The Prospect of More Painting

Although I have painted a few Reaper Miniatures in my day it has been a while I have purchased anything new fir a while. I like Reaper familar packs for the verity of charcters they provide. This is familar pack #2. It includes a demon with a speperate set of moulded wings, a cat, rat, owl, halk, and a baby dragon.

I usually have a time coming up with a decent painting scheme¹ and some of these miniatures take some time to complete painting. That is one reason I like several I can work on at one time. It gives the paint a little time to dry before I get started on another section of the miniature.

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¹ A paint scheme is a curated combination of colors designed to create visual harmony and a cohesive, intended look, commonly applied in interior design, modeling, or branding to evoke specific moods or styles. Effective schemes often follow the 60-30-10 rule (dominant, secondary, accent colors) or use color wheel theory (complementary, analogous) to balance tones.

Insertion is from AI

New Bombshell Miniatures Sidekicks

Doom Bunny & Pals

My 20mm Doom Bunny mini

Pumpkin Pal Harvest

My 20mm Pumpkin Pal Mini

It looks like I may have to purchase some new Sidekick from Bombshell Miniarures.

A Little 20mm Robot

"This miniature is from the Planets of Peril expansion set of Starfinder Battles produced by Wizkids".

The piece stands 20mm tall and is made of hard grey plastic. It is detailed from the moulding process and as you can see is provided with a few dabs of orenge and black paint.

Historifigs 20mm Hobbit

This is not the first Histroifigs miniature I have purchased or have completed. I own of three of Histroifigs, Classic Fantasy Figures. Formally I had completed a Histroifigs Elf firing a long bow.

In my reading I have learned a few things about this line of miniatures and had not realized the complete significance of these miniatures. I will have to make another post or two about this line of miniatures explaining their significance to the gaming community.

In order to complete a scene, I have in mind; I would like to pair the Hobbit up with the Histroifig wizard on a rearing horse.

Blasted Planets Order #2

My order from Historifigs arrived a few days earlier than expected. It contained the following items:

TI-03, Monsters (bag of 3 mixed), 18mm

25mm-Special Figures

BP-002  Brain Siphon (aka N'ood)             

BP-003  The Monk                                          

BP-007  Space Vampire w/Needle Gun 

BP-004  The Brotherhood: Assassin         

BP-005  The Brotherhood: Arsonist

               

F-12       20mm, Hobbit w/Sword                               

Overall I am very satisfied with these miniatures. I have made many posts on monsters, but have yet to add one to my collection. The 25mm miniatures will be used in a skirmish game of some sort or with the Blasted Planets game rules. They are all very odd looking and I am looking forward to creating properties and a back story for these characters.

I will be writing more about these miniatures shortly, but in the meantime, I feel compelled to paint my first hobbit. I will get back to you on the progress of these miniatures.

My Splintered Light Village Personalities

I recently was digging through my collection of unpainted miniatures and came across a set of6 figures, produced by Splintered Light Miniatures. These “Village Personalities” include a rabbit gentleman and his muskrat lady housemaid, a crazy toad, a distinguished badger, rat and mole. I was considering painting the rabbit gentleman to display with a poem I wrote for this purpose. I will need to retake a picture of rabbit, for the first take came out a bit blurry.

Earlier on I made a post that mentioned these miniatures. The post made a mention of a site that featured some of these miniatures. Recently, I found another site that also featured these miniatures. I feel rather daunted by the quality of work on these miniatures.

Pops Hops Rabbit and his Guinness Stout

Pop Hops the rabbit hopped across the road for a pint at the pub. A pint or two with a game of darts would have been sufficient, but instead he had several with his fellows. There were the other Rabbits McHew, and McKay. The badger O’Tooney and hedgehog McLay. There was much talk, Stout, and the game of darts that made them all hot. There is nothing better, to cool a rabbit down, than another Guinness.

On his return home, which was a hop across the street; Pop rabbit was involved in a misadventure that got him fixed to the macadam. God rest his soul.

