Heavy Weapons Minis

More from my backlog.

Red Army Heavies

These are some minis that I think will go well with the Retropocalypse genre, They'll serve as the Heavy Weapons unit for the Red Army even though they look like they are using Aztec headgear.

What was, and what shall be.

The Leader

Heavy Squad Automatic Weapon

Flame-thrower

Heavy Beam Weapon

Automatic Multi-munition Shot-gun

Group Shot.

Next Up

These next are from my bin of shame.

They are the last of my primered figures identified first in a blog post back in 2013.

They are all mostly HeroClix figures which I'll repaint for my Pulp / Supers genre. I want to paint them up very quick so that I can move beyond them to my backlog of Orcs and Goblins for the Dunjon of Death.

There's 15 figures shown here, but I've got about 25 more elsewhere. Total 40 to paint with "tabletop quality"; I'll slap-dash colors but I'll take time with the faces and hands.

15 of 40 from the backlog bin.

More Cleanup Work

I've got another batch painted, or touched-up.

Quick Jobs

These next four are scattered bits I got from a flea-market dip at Game Kastle in Mountain View.

A British Leader. WWI. This will lead the Ruga-ruga figures.

WWI. British Sharpshooter.

Bran Mac Mourn, the bored berserker.

I tried my best. HeroClix repaint. I made the bow-sword thing bronzed.

Armored Squad

These I also got from the flea-market run. They came somewhat painted initially, and then I washed them in black ink. It was too much, and so I came back with some highlighting using Bolt Gun metal and also Gold.

I use the same green bases, sometimes with flocking, to match my other pieces. Until I actually build a "space-corridors" set, this is fine because most of my terrain is outdoors.

One of 10 Vault Dweller armor for the Retropocalypse genre.

A heavy-weapons Vault Dweller.

Another view of a standard Beam Carbine Vault Dweller.

Vault Dweller Expedition Leader.

All 10 Vault Dwellers.

Next Up

These five figures I don't when I got them, but I think I'll paint them for the Retropocalypse genre to be part of the Red Army.

A "Red Army" super-soldier fire-team.

Reaper Mouslings

Part of my backlog of minis to paint are a set of 10 Reaper Mouslings.  Specifically it is this set of metal figures which is available on Amazon.com; though I purchased it at my LFGS.

If I remember correctly, I purchased them about 2 or 3 years ago and only now have them painted. Well, I had two already painted for my Dunjon of Death game, but now there are ten. =)

There's a few more (10)  Mouslings which I want to acquire; there's a Thief and Assassin, Barbarians (male + female), Vikings (male + female), Ranger + Yeoman, Wizards (male + female). I'll get them in the future after I finish my green-skins.

Bear the Swordsmouse

Albas the White Mouse-lord

Red-cap the Timid

Pierre the Quick

Sad Frank

Guillarmo the Blue

Old Mouse Smokey

Winnifred the Pure

Princess Pink Hair

Mot Van Vinh, the Sorcerer.

A Few Villains

This is another set from my primed pile.

Weird Menace

These are from Pulp Figures by Bob Murch.

The Purple Menace

Bone Face

Dr. Price

Dr. Cushing

The Invisible Strangler

HeroClix Repaints

I had these painted before, but with my new skills I decided to touch them up.

I took extra care to redo the face and the skulls. 

I repainted this face and added a green thermal undershirt.

My Masterpiece

I've decided that every so often there's a figurine that I want to spend a lot of time painting.

This particular Egyptian Queen figure I spent about 4 hours using a trimmed brush with three or four fibers. I'm realizing that my old set of paints, which I've reconstituted with water, isn't really that easy to use.

Tiya, Queen of the Damned

Last of the Pirates

More stuff from my bench.

I am becoming comfortable with my new job and so I am making more time to pursue my painting skills.

The Green Team

This is the "green team"; the set of figures that have been sitting unpainted for over a year. I primed them with a bunch of others and left them. Only recently did I begin painting again, and these were slapped and group in the green-paint themed set.

The green set is at the faaaaaar right.

I think this sculpt really accepted the paints I had very well.

This is apparently a scout. There's a spyglass at his left hip which you can't see.

