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Post by sgtslag on May 6, 2024 2:12:56 GMT
They look ready for a wash! LOL! If they were mine, I'd wash them, then matte them, then decorate their bases.
Seriously, I'd be really happy -- they're almost done. Keep pushing forward! Cheers!
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Post by RPG Grandma on May 6, 2024 5:40:25 GMT
Well I didn’t have time to do the finishing touches today, so on my lunch break at work I will do the highlights, weather the shields if possible. Here is the stage they are at now.
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Post by sgtslag on May 6, 2024 15:22:03 GMT
Aside from the bases, they look table-ready to me. I am an un-repentant Army Painter: "Numbers have a quality all their own." LOL! I go for mass, on the tabletop. My Undead Army is my largest, numbering over 200 figures of diverse types.
Years ago, at Con of the North, in Minneapolis/St. Paul, I played on the Undead side, in a massive 2e BattleSytem game (mass battles miniatures game based on 2e AD&D). The Dead were trying to recruit the Living to their ranks, and the ungrateful Living Army was trying to repress us back to our graves in the Yard. How rude! LOL! It was such a blast of a good time...
I had a unit of 50 Skeletal Cavalrymen who rode to attack a unit of six Paladins on their Plate Barded, called, Heavy Warhorses, who charged us (we couldn't charge, we could only walk into combat...). After the dust settled, I was down to 12 figures who survived!
For the next five turns, I managed to put three Hits, total, on one figure, while he kept killing 1-2 figures of mine each turn (each Paladin/Horse figure had six Hits before they were removed; my Skeletal Cavalry only had two Hits each, and they had Armor Class Hit Me!). He was so frustrated that he could not wipe me out, after that first decimating charge. It was GLORIOUSLY fun!
It should have been over quickly, but the dice were exceptionally kind to me. Ever since that game, I have had a love for Skeleton Armies. That Paladin Player was sooo frustrated, and I was so gleeful (I couldn't help myself -- it was deliciously fun because it was so improbable!). Cheers!
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Post by margaret on May 6, 2024 16:23:57 GMT
I like them =). Not just white bones.
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Post by RPG Grandma on May 6, 2024 20:35:05 GMT
Well guys, now it’s glue em down and do the bases and seal them up. I will have to do that tomorrow but if I keep fiddling with them they will look not as good I th8nk
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Post by sgtslag on May 7, 2024 13:48:06 GMT
Well guys, now it’s glue em down and do the bases and seal them up. I will have to do that tomorrow but if I keep fiddling with them they will look not as good I th8nk Yeah, you have to know when to stop, on any figure. Skeletons, IMO, are very basic to paint -- they are fun stress-relievers in the painting queue (simple, fast, easy, inspiring me to paint more complex, challenging figures which take loads more time to get across the finish line). They're undead, so they should not look too good... Cheers!
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Post by RPG Grandma on May 7, 2024 17:18:59 GMT
Well guys, now it’s glue em down and do the bases and seal them up. I will have to do that tomorrow but if I keep fiddling with them they will look not as good I th8nk Yeah, you have to know when to stop, on any figure. Skeletons, IMO, are very basic to paint -- they are fun stress-relievers in the painting queue (simple, fast, easy, inspiring me to paint more complex, challenging figures which take loads more time to get across the finish line). They're undead, so they should not look too good... Cheers! Yeah the most I should do is bases, maybe and a big maybe is weather the shields and make the eyes darker. They need to be final glued and sealed I might be able to do that tonight. Then I need to figure out how to store them better.
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Post by RPG Grandma on May 22, 2024 4:40:25 GMT
Started work on these… I have to do more painting on the skeletons but I paused to start preparing the hippogryph and cyclops… been sanding and stripping the paint off of the hippogryph and on cyclops sanding away to get a better fit of parts… , both the Cyclops & hippogryph need lots of work for different issues before I can even consider painting them.
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Post by RPG Grandma on May 22, 2024 4:42:06 GMT
The hippogryph after working on it for a bit
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Post by sgtslag on May 22, 2024 15:42:15 GMT
Nice figures. The cyclops being made of pure pewter, appears to be from the late 1980's, to early 1990's?
Most of my figures, for the past 10 years, have been plastic or resin. I have not worked on a metal figure for some years, now.
Looking forward to seeing everything done and table ready! Cheers!
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