Green Stuff I

"Green stuff" is awesome and I don't always have the patience for it. In an effort to wind down after a long day, I spent some time modifying the musician for my Empire State Troops, adding straps for his unwieldy drum. I used 5 small pieces; 1 long strap, 2 shorter straps that appear to cross underneath the main strap, and 2 small balls pressed flat where the strap joins the drum, to give the appearance of pins.

I flattened the straps and squared the edges with a pair of coffee stirrers, and trimmed excess with a scalpel. The process took about 20 minutes.

I also spent some downtime drooling at the new releases for Hordes and Warmachine. Anyone interested in picking up a starter box and learning the game with me? I remember owning the original Cygnar starter set in '04 or '05, but I ended up selling it, fully painted, for about 75$; never did get to play. Technically, Warmachine and Hordes are 30mm games and outside the purview of this blog. /lol

Painting Again

With the second session of the new Pathfinder game past, I decided it was time to paint some of the miniatures picked out by players to represent their characters. These two minis have been in my collection, primed black and wanting, for about eight years now. The first was this elfish ranger:

I’m not happy with his right hand, which has been remodeled several times and eventually pinned after breaking at the hilt. The cloak also has some strange coloration due to a repainting; I glued my finger to it while adding the sand base, and subsequently ripped off parts of the base coat.

The necromancer has been half finished since the day I got it. I actually painted over some red in favor of blue-complementing brown. The runes on the scroll are clumsily painted on (this smaller resolution version of the image handily conceals my frequent erasing with white paint).

As an aside, I learned how to take pictures of miniatures with my 50mm lens. The f-stop was at 1.8 for the pictures in the previous post, which in poor light at macro distances produces an extremely narrow focus. With the f-stop increased to 5.0, near the lens’s maximum of 5.6, there is a deeper field of focus. I am pleased with the results. The miniatures are a little shiny as the matte varnish was still wet when the pictures were taken.