Living happily outside of the Monday bombing, here's my latest offering of my odds and ends. This is not probably that mixed as last week, but there's some variance.
First we have here a Man from Future, Crooked Dice miniature, who might just be Number Six. Or Number One? I don't know, but I just want information!
A really nice model, like the rest of the Crooked Dice minis, this was very clean and easy to paint. I chose the hand with no gun and mimicked the colors of the display model. In many ways this is one of the best painted miniatures I have done, although the pale lines on the coat are bit messy.
The black coat is highlighted towards blue instead of grey and the brown pants are highlighted to yellow. As this is a single miniature and one from the TV show I really liked, I paid some extra attention to the details. What else, yes, instead of white eyes, I chose the Ushbati Bone and it seems to work very well. The white eyes are not popping out. The basing is quite simple, I have made all my old WH40K and other scifi/modern bases like that, because it is easy, fast, neutral to fit various boards, looks rather nice, but don't steal the focus. The recipe: Glue sand on the black painted base, let dry. Reikland Fleshshade straight from the bottle all over the sand, let dry. Highlight rather heavily with some light grey and tidy up the edges with black.
Next we have a character who pretty much has all the information, or at least soon will have. Gandalf the Grey from the Games Workshop box Breaking of the Fellowship. This is my only model from this box, others I have sold, given away or painted as entry fees for Challenge VI. I bought this from a sale assuming I will get the box, where Boromir is dying, but I got this instead. I got the other box later on from somewhere else.
Anyway, back to the model. Quite soon I noticed, that I have started with too light grey (I don't have anything darker at the moment) and it would be hard to make a difference between the clothing and hair/beard. I used the same grey on both, but then highlighted the clothes with Ushbati Bone and hair parts with heavy white. The end result is quite nice, the grey gown doesn't look brand new anymore, it looks like it has been worn several days and nights around the Mines of Moria. Here I painted the eyes white again, the model is lighter anyway, so it might be a good choice. I also painted his clothes under the gown white, like a small hint of the future.
Then we have two bad guys, these are Games Workshop Chaos Marauders on round bases, because they are for my Age of Sigmar -army. There is an escalation league starting at the local store and I decided to join with my old chaos miniatures, which I have never painted. You get points for winning, but also for painting the minis and basing them on round bases, so I'm going to take every extra point available.
These two are kind of test models, the next eight will probably paint up faster, once I know all the colors and details on the models. I paid some extra attention to skulls and especially to the horns, but otherwise the painting is quite basic and fast. Basically the base color and drybrush or wash.
That is four 28mm models for 20 points.
ByronM: A varied entry Teemu. I like #6 as that was such a different show back then (at least from my fading memory of it), and you have done a wonderful job on him including the piping around the jacket and the eyes (not enough people paint eyes and to me most models look unfinished without them). Gandalf looks quite good as well, but I will pass on a trick someone else (sorry can't remember who) told me earlier this challenge for white cloth.... start beige or tan instead of grey. I have tried it since and it really helps it show up more natural looking. Now, maybe not appropriate for Gandalf the grey, but then again, maybe? Just something to keep in mind on future whites (like your tip on the eyes not being pure white).
