Life in the Cathyverse
I like to blather on about nothing of consequence because we all know the world revolves around me.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Cathy's Butchers!! All photos of my finished Guild Ball team are here!!
This is the second Guild Ball Butchers team that I've painted. This is my personal team, so I can play too!
Labels:
Boar,
Boiler,
Brisket,
Butchers,
Butchers Guild,
Cobblestone,
Guild Ball,
Happy Seppuku,
Ox,
Princess,
Shank,
Steam Forged,
Steamforged,
Tenderizer
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Confrontation Kelts Continues...
A challenge to make three identical models look different from each other.
Three Rackham Confrontation Kelts.
Here you'll see stages from blocking out the values using underpainting,all the way to the finished product.
This underpainting establishes where the shadows and highlights are; the darkest and lightest values, and middle tones.
I've added some basic color. Browns for leathers, and pink, peach, reddish yellow tones for skin.
My goal here was to experiment in trying to emulate Frank Frazetta's Conan flesh tones.
I've added highlights to the skin. I've made it slightly different for each figure. One is more ruddy, one is more yellow, one more brown. Thin glazes of the lighter colors make them less abrupt, and you can always go back and glaze your original base colors back over any area that got too light or chalky.
I've added middle tones to the leather kilts. I then used washes to darken down some areas. Then I added highlights.
Here I've done the same thing as above with the leather sleeve, belt, and boot wraps.
Using yellows and purples for the bronzes. Celts, after all, lived mostly in the Bronze Age. Purples are a great way to shade and tone down yellows.
I've mixed a grey with a greenish/bluish tint for the sword blades. Painted the bones, and started the hair.
Decided to add a white highlight to the sword blades. You can see the subtle difference from the above pic. I also added some highlights to the hair.
Final highlights to the hair. Almost forgot to highlight the leather wraps on the sword hilts.
Woad designs on the skin to finish them off, and final pictures taken using a light box.
Woad designs on the skin to finish them off, and final pictures taken using a light box.
Filled in the reservoir on the right hand base with Secret Weapon Miniatures Realistic Water.
Most of the paints used were the Reaper Miniatures Master Series Clear Paints, Secret Weapon Miniatures Acrylic Weathering Paints, Vallejo Washes, and Privateer Press 3 Acrylics.
The resin bases were provided by the customer.
Monday, January 23, 2017
Firbolg Musician - Finished pics
Final images of the Firbolg Musician
This miniature was an experiment using Reaper Miniatures' Clear paints
from their Master Series Paints line.
The clear paints are, as described in the title, very translucent.
In my work in progress posts you can see how I started building up
the values in my underpainting, from dark to light,
so the shading was mostly in place before applying the color.
I couldn't get my lightest highlights using only the Clears though,
so I used a favorite light color,
the Weathered Wood paint from Secret Weapon Miniatures.
the Weathered Wood paint from Secret Weapon Miniatures.
I feel like I could have pushed the darks to be darker,
but at some point, you have to call the model done.
Labels:
Celtic,
Celtos,
Celts,
Fir Bolg,
Firbolg,
i-KORE,
Kelts,
Kev White,
Reaper Master Series paints,
Secret Weapon,
Stynylrez
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Fir Bolg Musician - Work In Progress - Stage 2
Labels:
Barbarian,
Celtic,
Celtos,
Celts,
Fir Bolg,
Firbolg,
i-KORE,
Kelts,
Kev White,
Reaper Master Series paints,
Secret Weapon,
Stynylrez
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Fir Bolg Musician - Work In Progress - Stage 1
Stage 1
Work In Progress
Celtos
Fir Bolg Musician
Sculpted by Kev White for i-KORE Games
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
The Butchers Guild
Wow! So it was after Adepticon that I was approached to paint an entire Guild Ball team.
I had the Starter Box for the Butchers Guild in my hands a month later.
You may have seen my post about finishing those four models.
After Gen Con I started in earnest on the remaining six figures.
To my surprise, another two were added;
the Kickstarter version of Ox, and the newly released mascot, Truffles.
Well, here they are, finally finished.
Boy, sometimes you wish you had the brainstorm to put your name on each
picture, after you've finished everything and already posted them on the blog. Sigh.
You all know I painted them, and Hank has the team in his hands now.
You all know I painted them, and Hank has the team in his hands now.
Good luck with them, Hank. May their reign be bloody!
Labels:
Butchers,
Butchers Guild,
Guild Ball,
Steam Forged,
Steamforged
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
I love the old Rackham figures! Here's Drac Mac Syro from the Confrontation Kelts...
I've been posting updates of this on my Facebook profile as I've been working, and
this is the blog post that brings all that Work In Progress information together.
And please forgive me for my many fonts and font sizes.
In the beginning...
And then there was skin...
And Non-metallic Metals...
And gems...
And now he's done!!
Labels:
Barbarian,
Celts,
Conan,
Confrontation,
Drac Mac Syro,
Kelts,
Rackham,
Secret Weapon
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