tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29556593287101206932024-03-28T20:29:52.327-07:00MalzowowperBlog on miniature painting & geek hobbyist elements.Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-769007793783637282019-12-31T06:38:00.002-08:002019-12-31T06:38:39.647-08:00Freikorps Librarian: Revisiting the Ochre PaletteWhat to do with the <a href="https://pullmyfinger.wikispaces.com/file/view/freikorps_librarian.jpg/514686402/freikorps_librarian.jpg" target="_blank">Freikorps Librarian</a>? She is one of the more interesting figures and I happened to nab a first edition model off ebay.<br />
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Overall, I love playing the Malifaux Freikorps on the table, but the minis tend to give way to an obvious militant drab green palette a la camouflage. It's... fine... but for near turn of the 20th century, it's still a little early to be jumping into the <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8f/26/ad/8f26ad7ac64cd9be14dc51968b098146.jpg">WWI style</a>. And the <a href="http://www.kaisersbunker.com/gtp/index.jpg">navy blues of the Prussian military</a> around that time seem very flat to me. The suits should be made of leather but I wanted to do something different than the reddish-brown Cinnamon style that I overused in my early painting days.<br />
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That leaves me with something brown, and straight brown is very bland. So I wanted to breathe a little life in to an <a href="http://colorpalettes.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cvetovaya-palitra-1081.jpg" target="_blank">ochre palette</a>:<br />
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The main color triad focused on Reaper HD Military Grey, <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">FolkArt Butter Pecan, and </span>FolkArt English Mustard / Yellow Ochre.<br />
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So I knew where to start. But where to go afterwards was a matter of "let's see when we get there."<br />
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To start I used grey primer, black wash and white drybrush.</div>
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First coats of Reaper HD Military Blue on the clothing, Butter Pecan on the leather padding, Yellow Ochre on the boots and book binding.</div>
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First washes.</div>
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First run on highlights </div>
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Mixed Military Grey with FolkArt French Blue in dark to light tones for highlights. Vallejo Cold Grey on the metal parts with some Citadel Nuln Oil for separation. To "leather up" the shoulder pads and breast areas (originally in FolkArt Butter Pecan), I put my first trial of Citadel Contrast Paints - Skeleton Horde. But not all over just nearest the creases.</div>
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Parchment on the book pages. Heavy glaze of Reaper Military Grey on front side of legs to blend highlights a little. Nuln Oil on the dagger and for some separation. Highlights with Parchment on the whiter leather bits (not as visible in picture as angle of photo is slightly bottom up).<br />
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At this point, while I was happy with the general color scheme, I had the ribbons and the goggles to go. The ribbon I decided to run counterpoint with the set scheme and use an accent color of Red to make the figure pop a little. Reaper HD Brilliant Red, Delta Cinnamon, and highlights mix of Billiant Red and Antique White.<br />
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The goggles took more fretting because I had to decide whether to show the eyes (which would have been very difficult given the size) or try a reflection like it was glass. I chose the glass option. </div>
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Touch up goggles English Mustard and Antique White<br />
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This ended up being my color scheme.<br />
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<li><b><u>Clothes</u></b> - <b>Main Base:</b> Heavy Glaze of Reaper HD Military Grey, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> FolkArt Cobalt Blue, <b>Highlights</b>: Mix of Military Grey with FolkArt French Blue </li>
<li><b><u>Padded Leather </u>- </b> <b><b>Main Base:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Heavy Glaze of FolkArt Butter Pecan, </span></b><b>Shadow (Selective Wash):</b> Citadel Contrast Paint Skeleton Horde, <b>Highlight 1</b>: FolkArt Linen; <b>Highlight 2</b>: FolkArt Linen and FolkArt Parchment</li>
<li><b><u>Shoe</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> FolkArt Cafe Latte, <b>Shadow (Wash)</b>: Reaper Dark Skin, <b>Highlights</b>: Reaper Dark Skin Highlight</li>
<li><b><u>Shin Strap, Book Cover, Dagger Handle Wraps</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> FolkArt English Mustard , <b>Shadow (Wash)</b>: English Mustard and Reaper Dark Skin, <b>Highlights</b>: FolkA rt Yellow Ochre, and selective mix of Yellow Ochre and Apple Barrel Antique White</li>
<li><b><u>Book Pages</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Apple Barrel Antique White, <b>Shadow (Wash)</b>: Nuln Oil (though it should have been Agrax Earthshade), <b>Highlights</b>: FolkArt Parchment</li>
<li><b><u>Metal Bits</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>Vallejo Cold Metal, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Citadel Nuln Oil, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>mix of Vallejo Cold Metal and Reaper Cloudy Grey and Misty Grey </li>
