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I suddenly find myself gainfully employed. I'm... I'm going to have to wear PANTS again! (lol just kidding, that's what skirts are for ) It's a temporary, full-time data entry job of some kind, working for the county health department. I'll get the full details when I go in for my first day today, but I believe it's pandemic-related. It'll be a good way to ease back into productive society again. Plus money, money is also good. Huzzah! --OneBoot :D

Hi everyone, Here is my vignette featuring the Blacksting Wyvern hunting down a 500MD helicopter. This is a little project I had fun with recently. i painted the Blacksting Wyvern from Bones a bit more than a year back and was quite happy with it collecting dust on my shelf (original post: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/86236-blacksting-wyvern-speed-paint). Then, I stumbled across a 1/48 helicopter model I had almost forgotten about. 1/48th scale does fit nicely with 28mm heroic scale. The creatives juice started flowing and I decided to make a surprise encounter between the modern warfare machine and the legendary beast. I experimented as well with epoxy resin + food coloring for water, tree bark (for rocks), a couple of random 3D-printed broken statues/rubbles and toilet paper plaster for the terrain. I didn't have a clear acrylic rod for the flight stand, but wooden dowel painted black blends OK. I also forgot how much fun it is to build and paint plastic models. It is both similar and very different from miniatures painting. I'm quite happy with the result even though I could have been neater on a few places and it is a bit big for my light box. C&C appreciated

These were WIP for a long while at my local Paint Club, before C-19. Sat idle for a while until WFH for self and family settled and I could wet a brush again. Yes, these are benchtop phone photos, nothing special, and the base edges need cleaned up. Still, pretty happy with how they turned out. Looking forward to fielding them for Counterblast tabletop games and RPG (coming SoonTM as an officially licensed Savage Worlds setting). The main 9 and Azhro Rider are all by Bombshell Miniatures, while the 'tiny, but fierce' Andromedan is by Reaper.

I'm partial to Warhammer style goblins, with triangular ears, large noses, etc. My favorite mini is a goblin banner bearer from Warhammer 40k back in the 90s, that my friend painted up and named "GrimGrubGrot" which has become the name of several goblins throughout my D&D playing days. I'd dearly wish to have a miniature of this figure, though: Whenever I'm painting real life animals, I try to look at real examples and match them. I do the same for things like lycanthropes. Here's a few examples:

B:GCC - Arkham Asylum adds some more characters as well as missions in the infamous Arkham Asylum and Joker's Fun House. No real rhyme or reason for the figures that I painted other than their location in the box. Clayface posing as the Joker. I probably could have done a little more with his face. Dr Hugo Strange, not to be confused with Dr. Strange. Tweedledee and Tweedledum. I'm happy with the color on these guys. I wasn't sure how to paint them at first, but these colors work well for insane comic book characters. Joker's gang (with hammers). The mouths did not come out as good for some. I'm ok with that since they are henchmen and crazy. The face paint is likewise pretty "off", but it works given the situation.

This one's a conversion I came across on a blog a few years ago, a blogger named Bizzarewarstar was doing a LotR Moria shaman.

I prefer to use real life color schemes if I am painting animals. I did a trio of wolves over the weekend. I've done lions and tigers and owlbears. The chimeric ones can be a challenge sometimes. I like to use colorful small reptiles as the basis for dragons. I'm currently using this image as inspiration for something:

First half of the day has gone well. I immediately hit it off with another temp who is as crazy about alphabetizing stuff as I am, and we've been having fun commiserating about terrible filing we've had to tidy up after. Mostly what I've been doing is sorting and filing papers. There is a ridiculous amount of paperwork bring processed right now, what with test results and consent forms and contact forms etc. etc. There are crates with file folders in them all over; one of the break rooms was even turned into a records room, which is where I'm working today. There seems to be a fair bit of "left hand not doing what the right hand is doing" with regards to keeping things organized, but I think my skills will be helpful in that regard. I'm on lunch right now, and I'm not used to having an entire hour, lol. It is nice to sit down for a bit, though (and take my mask off; everyone wears one basically all the time here since we're all moving about). Huzzah! --OneBoot :D

Blue crab, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callinectes_sapidus didn't quite nail it but I had the picture open while I was painting these four.

