So much news ...

I´ve received my order of Scale75 colors ... the Collection. The colors look amazing but they are different to handle as Citadel or Vallejo colors. For me it´s a practice and experience thing. So I will have to work a lot with the paints to learn how to use them in the right way. They are super matt as you can see in the picture below.
Here you can see the Old Gnome from War Griffin Miniatures. It has a lot of textures that help painting a lot. Nice structures and different materials to simulate are included too. So it´s a nice practice bust that looks amazing and is well sculpted. I ordered it in the UK at http://www.modeldisplayproducts.co.uk. The delivery to Germany was very very fast. Thank you guys for the nice service and the beautiful miniature!

Hope you enjoy!

Sascha

While I´m waiting for new bricks ...

The logistic service DHL is striking. So I have to do another project first. I ogle at the miniatures of Freebooter´s Fate for a lot of months. They look so awesome and they are made so lovingly. They are made of white metal. The miniatures will be used for gaming but they are also painting practice objects.
Actually I´ve bought two factions: the pirates and the goblin pirates. The table will be build of wood and styrofoam. You will see the progress of this project as well on this blog soon...

Here is the first miniature of the pirates faction.

Hope you enjoy!

Sascha

No more bricks for the wall ...

Now I have to wait for more Milliput. More time to paint, I guess.

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Sascha

Another brick in the wall ...

The project goes on and the diorama is growing. See you with the next step...

Hope you enjoy!
Sascha

The start of a larger project ....

Rackham Confrontation miniatures has been finished years ago. And actually I don´t know if another company continues the program. The miniatures look fantastic although they are relatively old. They are made of tin.
Over the last weekend I finished my first Rackham miniatures and I can say that I love them. They are really nice and beautifully sculpted. Here you can see some first pictures. They will be part of a diorama. So they will get some more highlights and shadows.

No, the big black one is no Rackham Miniature. My cat Roxy had to review the quality of my painting job.
The three miniatures will be a part of a scene that shows the attack of goblins over this Orc guard. There will be at least 3-4 additional miniatures ... We will see.
In the following picture you can see the building process of the diorama. It will show a wall with a little gate in it.

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Sascha

From now on ...

It´s done. We arrived the actual finished project. It is BlaBla from Blacksmith Miniatures. They have very characterful fantasy miniatures in their range.
BlaBla is fully casted of resin and of high quality. I did the miniature in about 8h and I´m really happy with the result.
In this case I´ve done the base with a thick cork piece and on the top there are some Army Painter Jungle Tufts. I painted the tufts with differnt layers of green and highlighted them with a very bright green at the end. Maybe I will add some colored flowers to give the grass a more realistic and friendly look. We´ll see.

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Sascha

Winter is coming ...

My next project, and now we are on the beginning of this week, was Daenerys Targaryen the Mother of Dragons from Nuts Planet. It was hard to decide which miniature I wanted to paint. The range of this brand is so fantastic that I see there a lot of my future projects :) One other miniature of this brand is already waiting in my box: The Aquila. But before that I will do some smaller miniatures in a bigger diorama ... can´t wait till they arrive.

The Mother of Dragons is a miniature my wife chose. But I like it a lot too! Before I started, the most feared opponent was her skin. All skins I´ve done so far have been males or relatively dark. This one had to be pale and also alive. Of course I used the three color zone technique but in this case I had to be very careful. And so it came that I painted the longest time of this miniature on the skin. Sometimes shadows got to harsh or the tones of the face and the cleavage didn´t match. The highlights had to be set very smooth and so on... The hairs are much more white in my case than on the Nuts Planet cover. I think a blonde white matches more with the figure in GOT.
 The dragon on her shoulder was a lot of fun and back to the dark colors it was easier to highlight for me.
 In this special case I´m very proud of the eyes I painted. It gets better and better, I think.

Hope you enjoy!

Sascha