<li><b><u>Ribbon</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>Reaper HD Brilliant Red, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Delta Cinnamon, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>mix of Brilliant Red and Antique White </li>
<li><b><u>Goggles Outside (similar to Padded Leather minus Contrast Paints)</u></b> - <b>Base: </b><b><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">FolkArt Butter Pecan, </span></b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Reaper Dark Skin, <b>Highlight 1</b>: FolkArt Linen; <b>Highlight 2</b>: FolkArt Linen and FolkArt Parchment</li>
<li><b><u>Goggles Lenses</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>White, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> FolkArt Cobalt Blue wash, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>Vallejo Turquoise, <b>Final Dot</b>:<b> </b>a mix of Vallejo Turquoise and French Blue </li>
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-76355674643196149552019-11-21T13:55:00.002-08:002019-11-21T13:55:24.991-08:00Mysterious Effigy: It's Own Creepy ThingMy buddies and I were talking about what influenced early D&D. Aside from the well-documented progression out of wargaming (i.e., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainmail_(game)">Chainmail</a>), I'd always assumed it drew from Tolkien. It's easy to trace the creative leap from playing out big battles into a deeper but smaller skirmish with the key leaders a la Lord of the Rings's Fellowship. Thus much of the Tolkien-esque fantasy tropes littered through 1e D&D: humans, elves, dwarves, rangers, wizards and quests.<br />
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And of course, don't forget the <strike>hobbits</strike> halflings.<br />
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But I'm wrong in thinking it's all JRR. An <a href="https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/01/gygax-on-tolkien-again.html">old article was dug up </a>where co-creator Gary Gygax firmly put his foot down that Tolkien was far from the sole inspiration. He waxes poetic about the different fantasy writers with a causal nod to mythology -- promoting that D&D is more akin to multiple other heroic fantasies than just one source.<br />
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Ruminating in the article, my JRR position was blindly reductive. <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Flame%20Blade#content">Flaming swords</a> and <a href="https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Hammer_of_Thunderbolts">thrown hammers that return to you</a>. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Minotaur">The Minotaur</a> and <a href="http://www.tresbohemes.com/2018/04/the-legend-of-the-golem/">The Golem</a>. <a href="http://www.museum.com/ja/showdia/id=2685">Carpet of Flying.</a> <a href="https://www.thomasdenmark.com/product-page/baba-yaga-s-hut">Baba Yaga's Hut.</a> T<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V32HuI7lI0&t=1600s">he pop-culturized Monk.</a> <a href="https://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2018/09/more-wishes-more-genies.html">Wishes.</a><span id="goog_1854759249"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1854759250"></span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdnP6EV0ctc">Dungeonland</a> (!). The breadth of references is obvious.<br />
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But what D&D became is more than just a collection of multiple mythos, fairy tales, and pulpy medieval tropes. In the creative process of including everything, you also end up making something new:<br />
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And as much as I am fascinated with the world of the collective, I have a special place in my heart for the original things - the new creations that become the short hand for the big picture.<br />
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The 1e sculpt was clearly just an effigy.<br />
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The <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0825/4481/products/WYR20423-MysteriousEffigy_1024x1024.jpeg?v=1437790306">2e sculpt</a> is less so. You could set the 1e version on fire at a protest. Not so much with the updated version.<br />
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At first blush, it appears to be leaning in on the Neverborn mimic aesthetic -- with the mask coming off like the <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0825/4481/products/WYR20432-Changelings_large.jpg?v=1469828550">changeling</a>...</div>
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So the Mysterious Effigy - much like the <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2019/04/and-evil-casks-it-classic-it-ridiculous.html">mimics</a> and the <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2017/01/wolf-in-sheep-redeeming-mini-for.html">wolf-in-sheep's-clothing</a> - is it's own thing.<br />
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As to painting it, I originally wanted to imitate a dress pattern I saw <a href="https://twitter.com/adam_huenecke/status/688883860025704448">Adam Huenecke had done on Molly</a>. But the Mysterious Effigy sculpt is a lot busier and a lot smaller, and I decided the floral pattern wouldn't work.<br />
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Eventually I decided on a <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman%27s_yellow_print_dress_c._1827.jpg">yellow dress with a simple square pattern from 1827</a>.<br />