I wish this one had teeth. Looks like a blow-up doll with that pose. I tried painting in teeth with a line of white but it looked weird.

This guy I gave auburn hair. The green team has the highest incidence of auburn hair in my minis catalog.

The blank stair of this dude is nice.

I wasn't sure if the guy was a halfling ... very short and stout.

Initially I wanted this figure all in greys and blacks but I decided that it was better as a ranger in forest green. Like the others of the green team, I experimented with layers of green paint and washes to make the clothing look worn and faded.

This is a DnD Minis repaint, I think. Like all of the repaints, including the Reaper Bones figures; the sculpts are very soft. As a result I take extra care in painting in additional details. The wand thing at hand I added some cotton and painted it with green and cast the light against the arm, hair, and body with some of the same green paint.

Next on the Bench

I've got about 6 Reaper Mouslings to paint. 

After that, I've got about 30 repaints for my HeroClix figures and some (about 5 to 10) metal figures in the pulp range. All of those were primed over a year ago and I think it will be a relief when I'm finished.

In storage I'm considering to either continue with the Dunjon of Death figures (all high fantasy sculpts) or to start on my Mythos / Pulp inventory. I'm leaning towards DoD because most of the figures are "The Greenskins"; orcs, goblins gremlins, and kobolds. 

I'll think about it more after I finish my repaints.

Latest Painted Minis

It has been a really long while since I painted any figures because of the long period I took for constructing the Dunjon of Death terrain tiles.

Here's my latest; I think my painting skills have improved!

Recap

Here's a recap of my escapade to this point. Just scroll down to the minis if you'd like. =)

Brushes

My tools are simple cheap brushes. I actually took a matte-knife to one of the brushes and trimmed it for to create a fine-tipped brush for eyebrows and smaller details.

Old brushes.

New brushes.

Favorite brushes. Alas, the bottom one I eventually threw into the garbage bin.

Ideal solution for painting figurines. These cost $20.00 and are +3.50 diopters.

The Overview

These are various shots of how I grouped the painting efforts into color groups for rapid painting.

Team Red.

Team Blue

   

Starting at the left; Team Gray, Blue, Red, Green. In the back are (at left) mouslings, difficult designs, and then my cult leaders and one-offs.

Overview of my table. That is $1.00 foam-core board that I tape to my dining room table.

The Paint-ups

These are the latest batch from the set of figures I primer-coated over a year ago. My youngest daughter helped with the scene composition, lighting, and shooting each of these.

Hero-Clix repaint.

Black Scorpion?

Dunno.

Yar!

Yar.

Hunting Wabbits.

Avast!

Zipp-id-dee Doo-dah!

Pull!

My "blue" beard. Team Blue.

Amos.

One of the cult leaders to join my red-robed cultists collection. Pulp Action minis.

Hero-Clix repaint. I really like the sculpt on this one.

Hero-Clix repaint. Another sculpt that I like and I wish there was a detailed resin or metal version. I put some effort into the eyes and mouth here.

Reaper Bones. The face had low-detail, but I did my best to practice my face-painting and eyes skill. I like how it turned out.

Hero-Clix repaint. Very nice pose and sculpt.

Reaper Bones. I messed this one really bad; I prime-coated it with outdoor black which was apparently waterproof (and acrylic paint proof). So I sprayed it with varnish finish and painted it again. I gave it a white face-mask to make it look unique.

My Best Piece

I really like this piece! I bought the very-cheap and soft-featured Reaper Bones version, but I think now that I should have picked up the resin or metal version. Many of the details don't show up very well and so I guessed or invented detail via painting various colors. 

I think that there are two other six-armed snake-demon people in the Reaper catalog, and I'll pick them up when I get the chance.

Reaper Bones "Avukavali". This is a beautiful sculpt, but low-detail because of the "bones" material.

This is a wonderful demon for my tabletop games now. I really like it. I painted various details into place from the few hints available from such a soft sculpt. The gold arm-bracers are such an example, as are the rings on various parts of the body and face.

Up Next

I have between 30 to 50 other primed-and-ready figures to paint, mostly in the Pulp! and Superhero genres, with some Sci-fi and Fantasy. I want to get them done before the end of the year.