Old Glory Female Pirate of the Month

Not a big update but i had to get a quick paint job on this fig just to see what i could do with it. I think it came out pretty well. There are some rough areas on the sculpt but it isn't too bad a fig especially for a free one :)

My First Rebelminis Paints

Here are my First Paints of some Rebelminis stuff. Altogether nice stuff and i've been on a bit of a 15mm kick lately so these are helping to quench that for me :)

This is one of their Grav Tanks and i must say it's quite a nice sculpt. I went with a woodland camo scheme and accentuated the edges with some tan to show wear.
These have to be some of the most detailed 15mm i have ever painted! I felt i had to try and give them as much detail as i could even though they were small. Here are the gang member figs.
I went with a subtle color scheme for the spy. black /grey and for the body suit and blue/grey for the equipment. I made the 3 eye lenses a glowing green color. Very cool fig and well scuplted.
Well that is all for now.

More Fortress Teasers

Here's the Rest of the pics that i got from Ben over at Fortress Figures, of the latest paint jobs i have done for them.

First up is a pretty nifty fig called a Bogey Robot. With this fig i avoided the urge to just go with some rusted metal colors and tried to stay with some nice bright solid colors.Here we have a maid with an MP5 and a duster of course! Perfect for a zombie survival game i would think.
This fig made me think of a survivalist type so i went with drab colors. She's obviously a very patriotic survivalist as well :) Nice fig though and fun to paint.
Here is a Bounty Hunter in Power armor. It's a nice cleanly sculpted chunky fig and i went with some simple camo on the armor along with black and blue steel for equipment and such. I made the goggles red to make them stand out .
This thing is Huge! When i was working on these Infestor aliens i tried to stick to bone colors as much as possible. This fig was quite an undertaking and took some time to paint. The arms are great and can be glued in either upper or lower positions and are ball and socket joints so you can pose them all over the place. I went with the open claws above as if it is about to tear something apart. I ended up painting the head separately because it was easier to get to all the details that way. Very nice fig BTW would be great for Horror/Sci-Fi games.
Here is a Backbiter. I'm guessing these guys jump on your back and eat their way through to the other side. Well that's what i would have them do. nice fig with some really nasty sharp teeth in it's mouth.
Here we have a little variation on the Big Infestor bug above. You'll notice i used the same colors for them both because of this. Nice little fig.
This fig reminded me of a female action hero type so i went with a leather coat, suede boots and a red jumpsuit. Nice pose very dynamic and i wonder how they were able to cast it in once piece.
Here's your friendly local policeman with his 12 gauge or possibly all that is left of the nearby police force after the zombie outbreak? Nice sculpt and i hope to see more of these made to represent the rest of a police force.
Well that is all for now i will post more stuff as time permits.

More Fortress Figures Teasers!

I've been able to get some really nice pics from Fortress Figures of some of the latest stuff i have done for them.
First up are some new zombie sculpts one is a guy in a jacket that i think if painted a certain way could be "The Valet" after an unsuccessful combat with the zombies. I painted him differently though because the Valet can't lose a fight can he?
These 2 zombies go together, mother and daughter. Really nice pair of sculpts that actually go "Hand and Hand" :) .



Here is what could be Rasta gang member or a Zombie Fighter, take your pic. Nice fig and i hope Fortress does more of these modern gang type figs
The Sniper Chick is next and this was one of the most fun to paint. I gave her rifle the appearance of an AWM british rifle and some nice blue tinted glasses. I can see this fig on a high rooftop picking targets now...




Here are some SWAT team types these would make a nice unit with the Female as a leader type or one of the other poses could work as well.



Here's one of my Personal favorites "The Valet" I love the action in this fig and it was simple and fun to paint.
Here is one of Ben at Fortress Figures first attempt as an anime style fig. I think the sculpt came out really nice. I tried to use bright colors on this one to get that clean and bright anime look.


There's even more that this coming and i will post pics soon!

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.