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

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.

Good luck with them, Hank. May their reign be bloody!

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.

I thought it would be fun to see what he looks like next to the

original Confrontation card, so...

In the beginning...

And then there was skin...

And Non-metallic Metals...

And gems...

And now he's done!!

Guild Ball -- Home Field Advantage

Sometimes the bases make the models...

Guild Ball:

Home turf for the Butcher's Guild.

In which I walk you through the four bases I've made

for the Butcher's Guild starter box.

Wooden planks were wanted as atmosphere.

Naturally I thought meat should be included.

Below: I used actual wood stirring sticks, scoring 

them with a wood carving tool to accentuate 

the grain, and make it look like flooring.

Below: I used Green Stuff, the two part epoxy putty to sculpt

steaks and sausages. I wanted the steaks to look like beef strip

steaks, so I first sculpted the strip loin, and cut steaks from it,

as you would do with a real strip loin.

Below: I had to figure out which models go on which bases, and

then figure out which one gets the steak and which gets the links.

Below: Primed using Badger Air Brush's Stynylrez Red Brown Primer.

Being used to either white, black, or grey primer, it was interesting to work around this color. 

I don't have an air brush, so as you can see, this works great with regular brushes too.

Below: The first thing I did was use Secret Weapon and

Citadel washes, applying them all over first, and then targeting

certain areas more to darken them.

Below: I forgot to take note of the colors I used for the actual wood, which were applied first, but these are the colors I used for the meats.

Below: Here's what my palette looked like. Among the reds, and whites, you can see a cool gray color as well, which is one of the colors I used on the wood planks for a temperature contrast.

And here's the finished product!

Makes you want to heat up the grill.

 

The next four Confrontation Kelts are finished!

My next 4 Kelts are finished.

The project moves along.

There are 18 more to paint.

Reaper Miniature's Eldessa Necromancer - painted in 2009

Just a pretty picture of Eldessa Necromancer, which was painted several years ago.

Confrontation Kelts - The first three of two dozen are finished

I realized a few days ago that I had never posted the finished photos of my Confrontation Kelts.

Here they are...

Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.

I finished this Zombie Werewolf from Reaper Miniatures last night.

...because being a werewolf isn't tough enough.

Confrontation Celts, part deux...

This experiment with the value sketches continues.
You saw the darks added. Now I've added the lights. We are ready for more color.

Confrontation... remember those awesome minis from Rackham?

My latest major project is painting about two dozen Celts from the Confrontation line.
I've always loved the entire range of models from Rackham, so I said "Yes way!!" when I
was asked to paint them.

This post is about laying the groundwork. Not the bases. They came to me assembled, based and primed, which is a little weird for me, but whatevs.
Anyways, laying the groundwork for painting. Finding the lights and darks before applying all those colors. I will steal Matt DiPietro's word for it, and call it a value sketch.
I did add a bit of color to mine. A little pinkish tone, as they're supposed to be ruddy-skinned Northern-Europeans, and a bluish hue to my darks.