Smol strawberry! Huzzah! --OneBoot :D

I’ve seriously considered that for my first day back in the office, I should show up in a pair of pink bunny pajamas. But... I have never met the new team in person, and security at the front desk... so... nah.

I do any time I'm painting an animal, or at least I try. And once I've tried to paint a specific animal: That was my attempt at painting our cat Marty (before she passed away).

I suppose the closest I've come to that is with my Owlbear. One of my minis I'm currently painting has a falcon, but I haven't gotten that far on 'im.

I have a few favorite mini makers. G/W's old plastic Night Goblins are probably my all around favorite. They are WONDERFULLY silly & very easy to do conversions/kit bashes with. Reapers offers variety; Freebooters are classy; AND Rackham/Confrontation are really strange. There really are too many just to have a favorite, but I do like my Goblin Faerie Folk & the homegrown Squig that is my avatar. Thanks for the question AND all the "likes"...the emotional boost/support is greatly appreciated.

I used pictures of real horses to paint my herd. (over 75 at last count)

If I'm painting a real animal, I will look up pictures to get a good idea of what they look like (unless it's something everyday like a horse or a dog etc.). The Octopus on this base, is supposed to look like a blue-ringed one:- And Gretal's little monkey friend is meant to be a Capuchin:- But I've never applied a real-world colour scheme to something fantastical on purpose.

Don't think it is normal, doubt it is fatal. @TaleSpinner or @GwydionGreen or somebody could probably diagnose if there was a picture. With nothing to look at I'd guess air pockets in the green stuff (mix more thoroughly) or specs of contamination from whatever you decided to use as a release agent for the texture stamp.

He will forevermore be remembered for his advancements in Goblin mathemagicks which have been the salvation of those sorely afflicted with Figmentia. @Glitterwolf I am also a fan of Malefactian Goblins. It took awhile to find these two which are favourites of mine: But hunt for and find them I did. They were both 'rescue' gobbos that might have otherwise ended up in a Grimdark World sort of environment, but they were instead converted to fit into to the delightfully spooky world @malefactus builds for us.

Working from home today again. Roofer will come over to do some minor repairs ( edge of the roof needs a little patchwork on some spots). And you just gave me inspiration for tonight's dinner!

Bar none, the 1:1 scale @buglips*the*goblin. For the good of humanity, he has been permanently gifted to @Guindyloo.

Here you go, grot rebellion, grot Stalin, and a space goblin made out of a bones goblin.

Fresh pesto with chicken and penne pasta for dinner tonight! the garlic and basil were from our local gardens. Great flavor! Good fast dinner

Artisan Guild Oni Beauty, Tsuki. 3D printed on my Elegoo Mars Part of my project: NIPPON, Land of the Rising Moon, WIP: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/79416-nippon-land-of-the-rising-moon-by-glitterwolf/page/14/#comments Tried a little freehand on the fan.

Some days, I stand in awe of my drafting skills and simply have to bask in my own brilliance. Was given a test drawing to own and have had to verify hole locations. On sheet 8 of 8, I find this horrific jumble of numbers. Quantities in front of some angles, cryptic notes on the diameters, and the sort of stuff you’d find when someone is just tossing something together in order to simply have something. I dig in, have to pull up Excel to see just what in the world is going on. Supposed to be a pattern of four holes six times but things just don’t seem to work out. Finally, I get one part of the above that it’s FOUR holes in the pattern, and they started at some weird angle for some reason. So the last hole of the pattern crosses over the zero degree line, which led me to believe it was first. Everything falls into place! The pattern dimensions are in one area of the view now, and all the angles for the pattern are off to one side, lined up in a obvious group, with the dimensional callout below them with the appropriate field note explaining the pattern. I have already bragged about this to my wife, my daughter, and my work notes. Wanted to come and brag about it here, too. Man, this dopamine rush is going to carry me forward for hours!

