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This is an old Ral Partha dragon sculpted by Tom Meier. It's supposed to be the Great Fire Dragon, obviously I didn't know that when I painted him or I would have gone with red. I've had him for 20-30 years, so I figure it's high time that he got painted. Please let me know what you think. >Taking decent pictures of something this big is a little difficult. <

I grabbed this bear from the most recent Box of Goodwill, and painted it almost right away. It's kinda small by today's standards, it was made in 1984. I've always been a bit intimidated by painting animals; for some reason I got it set in my mind that it's hard to actually make them look GOOD. Sure, just paint the fur brown and it's done, right? Well, no there's a bit more to it than that, and it was that little bit more that I always got hung up on. Well, I'm glad I finally managed to get over it; I pulled up some pictures of bears on my computer and just did the best I could. The reason I mention this is because I'm sure someone else is going through the same thing. Please just go ahead and try the thing, no one is going to come beat you up if it's not 'right'. Anyway, I hope you like it.

I did this lioness at the same time I was working on the bear, she's 2 years older, being made in 1982. Let me know what you think.

Remy has been hibernating for a while now, ashamed to show his lame light blue hide (a misguided attempt is a paint job). Now that the weather is colder, Remy has ventured forth to embrace his dream of a better paint job! Yup, Remy and his buddy Grim in this pic. Remy just got a wash of purple so he would not look like a pile of nauseatingly light blue excrement. White was being added to "heating surfaces". ... Remy still looks like scat, but dark blue instead of light blue.

I am about halfway there with an ID for this fellow. I think it says on the bottom: Ral 84 Partha It is hard to read though. I found this fellow lurking amongst some Bretonnians earlier this morning.

Digging around in the mini zoo and unearthed this pack. Painted them a while back. I thought I did a pretty awesome paint job back in the day, but now I kind of want to repaint them. Must... Resist...Urge... To...Repaint... (Too many unpainted minis in the queue to go back and redo painted ones!)

Finished! From my childhood box of unfinished baddies. He's stamped 1979, I feel old! :)

A while ago someone posted about Ral Patha Fire Glow paint. Just used it on this Water Elf Naiad guy. Just wanted to post something to show it off. Don't get a chance to use it that often. Is such a beautiful metallic that is so vibrant. Shame that the pic doesn't really show the reddish pink undertones in the paint. Kind of a mother of pearl effect. If there is one paint I wish Reaper could reproduce this would be one of them.

I had mixed up a unique shade of gray paint for another figure I'm working on, and had a fair bit left over. Not wanting to waste it, I dug this out of storage and slapped it on him. I think it took me about an hour and a half to finish him up. The base color is pretty close to the same color as the figure; this is intentional. I wanted to get kind of a camouflage effect with it. The figure has a loincloth sculpted on, which I found kind of funny. Why would a gargoyle need a loincloth, are they anatomically correct? My mind works in strange ways sometimes... Anyway, here's the pics, please let me know what you think.