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<li><b><u>Skin</u></b> - <b style="font-weight: bold;">Wood Lines: </b>FolkArt Walnut Brown,<b> Undertone Base:</b> Reaper HD Ashen Brown, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Dusky Skin, <b>Main Base:</b> Heavy Glaze of FolkArt Mushroom and Barn Wood, <b>Highlights:</b></li>
<li><b><u>Dress</u> - </b><b>Undertone </b><b>Base:</b> Tanned Skin, <b>Main Base: </b>Heavy Glaze of FolkArt Ochre Yellow, <b><b>Shadow (Wash):</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Tanned Skin, </span>Highlights</b>: FolkArt Sunflower and ButterCup</li>
<li><b><u>Arm Cuffs</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Apple Barrel Antique White, <b>Shadow (Wash)</b>: V<b><b style="font-family: sans-serif;">allejo Khaki, Highlights</b></b>: Reaper Misty Grey</li>
<li><b><u>Eyes</u></b> - <b><b>Base:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Apple Barrel Antique White, </span>Shadow (Wash):</b> Cinnamon, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>Reaper HD Entrail Pink, <b>Outlining (wash): </b>Black and Reaper Dusky Skin, <b>Gleam Highlight: </b>White</li>
<li><b><u>Knife</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>Vallejo Cold Grey, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Vallejo Black, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>Reaper Misty Grey</li>
<li><b><u>Hair</u></b>- <b>Base: </b>Reaper HD Military Grey, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Black, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> Reaper Grey Triad</b></li>
<li><b><u>Masks</u></b> - <b><b style="font-family: sans-serif;">Undertone </b><b style="font-family: sans-serif;">Base:</b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: 400;"> Ceramcoat Blue Heaven, </span></b><b style="font-family: sans-serif;">Base: </b>Reaper Fair Skin, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Reaper Tanned Skin, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>Reaper Fair Highlight</li>
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First a white prime and some glue work after I snapped off the arm holding the mask (&?@!*!)</div>
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Eyes - Base: Apple Barrel Antique White, Shadow (Wash): Cinnamon, Highlights: Reaper HD Entrail Pink<br />
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There's a process I go through when doing patterns.<br />
I got the upper part of the dress down fast enough that I got a little cocky.<br />
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What follows next are moments when you realize you did it right...<br />
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...when you realize you did it totally wrong...</div>
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...and ones where you start and then lose confidence mid-way through that it's going in the right direction.<br />
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References always help back up when you are second-guessing. A simple google of checkered drapes gave me a <a href="https://curtain.menzilperde.net/country-check-sheer-curtains/">great reference</a> of where lines are supposed to go when a hem is pinched on the ends.<br />
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But the biggest lessons learned... When painting lines on a yellow base color, first draw it out in a lighter color that the final darker color. I would get a line down in a dark brown (Reaper Dark Skin) then realize it was off and have to use multiple layers of Ochre Yellow to undo it. </div>
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And holy smack, did using that color make this fix simpler. Or at least it boosted my confidence in drawing in the horizontal lines to finish the cross patterns. There were very few fixes at this point.<br />
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Some light skin tone glazes on the masks and I was left with a super creepy mini that I felt rewarded with spending the extra time to nail the smaller details.<br />
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Throwback post #2: When the 2015 Thanksgiving holidays were upon me, I decided it was time to work on another pumpkin/scarecrow type miniature.<br />
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The previous Christmas, my son had gotten me Reaper's <a href="https://www.reapermini.com/search/rotpatch">Rotpatch</a>, a golem made of decomposing pumpkins and vines.</div>
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To keep a bright orange look, I primed the figure white and used black wash for separation.</div>
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<b><i>Rotpatch Color Scheme</i></b><br />
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<li><b><u>Outer Pumpkin shell</u></b> - <b>Main Base:</b> Heavy Glaze of <span style="text-align: center;">Reaper HD Fireball Orange</span>, <b>Highlights</b>: Reaper HD Yellow</li>
<li><b><u>Vines</u> - </b> <b>Main Base: </b>Reaper HD Meadow Green, <b>Shadow (Wash)</b>: Reaper Christmas Green, <b>Highlights</b>: FolkArt Bayberry</li>
<li><b><u>Inner Pumpkin </u></b>- <b>Base:</b> <span style="text-align: center;">Reaper Tanned Highlight</span>, <b>Highlight</b>: Reaper HD Caucasian Flesh<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></li>
<li><b><u>Scythe </u></b>- <b>Base: </b>FolkArt Medium Grey <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Black and Charcoal Grey, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>FolkArt Light Grey and Dover Grey</li>
