6!

Yes, it's been a bit. I was without internet for  few days. I was still painting, though.

First, finished off Hellakin.

Also got some paint on Jeannie. I'm going with darker skin and hair on her to make my life easier with the OSL. In OSL, the light source should generally be the brightest thing on the figure. That's harder if you use light colors for the figure. Next for her is either going to be placing highlights and shadows from the flame, or base coating her boots and loincloth so I can place highlights from both light sources at once.

And, the barbarian. He's been primed and is starting to get a base coat. He's probably going to end up with a kilt-like thing so I can practice textured cloth again.

Last, I started on the 5th head for the diorama. This is Verocithrax...at least, his head. I'm going to go brighter with the highlights.

Hellakin, Barbarian, Jeannie

I shaded and did highlights on Hellakin's armor. It's studded, so last thing I'll go back and make the studs metallic. I also put a base coat on his cloak.

He's coming along pretty well, by which I mean 'quickly', because...

I pinned and glued Jeannie's other arm and spear on today. That was a delicate operation because the pieces are so thin, but for once I didn't screw it up. She's ready for paint.

I also glued the barbarian's sword arm on. Less of a delicate operation because it's so much larger. Still, I'm going to have to be more careful with him now. His sword is very, very thin, and so going to be extremely prone to bending and eventually breaking if I'm not very careful with it.

He needs pins in his feet next.

I also build up his base some more. That's probably how I'm going to leave it, at least for now. It needs to be primed next. I will probably wait for a warm day and hit it with spray primer.

If I get adventurous, I may carve out a channel on that left side and see if I can run a little stream through there.

Hellakin: Pants, Armor. Barbarian: Base.

Continued work on most everything today, though the barbarian and Jeannie still look the same. For them it was just more cleanup. Tomorrow they'll both probably get their unattached bits glued on.

Hellakin got his pants finished, the hair on his feet finished, and a base coat on his armor.

And I started putting together a cork base for the barbarian. It's going to have more built up on it before it's done.

Heads, Hellakin, Jeannie

First, Hellakin has hair now, and his skin has been shaded and highlighted. The eyes are done, they just don't show up very well. Both are half covered by hair. Yay!

Also finished putting together the 4th head. Here's the bunch together. I like 'em!

And, here's Jeannie, who will be an OSL practice project. I still have some prep work to do with her before moving on to paint.

I did work on the barbarian, but it was just putting on sealer to fill in rough spots. He looks the same as he did yesterday. I have to decide what I'm going to do for a base for him so I can give his feet an appropriate treatment next.

Projects New & Old

I worked on wrapping up an in-progress project, and starting some new ones today. It's hard for me to keep more than 2 projects going at once, so chances are at least one of these new ones will fall by the wayside.

First, Ebonwrath's head for the diorama:

This is my least favorite of the heads. I'll take a second look at him tomorrow and if there are no changes I want to make, he'll go on his plaque.

Next, things I'm starting. This is Hellakin. He'll be a for-gaming Bones piece. Since the other pieces I'm starting are going to take some time to ramp up as I clean them up, prime them, determine basing, and so on, I'm hoping I can get him done or mostly done quickly while prepping the others.

This is Barbarian of Draco from Ares Mythologic. He's a 54mm piece. I'm doing him because I want to get some more practice in at the larger scale before getting to the figures for the diorama (which are also 54mm), and work on a male larger scale figure as well. He's cast very nicely. I didn't have a whole lot of clean up to do with him. A few mold lines. There was a rough spots that I needed to fill in as well, and one of the leather strips in the front needed some repair. Next I'll go over him with some sealer to smooth the remaining rough spots that I couldn't get with files or knives.

I have one other piece I started, but don't have pictures of. It's one that I primed before and have just pulled out of my 'primed figures' box to use as OSL practice. I just started setting up a base for it today, which will be quite simple. Pictures of that tomorrow, perhaps.

I need to OSL practice as I just agreed to teach it at ReaperCon this coming year...so, I need to work on it, and work on being able to break down how I do it.

5!

Finished Mirri tonight. Yay! The blade of the sword still isn't wonderful, but I'm much happier with it in the lighter color.

The white spots are dust. She seems to attract it like a magnet.

Mirri: Metal

I got a late start tonight, so I didn't get that far. I worked on her gold and steel. The gold is good enough, but I'm not at all happy with the blade of her sword. I think that since I'm using the same colors as I used to highlight the cloak it's causing me some issues. I'm probably not going to change that, but I plan to go back and redo the blade with a lighter base and see if that brings in more contrast. The assorted buckles I'll probably leave as-is.They're barely visible anyway. Of course, if I did them with a lighter base, I suppose they might show up more...