Hobby exploits 2020 and onward

Painting with oils has that unique quality, that completing five or six minis takes almost the same amount of time as finishing one. Therefore, evry time I paint one colour scheme, I end up with a bunch of nearly finished models. This weekend I painted all lacking parts on three minis I’d started with my Defersen. I tried to get them all into one project entry but only got blank page in return, so sorry for splitting them up into three separate entries.

As it is tradition for the year, I took part in Mayacast Masterglass competition for the quarter as well. I haven’t won that one. The theme was “meme”. I tried something different this time, as memes bring comics and cartoons to mind (for me at least). So there you have it, Kunai Solutions Ninja as meme:

Finally I won a paining competition. Q3 Bromad Academy Contest had conversion as their theme.

I converted Knight Hospitaler Medic to Father Officer de Fersen. Although he has his official mini (even two) I really hate it – it is probably my least liked mini in whole present range.

The conversion was rather simple:

1. Cut off medic’s bag on his right side and sculpt some wrinkles of the tabard instead with some greenstuff.
2. Cut off the sword and replace it with 3d-printed spitfire (Monstrous Makings on Thingiverse).
3. Cut off head/helmet and replace it with 3d printed one (from one of U9’s civilians).
4. Cut off his medikit together with his hand and replace it with 3d printed one (from different U9’s civilian).
5. Cut off his left forearm and turn it accordingly to imitate “hacking hand” – a pose characteristic for hacker minis in whole Infinity universe.
6. Add sheathed longsword of my own design to his left side (again, 3d printed).

Painting was quite fast, main bulk of the armour was painted with Phtalo Blue (green hue) and highlighted with mixture of turquoise, white and a drop of bismuth yellow. Tabard started as mixture of cadmium red and some blue (probably phtalo) and was highlighted with pure cadmium red. Shadows on all colours are accentuated with mixture of magenta and phtalo blue (with a bit of black to kill some saturation).

This is Jazz, probably the best hacker in whole Infinity game, she comes from Corregidor (the Nomad mothership, not the island on Earth). The mini is Kickstarter special from the Defiance box.

I never played any Warhammer or any GW for that matter… save for Talismanin early 90’s and some Space Hulk 3^rd edition in early 2010’s. The latter is actually only set of GW figures I have, some of them are even painted.

Anyway, from time to time I want to get some break from Infinity and paint something ‘grimdark’. Couple of weeks ago Trovorion (https://youtu.be/nlf_j8CB-3k) of YT fame (among others) did great video on the topic which inspired me to paint one of my reaper models that way, but first I wanted to check the method and that boardgame piece seemed to be best suited to become test dummy.

Oh, the mini was painted completly with acrilics and paintbrush (2 of them),  no oils, no washes. Airbrushed primer and varnish.

So there you go:

This is a misprint I held for almost two years. Finally I decided to either paint it or throw it away. See for yourselves if I made good choice,

All the decals are self-made, colours done with airbrush and blacklining with a sharpie.

I’m working on a competition piece and wanted to alter the colours of mu Military Orders to something more flashy. I used this model as a training grounds, and while contrast on this one is not the best and “blacklining” on one side is ridiculous, I like it (BTW I really like this mini design, classic).

Of course I painted wrong variant (with spitfire instead of a multirifle), but I’m really pushed away from the other one because of that dead Umbra under her heal.

Anyway, standard oil job as on the rest of my Military Orders, however, with the following minis I’ll switch back to phtalo blue as the  base colour, cobalt blue I used to use on my Hospitalers and her is doesn’t seem to be vibrant enough.