So, since completing the Celestial Fulcrum I've been working on the plastic Feral Warpwolf kit in bits and spurts, whenever I can find the time to sit down and throw some paint on him. An hour here, a half-hour there... but despite the slow pace, he's coming along quite nicely, and his base is finished (or nearly so. I think it may still need an extra small touch to finish it). Once I figure out how I want his mane of fur to look, I think that'll do it. For a first attempt at two-brush blending, I think he came out looking quite good.
The Wolves of Oroboros have also been coming along slowly, but they're getting there. I may make some changes to the basing ever so slightly based on how the Warpwolf came out.
As for the Celestial Fulcrum, I placed some images of it up on the Privateer Press forums from some critique. Got some good suggestions and a fair amount of positive comments, including from Meg Maples, one of their studio painters. That rather made my day.
In other news, I finally bit the bullet last night and put down a decent chunk of money for some good Winsor Newton Series 7 brushes (I had initially intended to buy the Raphael 8404 series, but evidently the price has gone up on them). It's about time I finally did this - just about most people I know have recommended I finally get some good, high quality brushes. The skill is there, now I just need the better tools, as I've been told (a decent number of posts on the forum have mentioned how much upgrading their brushes improved folks' painting results). I admit, I'm quite curious to see what, if any, changes may result.
S'about it. I've been attempting for the last day or so to do some work on my cousin's and his wife's miniatures - we bought them years ago for a now defunct D&D campaign - but I never got these models painted in time. I'm thinking they might make a nice present for their moving away party this weekend, but now the question is whether or not I can get them both adequately painted in time for then!
No comments:
Post a Comment