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Just wanted to share my holiday take on Barnabus Frost... and a few other BONES I've painted.

One of my DnD characters is a gnome paladin who rides a fey panther, since gnomes in plate armor don't go anywhere fast by themselves. I used the top half of 03441 Elliwyn Heatherlark and 92814 Female Lion as the panther. I sculpted the bottom half of the rider from greenstuff, and converted a horn into a lance. The pictures are a bit dark, I'll see if I can make some new ones using daylight tomorrow. The freehand star of Corellon on the shield was a disaster, this is after half a dozen tries and the paint was really beginning to add up so I left it like this. I also made a completely unrelated tiik warrior with muddy feet:

Starting off with my first Reaper Miniature in quite some time. Nadia of the Blade. A "quickie" which turned out quite nice.

Another metal/ plastic model from my 40k bitz box. Finally, got some paint on this one! Added a couple of purity seals and used a plastic body rather than the metal body that came in the blister pack. I also tried a checker pattern on the shoulder guard. Again, Citadel and Reaper paints were used in the making of this model. SK

I've also finished the Human Male Barbarian, from Otherworld Miniatures. Alot of brown on this husky northlander.

There is no defense against Ewok-Fu. All you can do is die at their fuzzy little hands. Back in 1983, I went to go see "Return of the Jedi" with a group of friends. Bill's girlfriend LOVED the Ewoks, whom she called "yub-yubs," since the word "ewok" was never spoken in the movie. Someone brought up the idea of what happened to all the dead stormtroopers who were killed in the battle. "I'd imagine the teddy bear people ate them," I said. Everyone looked at me funny. "What?" I asked. "They were about to eat Luke and Han before C-3P0 told 'em not to. And they were using their heads for a drumset during the final victory celebration. You saw it." Bill's girlfriend decided after that that perhaps she didn't love yub-yubs after all.

A while ago I got my hands on some greenstuff and went ahead and messed around with for a bit. The result is this guy, who emerged from the putty without any sort of plan beforehand. I did have an armature, but I had trouble getting the GS to stick to it and he ended up leaning backwards a little... There is actually a proper face under the mask but I didn't manage to get my camera to focus on it. His cloak could do with more detail but I was just glad it stayed on at the time. All in all, even with the occasional fingerprint, I think he turned out ok for a first time. I'm thinking of buying a dremel for next time since I had trouble with excess cured GS in some places that I couldn't really sand or carve very well. I also made this canine as an addition to another mini. I started with the head and went from there; I didn't really get the hang of fur until the tail, I think.

Sympathy like for your job problems, dispatchdave, not because of them. Also, your username makes so much more sense now. I hope things work out for you, and that you're able to find something soon (yes, actually soon, not Soon). It sounds like your company isn't long for this world, so I hope you're able to find someplace else before it goes under. On the subject of various painkillers, I'm the sort that handles pain well and generally waits to take them until absolutely necessary, but I practically lived off of ibuprofen while I had braces. Without it, eating was not lightly entertained, and sleeping was right out, in the first few days following an adjustment, which happened about every 6 weeks. On a happy note, I was able to have three friends over to my tiny apartment for a baking party. Much fun and messiness was had by all, and they even helped with the dishes afterwards! I also re-learned why baking while distracted is a very bad thing, but I did manage to salvage my batch of Rocky Road from certain doom both times. Huzzah! --OneBoot :D

I have now heard the entirety of the second movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (the furious one) played entirely on xylophones and percussion. It was an exhilarating rendition. I am strangely delighted.

Last citizen for Calamity for a bit, I'm about to do my road warrior routine for the next couple of weeks.

My own personal painting binge is continuing. I finished up three pieces over that last few days including this one last night: Here a group shot of these three finished minis There are more pictures on my blog at: http://www.wargamesandrailroads.blogspot.com/2013/12/citizens-of-calamity-three-more-finished.html

Well, I've started learning to paint. My first two minis were generic rats from the first Reaper kickstarter. They turned out tolerably decent for a first effort -- recognizable as rats anyway. But I was sorry to have picked such a tiny mini to start with. They're itty bitty. So here's my third mini, one of the denizens of the deep. BEFORE: After, profile: After, mug shot: The photos are a bit blurry in places -- I put the camera in macro mode, but it didn't handle the depth of field correctly. Base coat was a 2:1 mixture of sapphire blue and pure white. Wash of black ink, followed by dry brushing with a sort of mint green color which mysteriously appeared in the shipment from Reaper. It apparently has no name besides "MSP Sample". The underbelly is 1:1:1 fair skin, pure white, and the mint green. To get the mouth properly covered, I skipped the brush and just used the paint bottle dropper to deposit a drop of carnage red directly down his throat. The sandy base is a base coat of 1:1 tanned skin and fair skin, with a dry brushing of intense brown. The claws still need to be painted black, and the lure on his dangler should be bright yellow, but I lack both those colors of paint. I'll touch those up once I get my hands on some.

