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  giorgis 8:20 am on April 22, 2021 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt43 – Ratmen 

  Finding 15mm ratmen isn’t an easy task. Turning to across the Atlantic, gave me the solution with these Ratmen from Splintered Light miniatures. Now they have a UK vendor as well, so it might make things a bit easier in the future.

  These are the Ratmen Personalities and Ratmen Zealots packs. I chose the zealots because they had the most different poses in the pack. I haven’t painted the entire pack, just one figure of each pose.

  As I said yesterday, Splintered Light are true scale, which sits a little smaller than the rest of my collection. Nevertheless the ratmen fit perfectly. They’re about goblin and halfling sized, smaller than Skaven, but that is not an issue for me. The Rat Ogre is equivalent to my other large creatures.

  I went with gray fur, and a dirty yellow top cloth (mixed yellow ochre acrylic ink with lemon yellow acrylic paint) over leaf green undercloth.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

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  giorgis 2:19 pm on April 21, 2021 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: blighthaven ( 14 ), fantasy, minis ( 166 ), painting ( 184 ), ralpartha ( 41 ), splinteredlight ( 7 )   

  Miniatures pt42 – Sir Roderick and a halfling 

  Here’s my first cavalry model that I completed. Sir Roderick (you may remember I painted his retinue some time ago) from Blighthaven line of Ral Partha Europe. Also, to keep this post a bit more complete, I’ve added a Halfling from the Dungeon Delvers by Splintered Light. Unfortunately the Splintered Light miniatures are true 15mm, so their human sized miniatures are smaller than the rest of my collection. Excellent sculpts and poses though. I’ll present my ratmen from them soon.

  

  
   
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  giorgis 10:11 am on March 12, 2021 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: demonworld ( 19 ), fantasy, minis ( 166 ), painting ( 184 ), ralpartha ( 41 )   

  Miniatures pt41 – Assorted Beasts 

  With the pill bases and some larger round bases, I proceeded with the rest of my Demonworld pile. A chaotic polar bear, two bears, a mountain lion and a couple of giant spiders.

  For the polar bear I went with a snow textured base using cotton and pva.

  The mountain lion came out a bit muddled, I’m not very happy with my final result there, but it’s okay for the table.

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 2:37 pm on March 11, 2021 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt40 – Wolves 

  My warbases order arrived so I could work on my larger miniatures. Here are 2 Dire Wolves and 5 Wolves from the wolf pack of the Demonworld line of Ral Partha Europe.

  I varied the darkness of the fur coat by diluting my final wash in different concentrations.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 3:32 pm on January 24, 2021 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt33 – Wood Elves 

  Here’s my Wood Elf Warband from the Blighthaven line of the Demonworld range of Ral Partha Europe.

  With these, I have finished my non-mounted/mounts/beasts miniatures from Ral Partha. With BREXIT changing the way goods enter into EU, I expect to have some serious increase to cost when ordering from UK-the holy land of miniature manufacturers. Until July I will be able to keep the cost low when ordering small packages, but after that time, unless a new trade deal occurs, my choices will be very limited.

  I’ve ordered some pill bases for my mounts so, until that arrives, I’ll either switch to historics/ancients or go sci-fi.

  I’m also considering making a tutorial of my painting technique, but I need to decide on the medium. Video or Pictures with text. Maybe a mix of both.

  Now to the wood elves. I decided to go with an old school color scheme (like most of my painting style – I’m back to the 90s) using Green and Yellow uniforms and Red bows and spears.

  I had processed my dried coffee grinds with green paint in the past in an effort to make home made flock. Doesn’t work well as flock, but the paint caused some coffee clumps, which look like small rocks. I’ve used this to texture the inner part of my bases, and I really like the variety.

  The wood elves were painted with transparent or semi opaque paints and inks, and this really helps show the sketch prime underneath. It’s one of the best examples to show my technique in 15mm so far.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 3:27 pm on January 23, 2021 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: cpmodels, fantasy, minis ( 166 ), painting ( 184 )   

  Miniatures pt32 – Mummies 

  An important enemy of all fantasy or pulp adventures is the mummies. After going through the available options, I decided to go through with the set from cpmodels. They’re have 12 unique poses!

  For painting them, I followed the same scheme I had used for my skeletons. White prime and white undercoat (no sketching), yellow/burnt umber 50/50 wash, yellow ochre drybrush, white drybrush, black/brown wash. Since there were no details painted, this was my fastest paint job so far. About 24 hours including day job, basing and varnish.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 7:04 pm on January 18, 2021 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: blighthaven ( 14 ), fantasy, minis ( 166 ), painting ( 184 ), ralpartha ( 41 )   

  Miniatures pt31 – Sir Roderick’s Retinue 

  This is Sir Roderick’s Retinue from the Blighthaven line of Demonworld range from Ral Partha Europe.

  It’s only the retinue, without Sir Roderick, who is mounted. I don’t have appropriate basing for mounts and beasts, so he’s on hold until I get some bases.

  For the red uniforms, I did a pink undercoat, followed by an orange ink overcoat. White shields with red X freehand.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 4:16 pm on January 17, 2021 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt30 – Assorted 2 

  Here are a few single miniatures from the Demonworld line of Ral Partha Europe. A temple guardian and a few monsters. A couple werewolves, a vampire coven and a harpy.

  In this batch job, I am still trying a few combinations of acrylic inks. Using transparent inks over a different color basecoat to achieve a combined color in the end. For the deep red inside of the vampire cloaks, I did a pink undercoat followed by red ink.

  I also switched to a combined base texturing technique. I used CA glue and baking soda on the exterior ring of the base, and PVA glue and coffee grinds on the interior ring of the base. This gives a gradual change from a finer grain to a coarser one, stop the PVA from flowing outside the base and protects the miniature feet from climbing PVA glue. I’m going to keep this.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 3:44 pm on January 10, 2021 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: demonworld ( 19 ), fantasy, minis ( 166 ), painting ( 184 ), ralpartha ( 41 )   

  Miniatures pt29 – Big Ones 

  With this post, I’ve reached my photos backlog with up to date paintings. This means that I will be only able to post miniatures posts as I paint them, and it will take longer.

  Here are 4 big ones in 15mm. An Ogre, a Troll, and two Minotaurs. These are from the Ral Partha Europe Demonworld range.

  Painting the squares on the Ogre pants was hard, but I really enjoyed the end result and it goes well with the stripes.

  For the troll, I did something I hadn’t done before. Instead of painting it green directly, I gave it a light blue basecoat, followed by a yellow ink once dry. My yellow ink is transparent and weak in pigment, so I had this beautiful green as a result, with yellowed parts.

  I tried to do something similar with the Minotaurs, using red ink over yellow ochre, hence the evil demonic look.

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 2:22 pm on January 8, 2021 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: fantasy, irregular, minis ( 166 ), painting ( 184 )   

  Miniatures pt28 – Halflings 

  Finding halflings in 15mm in Europe is not a very easy task. I have found only 2 vendors so far. I decided to try my luck with Irregular Miniatures and I wasn’t disappointed.