<li><b><u>Moldy Bits</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>Heavy Glaze of Reaper Ghoul Flesh, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>FolkArt Linen</li>
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Below are the first coats using Reaper HD Fireball Orange for the pumpkins. On the Vines seeing the transition from <span style="text-align: center;">Reaper HD Meadow Green </span>with Reaper Christmas Green as a wash, and FolkArt Bayberry as a highlight.</div>
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Apparently to get a good inner pumpkin color you should use flesh colors -- according to Reaper's (now defunct) Palette Resource anyway. So I used Reaper Tanned Highlight as a base and Caucasian Flesh as a highlight.</div>
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In researching what pumpkins in a decaying state should look like, I discovered it's a little scary how many websites are out there showing rotting pumpkins. Apparently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyvN59L4hJU">post-Halloween pumpkins </a>are a thing...?</div>
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Anyway... I decided if the pumpkins had any brown, they had no structure to keep them up. So the gourds that make up Rotpatch's body were in that state before collapse (ie, overripe). Overripe pumpkins should get a deeper orange color, leaning towards the red tone. But on figures this small, it's probably too subtle to pick up. </div>
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So the mold will be the visual cue for rot. I didn't want to go straight for black or dirty grey as a mold color - either. It looked too lazy. So Reaper Ghoul Flesh as a heavy glaze worked. White mold areas got a final touch was a heavy glaze of Linen. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Here he is mounted on the base. Also spotted in a few dark brown speckles to indicate the rot is growing.</span></div>
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FINAL THOUGHTS: I love this figure - but mostly because of the sculpt, not necessarily my paint job. </div>
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This is a great example where overthinking things interfered. I should have just used a little brown or brownish purple to deliver the rotting look.</div>
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The figure could have used a cool tone somewhere to offset the warm-centric palette. That would have given it a little more pop... but I cannot think of where I would have put that here (the vines maybe?).</div>
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One note on the base - it looks a bit messy here because he actually fits in a pumpkin patch setting I created.</div>
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One of these days I'll have to post all my scarecrows and pumpkin nightmares in the pumpkin patch, but here's a group photo I did while getting them ready.</div>
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!</div>
Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-46233022881661486712019-10-31T09:17:00.000-07:002019-11-30T12:33:21.161-08:00The Carver, part 2 & 3So for Halloween this year, I'm going to finally post two older entries I started several autumns ago on some of my favorite figures... Pumpkinheaded scarecrows.<br />
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First up is Malifuax's The Carver. I <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-carver-part-1.html">started this entry </a>back when I discovered the triple prime threat of grey primer / black wash / white drybrush.<br />
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The Carver became a centerpiece for pumpkin patch terrain I used in a Pathfinder campaign I ran. The Carver and other pumkpin based scarecrows all got used as <a href="http://legacy.aonprd.com/bestiary4/jackOLantern.html#jack-o-lantern">Jack-o'-Lanterns</a> - which turned out to be formidable foes for the early levels. I nearly wiped out the party. Good times.<br />
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As to painting, I didn't take a lot of pics for my 1st coats, so I'm going to show most of the end results.<br />
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<b><i>The Carver Color Scheme</i></b><br />
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<li><b><u>Pumpkin Head </u></b>- <b>Base:</b> Reaper HD Fireball Orange, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Reaper HD Burning Orange, <b>Highlights</b>: Reaper HD Golden Yellow, and Saffron Yellow </li>
<li><b><u>Shirt</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Apple Barrel Antique White;<b> Shadow (Wash)</b>: FolkArt Light Grey;<b> Highlights</b>:<b> </b>FolkArt Parchment</li>
<li><b><u>Pants</u> - </b> <b>Main Base: </b>Heavy Glaze of Delta Ceramcoat Denim Jeans Blue; <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> FolkArt Thunder Blue, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>Light Glaze of Delta Ceramcoat Sky Blue</li>
<li><b><u>Flannel Patch</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>Delta Ceramcoat Cinnamon, <b>Dark lines: </b>FolkArt Charcoal Grey, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>Pink</li>
<li><b><u>Wood</u> - </b> <b>Base:</b> FolkArt Coffee Bean, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> FolkArt Walnut Brown</li>
<li><b><u>Straw</u> - </b> <b>Base:</b> FolkArt Honeycomb, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> FolkArt Walnut Brown, <b>Highlights: </b>Reaper HD Mustard Yellow and HD Pale Saffron</li>
