Vin: Skin, Face, Hair

 I made some good progress today. I finished Vin's skin, face, and hair. Definitely need to come up with a plan for holding this figure moving forward. Also, I now need to start making some decisions on color for her clothing.

Vin: Shading. Sorceress, also shading.

 Did the second round of shading on Vin's skin. It needs some cleanup.

Also did a first round of shading on this sorceress. It's pretty subtle.

Sorcerer & Sorceress base coating

 I didn't have a lot of time tonight, but I got in some base coating. I covered up the glued and puttied area of the sorcerer. There's a fair bit more surface texture than I'd like.

And a base coat of skin color on this lady:

Sorcerer, Vin, Others

 After gluing the sorcerer's other arm on, it became clear it was going to need some putty on the joint. So, I started with that today. This dude is on the hairy edge of turning into a right mess. I'll need to re-prime and re-base that section of his robe, and there's going to be some texture to deal with.

I also got a first layer of shadow on Vin's skin:

I'm going to have to come up with a solution for a holder for her.

And last, some new figures came in the mail today and there were a couple I felt interested in, so I cleaned them up and primer them. Because having a lot of projects going at once always works out for me. Totally.

These are going to be my 'when I don't feel like working on anything serious' projects.

Sorcerer: Robe

 Worked on the sorcerer today. I started on the base coat of the robe and meant to finish that area, but doing the other arm separately was not working for me. So, I did a shadow coat of area that would be hard to paint once the arm is glued on, and glued it on. I might regret that later, but for now I'm happier working on it.

Sorcerer & Vin

 I got back to <gasp!> painting figures today. I did shading and highlighting on the sorcerer guy I started a while back, and base coated the skin on the figure for the scenic base I've been building, who I'm going to call Vin. Even though I'm not going to paint her to look like Vin.

There's the sorcerer and his not-yet-attached arm. His eyes are not great. I'm also trying Scale 75 paints on this guy. So far, so good. I think they've got a little more vinyl than Reaper, but not a ton more. They also don't need nearly as much thinning to get to a level of transparency I like for blending, which is interesting. Generally I'm used to skin tones, particularly light skin tones, being pretty opaque. 

And Vin.

Painting her, I'm finding a lot more casting issues than I remember. Luckily, most of them are on hidden areas, so it mostly shouldn't show. 

Painted Sword & Railing

 I meant to just do a bit on the cathedral base and then switch to painting an actual mini, but...it didn't go that way. I textured the railing and painted the sword instead. The good news is, for now the base is done. I could clean up the black edging maybe, but I'll probably have to do more of that once more is glued in place, so I'm going to wait and do it all at once.

Here it is without the railing, so you can see the sword. I did not do a stellar job on this NMM, as it's not going to be very visible anyway.

And here's with the railing dry fit in place. I don't love the difference in texture between the wall and the railing, but I'm not sure what to do about it. I could have speckled the railing with paint instead, but I'm not sure that would have been better, just different in a different way.

I'm definitely going to have to putty the bottom of the balusters when they are fixed in place, so there will be some repainting around there when that happens. But in the meantime, I need to focus on the figure for a while.

I'm also starting to wish I'd painted that frame for the window black.