No wishlist function, though we continue to beg, plead, and make sacrifices to the miniature gods....

The eyes were difficult. One of them has a funny lump in it that I only noticed when painting. I did my best to work around it. I also started freehanding the skirt. I'll probably do more touchups there, just to make it cleaner.

Well, my gifter asked if they could send me cookies too, but my hubby is remarkably picky about what kind of cookies he'll eat and I didn't want to be stuck eating all the cookies... as well as my birthday cake (because my hubby was just eating the leftover pumpkin pie). My clothes need to still fit me after the holidays.

Oh dear. Poor HeroQuest 25th. Y'know. I hear there is a Nigerian Prince looking for someone to help him expatriate several millions of dollars. Apparently he'll be extremely generous to those who'll assist him. Perhaps the folks behind HeroQuest should seek him out. I'm sure I've got his email address around here somewhere...

it's been a while since my last update mostly because i'm painting some gw mini atm but her's a nice warforged for you: i've used him to test the gunmetal primer from army painter!^^ a close-up of the sword:

See, its looking at this that I realize that I think I spoiled my person. o.o too late to go back now.....

Now that I am done with the pirates I made the mistake of looking in the "show off" forums and ran across the Bridge of sorrows work from Metalchaos http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/47486-bridge-of-sorrows/?hl=%2Bbridge+%2Bsorrows Which then made me look at mine again (painted in the late 70's early 80's). It needed redoing so I have stripped the centaur, wizard, barbarian female and started again. The image is of the Centaur Knight with about 90% work done. I still need to work on some touch ups (curse those cameras) and the sword sheath. This is one solid all metal piece. The dragon and the bridge are quite heavy. Comments are appreciated.

It must have been good, but its over now It must have been funded, but it stoped somehow It must have been great, but its over now From the moment we pledged till the time had run out

And I think that is the issue right there. They do it because they can, and because they get away with it. It won't stop until there's a real threat of punishment.

Productive Saturday so far. Now, the wizard was all cool and great and then I tried OSL, and... well, it is my first try doing it. What do you think? C&C Welcome. The dwarf remaining is, in principle, the easier to paint, so I am confident in getting her done tomorrow. Then, final OSL, base, and run to the deadline!

hehehehehe... Here is the story. At the end of KS2 my 11 year old and I got to hang out with the Reaper peeps at the campaign party. Good times. While there my girl was fascinated with Sophie. She studied the studio figures in the gallery for a good while. All she could think about was how cool they are. I have to agree, the Sophies are cool. When KS1 was running I have to admit that the collection reward was tempting. I didn't opt in for the Sophies though. So while we were roaming the Reaper Game Store my kid finds a Liche reward box. She was stoked! "Dad! Look at all these Sophies! Do you think we can get 'em?" I looked them over and there was no pricing on it. Then told her that we are under strict orders to spend no more than twenty dollars. I put it back on the shelf and we enjoyed the rest of the party. The following Monday I called up Reaper and asked about it. It was still there. We negotiated a price for the set. I won't say how much, but it was more than the pledge reward price. Now I am putting the figures together. They will get based and primed. I already cut out cushion foam to fit the pistol case. It's going to be a fun Christmas when she opens her gift this year. :)

Alright, I'm really proud of this one so far, and wanted to get some pics up in case I accidentally screw up what I already have somehow. This is 77075: Khael Stonekindle painted up as dwarf Santa. Face, beard/hair, and reds are done. Greens and whites to be added, and then various browns for his accessories. Metallic accents will be in gold. Staff is supposed to be a pale wood of some sort, but needs a lot more work. Sorry for the crappy phone pics! The reds look pretty true to life, but the skin got a little washed out.