<li><b><u>Crows</u> - </b><b>Base:</b> Charcoal Black , <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Black, <b>Beaks: </b>FolkArt Ochre Yellow and Reaper HD Pale Saffron Yellow</li>
<li><b><u>Stitching and Wraps</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>FolkArt Butter Pecan, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> FolkArt Walnut Brown</li>
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This was one of the first times I got to break out my Reaper HD paints I'd gotten as an ace gift from one of my gaming friends. All the oranges and yellows all went to painting that awesome pumpkin head. One challenge I had with Reaper's HD yelllow paints - and I've heard reiterated elsewhere - is the paints separate in the bottle easy and require a lot of shaking.<br />
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While I went for sort of common farmer white shirt, I really wanted to get a plaid flannel look on the patches. So here comes the dreaded lines painting. Actually, I feel like I'm getting pretty good at this. And I dread this a lot less than polka dots. <br />
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I wanted the Carver to look like he's stepping out of the fields and just started the journey towards town. So for his base, I gave it two sections - one with the dirt and mud of the pumpkin patch, and one where the town's cobblestone begins. I also wanted the cobblestone path to have an overgrown, not-used-often look - like the urban faded into the rural. So there will be more patches of earth in between the bricks than I normally do.</div>
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Here's the finished base. I used my canned Terraclips Street color scheme on the cobblestone. I used a deep rich brown with a little red hue for the surrounding earth, knowing that static grass would probably go over it. I wanted to distinguish the two earth tones so I made the "crops" side of the earth a little more muddy - like a wet grey brown. Some general Walnut brown washes separate everything up nicely. </div>
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FINAL THOUGHTS: Overall happy with the final figure. The snapped scarecrow post is a fun detail and adds a little bit of drama to the figure -- like he's gotten loose and bringing the terror to the city.</div>
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On the denim, this is one of the few times where less is more. I've looked at several tutorials that give about 5-6 steps to getting a good denim look. And when I look at what I did here, I don't see much of a difference. </div>
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In retrospect, I could have made him a little dirtier looking. And I've learned a bit about darkening a figure up to get a good glow since painting him. If I were to redo the figure again, I would definitely take a more OSL approach with him. </div>
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-17302607547785642072019-10-24T09:38:00.004-07:002019-10-24T09:38:30.000-07:00Bloodwretches: Neverborn Mid-TransformationMy wife is petrified of asylums. We started watching <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/american_horror_story/s02/">American Horror Story: Asylum</a>. At the end of the first episode, a reporter writing an expose is admitted involuntarily as a patient. We never saw another, it had tapped a primal fear of hers so strongly: that you would be declared insane and locked away to lose all agency over yourself.<br />
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Meanwhile the guards and the doctors get to do whatever they want...<br />
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The history of <a href="http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/themes/menalhealthandillness/mentalinstitutions">Victorian asylums</a> stoke those fears, and the Malifaux starter set definitely plays upon them. It takes place in an asylum run by a butcher and filled with orderlies telling you to quiet down with a <a href="https://thegoodthebadandtheundead.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/orderlies_back.jpg">syringe behind their backs</a>.<br />
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That's why I see these bloodwretches as inadvertent rebels, fighting from the inside. Like a molotov cocktail thrown at prison. It helps that in M2E, they are some of the best models in the set.<br />
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When most people painted these models, they painted them as demons. But as evidenced from the one that has one horn larger than the other, I see them as in the middle of the Human-to-Neverborn process. These are the only models in the group I know that show this. So an interesting challenge.<br />
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Having learned from the Swine Cursed I wanted to try the undercoat of darker colors and then do a heavy glaze of flesh color on top.<br />
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<b><i>Bloodwretches Color Scheme</i></b><br />
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<li><b><u>Skin:</u></b> Reaper Tanned Skin blended into Dusky Skin then blended into Reaper Reaper HD Twilight Purple as a base. Then a heavy glaze of the Reaper Caucasian fleshtones</li>
<li><b><u>Asylum Clothes:</u></b> <b>Base:</b> FolkArt Camel </li>
