Latest pictures from Steven, including his water horse that has already been covered... Note that the pictures don't do justice to the actual figures, they are way better than the pictures suggest!
Hi Dad,
It has been months since I gave a proper
update, so thought it was about time. First up, the water-horse-dragon thing
you gave me a while back:
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| Figure 1 Toy water-dragon-horse, mainly use as a test
piece for airbrushing and glazing |
I also painted three Crooked Dice miniatures
that obviously represent characters from the video game franchise Mortal
Kombat. I apparently forgot to take photo of the thunder god Raiden, but here
are a couple of other miniatures. I do like Crooked Dice and look forward to
getting to some other video-game inspired miniatures of theirs which are still
in my backlog.
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| Figure 2 Goro, Shokan Warrior |
Figure 3 Scorpion, Netherrealm Demon
and Salute Painting Competition also ran
I have also painted a couple of 15mm Samurai
buildings from Oshiro Models to go with the Sengoku figures I painted some time
ago. Spent some time trying to get realistic texture effects, especially on the
wood.
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| Figure 4 Samurai house. Hopefully the wood looks like
wood, rather than ‘something that been painted brown’ |
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| Figure 5 Shrine. The walls have too much contrast
(aesthetic choice) to be realistic, but I hope the doors and beams are
reminiscent of wood that has been painted white but is now a bit weathered |
Finally, my major project of recent weeks: the
first half of a 15mm prehistoric project. I have painted the grazers but need
to get some predators and cavemen next (birthday hint). The horses are 10mm
Pendraken Miniatures zebras painted as Przwalski’s wild horses (which is how
the horse in the Lascaux cave paintings look), the goats, deer and rabbits are
all 15mm Pendraken Miniatures. The mammoth, rhino and hippo are toys you gave
me, but they have painted up pretty well, even thought they literally have
‘Made in China’ stamped on the underbelly. (And cost about 30p-50p each! - Dad) It was interesting putting much more
effort into the bases. I bought a variety of grassy tufts and flowers at Salute
and have put them to good use here. A lot of the rocks are carved up lumps of
cork from a wine bottle.
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| Figure 6 I think they look quite good all together,
although the rhino and hippo are probably a bit over-sized. I'm really looking
forward to adding some predators and cavemen to the mix. |
