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I fell in love with this sculpt the first time I saw it. An enjoyable model to work on.

Have you ever had a model turn out almost exactly as planned? It almost never happens for me. This model is a rare exception. Comments and critique are welcome.

Here's Rowena the Barbarian Shaman 02805 with the gem skull on her wand projecting green light during an incantation. This model was sculpted by Ben Siens.

I recently completed the Piers mini for my Wizard in Pathfinder Society. Full set of photos here.

I love this sculpt. So very dynamic. I really wish I had stuck with traditional metals for the swords. I'm not sure why I went this route. I should have gone with the usual metallics with a touch of blood on the weapons. Cliche for Vampire minis I know but It does work I guess.

I was surprised how much fun I had painting this guy - grabbed him at the FLGS just because I needed something to paint predominantly green and he was about the only option other than goblins!

A couple of Water Weirds with basic paint jobs: Reaper Bones II 77310: Center Stage Miniatures 013:

The four mummies from Bones II. These guys were super-bendy - even after being boiled and iced 3 times. They shied away from every brush, file and knife that came near them, hence the intact mold-lines. Despite that, they were quick and easy to paint up - just primed in brown liner then 3 layers of dry-brushing topped of with a wash of AP Soft Tone.

Finished this earlier in the week. I tried something a little different with this one. I usually base coat using black, white or a combination of both. I went with a Walnut brown base coat this time around.

This mini had broken in our not so recent move (umm 17 years ago). I decided it was time to repair it, so awesome husband glued it together for me and I repaired the paintjob where it had flaked off. If someone knows who made it I would love to know for my records.

So, I've picked the majority of the items I'm keeping from the box. See them inside the Spoilers if interested. I'm waffling on 1 or 2 other items as well. GF

I was shooting for black and ended up with more of a dark blue. Ah well, i still like it. Comments and critique are welcome.

So, I'm kinda bummed, and just coming down from a lot of stress. Then I come here, and it's the same old randomness as ever. It makes me feel a lot better somehow.

Quick work because sometimes you just need to finish something. It's not special but for an hours worth of work its a pretty good concept mini. Sorry for the poor pics but it's all I had at the time,

Some tabletop Lemures from Reaper Bones II and Center Stage miniatures. In D&D 5th Edition, the lemure is probably the wimpiest monster in the whole book, I think a standard goblin can kill at least 20 of them. Reaper Bones 77326: Center Stage Miniatures 003:

Tabletop paintjob of the cool Iron Cobra sculpted by Andrew Pieper. Sadly there was a nasty mold line across the scales that I was unable to remove.

So these are my next three minis; an Archer Gnoll, A Warrior Gnoll, and an Ogre. I know it took long enough since my Dad posted my first minis(If you haven't seen them either search, " 14 year old girl paints some minis or go to this link-->http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/59637-14-year-old-girl-paints-some-minis/?hl=%2Byear+%2Bold+%2Bgirl+%2Bpaints+%2Bsome+%2Bminis). So feel free to be as criticizing as you feel necessary. . Sorry some of the pictures are blurry .

This is a bust of Rear Admiral John Adophus Dahlgren, United States Navy officer during the Civil War who initiated major advances in gunnery, as founder of the U.S. Navy's Ordnance Department. It is a digital print of a digital scan of the bronze bust displayed at the Main Gate of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA. The bust is sculpted by Theodore Augustus Mills (1839-1916). The digital print is about 2 inches tall. Dahlgren was of Swedish descent, with fair hair and blue eyes, though officers at his time used boot black to darken their hair. He had a small scar on his forehead.

Was a good day, surprise 35th anniversary party for my parents...it's hard to keep 40 people quiet about such for the weeks that lead up to today

This mini didn't really do so much for me at first but I thought why not paint it up anyway and see what happens. So I did and this happened...

got started on my hydra from KS1. Decided to go mordant hydra. Acid spitter. Thought it would be a nice change from the green and grey versions. So I blocked out the color sections. 9024 Amethyst Purple and 9248 Moth Green. Had just a few stray brush strokes. There are a few spots that will need cleanup before I start shading.

Had a great night at my parent's anniversary party last night. The knew something was up, due to my aunt overselling the reason to go to the restaurant, but they were still surprised. Much fun and merriment was had by all. Now I'm dealing with a sick child. Not sure if she ate too much or just happened to get a bug, but it has been a long morning. She's finally back asleep so keeping my fingers crossed.

*tackle hugs Shadowraven, Hobbes style*

Finished up the back of the shawl, yesterday. Forgot to photo it. Well, I plan to get some more painting in so I post it later. I blocked in my tentative color for the belt & boots. I also put down a yellow coat for the area I plan to paint up gold. And I also put down a base coat for the wood of the staff. The plan is to paint the top of the staff as crystal (most likely blue).

