Sneak Peek Upcoming Fortress Figures stuff...

Here are a bunch of figs i have just finished for Fortress Figures. There are 7 zombies and an Grey Alien. These are really nice figs and have a bunch of Character. The football player and the clown are my personal favorites. The clown has a lot of areas for creative use of as many garish colors as you could ever want to use on a clown :) I tried something a little different with the Grey. Instead of a straight gray Color i went with a sort of greenish/brown/grey from the Reaper master paints (stone triad i believe). I really like the tone of it and plan on using it again for an alien skin tone. Some of the zombies i chose to make quite pale while others i made a dark brown dried out color. The one zombie in the top row farthest to the right has a really horrible mint greenish suit that only a zombie would wear. All in all these were really nice figs that really add a lot to the huge variety of Zombies the Fortress already has out. I always say you can never have too many zombies!

Newly painted Gloire Figs

Here are a few of the new Gloire figs i've been working on for Brigade Games. They are quite fun to paint and in very dynamic poses. I especially like the Highwayman(first pic). I tried to use dark colors for the Highwayman. The rest were pretty sensibly dressed compared to some of the first ones i did for Brigade. This was a nice change of pace and is nice as they will add variety to the line.

New RAFM Painted stuff

Here are the latest batch of figs i have painted for RAFM. I plan on finishing the rest of the angels and archangels soon. These Elephants and Gashants are new releases. Pretty neat stuff and fun to paint!

The Robocop Project

Robocop was a pretty tough fig to find. Nothing seemed even remotely similar to what he looks like. I found that some parts of this Urban Interdict were similar and figured that they would be a good starting point. I’m no sculptor I can tell you that but I can handle modifications to existing figures pretty well. This was by far the most modified figure I have ever done aside from figures I’ve sculpted from scratch. Here's what the original mini looks like.

First I left the head off as I was going to use a reaper head from their sculpting set of 10 heads. I now have to snip off the base strip as I need him to be standing on his feet. I bend one foot so it is standing and left the other one alone (it looked ok).

Next I snipped away the gun from the left hand as Robocop only has one pistol. I left the remaining fist because I didn’t want to handle sculpting the open hand. I now snipped away at the shoulders of the separate arms as they have armor that is not correct for Robocop. I snipped the shoulders/back down even with the neck so that it would look right also.

Next I modified the right arm so that I was able to get it to point out the way Robocop holds it. I drilled a hole in the neck area of the torso to accommodate the pin on the Reaper head.

Now the fun with the putty begins! I decided to use brown/silver putty because I find it easier to work with that the yellow blue/green stuff. I first sculpt the neck and chin strap areas on the head. Then I add the chest armor plates. After this I added the helmet to the head. Now I re-shape the back/shoulders area with the putty to clean up the mess I made with the snippers and files. Finally I sculpted the shoulder pads on and bulked up the arms a bit.

Painting was fairly simple I first laid down a coat of Blue steel paint on all the armor parts. Next I gave it a was of blue/black ink mixed with future and water. After this I cleaned up all the flat areas with the original blue steel and then highlighted with silver. Next I paint in the black areas and highlight them with dark gray and then gray. I now finish up with coating the fig with matte finish and then dull coat. Finally go back and detail the shiny black areas with a coat of future. I think while it isn’t the best it ain’t bad for a figure I can’t go out and buy in the store!

Thanks for reading,

Chris

Victory Force Germans!

I've finally gotten around to painting more of the Victory force stuff i have. Here are a German Officer, Waffen and Some Waffen Snipers. Great Figs with a lot of Character.

Old Glory Pirate of the month

I've Finished painting up my Old Glory Pirate so i figured i would post a pic of him for all to see. He reminded me of someone so i painted him accordingly.

New stuff for RAFM

here are some of my latest fig paint jobs for RAFM, i think they came out pretty nice if i do say so myself :)

Captain Spaulding's Murder ride!

Here's my first post of a miniature to this blog. He's a Modern Day Hero miniature which has been painted to resemble Captain Spaulding. www.rafm.com is where the fig came from.

What is the point of this?

I've decided to give up on my old website and start using a blog instead. I figure i can get pics of new figs up here faster and anything else i need to quicker this way. So there it is...