Pingo's 2018 Roundup of Painted Figures (Picture intensive)

[Pingo]

It's time again for a year-end roundup of the figures I managed to finish last year. These are the figures I finished during the calendar year of 2018, which was, let me tell you, another ... interesting year.

 

January-March

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I started the year in a dark mood, painting lots and lots of vampires, easily identifiable because I paint their flesh tones in stark black and white.

 

Most of these are Reaper figures, but the first one below left is from Bad Squiddo Games. The next one is where I figured out how to paint velvet effects. Also a regular human sort of Mongolian warrior slipped in there ...

 

The vampires slipped from Medievalish to Modernish, as one does. I especially liked the unexpected last one below here on the right, a terrific design I found rooting around amongst Reaper's older figures. Oh, and the first one is from Hasslefree, a figure I accidentally ordered two of, so one got converted into this unfortunate.

 

With so many vampires we eventually needed some intrepid vampire hunters. The first, third and fourth here are from Bad Squiddo, the others from Reaper.

 

 

[Pingo]

Spring found me in a slightly lighter mood, but some of the darkness lingered ...

 

April-June

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These are all Bad Squiddo figures, two rather Spanish Baroque vampire hunters flanked by a pair of marvelous feral vampire ladies.

 

I still had a couple of wonderfully melodramatic Reaper vampire figures to finish. The one on the right was from a Townsfolk "Ladies of the Night" set that I adapted. Indeed, in my quest to keep female vampire numbers roughly equaling male ones, I needed to convert a number of figures. They flank a couple of Hasslefree modern agent types.

 

Leaving behind the unwholesome world of vampires and darkness, my spring painting included more present, near-past, and near-future agents, of many ethnicities. These are one from Reaper, two from Hasslefree, and one Ral Partha, respectively.

 

Okay, one more vampire. But he's a really awesome vampire. Also two dwarves from Oathsworn, the regular human version of that earlier vampire from Hasslefree, and a dwarf from Ral Partha. Yes, it's dwarf time!

 

I finished up the spring with some even more overtly secret-agentlike agents. This is a sweet little mod figure from Reaper, three near future figures from Grenadier, and a rather disturbingly overarmed young lady from Hasslefree.

 

 

Tune in tomorrow (probably) for parts three and four, summer and autumn.

Edited January 22, 2019 by Pingo

[DragonWyrm]

I adore your work Pingo. 
"Especially the jeans"

[Darcstaar]

Fantastic prolific work.

[Rigel]

Beautiful stuff! That vampire in the emerald green is lovely in a very "Corpse Bride" sort of way. Good diverse crew; I especially like that big fellow from Hasslefree, Astrid Berger, and the Braid Dwarf. 

[Glitterwolf]

Wonderful collection, you were productive last year!

I love the vampires since they are among my favorite monsters, but my favorite mini you painted so far is the one on the bottom row, second from the right.

The guy in the red trenchcoat, he looks really bad elf.!

[Pingo]

I forgot to mention, but the sharp-eyed may have noticed that I paint shadows on the figures' bases ... but not for the vampires.

 

As summer progressed my thoughts turned to outer space, and somewhat more heroic venues. But world events were also wearing me down and I posted fewer and fewer Show Off threads. There are some here I've never shown on the forums before.

 

July-September

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... which is not to say I couldn't manage one more vampire. This is Reaper's magnificent Monique Denoir, sandwiched between two old school figures of an elf ranger and a sorceress from Das Schwarze Auge, Germany's answer to Dungeons and Dragons. The dwarf is Hatherly, from Hasslefree.

 

I'm not sure I ever posted WIP or Show Off threads for some of these. These are four wonderful outer space ladies from Hasslefree and Reaper's Meyanda, Android Priestess, painted up as a Jadeborn for Exalted.

 

Two more space paramilitary ladies from Hasslefree and, er, some classic space marines from Games Workshop. What can I say, they were a special request.

 

Three space-dwarf fighters from Hasslefree, and a dwarf magic user from Stonehaven.

 

Another terrestrial dwarf, from Reaper, an agent and an intrepid reporter superhero's romantic interest, both from RAFM, and two Reaper cultists because we needed some more obvious baddies.

 

[Iridil]

How nice to see it all together - great stuff - I'm particularly inspired by your vampires!

[Pingo]

My autumnal painting slowed down, partly because of the heaviness of world events and partly because several other projects, including some oil portraits and gearing up to produce art videos, took up a lot of my time. So there are only a few finished miniatures here.

 

October-December

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I finished the last of the seven (yes) dwarves I had meant to do for the year, a Tre Manor druid offered by Hasslefree. Also Reaper's rather tragic Drowned Spirit, two fire hydrant pieces of terrain from Ainsty Castings, and a "witch" from Bad Squiddo who I thought would do well as Susan Sto Helit from the Discworld.

 

The final figures for 2018 were a somewhat rushed job on the Bones version of Reaper's wonderful Vandorendra, Snake Demon, and a steampunk gadgeteer half-orc from Stonehaven.

 

Enjoy!

Edited January 22, 2019 by Pingo

[Warlady]

Wow!  What a productive year you had!  These are great!

[Glitterwolf]

Great work!

 

[malefactus]

That is a MOST IMPRESSIVE array of BEAUTIFULLY painted creations, each with a character all their own, & each done in your own unique style. VERY WELL DONE!

[Rigel]

That touch with the shadows is genius. I'm particularly a fan of that kneeling two-pistol Space Dwarf lady,  the RAFM ladies, Susan, and the Drowned Spirit. Like the cultists, too--you don't see too many evil cultists in red and yellow. A refreshing change from purples and blacks and greens.

I'm working (s l o w l y) on that Stonehaven mechanorc myself! Great job on the patina.