I tried to use a timber wolf for a wolf-cloak scheme, didn't turn out so well as it was also my first attempt at wetblending (still needs work). I also tried to use a white tiger for an Alkemy mini, but I never got around to finishing it. Was very early in my painting career, and we quit playing that EverQuest campaign before I finished him. Both minis are currently on loan and display to the MvM Museum of Unfinished Works.

Wow, @malefactus goblins are my favorites, and not just because he is a friend! But I am looking forward to the @buglips*the*goblin mini coming out, he will lead my Starfinder Space Goblins! Yup, I have plans for a certain KS dragon to be painted like an Australian Thorny Devil...

A couple of boxes of disposable paper dust masks for field season (that keeps getting postponed), a few N95 masks I keep in my painting tools for when I'm spackling or painting in a less than well ventilated area, a half dozen cloth masks friends have sewn for me, a foam hockey mask for when I want to dress up as Jason for Halloween, and a Honeywell air purifying respirator mask with dual cartridges in my gear bag for very specific site visits. I keep an atmosphere supplying mask with supply at work, but my hazwoper training is woefully out of date so hopefully I never have to use it. All goblins are the best goblins! I don't know why, but I just love every goblin I can get my hands on and the weirder the better (and just to reinforce what others have said, Malefactus' goblins are so far out there that they rank pretty high on my goblin appreciation scale). That being said, here are some of my absolute favorites... I really like the goblin skirmishers and warriors from the Reaper bones line (bones 3 maybe?) I've painted them 3 times so far. Once as normal, once with guns, and once with instruments. I have plans for painting them three more times. I'm thinking cannibal goblins, cyber goblins, and goblin casualty markers. I'm also a big fan of Rebel Minis Goblin Henchman But one of my most favorite goblins was this kickstarter exclusive from Impact. I used to not bother with looking up reference photos for paint jobs, I would just slap color on any old way because I don't really think I'm skilled enough to make anything realistic. Then last year I wanted to paint a deer to look realistic. I was pretty happy with the results, so now I'll often look up animal photos whenever I'm painting something that could benefit from looking at actual plumage or patterning. Here's the deer in question that made me change my habits:

Congrats @OneBoot! The best thing about COVID: wearing whatever the hell I want because I'm working out of my basement studio.

I often do! Especially when painting animals or reptilians/fishmen etc. For instance the Komodo Dragon was based on the real thing. https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/86584-03884-komodo-dragon-by-glitterwolf/&tab=comments#comment-1836396

I'm a big fan of the newer Games Workshop ones. Although I've only painted one so far, so I guess he's my favourite by default:-

Well heck. We just sprayed.

Goblin spores. Infestation is imminent.

I like the way @malefactus paints and bases his. He inspired me to paint this one a few years ago. It's from Metal Magic ( now OOP) and I loved their style. I also loved the pold Rackham Confrontation ones.

Don't know. My wife has made several using fabric from her stash. My normal mask has daleks on it. I wish I had a respirator for airbrushing, not that I have an airbrush yet. (I am planning to buy Reaper's airbrush but I'm not sure respirators will be available by then.) All of the goblins @malefactus has painted. They all have personality. As far as minis I could paint myself, I'm fond of the vintage-looking Bloodbite Goblins (Reaper 07003).

Hey, I had the 35mm SLR out last weekend for pics with the g'kids! Woohoo! And my Badger Anniversary Sotar arrived today, man it is nice! So now I can leave to old Paasche for priming and larger stuff and use the Sotar with the detail nozzle for well, details.

