2019 Hobby Resolution

I am sooo a professional painter now!!!  A friend won two miniatures at a charity raffle and I thought one was cool and she wanted the other.  She was willing to just give me the other, but I told her I’d paint the one she wanted.

No I am not taking commissions, I am not that good.  Part of this exercise is to practice painting.

I will probably paint the con crud she gave me sometime later this year.

Count: 1 of 365

So I was running a game and needed some miniatures for the game.  So I painted up my Gamorians, the Ysoki and Buba McFett (Bobo Fett) for the game.

In addition since I was painting some other Starwars Imperial Assult miniatures I had the 4 Trandoshan miniatures primed on my painting table forever.  In addition I had a Shadows of Brimstone rat where I had painted it’s 11 partners, but I had lost the 12th, well I found it and it too has been added.

Miniatures finished 11

Count 12 of 365

So I had 21 Legion Stormtroopers and Darth Vader whom had completed except basing and the saber lighting effect.  I am starting a Legion project so I will discuss these deeper there.

Miniatures 22

Count 34 of 365

Well it has been a few weeks, but 44 more Legion miniatures are in the bag.  These were done from the ground up.  The E-Webs only count as one…no cheating this early in the year.  We can look at it later when I am hymning and hawing with a well technically and etc…but for now only 1.

Miniatures: 44

Count: 78 of 365

There is going to be a short

because my wife got me something for my birthday that just has to be built!

Welp, it has been a while.  While I have not been hobby free, I was involved in a computer programming project for GenCon, so very little painting.

The only thing I got finished over those months was a commission for a friend, that I forgot to picture finished out of the box, so here it is in the box.

Miniatures: 1

Total: 79 out of 365.

First it was time to try contrast paints.  So these spiders are solely a single contrast color.  While it works great, the basing with static grass makes the pieces more interesting than the spiders themselves.

Next comes more imperials, cuz I have a bunch.  In this case for the snow troopers instead of going with a straight wash on the brown parts, I used contrast medium along with the Army Painter strong tone.  I need to play with mixing contrasts more, they seem to have too high surface tension, but I am worried that breaking that up with some soap will cause them to stop working properly.

Miniatures: 60

Total: 139 of 365

Since Pathfinder 2 has come out I seem to be playing more fantasy, so first off some birds, frogs, rats, wolves, and an orc.  Mostly done with contrast paints, still learning what I can do with them. 🙂

Next up Grievous and his B1 Battle Droids, this is the core box +1 expansion to make my separatist army legal with 3 troop choices.   Grievous is done traditionally with airbrush gun metal, airbrush black wash, zenith air brush silver.  Cloak is black with grey highlights and on the inside of the cloak is done with the same metallic work done with the rest of his body, but the GW red glaze over the top, the light saber is same with blue glaze.  The B1 Battle Droids are simply skeleton hoard contrast paint and black, with gunmetal dry brush on weapons.

New miniatures: 50

Total: 189