PTS IV: Up to my Old Tricks Again

Table? Check. Saturday? Check. Paint? Negatory.

What I "should" currently be working on are an Otherworld Miniatures' halfling fighter and his anthropomorphized badger sidekick (a 15mm mini from Splintered Light). They're based and ready for paint... have been for a while.

Are we ever gettin' a coat of paint, or what?

Instead, I find myself distracted by a couple shiny new geegaws with Fiend Folio Project written all over them. The first is a cerepod from Otherworld which conveniently looks just like Russ Nicholson's FF grell illustration. Eleven parts, all of which need to be pinned. (That's 20 holes that need to be drilled by my reckoning.) This might take a while.

Caution: carpel tunnel syndrome ahead

The second is a new release from Fenris. A little conversion work will be involved. A gold star goes to the first person to correctly identify the FF monster I'm shooting for based on the picture below.

A sword. A lovecraftesque mummy. A base with spiders.

The End is Nigh

 

This is where the Studio 2 Publishing Revenant stands at present. As with my other recent undead, I mixed in a lot of grey throughout to achieve a desaturated look.

Not much left to do except a few touch-ups and the base after which he will be enshrined as The Fiend Folio Project's newest member.

Also nearing completion is CSM's ToHC II Kickstarter; a potential treasure trove of heretofore unseen Fiend Folio Minis. Caterwaul, Blindheim, Disenchanter, Crabman, Gryph, Volt. Reads like my FF wishlist. Definitely worth a look-see for anyone whose taste in minis tends towards the old school.

If that failed to sway you, check out these flumphs, sculpted by Enos Kline. The one on the right is from ToHC I and the one on the left from ToHC II.

Bugs and Roses

"The tomb in the day-time, ... when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now, ... when the flowers hung lank and dead, ... when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance, ... and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined. It conveyed irresistibly the idea that life - animal life - was not the only thing which could pass away."
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Ah, Spring. Daffodils bloom, robins sing, assorted mammals do whatever they do this time of year. Your humble author celebrated the changing of the seasons with a submission in The Otherworld Miniatures Forum's March painting challenge. The theme, like, so last year, required that OW minis from 2010 be featured. Inspired by the the quote above, I went with a wight (a sort of vampire wanna-be, for the uninitiated) and his retinue of creepy-crawlies.

From left to right, the minis are: an old WOTC grick, an OW Wight, and an OW giant leech. I used base toppers scavenged from various OW blisters in order to tie the three minis together. A liberal sprinkling of dead flowers was added for good measure. The wight was supplied with a 30mm base which I replaced with a 25mm one. The grick and the wight are pinned with wire; the leech is not.

More pictures can be found here.

I used Vallejo brown sand and dead flesh, Reaper stained ivory and GW brown ink and flesh wash on the wight's skin. The flowers are from a local craft store.

OW's April challenge is already underway. As the theme centers on humanoids, and my collection of unpainted lead is very thin in this area (at least of the OW variety), I may have to get creative in order to have a horse in this race. Stay tuned.