There's nothing quote like the feeling of being coerced into participating in some thing and putting the pressure on the only guy taking it semi-seriously (aka the guy who showed us all the workaround to put token effort into the challenge, and wound up being voluntold into the team lead position). Nope, this fox doesn't get competitive at all... Thankfully, with CanadaPost redirecting all packages to the nearest post office that's a "free" 3.7-4km of walking, that doesn't even take me an hour. C'mon and feel the pressure, team captain, who's at work this week! Gonna make the LARPer captain work for that first place, mwa ha ha ha ha! :P (he's a nice guy, I'm just, yeah, competitive. But just "a wee bit" competitive, I swear)

In general, the Legend of the 5 Rings goblins for Clan War were pretty awesome, especially the first goblin mobs and the magic mud goblins. But my favorite of all time might be this guy, by Kevin White, as part of Goblinaid.

This one sprang to mind, from the Goblinaid campaign about 7 years ago:

I was lucky enough to recently win some old school Reaper minis. They don’t list the sculptures or listed on the website. Wondering if Ed Pugh worked on any of them. I started collecting back when the blisters were labeled Apocalypse. I’ve never been able to find any timeline on the minis. Pre-Apocalypse, DarkHeaven Apocalypse, DarkHeaven Legends, Dreadmere, etc. I would love a story to go with something I have loved for years. Does anyone know of an old catalog link from when Reaper first started? Or even have a timeline?

today was exciting. Was back on campus for the first time since march, did some video stuff and then got sidetracked by needing to deal with flooding that maintenance failed to notice.

Seems reasonable, but then that'd mean the damage is surprisingly limited, given how liberal I was with the lube. Hmm. Will say that I got the impression K-Y is not an entirely uncommon choice for this sort of thing tho, as a fair number of mentions on the Internets convinced me to go ahead and try it. Was gonna try Vaseline next anyway, so we'll see if the next batch improves, I reckon. I's feeling pretty good about these until the spotting occurred. Still don't feel too bad I guess as long as they don't crumble apart of something.

I do look up critters for proper colors. I don't always do them in realistic colors, but I do check to see what they actually look like. The last hing I looked up was snails for my Steam Punk Snail.

When I go to paint something that will be based upon a real life animal, I suspect I will pull up a few references for ideas, but I generally tend not to do such, at least actively anyways. I have found a few things while randomly browsing where I've gone "huh, that would look neat with mini x"

I’m in an ongoing quest to upgrade my tabletop scenery. A few months ago I got a table-sized mousepad-type mat from Frontline Games. I’ve been pretty happy with it, so I ordered two smaller mats, an urban one to be used with my upcoming urban fantasy game, and a generic grass one for general skirmish games. These are apparently for something called Kill Team and come in the oddly specific size of 30” by 22”... The package arrived yesterday, so a small skirmish game at least will be on the menu soon.

That Sotar the all gold one? I bought a '69 Dodge Charger! Ok so it was a model kit & it arrived by ebay/mail yesterday. My General Lee model is finally coming together! I just need correct wheels.

I think my favorite (aside from the ones @malefactus paints) is Scratchy, the goblin pimp from Magnificent Egos. I painted it about ten years ago. https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/39264-aprils-fool-painting-challenge/&do=findComment&comment=561435

Infinity box one of two has arrived. Well, box containing Infinity stuff that is Code One rulebook, Beond Kaldstrom, PanO and Yu Jing Support Packs, Dire Foes: Retaliation, and the HaqqIslam remotes since I didn't have that box for my Haqq force. Now to impatiently wait for the other Infinity box to come in - sadly it wasn't picked up until today by CanadaPost so I probably won't see it until Friday. On the other paw, my new brushes for my terrain are going to be notice carded tomorrow, apparently, so that's a good thing...

starting my next project... 3d tiles of catan! (yea i know its probably old news but its another one of those things i always wanted...)

A bunch. I've successfully made 4 with 7 failed attempts. I'm gonna keep making them until this ends or I make the exotic masterwork mask. (Worst seasonal event loot rng) Don't know, I prefer space goblins. I made one for a friend's starfinder character that was pretty good, but I also like the little mek for the grot rebellion I did last month.

I've only ever painted these warriors and these pyromaniacs, but those warriors totally my fave. This one in particular.