Pudding on a Base With Cthulus

A strange and wonderful terrain idea I had the other night and threw together.

Nowhere near done but it's going to be pretty simple and I think pretty cool...

It's not actually pudding just some weird thick paint I don't like to use on minis that I want to use up.

Bennu and Percipiant- Minis for WarGods and Beyond

A "red peacock" or Bennu for the Monsters of Ægyptus project!

It's a Forge of Ice peacock mini painted to be a not-phoenix. I was inspired by Alex's latest posted pics of a painted one of these in traditional peacock colors to finally finish my non-traditional red version...

Then something that's been sitting around unfinished for years and years. This is the Percipiant, more on the background of it elsewhere and later. The piece is the back disk-thingy from the Chronopia Stygian Priestess. It was painted up first long before I decided to do something totally different with the Priestess.

It's been sitting around for over ten years waiting to be called up for some purpose or other. I decided to base it as an objective marker or something. More info will eventually be posted over in the Duelling Scrolls blog...

The State of the Forge- January 2012

 

The Minismith's Forge was cleaned and everything removed and reprioritized for the change in calender. Then some of the old stuff returned and some new stuff got put on it.

And still not much has gotten finished lately. 

The only finished things so far this year have been a couple of figs for eBay up in the top left of the pic (check out the eBay Minis Blog http://minismithebay.blogspot.com/ to see the not-as-awesome-as-I'd-hoped Chronoscope minis in more detail). But the lag will soon change- I've got a couple of things almost ready to roll out for public view, just a few more painting hours and they'll be ready, hopefully, maybe...

So the first actual update for 2012 should come out before the end of the month. Anything you see in this picture that you want to see finished and posted drop me a line to lobby for it!

WarGods What To Paint- Episode 2

WIP pics of the two minis that were voted into the painting queue-- there was a"tie" between the Priest of Ptah and the Celtos figure that will be a Priestess of Isis (aka the nekkid chick).

Not a lot of progress yet--

Color suggestions will be tolerated and possibly used.

What To Paint Next? - WarGods Edition

I've done a couple of cool conversions (the 2 figs in the middle) lately but I've had trouble deciding what to paint next. Of these 4 WarGods-themed minis which one do you think should get the honor of paint next?

First is a Celtos Priestess sculpted by Kev White. I did one of these before and painted her up like Ororo (Storm) from the X-Men. This one will again be used as a Priestess of Isis and I'm going to try the Ororo look with better results...

Next up is a little Satyr Hero. This is another Kev White mini, converted with hair, a bow, and quiver. He was bleep to get together how I wanted, but I think he turned out pretty much how I saw him in my head.

Thirdly is a converted Priestess of Isis. I decided that I need to have another Mistress of Words available, so I went with a scorpion-theme and decided to call her Selket (after the scorpion goddess). She'll have some interesting writhing on the unfurled scroll that helps cover up the area where I removed the macehead.

Finally there's the Priest of Ptah (possibly a stand-in Master of Words too). Nothing done to him, sadly.
So vote for A B C or D (or 1-4 or a description). The winning mini will be finished in a few days of the final tally and put up for viewing.

This bonus picture is a comparison of the Satyr Hero and one of the actual Satyr figs (partially painted).

Warhawk Captain- with and Without Flash

This guy was painted a couple of years or more back. I've been wanting to see the difference between using the flash with my lighting setup and not using it for some time. The recent request to see painted versions of it on the Wargods forums gave me the perfect opportunity to perform the experiment.

I think the no-flash method works best on some minis and the flash is good for others. Again it's been proven to me that it's a case-by-case basis. This guy looks best with the flash...

3 GenCon Buys Painted!

...of course 2 of them were from GenCon 2010.

The 2 Ngoni Archers have been primed since soon after GenCon 2010, but the Cowboy was started and finished in a couple of hours (along with the Archers). All 3 are on eBay to help pay for GenCon 2011. But if they don't sell I'll be able to put them to good use. You can see individual pics at the MF Minis for eBay blog.