Crazyredcoat’s Crazy Compendium of Collected Creativity

It’s been a while, but school takes up almost all of my time at the moment. Geology is fun, but still takes time. Due to some priming issues, my planned ‘when I have time’ mini had to take a sideline, so I decided if I can’t paint another Stark of Winterfell, then I’d paint something else from somewhere cold. I had a plastic Contemptor Dreadnought lying around all primed in blue for Ultramarines, but I’m kind of sick of some of the hate that they get from people, so I went with a nice Nordic inspired group instead; Space Wolves! Pre-Heresy colours, of course, because they are just nicer than the blue/grey, I think. Anyway, ramblings aside, here’s the mini.

So, I should have been doing school work. I did not. Here is Sansa Stark.

Schoolwork still not being done…but I finished Brienne, so I have that going for me, which is nice.

A brief lull, and a considerable amount of procrastination, have allowed me to get another mini painted. Though I have not run out of my grass tufts…so future minis may not have finished bases for a while… Anyway, here is Bronn.

Anyway…back to physics now…

I’m getting rather good at painting a mini in a single day these days… I’ll pass on the ‘should have done schoolwork’ part for today, because there’s actually something particular about this mini that I’d like to go over, but more on that later. I present to you Ser Jaime Lannister!

So about this shield. Long story short, I made a boo-boo. Something that can act as a warning to others. The left hand top corner of the shield looks a bit different to the right side, and that’s because I’m an idiot. It is true that warming up plastic to be able to bend it back into shape is a good way of doing it. But you CAN use too much heat. I did this. To put it politely; it royally pissed me off that I screwed it up and melted it somewhat. However, there’s always ways to fix these kinds of things. My sculpting ability is not sufficient to repair such damage, but I could easily ‘distress’ the shield further. So I put a few nicks in it and a deeper gash to simulate damage. I was dubious with just the primer on it, but I think it turned out reasonable enough.

So these posts seem to be coming on an almost weekly basis at the moment, which is nice. My Saturday Hobby Habit. Anyway, this time I’m wrapping up the last of the characters from the Starter Set for A Song of Ice and Fire Miniatures Game with Ser Gregor Clegane, The Mountain. He’s a fairly simple mini to paint, so here’s the finished product.

Thought I might actually miss this week…but then I just had enough of school and didn’t look at it for a day or two… Either way, another mini is done. This time I went back to 40k and an army I haven’t added to since I paused my last project; Ultramarines! I call him Jedi Librarian, but that will probs change once I can be bothered to come up with a better one. Hopefully you can see why I call him that.

It’s been a while, chaps! End of a school term is always hectic, even forgetting The Event (Stay Indoors). However, I finally got around to some painting during a brief lull in my exams, and here is the work in question:

So I went into quite a long system of painting the skin for the last mini in this team, but as we all know skin tones are one of those things that vary all over the place, so I thought I’d try a new method for this one. It’s not as pale as the first mini and, I think, looks a little more tanned. Either way, it was actually fairly simple to do (though I don’t have step-by-step pics this time…

First off, I based all of the skin with Palid Wych Flesh. As the man himself says; two thin coats. Though with this colour you may need 3 if your primer is a bit darker. Once you have your nice pale colour, take some pure white paint (I used White Scar) and add some broad highlights to the face, abdomen, and other prominent parts…like the butt… Next up, cover the skin in Darkoath Flesh (though Guilliman Flesh would also work for a slightly different tone) and once that is dry drybrush the skin with Kislev Flesh. If you wanted it a bit more pale then a lighter drybrush of Palid Wych Flesh would do that for you.

After that I did some details for make-up on the face.

So orange/ginger hair is something I’ve tried before, and I replicated that colour here as best as I could remember it. Basecoat of Jakero Orange to start, making sure to have a nice solid base. After that a coat of Reikland Fleshshade, though Agrax Earthshade would create a browner tint. After that I did a second coat near to the crown to darken the roots of the hair. After that a drybrush of Tau Light Ochre across it and a final drybrush of Ungor Flesh at the tips.