Shoatima Pics

As promised, here they are. The water was varnished with brush-on gloss after the matte spray finish dried. The eyes and tongue got some gloss, too.

Finished something!

Shoatima is done (except for sealing)! Very pleased to get this completed. Pics to follow soon(ish).

Otters and Blocks

Spent a chunk of this weekend working on Shoatima and casting Hirst blocks. I want to build up a goodly stock of the water cavern pieces so I can make some modular caves.

Casting the blocks is great to work on when you can just work an assembly line.  I got a new mixing bowl from MicroMark that's made of flexible rubber. When the remaining plaster is dry, I just crunch it up and dump it out. It works way better than disposable plastic cups. My usual method is to spread an old shower curtain on top of the gaming table as a drop cloth, then line up a half dozen or so molds. I cast them all at once and –an hour or so later– pop out them out and set in a cheapo food dehydrator to dry overnight. The next day, I repeat the process. At the end of a week or so, you can have a surprising amount of tiles and blocks for building.

Since tonight is gaming night, I'll need to clear stuff off, but with luck I'll be able to continue the process tomorrow.

2012?! How'd that happen?!

Well, I haven't been painting a lot in the last month or so what with the holidays, etc. I will be trying to rectify things in the coming weeks. The GW Dark Elves are still on the table, so I think the next order of business is to push on through with them. I also need to finish Shoatima before Garycon.

Missed the deadline

Foo. I had a couple minis painted in 12 minutes, but in one case the camera quit, and the other one was terrible looking (even for a 12 minute paint job). I did, however, get several figures mostly painted in the process, so that was a plus.

12 Minutes!?

So AG Productions (http://www.agpminis.com/) is having a speed painting contest. Twelve minute time limit. I can rack paint pretty quick but 12 minutes is NOT much time. I've made a couple of attempts, but so far I keep falling about 2 minutes short. If I succeed, I'll link the video here. Here's the contest info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WybYyniQHoQ&sns=em

Missed the painting club, but

did get some painting done this weekend. I worked on Shoatima and tried rack painting 3 dark elves. I got about 80% done with the elves before my eyes started to bug me, so I took a break and watch a DVD instead (durrrrrrrr!).