Repaint of one of my First Miniatures ever

 I have always been fascinated by miniatures. The dioramas people create and of course the figures. I finally picked up my first paint brush and miniature in 1993-94 I think? Might have been 95. Not having any idea what I was doing and none of my friends interested I just started slathering on random paints I found at the hobby town USA where it all started. Now they don't even sell Minis last time I went in there. 

 Over the years I stopped painting and lost all my stuff. To this day I have no idea what happened to the tackle box I had everything in. This however was the one Mini I remember the most from those days. I fell in love with the shield. However it was a love hate relationship. I painstakingly tried to paint the interwoven parts on the shield. I remember messing up and repainting that damn shield at least 50 times.

So when I found this guy on eBay I bought him immediately.So I could enjoy some nostalgia while painting him up. The shield this time took me no time at all. I am also baffled at how it took me so long to paint the thing years back. It does represent at least to me my intro into the hobby and all the memories and fun I have had since.

Another set of Figs from this Years Analogue Challenge

For some more figures painted up for this years Paint challenge

We have a famous captain who only needs one eye to be a badass

 First time I have attempted actually painting an "eye" usually just do a wash and leave it. Couldn't do that on this model. I think it turned out great. Might be because its such a big eye though lol

I have been painting on this group off and on all through the challenge. Finally all finished up! So here we have these Natives from Firelock games.

 All of them grouped up

 Decided not to do any shade on the feathers. Left them very bright.

 Thought about basing them differently from the other blood and plunder guys I have. Ended up just going with the same base as the rest of the guys I have.

 the "leaders" from what I can tell.

Epic 30k 3D prints

I had planned on several tanks and speeders to paint up. However as I was printing these on my printer, the print turned out rubbish and was only able to salvage these two. In fact my resin printer is now down for the count till I can either get replacement parts or order a new one. 

So without further talk of printers dying on me. Below are a couple models for my "soon to be" army of Emperors Children for 30k. 

Speeder bike came out great imo. Was also very easy to print.

The tank here I had some issues with on the back treads on the print. However no one checks out of the back of the tank! Its all about the guns!  

As of now I'm keeping the tanks off bases. See how that works out. Thats how I have all my FOW tanks done. However the smaller scale may be better based. Kinda torn on this.

Few things painted up

Another Christmas Gift I painted up. Was a bit late due to unforeseen circumstances in December. Keeping me from finishing

This is a mixture of several brands. Badger games, Mantic and a 3D printed base

Mariachi Band is from Badger games. 

The barrels came from a Terrain Crate from Mantic. Had got in on the kick starter and never used any of it yet. The base I 3D printed myself. The file is from Printable scenery. 

This is the first model I have painted that I made with my resin printer. Not a big fan of his shirt, but wasn't going to spend anymore time on him. 

He does have some big hands though!

Now that I finally got an entry in the painting challenge. Its fully underway for me. Hopefully I can paint up the 500 points I pledged. 

Blood Bowl Refs

Some Forge world Blood bowl refs

 Had these guys for a while now. So finally got them painted up for the Analogue Hobbies Challenge this year.

These were the first forge world models I have ever messed with. For me they were simple to clean and glue together. This is not the norm from what I have seen with Forge world and heard.

 One of these days I'll start painting eyeballs.

Enjoyed painting these guys. Not sure if they will get used much on the field though for any games.

Guinea Pigs for Christmas

Another Christmas has come and gone and on to a new year has started! For the first entry to this years Analogue Challenge I painted these up. I had bought them for her a couple years ago as she wanted to start painting as well. 

She never did paint them in fact pretty sure she forgot about them. So I primed them up and painted them for a Christmas present for her this past year.

The pumpkins and greens are from a kit I bought at hobby lobby. I repainted the pumpkins and added some highlights. 

The wife ended up loving it and has it on her desk at work now.

Walking Dead part 2

Last of the minis from the Walking Dead kickstarter painted up! 

 No clue who any of these characters are except Michonne and the Governor. Then again I haven't caught the Walking Dead on TV for several seasons now. Looks like the comics were really fleshed out more in regards to characters. Need to read them already and stop talking about them.

 Close up of the Survivors. 