I can't see what you got (yet, stupid work VPN!), but sweet! I can't wait to log in at home and see your new toys. :) -Dave Reaper Golden Taklon brush (08594), a bottle of MSP HD (29825; Tusk Ivory), and the Bones colossal skeleton. Thanks! Not quite as good as seeing the awesome, but still much appreciated. -Dave ETA: I see it! Sweet! Feel my jealousy!

Here's the Kea-Griffon I mentioned earlier — I've shown it before in the WIP thread, but now it's actually finished. It doesn't really look much different visually from the last WIP stage, but now I've faired the wings in with the body (badly). Looking at it now I can see how I should have done it... but didn't. Live and learn.

MercNews Report Watchman Reporting MercNet HQ, Kaitos (2) Yet another Mercenary unit has has been observed operating on the outer fringes of standard "civilized" space. The observation was on a small barren planet beyond Fornax (160). It appears to be another company sized unit at this point. We are sending in a Sky High Observer Drone to obtain more detailed information on the force structure. Stay tuned on further developments.

I've spent the better part of today and yesterday working on this fine gentleman. The counterpart to the Sea Nymph from LTPK#4. I'm pretty happy with how he is coming along so far, though he still needs cleaning up. I still need to clean and highlight the crimson leather bits, finish the boots, give him lips and nipples, and decide whether I like the white sack white. It first I thought I would, but now I'm not sure... maybe a yellowish color would be better. The white is too white. I think the grey fur bits look better on the mini than they do in these pictures. Oh, and I suppose I should paint the ground, too. I liked painting this mini more than I thought I would. Probably because his bulkiness provides a lot of large flat surfaces which make things a little easier. A welcome respite after the sea nymph. Any comments are welcome! Thanks.

My western town of Calamity finally has some new, painted, denizens to populate it. This is the rest of the stuff I managed to finish before the end of the holiday weekend. Although there are 8 minis in the picture only 5 of them count towards the total. That brings me up 22 for the holiday weekend. Here's the group shot: left to right Wargames Foundry Rusty Dimmock, Reaper Female Huckster, Dixon Bystander, Black Scorpion Tombstone 5, Reaper Miss Scarlet, Reaper Female Huckster, Brigade Games Western Characters I (Gambler), Brigade Games Western Characters I (Bartender) Individual pictures are on my blog at: http://wargamesandrailroads.blogspot.com/2013/12/citizens-of-calamity-more-new-folks.html

Hey, folks! Those of you who attended Reapercon in 2013 may recognize this miniature, which was sold there, but has not yet been released for general purchase. It was sculpted by my good friend, Andy Pieper, who very kindly sent me one of them to paint. I have a WIP going in my blog, but these boards will give it more visibility. It is a truly beautiful figure that I want to share. You can read more about how Andy sculpted Coraline Thadington, Victorian Lady on his website. I wanted the base to fit the Victorian era of the mini, so I thought a formal garden path would work. The block will eventually be painted all black. The brick is plasticard, and the border is a piece of a coffee stirrer. The flowers are premade basing materials from my box o' stuff. I polished the mini using my Dremel with a brass-bristle brush. This saved me a lot of work with sandpaper, and didn't damage the fine details at all. I still had to do some hand filing of a couple mold lines and sanding of a rough patch on her face, but overall it was a very clean casting. The arm was difficult to pin, but not the worst I've ever had to do. I started by basecoating the dress with a very pale blue, then shading with navy and rust brown. I worked on the blues some more, using a mix of Clear Blue, a rust brown, and black for the shading, and a mix of white and True Blue for highlights. I also painted the bricks, because I didn't like looking at them unpainted. :-) I smoothed out the blues some more, using a minty greenish paint Reaper sent me as a free MSP sample with my last order of brush-on primer. I mixed that with white, and blended in the highlights, using some straight from the bottle to smooth down do the truer blue, then working the shadows with my previous shade mix. I started on her skin, using shades of pink, khaki/white, and pure white, and painted her hair chestnut brown, shaded with brown liner. I also painted the lace with khaki/white and pure white. I haven't decided what to do with the fan yet. What you see is just experimental coloring. I'm exploring some freehand ideas for the dress as well, though I might paint the eyes first.

Answered by Inarah a few pages back: Put in my 65 dollar order today for the Santa Mousling and stocking. Almost exclusively evil looking Dwarves. I have this idea for my D&D campaign that the duergar have formed a rough alliance with hobgoblins and are providing them with weapons of dark dwarven craft, so will need many of them for upcoming adventures. I wish there were more hobgoblin models.

