Year One

It has now been one year since I took up painting again. Looking back, I'm surprised how much I've done.

I usually get about a half hour of painting done every day. Hopping from one project to another I work on 1-20 minis simultaneously which means a lot of half-dones lying around.

With these guys laid out, the funny thing is, I don't know if I've gotten a lot better at painting during this past year but I've definitely gotten a lot faster. And maybe I'm now getting more hits compared to the misses..

Anyway, as a hooray to myself, my top five pieces of the past year IMHO:

This arthropod. I'm happy with getting decent paint job onto the plastic I was having trouble with earlier. And I'm pleased with the way the light source effect turned out. I also think the pose turned out fine; the spider rearing back from the torch, probably thrown by some startled dungeon explorer who has just noticed a spider the size of a cow sneaking up on them.

This pirate. I always wanted to paint a classic pirate, but never got around to it before. Also, he was one of the early ones I did after picking up a brush again after taking a break for a decade. With him I felt like I was really getting my painting groove back on again, painting was starting to feel fast and easy, and I like the result.

These marines. Finishing a full squad was very satisfying. Also, the droids had been taunting me from my "to-paint" pile for almost 20 years. Finally done!

These watchmen. The second time a did a whole unit, and finding inspiration in classic art was surprisingly much fun.

This fellow. The paint job is crap, but he is the mini that broke the decade long hiatus!

More Metal or the Warrior of Chaos

Continuing with the HeroQuest playing pieces, here's the Warrior of Chaos playing character from the Adventure expansion. A link to the original art in lo-res, row 2, column 1.

An Exercise in Dry Brushing, Or The Mummy

Next I bought some more brushes and Citadel paints, making painting a bit easier. Here's an enemy from the City expansion, the mummy. A link to the card in lo-res. Column 1, row 2.

The mini is from another board game, HeroQuest. The game itself is nothing too special, but it came with a bunch of fun playing pieces, orcs, goblins, skeletons, mummies, etc.

The mummy I simply painted by starting with a dark brown base and drybrushing with lighter and lighter tones until he looked ok enough. It would have been a lot faster, had I not completely lost the feel for the amount of white to add.

As a bonus, here's a fiersome fimir also from HeroQuest I painted up at the same time.

Sadly, no role for him in The Project