Yep just what the title says. Here it is eating my Ranger Adoan Meadoart.

Can be, because of the moisture in the air, wind, &c. I know I've frozen my fingers on a 55° night on the quarterdeck with the ship berthed on a river, and I've been uncomfortably warm and had to strip layers on a 55° day inland, camping. The thermometer doesn't always tell the whole story.

I understand some people actually live there. Under the snow, I assume. Me, I've got class... well, a class. Shipboard Security Training.

Bleurgh. I think I overdid it a little bit exercising yesterday. I feel awesome! And sore. But mostly awesome (because I'm actually exercising). Huzzah! --OneBoot :D

You're still not getting my Bud Light. that's okay. I like beer

We think you're awesome too, Tim :D

So, I've gotten a first sift through the box. Mail arrived about 5 minutes before the first member of my Saturday D&D group arrived. Barely had time to post the post in the other thread before hand! So, the first thing I did was wait for the other players so the box could be opened and perused together! Awesome stuff! I may have a few tough decisions in the near future!! GF

I think I like desert-set fantasy a lot more than I ever realize. Result of a childhood obsession with Dune?

Thanks all! I tried the brush on sealer- it's still fairly matte, but I'll add a layer of gloss medium later and see if that works. I think I'll go ahead and enter her over on CMON just so I don't run out of time. I probably do need to tighten up the painting on the rocks... maybe tomorrow! In the meantime... I has a new plan!! I found a use for my pumpkin man! The sign will read something like hole #? sand trap, and I'll set it up like he's dug himself deep! Title: Four! I have to admit, I just was going to paint the head as an example for my skintone class, but I love this sculpt so much I couldn't put it down. The tartan is only blocked in, so ignore the messy freehand. I'm having fun playing with the shaded metallics, though. I used honed steel, blue liner for shadow and highlighted with polished silver and pearl white. I'll do some Celtic tattoos when I finish blending and highlighting the skin. The skin is walnut brown, russet brown and chestnut gold. I might have to glaze some purple into it. edit: Krulebear- I always feel like I can't reach the base if I finish too much above it, so I tend to add them last. Sometimes I do have to fiddle with the colors, especially if i can't remember what I used...

I painted this mini about 25 years ago with Testors, and I was very very proud of it at the time. So proud I brought it to my first GenCon for the painting competition. When I got there, I realized the paintjob really wasn't that great compared to the top entries. I guess that scared me away from painting competitions until I started entering the very friendly competitions here on the Reaper Forums a couple of years ago. This then gave me enough courage to enter 3 figures at ReaperCon last year, where I got a silver, yay. Enough rambling, here is the Grenadier Manticore from long ago (SKU65) Edit: Added some tags

No painting time yesterday, took a basic drawing class. I want to start branching out into 2D painting, and I'm starting with the fundamentals of pencil sketching. It's going to be a loooong hike. On the other hand, I was happy that my still lifes were turning out better than the gallery owners because she was drawing the shapes as she learned in school and I was drawing the lumpy, misshapen versions on the table! Anyway. This afternoon was paint time! I made some decent progress on El Deadpimp, and check out the schnazzy leopard print on his pimp coat! Yeeeah! Now on to the metals and final details. To be continued...

Hours 21-23: Finished dark lining the scales and started micro-highlighting* the scales on the left side. I still have a lot of highlighting work to do. *highlighting each scale.

Ah sweet wonderful D&D.... how I love and miss thee. We had a good game last night, lots of RP, plenty of silly, and a Quest for our two little level 1 characters to undertake. We've also found out what the other is (half-ifrit for my character and half-leprechaun for the other, though mine doesn't know what a leprechaun is). Once my character learns what a leprechaun is, we can be all like, oh so we have wishy stuff in common, even better that we travel together, we can watch each other's backs. Though, the way Hubby set up our characters, neither of us can grant any wishes until 9th level. Hopefully that will keep people from trying to kidnap us for a while The half-leprechaun is interesting. One of her racial things is that her magic has a percentage chance to miscast, so when I heard that I go "Wait, she's not going to explode is she? " Thinking of Buglips and the Exploding Wild Wizard of Doom. "I'm gonna stay away from her is she's gonna explode!" But no, Hubby hates wild magic and the half-leprechaun is not going to explode. "Whew! I like this character..."

Could have been worse, they could have been in my bank account!

