Primed for Painting

Dread Pirate Rogers

Yo ho ho, the pirate with a heart of gold, Dread Pirate Rogers. This one did not come out nearly as cleanly as I had hoped, but on the other hand, my ambition is increasing, so I shouldn't be surprised that more complex challenges will take more time to complete successfully. I'm pretty happy with the skin tone, the ripped pants, and the shirt; the chest is okay; the sword is messy and the sash is just a mess. I probably should have painted it something other than black, but I thought it would work well with red. Maybe, but it also obliterated the detail...

I figure Dread Pirate Rogers fell in with a really despicable lot, and is now looking for a way out. But first, he needs some loot to finance a less-troubled lifestyle...

Fantasy RPG Island, Part Two: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Tub of Green Stuff

I only had enough Green Stuff to fill in a few of the pits on my plastic island. I learned an important lesson: wet your fingers before working with Green Stuff. 

I read that it takes about 24 hours for this stuff to cure. This will become important when I finish applying Green Stuff, because it means I'll have to wait for that 24 hours before I start adding sand, rocks, grass, and other materials. 
 

A Pair of Bears

On the left, a polar bear; on the right, a grizzly. After a lot of fiddling I managed to create a fairly decent base for the polar bear, but his fur and especially his face look pretty unnatural to me. A bust, I guess. The grizzly, on the other hand, looks almost natural thanks to careful drybrushing. I'm less happy with the grizzy's base, which I think looks a bit busy. 

The Little Red and Brown Boat

I was bold enough to give this ship two colours, but not bold enough to try adding some kind of sigil to the bow. For that, I think I'd need to resort to a stencil of some kind. 

Little Ms. Tentacles

Here's a surfacing octopus, coming up to visit. I still haven't quite gotten the hang of Citadel's contrast paints, but the effect looks reasonable enough to me. Once again I added some froth to give the water some life. 

Jaws of Death

Yesterday's shark breaches! I spent a lot of time attempting to give the shark's wake some froth and motion, but I'm not sure if I succeeded. The shark itself, though, looks pretty good, I think. 
 

There's Something in the Water

It's a shark fin, painted by me. I added some texture and light blue paint in an effort to give the sculpt a bit of motion. 
 

Starbridge

Wrath of the Ultra-Humanite

Here's the Ultra-Humanite figure I mentioned in yesterday's post. As you can see, both Donkey Kong and the Ultra-Humanite use the same sculpt, but different paint and basing choices give the two giant gorillas distinctly different personalities. 

The Ultra-Humanite is Superman's earliest and possibly his most fiendish villains. He's a mad scientist who uses surgery (and, naturally, accomplices) to move his brain from one body to another when his host body's usefulness runs out, either due to old age, damage, or simply convenience. Aside from his first appearances, in which he resembles a proto-Lex Luthor, the Ultra-Humanite's most famous bodies are those of actress Dolores Winters and a giant albino gorilla, which I have attempted to replicate here.

Mind you, this is not a strictly accurate rendering. While using the albino gorilla body, the Ultra-Humanite wears a red and gold harness. I could attempt to simply paint his harness onto the body, but then you'd see the fur texture beneath the paint. I could try Green Stuff to sculpt the harness and then paint the Green Stuff, but...I'm not ready for that advanced technique yet. 

W's Double Oh

I'm quite impressed by the dynamic sculpt of this miniature, so I didn't want to mess up. I think I did okay; most of the colours are "between the lines," as it were, the face and hair look good, and I even managed to get the bow tie right--no mean feat at this scale. 
  

The Editor-in-Chief

Here is a 28mm scale pewter miniature of a certain public figure famous for co-creating many iconic comic book characters. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, particularly the mustache . . . but I am of course disappointed that I could not replicate that success with the man's trademark sunglasses. I may try one more repair. Just a touch of flesh on his forehead might fix the illusion. 

The First Mate

Tonight I used HeroForge to build a 28mm scale sailor who looks like he's recently been marooned on a tropical island. He is searching for his hat (because HeroForge does not yet include anything close to the one he sports on the island). 

 

Metal Men