From SimonG: The Dwarf, The Giant and The Priest - Three More Studio Stops (102 points)

Well it has been a very busy week here in East Kent with the tires on our studio buggy squealing as we rocket around the back lot. After our first session in black and white last week we've hitched a ride in Lady Sarah's limousine courtesy of Kehli the dwarf adventuress from Descent -- Legends Of The Dark.

I really enjoyed working on this figure -- well nigh perfect casting and great characterisation. Apologies for those that know the original as I did this all free hand without any references beyond a set of hairstyle images!  Clearly Kehli spends some of her loot down the stylist 😉

Macro photography is pretty harsh on your painting and I had to go back and retouch the eyes and the nose ring (the red thing on the right side of her nose!) several times, and I'm not sure if these photos actually show the final result -- still well worth the effort given the quality of this nice figure.

Next Stop - High Adventure

Lady Sarah's limousine drops us off in the wild mountains of Uzbekistan where we're visiting with Fay Wray. It's a little known fact that after her early success with Mr Kong, Fay had a long and successful career as a crypto-zoologist tracking down cryptids all over the globe.  Today we see her with her cameraman on an expedition in the 1940s interviewing the last remaining Titan, Belorossus!

This is actually a combination of one Wargames Foundry 28mm Medieval civilian and a 10mm Red3 cold war reporter crew which was supplied as a freebie when I ordered some vehicles. I submit that this may be the smallest female figure submitted in this cycle and hope Lady Sarah enjoys what I did with her!

Obviously basing needed some thought when you are dealing with this diversity in scales -- I am enjoying how the challenge is making me practise a variety of new skills and different presentations.

Caelum Expectet

Our final stop for today is the set of a historical drama, a medieval romp called "Let Heaven Wait". On set today is the lead Toby the handsome herdsman as he leds his prize bull to market.

As you can see there's a priest busy trying to save souls but it seems that most are too hard working to listen and worry about their eternal rest! The figures are a mix of the aforementioned Wargames Foundry plus a figure or two from FrontRank (which may be where the ox came from as well). There's been some modest conversion to put the priest on a box, add some burdens to two of the figures and so on.

I enjoyed some of the details in painting this up -- especially the differences between markings on oxen versus horses and the slop details on the bald front figure. Basing included a custom made slab of cobbles made of modelling clay finished with a roller plus two cow pats and a dog 💩!

So my tour round the studio so far has included three stops which today yield me 102 points

• One 28mm figure and 20point Lady Sarah bonus = 25points
• One 28mm and two 10mm figures plus 20 point High Adventure bonus = 27 points
•  Six 28mm figures and 20 point Historical Drama bonus = 50 points

After all of this studio nonsense it's finally down to some real wargames figures next week with a batch of Roman Legionnaires for my Jewish Wars project -- look forward to sharing them with you next week.

Technical Note: After my previous focus stacking program (Focus Stacker) seemed to stop working I've switched to HeliconFocus which so far is giving great results with the trial version. I'm trying to avoid having to purchase PhotoShop! I use a Nikkor AF-S 105mm 1:2.8G ED lens and process on a MacBook Pro.

 

Using a 28mm figure as a giant for 10mm? Brilliant idea! Nice work all round, Simon.

Tamsin