paint club Book Club, but for minis - Reaper Club?

[R2ED]

@Inarahis that your model in the picture? 

 

Good to hear you locked in time to get some painting. Welcome back to it!

[Inarah]

No, I don't own that, but I think I might have a Reaper demon or two in one of my KS bins, and I love the color scheme. I think it's a GW piece, but since I don't really follow their line I'm not sure.  I wanted to find a bigger copy of the image so I could see it better.  

 

I'm going to try for more base coating today.  I've had a lot to do lately, hobbies have had to take a back seat.  I'd like to get the ball rolling again.  I think it's too cold to prime anything today, but I have lots hanging around on my desk I could work on or finish up. 

 

 

[R2ED]

@InarahI've started brush priming using stynylrez.  I've thought I flooded the models details on the past doing that, but I've changed the brush I use to a flat from the round and it's solved it for me.  Dries faster.  No smell. No big cleanup.  I've started avoiding my airbrush just for the whole cleanup process.  Never thought I'd say this, but I think brushing on is a good solution if time is a problem.

 

 

[Inarah]

I've got Reaper's brush on if I need it.  Right now, looking at what's on my paint table, I could finish a mini a day for the next month before I ran out of things to work on.  Then I'd still have mold lines to remove from new figures and basing to do. 

 

Today's been going well. I got one guy from a year ago who is nearly finished now. 

 

 

[R2ED]

Managed to get another excess model that didn't fit in its original box completed.  Here's storm from the xmen. 

 

[Inarah]

Nice. I always thought she had the coolest powers. 

 

Progress made.  I don't remember if I got this guy in the KS or what.  I'm not even sure what it is. Started painting it last year, thought it would be easy to just throw some color on it, didn't like it. Repainted it a couple of times over the summer, put it aside for a while.  About the only thing left of the original paint is the bronze work.  Kind of hard to see but there's a 6 shade gradient between the blue and the red on the arms and legs and the back.  

 

 

Considering it done at this point. 

 

Finished these two little guys. And they are little, shorter than the cap on a bottle of paint.  I got a dozen of them from a european KS a couple years ago. 

 

 

Also finished the paint job on the 2nd Weapons Locker.  I didn't like the look of one side, so I spent some time cleaning it up and smoothing out the finish. This is the one I did last month. #2 looks exactly like it. 

 

 

 

 

[R2ED]

All of them look good.  I know the frustration around having that model that took a few coats and just didn't turn out. Then you give up on them and they take forever (or a stroke of luck)  to come back to them.  Looks like he came out great. The frills on the shoulders are fun.  Cats are solid.  Two space marine cyberpunk dudes are fun too. 

[R2ED]

I've got this work in progress going.  It's a doozy!

 

Armor and face complete.

Cape complete. 

 

Wip:

Wings, weapons, base, touch ups.

 

[Inarah]

Got in a little more work today. Finished basing and painted the eyes on my Gloom Stalker.  Another one of those "I have no idea what this is supposed to be" creatures.  Calling it done. Didn't get pics yet. 

 

I did the statue from the dwarven tomb set last month.  At some point I started base coating the tombs: 

 

 

Only that's not the correct red. So I spent a long time this afternoon going through paints trying to figure out what I originally used.  Everything is just a little bit different.... to brown, too orange, too pink... 

 

Finished up some 3d printed dinosaur/boneyard terrain pieces, nothing fancy there.  Haven't taken pics yet.  Started surface prep on a 3d printed "beholder" that a friend gave me.   Got a fair amount done, but nothing to show yet. 

 

 

 

 

[R2ED]

@Inarahglad you're back it!  Get it, girl! 

[buckyball]

I painted an Ice spider matriarch for Frostgrave

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   buckyball

[R2ED]

@buckyballwelcome back! Looks nice and creepy.  Well done. 

[Inarah]

Quick win for today, I based these 3d printed objective markers:

 

 

And here is the Gloom Stalker.  Colors were based on some artwork, which I can't find now. 

 

 

I got the new owlbear yesterday and was going to do some brush on primer, then I saw all the mold lines. Ugh.  Maybe by the time that is cleaned up it will have warmed up, too. 

 

 

 

[R2ED]

Did you use contrast paints on the gloom stalker? Cool effect whatever it is.  Also, aren't those called hook horrors?  I dont know if there was a name change.

[Inarah]

One might be an Official Licensed Name, and one might be a generic monster name. It's going to be a giant alien bug monster in my game. 

 

IIRC it was done with lots of washes and thin glazes, lots of blending.