Obituary

Pops Hops Rabbit was the sole owner of the Hops Brewery, which is famous for its early spring ale, and its autumn stout. Pops is survived by his wife, Sally and their three children, Mopsey, Floppsy, and Peter rabbit. No word on whether the Hops Brewery will continue to produces its famous Ales and Stouts. Lettuce hope so.

Bombshell Miniatures Pumpkin Pal and its Attributes

The Pumpkin Mutant is a 20mm miniature from Bombshell Miniatures. It is part of their Side Kick Collection. This miniature was on my January Projects list.

The Pumpkin Pal does not get a move action, but can grab a hold of you with its creeper vines if a player is within one space of the Pumpkin Pal.

The controller of this creature gets to roll a die. If they roll a 3 they have gotten a hold of a victim. They usually get one unawares; the person believes that they have just brushed against something out in the field. Before too long they feel the vine wrapping itself around their arm, ankle, or worse their neck.

When you start to feel the vine constricting around your bodily member it may already be too late to break free, but on roll of a 3 the player was able to tear themselves away from this insidious creature. This creature kills by constricting, asphyxiation or by the pure horror of it all. What do expect when wandering through a haunted pumpkin patch anyway?

Bombshell Miniatures MInE Bot

My Bombshell Miniatures 20mm MInE Bot has been completed. After being thoroughly tested here it waits for its first set of instructions. What tasks will it be best suited? It is anyone’s guess what type of tasks it will be tasked with eventually, but judging by the tools it has been fitted with, some industrial job might be a good fit.

Bombshell Miniatures 20mm Doom Bunny

Who would have known that a Zombie had fallen and was lying with its mouth wide open at the top of your borrow. The Zombie instinctively chomped down on the bunnies’ ear when the rabbit stuck its ear out to catch sound of anything that might have been lurking about.

The bunny quickly withdrew its head further into the burrow. It looked horrified on its now nibbled ear and did its best to keep what had happened from the youngsters. The bunny stayed put the rest of the day nursing its young and its ear.

It wasn’t unit the next day that the bunny got out of its burrow to feed. It was not until nightfall that the bunny returned to its nest to find all of her young ones missing. There was plenty of blood and fur leading up to the nest. It was obvious that the Zombies had made another appearance. The bunny picked up the very first defensive instrument it found, but everyone knows the only defense against a Zombie is offence. The bunny has not let that axe out of her paws since. 

What’s on Your Work Bench?

Although I have gotten sidetracked, as you might have noticed I have completed my 20mm Bombshell Miniatures Doom Bunny and I have made some head way on the other two projects for this month. I have also been cutting out markers for two of the Print and Play games I have had downloaded recently and hopefully will get to two others before an approaching game night.

I have already cut the markers out for the Battle of Greenbrier River, a civil war battle, and am in the process of cutting out makers for the Battle of Manila Bay, an American and Spanish War game. I also hope to cut out markers for Sink the Bismarck and the Battle of Lobositz. More about these particular games will follow.

Projects for October

Fall is upon us and winter and the New Year will be here before you know it. (I’ve already started to make plans for new projects for the New Year.) It is time to squirrel way books, movies, and projects for those long winter days. The list is short again this month; however I still have projects from previous months that need finishing touches.

1. Bombshell Miniatures 20mm post- apocalyptic bunny
2. Bombshell Miniatures MInE Bot 20mm robot
3. Complete one of the “Old” gentlemen that are on my workbench

The Badgers of Redwall and Mossflower: Finding Purpose for my Splintered Light Miniatures

I am in the process of completing my Splintered Light Miniatures 20mm badger and am looking for his purpose in life. My badger could be a female badger, but I am assuming that one carrying a battle axe would be a male. I have yet to name this miniature, but I will most likely use one of the characters from the Redwall series. So far in my reading I have come across the following badgers.

