2014-02-16, Lovecraftian Painting Circle: Ghoul King.

This guy took up all my hobby time for the last 11 days, so I'll just  let the pics talk for themselves for now.

This mini is a large guy on a 40mm base, so he counts as 2 finished minis for my tally. Only fair, methinks - I even put a little something on his base for decoration, which I'm not in a habit of doing...

Primer: Black

Skin

1. F Moss Shade
2. F Moss Shade + F Moss
3. F Moss
4. F Moss + F Moss Light

Exposed Entrails

1. V Black Red
2. C Khorne Red

Bandages

1. C Ushabti Bone + White
2. OC Devlan Mud wash
3. Light drybrush C Ushabti Bone + White

Exposed Muscle + Spine

1. V Black Red + C Khorne Red
2. OC Tanned Flesh
3. OC Tanned Flesh + OC Pallid Flesh
4. OC Pallid Flesh + White
5. White

Blood

1. V Black Red
2. C Khorne Red
3. C Mephiston Red

Meat Cleaver and Chained Hook

1. OC Tin Bitz
2. Drybrush VOC Boltgun Metal
3. Light drybrush VOC Chainmail

Nails and Teeth

1. Dark Grey
2. Medium Grey
3. Light Grey.

Alien Lookalikes: East Riding Miniatures.

I recently remembered having seen some not-aliens (of the 8th kind), and had to ask around at the LAF to track them down.

They are not spitting images, but they are close enough to represent sub-species and be used along Leading Edge's OOP licensed ones, the OOP Horrorclix Aliens, and/or the upcoming licensed AvP minis from Prodos.

When I have gotten my PSZ project off the prepping table, and a few handfuls of modern zeds done, too, I may go back and get my two boxes of Horrorclix Aliens (and the queen) ready for some bughunt gaming - I'll probably be assembling my Kickstarter Battle Systems Sci-Fi Modular Terrain at about that time, too, which should be just purr-fect for that kind of gaming), and I could easily see myself using some of those ERM aliens for this purpose:

http://shop.eastridingminiatures.co.uk/mythic-worlds-sci-fi-58-c.asp

2014-02-07, Lovecraftian Painting Circle: Ghoul.

Finished this today (it had been sitting around primed for several years), for the LPC at the LAF.

Primer:

• Black

Skin:

1. F Moss Shade
2. F Moss Shade + F Moss
3. F Moss
4. F Moss + F Moss Light
5. F Moss Light
6. F Moss Light + White

Loin cloth:

1. OC Graveyard Earth + OC Bronzed Flesh
2. OC Graveyard Earth + more OC Bronzed Flesh
3. OC Graveyard Earth + even more OC Bronzed Flesh

Eyes and teeth

• WZ Legionnaire Flesh.

I have begun painting the Malifaux Killjoy figure to use as a Ghoul King, also using Foundry Moss, but keeping him in the darker shades, and thus my Cult de Ghouls for VuK will soon be ready to square off against a Dagonite Cult.

Can't wait to try this spin-off of Strange Aeons (and the ghouls will be very useful against Treshold, too!!)

2014-02-06, Lovecraftian Painting Circle: Fishman/DeepOne

Finished this guy for the LPC:

Colours didn't come out quite as I thought they would,  but I almost used up the base colour for lighter mixes, so I have ordered a couple of pots more, so I can have more shades...

Skin was painted with a base coat of CdA Green Grey, then built up with more and more white mixed in. My skin painting skills are a bit rusty, it seems...

Fin and scales are VGC ShadowGrey, layers also with white mixed in. It's not as blueish as I thought it would be - the next one will see the use of CdA Shadow Grey, as I hope it has more blue in it.

Eyes were painted OC Tausept Ochre, OC Sunburst Yellow, white with a tiny bit of Sunburst Yellow, then a tiny bit of white. They look more yellow in the pic than IRL.

Inside of lips and gills (not seen in this pic) are F Nipple Pink/Nipple Pink Light

Trident shaft is OC Graveyard Earth mixed with black, then 'grained' (which can't be seen in the pic, as the contrast between base coat and grain is not sufficient) with Graveyard Earth.

Trident fork is a cvery dark, almost black, grey, hightlighted with a slightly less dark grey and finally with a medium grey.

Claws and teeth are medium to light greys.

Lovecraftian Painting Circle.

A new month sees a new painting club at the LAF: http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=62948.0, and I'm busy prepping some minis I've had in my possession through strange aeons ;o)

The theme is Mythos Creatures, so I thought I'd expand my collection of painted minis I can use for my Dagonite cult in the making.

In addition to the Deep Ones above, I have another pack of 3, and some primed ghouls that also fit into the theme. Should I finish all of them, I have a set of Summoned Tentacles, and a Gross Anatomy that I can assemble and paint, too.

2014-02-02, Non-Gaming Weekend: Sunday.

Been busy in the workshop, today.

First, I did a lot of tidying up, moving a lot of little bags and boxes containing screws, plugs, bolts, nuts, etc. to the kitchen where I am sorting that kind of stuff into littel drawers and attaching lables to them.

I then fastened my new vice to the workshop table:

Then, I put some nails in the wallboard, to make my torc screwdrivers a new home:


It's not perfect, but WAY better than having them laying around on the table!

My final effort was to assemble the press drill I got for Christmas.

It took quite some time, but I really wonder, what it would add to the price of power tools, if they were assembled at the factory by skilled people who know exactly where everything goes.

Well, as of today, I am the happy owner of an operating press drill, and a workshop where it's actually possible to get some work done!

2014-02-01, Non-Gaming Weekend: Saturday.

2/3 of the day I was busy cleaning/desinfecting bottles, and filling and corking them. 30 bottles of fluid gold + some ½ bottle or so from which I filtered the precipitate.

Happy days!