Did just the usual base colors with a wash. Again I think they turned out pretty good for being to me just board game miniatures. Still not a big fan of the sculpts. Some are great some are just so so. Mostly its the material they are made out of. Some of the weapons are bent etc. 

Now for the Zombies!!

 Again kept it simple with the zombies. Didn't go for any hardcore blood effects. Painted the skin a different color but used same flesh wash on them. 

There are small tears in their clothes that I take as wounds so I painted them red. I also painted the bases of all the zombies red so a quick look while playing you can see what you are dealing with. 

I kept the basing job on all these pretty simple as well. Just grass and some rocks. Also had no clue how to paint zombie flesh any other color except for white. Everything I tried just turned out to look to normal not zombie/dead flesh like. Still have yet to play this game. At least now I have all the figs painted for it

Walking dead

Finally got around to painting the extras from the Walking Dead miniatures game I got from the kick starter Mantic did a while back. 

This is about 1/3 of the minis from 3 expansions that they had with the kickstarter.

 Only know I think one character out of all these that I painted. Haven't kept up with the show and never did read the comics. I assume the comics are way better just haven't gotten around to reading them.

 I jumped on this kick starter when they launched it due to my love of walking dead at the time and well of course Zombie things. Have still yet to even try the game out. From what I hear its a good skirmish game. I think if I were to get into it more though I would like to have more of a campaign system. I do wonder if the rules have anything for that. 

The guy in the middle is Glen from the show and comics. One of my favorite characters and even though *spoilers* he dies in the show. I actually have yet to see it as I stopped watching it the season prior. Sometime I will catch up on the show.

The guy in the middle on this pic is Tyrese? I think?? Had to get something out to boost him up for the camera. Good looking mini when seen in person. 

I would have to say going over these sculpts while they are just the normal board game type material. The sculpts are ok, with only a few that had issues on them. The main issue I saw with all of them was the back of the heads. They seemed to just not have any sculpt to them even when they should. Hair for example doesn't just stop halfway back. Nor does a bandanna wrapped around your head.

FOW Russians

All of the box set for Stalins Bears painted up

For the 3rd post for this years challenge I was able to paint up some Soviet tanks from the box set Stalins Bears. 

4xT-34/85 Tanks

Was going to just put red star decals on most the tanks but read that wasn't how all the tanks were. Not exactly trying to be historically accurate here so whether what I read was right or not the decals are on now. Would have been easy to just go with Red Stars and I'm sure everyone would have known exactly what they were. 

3x ISU-122 Assault guns

I'm polish so on the side of these tanks I put the polish decals. Again from what I read polish volunteers would do this if they were together in a tank. Historically accurate? I did a quick 5 min search so who knows

6xIS-2 heavy tanks

Final picture. You can't really see the treads well. I did something different with these than the normal way I have done treads on FOW tanks. Ended up painting them a brown and washing them twice with Nulin Oil to bring them down to almost a black. I like the effect on this rather than the straight black with some metal drybrush. A little metal on the treads probably wouldn't have hurt though 

Blood Bowl Elves

Got second team for Blood Bowl finally painted up. Still working on the Orks that come in the box set Finally got these guys done. I hate painting yellow as it usually turns out like crap for me. However since I didn't do to many highlights on the yellow seems to not be to bad. 

Ended up just painting them the way games workshop went with.

Didn't do much detail on the faces. Haven't quite mastered the painting of the eyes yet. Without making them look freaky/terrible. I somewhat prefer the faces to just have a deep wash and no colored eye though.

Finally the counters that come with them. Not to hard to paint up and think they came out nicely. Only issue is trying to hold those damn footballs while you paint them. 

First entry for this the Analogue Painting challenge VIII

Have had this walking dead diorama type thing to paint up for a while now. Finally got around to painting it once the challenge started. 

I have yet to catch up on the walking dead. However been told this was a pretty crazy scene in the show. However the walking dead game by Mantic is based on the comics

Reason Rick is missing a hand as that happens in the comics and as far as I know does not happen in the TV show. At least as far as I have watched that is. 

Close up of Neegan himself. Only character that can actually be used in the game from this diorama. All in all was nice and easy to paint up and got me back into wanting to paint again.