Redwall 

• Constance

Mossflower

• Bella of Brockhall
• Boar the Fighter
• Bluestripe the Wild
• Sunflash the Mace(AKA Sunstripe)

Finding Purpose for my Splintered Light Miniatures

Although I have completed two of the five projects for August, these two Splintered Light minis are long overdue. These two are numbers three and four of the set of five 20mm miniatures. The five are part of Splintered Light’s Faithful Heroes 2 which includes two mice, a hare, badger, and an otter. The badger will be on September’s projects list.

I have read the Chronicles of Narnia and the first two volumes of Brian Jacques, Redwall series and it seems that out of the two series, to make use of my Splintered Light miniatures, the Redwall series seems to be a better candidate for creating some type of war or skirmish game.

Splintered Light 20mm miniatures are wardrobed in the correct attire and there are many of the same animals available from Splintered Light that has been mentioned within these two volumes.

Finding Purpose for my Splintered Light Miniatures

There are many scenarios that these mice could be brought into. The Redwall series includes several mice, and The Chronicles of Narnia features two mice. The Redwall series and The Chronicles of Narnia both include many situations that could be used to create a skirmish game. In addition, Mutants and Machine-Guns’ RPG makes use of evolved animals. Evolved animals, I believe, would walk on their hind legs and be able to wield a sword or some other weapon.

Projects for July

Half the year has passed and I am so far behind in completing my miniatures. I purchase new items faster than I can complete them. As a fellow blogger has recently mentioned it is the collecting that is more than half the fun of this hobby.

Creating a project list seemed to work last month. I completed three out of the four projects that I had designated for the month of June. Perhaps I should have stuck with three projects instead of the four, so this month I have only designated three projects for the month of July.

I have brought the incomplete project forward to this month list.

1. Assemble and paint one 28mm Persian miniature
2. Assemble and paint the 28mm Games Workshop Bretonnian Horse
3. Complete painting two Splintered Light mice miniatures

These projects may be completed in any order, as the mood strikes.

20mm Goodness 2

Tweets are in reverse chronological order:

:: It looks I might have another snow day, which might be a good time to get some painting accomplished.

:: My Splintered Light Minis are languishing down on my workbench and are crying out “Paint Me, Paint Me”.

:: I haven’t had any desire to paint lately. I have know motivation for much of anything lately.

:: Haven’t gotten around to any painting lately, perhaps I will have sometime on Thursday.

:: Over the weekend I did get to do painting of shields. The shields have designs that will look good with some contrasting colors.

20mm Goodness

These tweets are in reverse chronological order:

:: I hope to get to some painting this weekend and paint the fur on my Splintered Light otter.

:: I have been extraordinarily busy lately and I haven’t been able to get to my work bench all that much this week.

:: I am still not all that happy with the previously mentioned color combination; it seems a bit too light. I might try dry brushing the swords on the three miniatures and see how that works out.

:: I am not too happy with the results and I am going to try using equals parts of the silver and grey, but leave the speck of black out.

:: I have been experimenting with different color combinations for my miniature’s swords. One combination that I came up with is to use equals parts of silver and light grey and just a squirt of black to represent an iron sword. To gain some knowledge of shields I visited the Shields: Terminology and History site.

:: All five of my miniatures have received some paint. I like painting sets of miniatures, in that it gives you something to do while the paint dries on the current miniature.

:: The painting of the first set of 20mm Splintered Light Miniatures is under way, and their size has not been an issue, as long as I have my spectacles and there is plenty of light. However, I don’t see myself painting anything much smaller.

Conversions of 20mm (1/72) Plastic Figures

The Little Soldiers 20mm (1/72) Plastic Figures page discusses several simple conversions to plastic soldiers and the construction of a Vickers Machine gun and a Mortar.

What is on Your Workbench?

I am glad you asked. “Way too much.” I am hoping to get organized and to get something accomplished this year. Here is a list of projects I hope to complete during the winter:

1. One set of five 20mm Faithful Hero’s from Splintered Light Miniatures. Need to be painted.
2. A Model Power 1/87 scale supply shed with details. Needs to be assembled, painted, detailed, and based.
3. A Zelda four figure 1/72 British WWII machine gun crew. Needs to be assembled and painted.