Hippolyta: Arm, Base

Finished her arm and started on her base. I should be able to get this wrapped up tomorrow.

Hippolyta: Cloak, Arm

I finished Hippolyta's cloak today, and got enough of the arm base coated and shaded so that I could glue it in place.

Next will be finishing the sword arm, then the base, then done!

Hippolyta: Cloak

This figure really doesn't photograph well. I think it's the ones with the fine, tiny detail that tend not to take to pictures well.

Anyway, I didn't have a lot of time tonight, but I got some work in on the cloak. I did the stole, and a layer of shadow on the main part.

Hippolyta: Armor, hair, cloak

I didn't get as far as I'd hoped; I wanted to glue her arm in today. I supposed I could have gotten there if I'd done the cloak, or at least that part of the cloak, instead of her hair.

Either way, I'm hoping to get her finished or mostly finished tomorrow.

Hippoltya: Skin, face, base coating

I dry-fit Hippolyta's sword, and decided it was sticking out from the figure too far for it to be safe to glue in place before the rest was done. Too much risk of breaking it off or bending the sword or something while working on the figure. So, I am going to finish the rest of her, then deal with her other arm.

So today I finished the skin and face, and base coated a bunch of the rest of it. Her face...the features are tiny, and somewhat indistinct. I may do more with it, or I may not. It looks OK from a gaming table distance, which might be good enough. I didn't notice how uneven her eyes are until I saw the pictures; I may have to take another look at that. It might be the figure and not me, as I'm pretty sure I didn't miss the eye sockets.

Hippolyta: Shading, Center Piece

I did enough shading on Hippolyta's legs and the inside of her cloak to be able to glue the center piece in today.

Next will be doing a bit of putty work on the join - there are gaps to be filled.

Hippolyta: More Base Coat. Goremaw: Maw

More base coating on Hippolyta. Not shown is the skirt piece. Next for her will be shading the inside of the cloak and her legs and boots.I'm going by the movie coloring for her since that's what the sculpt is clearly based on, and it's...very monochrome, all browns and golds. Have to see how that goes, it's not something I do typically.

I also spent some time on Goremaw, specifically his...well, maw.

I cleaned up the inside of the mouth so that everything was the color I wanted. Then I added shading and highlighting, painted the 'teeth' black, and then gave the whole thing a couple coats of gloss sealer so it looks wet and slobbery. When everything is done, if I remember I'm going to try a trick I've seen using glue to add strings of slobber. I'm afraid it'd be too fragile if I put that in now.

I'm debating going back to the airbrush with him. I'm finding lots of spots where the coverage is not as good as I'd hoped, I think it might help with cleaning up the orange, and I'm also thinking of using a darker purple in the shadows between plate ridges.

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Finished up the knight today.

I also worked some more on Hippolyta. Most of what I did was pinning preparation for her arm and skirt thingy, but I also got a base coat in on her cloak.

Knight: Everything but the base. Hippolyta.

Finished the paint on the knight today, and then I started building up his base. I glued some scatter and rocks to the base...and then set it aside for the glue to cure. Tomorrow I'll paint it and put some tufts and flowers on there. He's not my best work ever, but I like him.

I also started on my next small scale project. This is Hippolyta, the Amazon. I'm going to have to paint her in a weird order because of the pieces that will need to get glued on. There's an arm and a piece of her skirt(?) in the front that need to be attached, but there are areas behind those pieces that need to be painted first because after they are glued in place there will be no getting to what's behind them.

So, I think the way I'm going to have to do this is to paint her legs and the inside of her cloak, then glue the front piece on, then paint the outside of the cloak and her whole midsection, then put her arm on, then finish it. It will be a challenge to work in such a weird order.

Knight: Tabard

I'd been thinking I could completely finish the knight's tabard today, but...that was before I decided it needed freehand.

It's not too bad, I only have a little cleanup to do, most on the frilly bits of the sleeves.

Knight: Metal, Tabard

So, I finished the metals on the knight today, apart from whatever cleanup I have to do after working on the rest of him.

The green is going to need a couple more coats to get to a good base coat - it's very transparent. As for the metals, I like the shininess of them, and I like the colors of the gold particularly. The thinness of the paint does make them a little tricky to work with, though.

Knight: Shading Metal. Goremaw: Airbrush. Storage!

I did get a little actual painting in this weekend, but I spent most of my time organizing and rearranging my hobby supplies. Why? Well, my husband made me a brand new storage unit, custom to my specifications. So, I was moving stuff out of an assortment of plastic bins and into my new storage!

It's not completely done in that we are going to paint it and put hardwood veneer fronts on the drawers, but it's functional this way so I'm using it now, and we'll do the stuff to make it pretty later. Those are index cards on the front to label what's on each drawer. The thing on the wall to the left is a rack of small containers with bases. We're also going to add a second unit to the left, once I've worked with this one for a while and decide what kind of storage I need...bigger drawers, smaller drawers, or something else entirely.

As for the painting I did do, here's some shading on the metallics on the knight.

They need a little smoothing and I need to bring some of the metal back in a few places, but so far, so good.

I finally got around to testing my airbrush after taking it apart and giving it a thorough cleaning. Good news: it's working again! Bad news: I'm still bad at airbrushing.

I am pretty happy with how I did on the teal and purple. I got the purple shading where I wanted it. The teal blended well. I made some mistakes, mostly around forgetting about where the over-spray was going to go. Things went down hill with the orange, partly just due to my lack of skill, but also because I was working with an acrylic ink for the first time. I realized pretty quickly that I was not getting the look I wanted, so I stopped.

Knight: Metallic base coat

Got the metallic base coat on the knight.

These paints are very shiny, but also very thin in consistency and very transparent, even for a metallic paint. That's 4 coats in the picture.

Knight: Barely a Base Coat

Starting up a new figure. This has been in the 'ready to paint' box for a while. I meant to work on it for ReaperCon last year, but that didn't happen at all.Now I'm going to use it as a quick, fun piece before moving on to something more serious. I'm also going to use it to try out some new metallic paints that I got.

What's with the funky colors? Well, those areas are going to be metal - steel and gold. What's on there is just the under coat for the metallic paint.Metallic paints tend to be on the transparent side, so putting a colored base coat under them helps cover the primer and also gives a little bit of depth.

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First finished figure of the year!

There are various things that could be better, but I'm pretty happy with it overall. I'm also eager to move on to other projects.

Demon: Almost Done!

I continued work on the metals today, and mostly finished them up. I struggled with the gold quite a bit, and I'm still not happy with it. There are a few spots I'm going to go back and tweak. Too much line highlight, I think.

All that's left is whatever tweaking of the gold I'm going to do, and finishing his horns.

Demon: Metals

Continued on the metals. I finished the shading and started the highlighting. I'm not sure how much the highlights show in the pictures. They are on the silver parts of the necklace, the buckles, and the studs on the belt on his horn.