Wednesday 8 March 2017

From BillA - Don't Fear the Reaper (5 points)

Reaper Miniatures turns 25 years old this year, and to celebrate their silver anniversary, each month they are releasing a figure that is only available for sale for that month. This attractive (and large - standing close to 2" in height) Grim Reaper was their offering for the month of January.


I did things a little differently with him then I normally would - the robes were painted almost entirely with washes, building up a dingy, graveyard tone with layers of different browns, grays and black washes over a white base.  Bones were picked out in layers of "Yellowed Bone" and "Creamy Ivory," and the top and bottom halves of the hourglass were done in "True Silver" and "Antique Gold," respectively, to try and create the illusion of an hourglass empty on top and full of sand on the bottom.


The base I let myself get a little silly with - the pooled residue of so many washes obscured a lot of the detail of stone and bones beneath the Reaper, so I gave it all a good drybrush of Yellowed Bone and then washed it with "Blood Red" for that heavy metal album cover look.

ByronM:  Excellent work on a great figure!  I missed picking that one up and it is a really great one.  I especially like how you went with a muddy brown look on the cloak it reminds me of several old magazine / comic pictures that have a similar pose and colour scheme.   

13 comments:

  1. Great figure, the washes have worked very well

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  2. Oh man...spooky. Great work Bill.

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  3. I got him as well in a recent Reaper order, yours looks terrific.

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  4. Oooh, I like the brown cloak and the hourglass. I sort of looks like my Exec Director at work...

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  5. Very nice work Bill :)

    I'm surprised you didn't submit this for the theme round with that post title

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    1. I lost track of the theme rounds during my bout of painter's block, unfortunately!

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  6. Lovely looking reaper, the brown cloak has come out really well.
    Best Iain

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  7. Brilliant! the hour glass painting works so very well. The colours overall though are genius. Top work. cheers

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  8. What a great mini, and well done on him too. I like the brown colour palette - it's very effective. Looks like a Durer print.

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  9. Very nice, love the bone colour, non timetis messor!

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  10. Pratchett would be proud of this entry sir even if not official.

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  11. Really nice, I like the brown compared to the traditional black.

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  12. The cloak and hourglass are really well done, that is a great mini with a brilliant paintjob!

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