but partcularly on the legs and shoulder armour the plates are much more defined and the visual impression much more striking.

Ustrello wrote:Since you live in a dorm (assuming here) how do you find it painting models at college? Especially if you got a roommate.

I share a flat, but I'm in a room to myself, so it's no trouble at all really. If I've got an essay on the go my painting area might get swamped with books instead, but I'm not painting when that's the case anyway! I'm lucky as the room I'm renting actually has a really good amount of desk space, a comfortable chair and a daylight lamp installed, so it's actually almost easier painting here than on my creaky old stool and tiny cluttered desk at home!

That makes sense, I am getting a dorm this fall and have a roommate so I think painting may be out of the question for me during school. But then again my grandma lives 5 minutes from the campus so maybe I could set up something there

Stealing Grandma's kitchen is an amazing idea. I also prefer the improvements on the Prince, definitely looking better for it.

No hobby progress worth showing, I have got the Handgunners to a playable size and a couple more Halberdiers done, but I think I might as well wait until the units are done before showing them off.

Instead, I'm here to shamelessly plug! I've just posted up a new and revised draft of my Fantasy Skirmish ruleset. Long-time followers of the blog will remember I toyed with this about a year ago but quickly ran out of steam with the project. Now, it's got a new title, massively expanded sections on things like terrain and missions, and is altogether shinier! I'd hugely appreciate it if anyone could take the time to have a look and maybe even a playtest (it's designed for any and all Fantasy miniatures, and you only need half a dozen a side, so I'm sure most of you have what you need! ).
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/691387.page#8664883

Please feel free to post any feedback down in that thread, I really want to get something proper out of the project this time and I can only do that with your help!

I'm really liking the most recent Empire models you've painted. And thanks for the mini review of the MOM stuff; I'll be looking at getting some of their kits once I have a bit of disposable income.

I'll have to take a look at the rules if I get half a chance.

Elf boss is pretty suave too.

Nice improvement on the elf! It does make a difference

I'll take a look through the rules but I don't game much so not sure how much feedback I can offer

I'm back! Apologies for the extended hiatus, been busy with exams and the following move back home, and painting progress has been a little hindered by a complete playthrough of the Mass Effect trilogy (maybe a third of the way through ME2 now, these games are so great!).

I did get to put some paint to model in the last couple of days, though, and while I work out where I'm going next on the AoS/40k/BMG/Marvel fronts, I went for something a little different. Marvel recently released a large-scale figurine collection magazine in the UK, and with the first issue being only about £4 or so, I decided it might be a nice change of pace to grab that and give the model a little spruce up (read: complete repaint!) So without further ado, a 1:16 scale Iron Man:




Very happy with how this turned out, my first go at a large-scale model, a test of how my metallic methods work on larger pieces and overall, far cooler than the original factory paintjob which basically amounted to 3 colours applied in roughly the right areas... The model itself was reasonably detailed, though the 'metallic resin' it's cast in was at first quite resistant to primer. Still, the final product I'm pretty pleased with.

More stuff coming soon, I have a couple of commission pieces on the way and will be cracking on with AoS and 40k shortly, as well as maybe working on some actual scale models and/or finally learning how to airbrush.

Thanks for looking, any thoughts welcome!

That looks super sweet mate, The only thing I would say is that the eye sockets seem a bit dark?

Needs more booze and supermodels.

I agree that the eyes/brow does look a bit dark. Not sure if that’s just the lighting.

Yeah, I think some of that is the lighting (the head is inclined forward, so casts more of a shadow than you'd think) and some of it is his eyebrows blurring with the sockets. I'll clean it up at some point, though. Cheers chaps.

Lovely work. It might just be me or the skin tones feel a bit plain. I could be making that up however

Amazing model, especially for a first attempt at a larger model.

Nice work on Tony there. Do you have a pic of the original (from the web, even?)

Ta chaps.

The original looked like this:


Serviceable as a shelf piece, but really just the red, gold, silver and face painted on flat and with no real depth. Some of it was a bit sloppily applied too, there was a fair amount of overspill across the panels. I considered just working from that basecoat, but in the end decided to prime and start over to get the finish I was aiming for.

The face I kind of played it safe on, maybe too much if it looks flat; I didn't want to be highlighting as much as I would, say, a Space Marine face as it's many times the size and would look completely unnatural, so it was a bit of a stab in the dark in terms of how far I should actually go with it. I figured I was better off doing too little and letting natural light/shadow do its work rather than overdo it and leave him with a monstrous overhighlighted look.

Very cool!

Cheers.

Continuing on the comic book theme, half of my current commission, the Arkham City version of Batman. I've been wanting to paint this more comic take on Batman for a while now, and will definitely be picking up this model for my own collection at some point.


Up next (probably tomorrow), a much more obscure character, Catman... yes, there is a Catman... no, I didn't know about him before the model either! Cool mini, though.

In the mean time, any thoughts welcome! Ta for looking!

Catman. .. does he wear a Michelle Pfeiffer-like bodysuit? Lol. If so that's.... kinda haunting!
Anyway-
Nice work on the Dark Knight. Looks broody and grim

Batman. I freakin love Batman. Not even Ben Aflect could change that.

yes, Yes, YES!!! lovely work Para

Catman...wasn't he like a boxer/vigilante maybe associated with black canary or something? I think he was in one of those justice league cartoons.

Catman is from the "Fairly Odd Parents" cartoon... voiced by Adam West even!

Surely Catman is asleep 90% of the day so misses an awful lot of crimes?

Love Batman, how many iterations of him have you painted now?

Nice work on Stark as well, those opening issues of such magazines are usually worth a punt.

Thanks fellas!

@AoV and Grim:No bodysuit (thankfully), just yellow spandex (lesst hankfully) and a pretty impressive cape. He started out as almost a Batman parody if I recall, then DC reinvented him as a more bloodythirsty anti-hero, he's become a member of the Secret Six (a villain squad led by Bane) and in the game will work for basically anyone except Joker. Not to be confused with Wildcat, who is the boxer-turned-vigilante and friend of Black Canary that Grim mentioned (and who also turned up in Arrow).

@Thraxas: This is only the second Batman I've done, the first being the Arkham Knight version almost a year back. I've tried to avoid duplicates in my collection, but at some point I'll definitely be grabbing this Arkham City version for myself it's a lovely sculpt.

Really nice job there. And he's probably tne best version in game, so one for the wish list, certainly

More Gothamy Goodness today!

Up first, the aforementioned feline vigilante that no one's ever head of, Catman:


The low pose makes him a pain to photograph well, but overall I'm pleased (and more importantly, the client is), and it was a fun model to paint, full of motion and with a solid presence.

And next up, one for my own collection, Batwoman. Great model (although an absolute pain in the Bat-backside to put together... no, KM design team, on a model with a cape like that, halfway up the opposite leg is not a suitable load-bearing contact point!) and gives me a pretty much complete Bat-family, at least until KM hurry up and give us Batwing. I've really not read enough with her in, but she's a fascinating character, quite unique among the Bat-folks while she's inspired by Batman himself, she has no real personal connection to him and operates more autonomously than, say, Batgirl or Robin. She's also quite the badass in the game, one of the few Sidekick characters I'd consider letting lead a team in her own right.


That's all for today, Batwoman is the first in a quite large BMG/MUMG order, so over the next few days I'll also be tackling new Deadshot, Gambit, Vision and the Arkham Inmates set. Any thoughts welcome!