It's nice of Reaper to run this. :) I had a large order queued up in my cart, so I am splitting it out in pieces this week...Phase 2 tomorrow. :) It does raise one question, though, if someone is moniotiring this. Is there a wishlist function somewhere so that I wouldn't have to delete and reenter things to adjust the cart?

Well ... I guess Gamezone weren't expecting a kind of Spanish Inquisition.

For those yanks not in the know, biscuits = cookies. And what's international shipping law when compared to the holiday spirit! -Dave Note, I do not advocate breaking the law for any reason. Do so at your own risk. ;)

Need to buy a new tree... but I'm waiting till after Christmas for that... (major specials and all) Agreed, we always buy lights after Christmas (and Halloween!). -Dave

And pictures! (I keep forgetting to go to the full version since I am posting from my phone, and then I don't want to loose what I have written) And colors used this time:

People just complain about way too much. Everybody gets angry when hollywood comes out with a new Superhero movie that doesn't completely mesh with our childhood Superman but they also complain when we get one that does. Nobody liked the Brandon Routh Superman Returns because it was too much like Superman 1 and now people are complaining about the Man of Steel because it's not enough like the 80's Superman movies. Doesn't make sense to me. I had my nice bright shiny Superman movies they were made in the 80's and starred Christopher Reed and when I want bright and shiny I go and I watch them. Frankly I am glad the new one is completely different because if it wasn't I wouldn't have a reason to love them both. The new movie has a few flaws but it is by no means a bad movie. Heck it had less flaws in it than Superman 2 and Superman 3. Seriously your symbol can be pulled off your chest and turned into a giant cellophane net to catch Zod and his buddies? Evil lady turns into a Robot and you fight her with Richard Pryor? Come on these movies had flaws, big flaws.

Oh man! I would have loved to hear that! I did some detective work, found an online playlist for the radio station, correlated the time, followed a few blank leads and found it! Gerald Gold reviewed the CD for the New York Times in 1991:

You're an extra jolly holiday elf, Mrs. M.

Glockenspiel or gtfo. They didn't say on the radio, but the sound was totally wood, not metal, peculiarly organic really, and it turns nothing evokes the softness of the soft woodwind parts like a gentle roll on a tuned block of wood. So xylophones, definitely. They had regular percussion too. The kettle drums and cymbals went a long way towards evoking the original orchestra sound. And at one key point I think they used a triangle, but it may indeed have been a glockenspiel.

well the world hasn't ended, and I'm in for the night, so I guess everything worked out on my end. Beethoven's Ninth on percussion. That sounds really very cool.

She has started painting some this year. We have been painting together when I can get her away from the wii.

I can't see what you got (yet, stupid work VPN!), but sweet! I can't wait to log in at home and see your new toys. :) -Dave

So, an official Thank you! to my Secret Sophie gifter! I got the package a couple days ago, but have been too busy to properly thank you. Here it is! (along with some junk on my ottoman) Very cool to have one of these guys, he's bigger than my hubby thought he would be. I'm going to have boil him, since he seems to be falling backwards, but otherwise he's in great condition. Also, thank you for the paint and brush Those are always more than welcome!

The Paintin' o' th' Bones continues, this time with a disgruntled and overladen hireling bearer. It's #77141: Townsfolk: Oswald the Overladen by Bobby Jackson. I have another one of these guys which I will paint in a slightly different colour scheme, and with another forehead-number, just to differentiate them. I'd like to be able to build a whole caravan of these exploited and heavily weighed down peons, ideally each one an individual, but for the moment this is the only one of his type that Reaper produces in their nice, cheap, plastic.

Next up in the Great Paintgasm of '13 is this cute little guy: Bones # 77038: Hell Hound. I think all that kerfuffle along its back is supposed to be flames, but I decided to paint them as bone spines, because that's just how I roll, folks. I live life on the EDGE!. Also, I'm not entirely sure what the rows of studs at hips and shoulders are supposed to be... demonic shoulder-nipples, maybe? Anyway, I painted them as metal bolt heads or something. The green colour scheme is less hell-houndy and more jungle-camoflagey, I think. It was a quickie paint-job, and it does show a bit.

Ok here is a full squad of imef marines... i'll give you the codenames guess who's who: Red sonja Firestorm Snowhite Nightwatch Average Joe White Crow