Infinity Nightmare resolved and work in progress!

My friend Dave took it out of it's little sit bath of Pine-Sol after soaking for 24 hours, got out his trusty toothbrush and saved my poor little figure (and some cash too!). I am simply amazed at how well it came out. So fear not fellow painters, if you screw up, don't throw away your figures and buy new ones. If it's acrylic based then go out and buy yourself a bottle of Pine-Sol!

In the meantime here's a couple of shots of the one I didn't mess up with only one leg mostly finished, it's just to show the different stages that have to happen before I get to the finished leg looking effect. Even when that's done there will be tons of other detail work that needs to be done.

Cheers
Kevin

Infinity Nightmare part 2, the resolution at hand!

Well boys and girls it's another day and my very good friend Dave happened to have a bottle of Pine-Sol so was involuntarily recruited into helping strip this bad boy. He sent me a picture of an in progress moment and it looked like some sort of exotic fish so had to post a picture of it.

Hopefully it works out and in the next couple of days I will have this bad ass little baby back in my hands for another whack at the painting table.

Cheers
Kevin

My Infinity nightmare!!!

These Infinity miniatures are super fine detailed little buggers to paint.

My first try:

Looks like poop... I know. The bitch of the thing is I would simply throw it away and get another if the price of these babies wasn't so high. Fortunately a good Pine-Sol soaking will strip this crap with the help of a little tooth brush. Sigh.... It took so long to get to this point. Lesson learned is thin your paint out more, but more importantly use the bloody right paint pots.

My second try with a different model:

I just did one leg to try the new paints I picked up. I think the shading and layering worked much better. The main hull is going to be a bitch, but I'll just have to take my time. 

What do you think?

Cheers

Kevin

Me? I don't have a problem!

Okay, okay maybe I do. Some of the projects I am working on all at the same time which means my wheels are stuck in the mud. This was a few weeks ago.

I need to paint up five Necrons for a buddy, and a Moor Warlord base for another. Since it was raining today I actually made progress on the Moor Warlord base. Got tired of doing that so have moved on to putting more of those stupid Necrons together ahhhh (okay their not stupid but it's not stuff for me grumble, grumble).

After putting some of those Necrons together I've had this Infinity itch for several years and done nothing with it. Suddenly I am on this big kick to finally do something about it and have started assembling them. They are tiny, delicate little bastards that are going to be a real challenge to paint because they are not Hero scale, but true to scale (I know there is another word for this). Of course it's Japanese Anime time with these things, which I like, but the female models are going to be something completely new to me. We will see how it goes.

Cheers
Kevin

Showcase: 28mm terrain for Saga

Whew, finally got a chance to do some blogging. So I am posting the finished project of making some hobby terrain to make my boards look nice. Again these are from Worldsmith Industries and are made from resin. The trees I ended up using I picked up from a flea market. I tore the trees off the old bases, which basically meant snapping them off at ground level because of glue used. I used a pin vise to drill out the bottom of the trees and then used plastic rod to glue in hole to use as pins for placing on Worldsmith's bases. Did a little dry brushing on bases, little static grass, polyurethane for protection, and then a mat coat to take off the shine. Presto change-o it looks pretty good in the end I think.

 

As always thanks for looking
Cheers
Kevin

WIP: 28mm terrain for Saga

Got a chance to sneak in a few paint strokes on my terrain pieces today. The browns are done, and I have picked out the rocks in black that I will now paint grey and then do some dry brushing on them to make them pop. Then it's the static grass placed in a few spots and I will be done with bases. I've gotten out my trees I am going to use and figured out how to separate them from the bases they are on now without destroying them to place them on these new bases. More pics later.

Cheers
Kevin

28mm Terrian for Saga (or other systems)

Howdy folks,

Been cleaning up and reorganizing hobby room to a standard of chaotic order, instead of Chaos rules and things are disappearing into the warp. Well I'm still deciding what I want to paint or what I have to paint, and then a thought hit me. Why don't I have any nice terrian pieces? Well what it comes down to for me is that it's boring and takes up my time painting figures. So I ask myself if I am going to take the time to paint decent miniatures wouldn't I want them to look nicer next to a nice painted piece of terrian instead of felt? Of course I would.

Well a friend of mine (Skip) showed up to CincyCon with some really nice terrain pieces he had picked up from Worldsmith Industries and I just loved them. Now I know my friend probably told me beforehand about them, but it must have went in one ear and out the other. Seeing them in person though got my attention.

I picked up three different size forest bases along with some tree inserts, and whats really cool inserts if you want trees out of the way. This makes them multi usable in Saga for Woods or rocky ground. We all know permanant terrain pieces are lovely but sometimes you want to move a tree out of the way and these nicely made resin pieces from Worldsmith Industries fit the bill for me.

I ordered through this gentleman and was able to pay for it using Pay Pal and three days later, bang they show up on my doorstep! Can't beat that service. Having them in hand and looking them over you have your typical air bubble here or there, and some resin that needs to be cut or sanded from the mold, but I have to say I really didn't have to work that hard to overcome this. I am really pleased with the product. I especially like the textured terrain as I can use dry brushing techique to make them  look really nice with little effort.

As Worldsmith says you need to wash them with mild detergent to get the mold release oils off before you prime them. Here are a few photos of what I have done so far.

[Washed and primed]

 [with painted black coat and burnt umber coat]

As I go and finish them up I'll post some more pictures of them up close so you can see the detail of the resin piece better.

Cheers
Kevin