Spent a fun evening at the phone store getting my account sorted back out. All four lines suddenly went to emergency calls only, had to physically go to the phone store since I couldn't call anyone. Someone in NY managed to hack my account change the address, change the primary phone and walk out of the store with 4 brand new iPhones. Everything has been reset and passwords changed and a secondary password added to my account. When I call the T-mobile fraud unit on Monday those four phones will just become paperweights which sort of saddens me because the perps, I'm sure, will have already disposed of them. You would have thought that all kinds of flags would have gone off in the store with 1) a sudden location change of CO to NY, 2) changing the primary contact with a name that does not even remotely match the others on the account, 3) getting new iPhones that would have made for a total of 5 iPhones on an account with only 4 lines. I then spent the rest of the evening changing passwords (and no, I don't use the same password for everything) on all of my accounts because they had to have access to at least my primary email account to pull this off.

Yeah, its gonna be cold here in the artic confines of Denver. Only a high of 63° today. Might have to grab a jacket. Can't wait for it to get warm. Sorry, was that too cruel, or just enough?

For the March bonus challenge I found my old Dwarf on Stilts figure. This figure is among the very first that I ever bought for myself. I think I painted it when I was about 10 years old back around 1982ish. I used Testor enamel model paint on it. I always thought he was using the stilts to walk through water for some reason. The Bonus challenge said paint a figure as a LEPrecon from the Artemis Fowl series. Looking into that I found out that one of their rules is to 'travel over water whenever possible'. Thus I present to you, Corporal Dermin Stormbrow of the Lower Elemental Planes Police (LEPP) fording a pond near a waterfall on stilts. This was my original paint. My repaint. Note his shoulder patches, enlarged in the last panel (printed and glued). I searched for the origins of this figure and found only this, which is different. Dwarf with Inferiority Complex DF434 by IronWind Miniaures (old Ral Partha)

It took forever, but I'm finally ready to call this guy done! Originally my plan had been to finish him in time for last year's Giants contest, but well, he sat neglected for a month or two as the holidays were super busy. This was the largest most involved figure I've ever painted. He was a real challenge, in many different ways. From the endless teeth and bones to paint, to fighting with the snow to get it looking how I wanted, to even photographing him at the end. A big thanks to Michael Proctor for his painted versions, as they were a huge inspiration and helped me sort through all of the details on this guy. If you're curious, I did do a sporatic WIP for this figure here. I wasn't very good at keeping it updated though. I did take notes on the colors I used, so if you're curious about anything, feel free to ask!

So here is what NightyKnight (my oldest son) and I took: I took: - Echidnox - The Magic the Gathering Basilisk - A bones goblin - Blue Moon Alchemist Lab - The Spartacus bottle - Candy - Chains (some of which may be making an appearance in a mini I'm sculpting right now) NightyKnight took: - 2 Rohirrim - Urk-hai pike soldiers - Bones Mummy - Bacon flavored cocoa I'm still working on what I am adding to the box and have to find time to paint the good knight. NightyKnight came up with a great addition though, but...no spoilers. Andy

Some of us are a hair away from cannibalism because all the food trucks are still stuck in Nova Scotia on account of sea ice.

Also, here we go... *turns the tablet off, backs the car out of his parking space, heads for the Wawa by the highway*

Shopping List: Fully operational police box so I can go all wibbley wobbley through space and time and attend RCon and my daughter's recital simultaneously. I'd even be fine with a transporter so I can just step out for a couple hours on Saturday.

Its today, its today, ITS TODAY!!!

And a few more,

I never saw the third Mummy installment, but I must've watched the first two (and George of the Jungle) a hundred time. Brendan Fraser's a-ok in my book. Next AP I want to play/pick up is Mummy's Mask. This is mostly unrelated. And I think I'm out. Peace.

Thanks! I really tried to do them like you do but I could not grasp it. I am thinking of tracking you down at con and have you demonstrate. Little, by little, things are getting done. I did the calculations and I actually think I can get everything done. I only have a few small updates for today and I need everyone's opinion on the diorama mock-up. First we have two bases, Magda's and Tinley's. Magda's is as done as it can be for now. Once she is on it, it will get some snow and icicles. Tinley's wall is done and the rose vine is painted black. Next step will be the actually color on the rose vine. I did some more work on the DS mini and actually got her face done. You will note the her torso is a different color then her skin, the model is sculpted topless but I am painting is as a skin-tight top. I am going to try to do a herringbone design to give it texture but we will see if I can pull it off. Now on to the diorama. I sculpted the walls with air dry clay, painted them black, and hit them with some technical paint. I built a bookcase, desk/table, shelf, and bench. I got some color on both minis but not much. Below is the layout that I am thinking of. I leaning towards the title ,The Messenger" or the "Message" because you if you look closely the female mini has a scroll in her hand. So the story is the the knight has arrived to either deliver or pick up a message from his queen, hence the kneeling. What do you guys think? Any input would be greatly appreciated.