Ral Partha Shadowrun Blood Mages, sculpted by David Summers

[72moonglum]

Hello there all your Bones 6 supporting Reaperodytes!

 

So I've been pretty busy since my last finished mini, and I went to Mexico for 11 days to visit my wife's family and to do a bit of vacationing, so I've been been finishing minis as quickly as I've wanted to, but things are slowly going back to normal so I've got a couple minis that I just finished.  Being these were a set of four too means I wanted to work on them all together.

 

So here are Ral Partha's Shadowrun Blood Mages, I think sculpted in the second half of the nineties(?) by Dave Summers.

 

They are kind of loosely based on Mexican/Aztec colors, even though the axe wielder I thought originally looked more oriental. As I was actually able to see his little mustache though, it reminded me kind of Cantinflas, but that was after I'd already gave him a more Asian instead of Native American hue and I just kept going on from there.

 

So I took these all this afternoon with my iPhone, because after seeing the photos I took from my normal camera they were kind of dark photos (in all fairness though it was a cloudy day with very blah light) and the iPhone versions were quite a lot more vibrant.  I may though wait for another sunny day and retake photos with my other camera.

 

These were actually some very fun figures to paint. With all the feathers I was able to use a lot more colors than I probably would have put on a single figure and I still don't feel the colors are too much. You might have a different opinion, and if so, please let me know. I'd love to hear what you think!

 

Anyhoos, hope you enjoy!

 

 

 

 

[Inarah]

Very nice work. I love to see the old stuff painted well.  

 

[Glitterwolf]

Love them all and a great paintjob.

 

One little thing: that Axe Wielder, I don't think it's a mustache, I think it's a piercing maybe bone...Since these are based on Meso American warriors and since it's on the sides and not under the nose?

[72moonglum]

8 hours ago, Inarah said:

Very nice work. I love to see the old stuff painted well.  

 

Thank you Inarah, always more to come!

5 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Love them all and a great paintjob.

 

One little thing: that Axe Wielder, I don't think it's a mustache, I think it's a piercing maybe bone...Since these are based on Meso American warriors and since it's on the sides and not under the nose?

Hi Glitterwolf!  You might be right, but I have a feeling it was supposed to be one of these little moustaches:

 

 

which in any case would have meant I probably should have stayed with a more ruddy skin tone and not go with the "golden skin" approach, but oh well, too late now...

[Darcstaar]

Great work, and I totally see the Cantiflas vibe on the axe guy.  Love the vibrant colors.

[72moonglum]

17 minutes ago, Darcstaar said:

Great work, and I totally see the Cantiflas vibe on the axe guy.  Love the vibrant colors.

Thank you Darcstaar, upon hindsight, he's probably not Asian, but alas....

 

It was fun doing a bunch of different colors.  Sadly it makes me acutely aware of how few bright colors I have available to me sometimes.

[Grand Slam]

Definitely a lot to like, here. Great work on the skin tones...for all four. I'm loving the pops of color on the clothing. As you indicated, such colors don't usually come into play, but they're very appropriate here and work great 

[72moonglum]

21 minutes ago, Grand Slam said:

Definitely a lot to like, here. Great work on the skin tones...for all four. I'm loving the pops of color on the clothing. As you indicated, such colors don't usually come into play, but they're very appropriate here and work great 

Yeah, three of those figures had so much going on with them, it was a pity to not take advantage of all the colors possible. With Cantinflas it was a bit different because he was a far simpler figure.  Two main colors were more than enough with him!

[Chaoswolf]

23 hours ago, Inarah said:

Very nice work. I love to see the old stuff painted well.  

 

I wholeheartedly agree!

 

They're very colorful; great job there.

[Glitterwolf]

20 hours ago, 72moonglum said:

Thank you Darcstaar, upon hindsight, he's probably not Asian, but alas....

 

It was fun doing a bunch of different colors.  Sadly it makes me acutely aware of how few bright colors I have available to me sometimes.

 

When I paint Meso American Natives I use Reaper Tanned Skin and add a little , little drop of Reaper Terracotta to create a little reddish skintone.

 

Example

http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/73699-achik-aztec-warrior-princess-by-xherman1964/

[72moonglum]

8 hours ago, Chaoswolf said:

I wholeheartedly agree!

 

They're very colorful; great job there.

Thank you very much Chaoswolf!

2 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

 

When I paint Meso American Natives I use Reaper Tanned Skin and add a little , little drop of Reaper Terracotta to create a little reddish skintone.

 

Example

http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/73699-achik-aztec-warrior-princess-by-xherman1964/

For my Native American skin, I've been using Redstone Highlights as my base color.

[72moonglum]

So on a day with a bit more sun I took some different pictures with my actual camera. Hopefully these don't look so exaggeratedly contrasted:

 

 

and I was able to get a decent group shot too I think:

 

 

Hopefully they look a little better!

[Metalchaos]

Awesome very colorful group, great work.

[72moonglum]

3 hours ago, Metalchaos said:

Awesome very colorful group, great work.

Thank you Metalchaos!

[jwitham75]

Wiz, chummer!