<li><b><u>Horns:</u></b> <b>Base:</b> Reaper Cloudy Grey, <b style="font-weight: bold;">Shadow (Wash):</b><b style="font-weight: bold;"> </b>Reaper Cloudy Grey, <b>Highlights</b><b style="font-weight: bold;">: </b>FolkArt Mushroom </li>
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I used the <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2019/08/swine-cursed-1-gremlin-pig-lycanthrope.html">Swine-Cursed</a> approach to the transformation: the transformation and palette changes are in the extremities while the torse and core keep the "normal" colors.<br />
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<li>On the left figure, you can see what the pre-glaze looks like. Dark but strong colors. The transition between the Caucasian flesh tone to the purple looks a little muddy</li>
<li>On the right figure, I already applied the first glaze of Reaper HD Caucasian Skin to the skin. Those strong colors are now a lot more muted, and the transition looks smoother.</li>
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Next was the clothes. Keeping the clothes in neutral colors helps the focus stay on the skin.</div>
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A few wrap up details like buttons and finger nails.</div>
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Final notes: I don't think these final pictures get the subtler shifts I got in the skin tones. And the black hair on the first one looks rougher than I would like. But I was pleased with the final results. Proud to put on a table, not in a competition.</div>
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Angel Eyes has to have the smallest eyes on a model. Or maybe it just feels that way because her name is Angel Eyes, so everyone will be looking at the eyes on your model. That means you have to pay attention to getting her eyes juuuuuuuuust right. (Or at least decent to look at.)<br />
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So before I dig in to the color scheme... I want to share how I learned to paint eyes. It's the great white whale of mini painting. There was a really great article on <a href="https://www.reapermini.com/">Reaper's website</a> about how to paint eyes that I grew to love. The key approach: start with the eyes first.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Then Reaper took down The Craft section of the forum where the article resided. It's a shame because the article was written in a reassuring way - the author admitted each shot below was preceded by two screw-ups. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">That said, I did manage to find the pictures related to the article. As to the steps, however, I can only really remember the bullet-level basics.</span><br />
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<b><i>Step 1:</i></b> After priming, paint the white of the eye. Use an off-white color. Don't worry about getting all around the eye.<br />
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<b><i>Step 2:</i></b> Paint the Eyeball. Move the brush in a straight line up and down. Again, don't worry if you go outside the perimeter of the eyeball.<br />
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<b><i>Step 3:</i></b> Black all around the outside of the eyeball area. Cover up any of the mistakes outside the eye area.<br />
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<b><i>Step 4:</i></b> Paint the face with your basecoat. Start far away from the eye and slowly work towards the eye - essentially shrinking the black area. Try to leave a black circle / ring around the eyeball.<br />
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Most of this post is around the trials of trying to get the eye right.<br />
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<b><i>Angel Eyes Color Scheme </i></b><br />
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Shooting for <a href="http://www.creativecolorschemes.com/resources/free-color-schemes/cool-color-scheme.shtml" target="_blank">cool color schemes</a> as opposed to warm color schemes<br />
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<li><b><u>Skin:</u></b> Reapers Dusky Skin with Reaper Gem Purple as a base with an heavy glaze of the Reaper Caucasian fleshtones</li>
<li><b><u>Cloak:</u></b> FolkArt Thunder Blue - base; FolkArt Night Sky - wash; Reaper Gem Purple - shadow under tones</li>
<li><b><u>Vest:</u></b> <b>Base -</b> Worn Olive; <b>Wash</b> - Olive Drab; <b>Overtone</b> <b>Shadow </b>- Apple Barrel Wedgewood Green </li>
<li><b><u>Scarf and Pants:</u></b> <b>Base</b> - Reaper Concrete Grey</li>
<li><b><u>Bands:</u></b> <b>Base</b> - Worn Olive</li>
<li><b><u>Boots:</u></b> <b>Base</b> - Vallejo Black with Reaper Cloudy Grey and FolkArt Charcoal Grey highlights</li>
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First things first. The boots on this model are so thin, there's no way you're going to get a pin in there. So I cheated and did it on the cloak.<br />
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So I had the eyes looking just right. And then I went back for more detail. I hate when I do that.<br />
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So I had to go back and fix it. Like 3-4 times. Eventually with my magnifiers on I saw I got the dot in the right place. You wouldn't think it from this. You'd think I was trying to paint a muppet.</div>
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The red box is where the black dot for the eyeball is, not the green box.<br />
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Final thoughts: I didn't post a lot about painting Angel Eye's cloak or boots or even her skin tone (which didn't pop as much as the Scion did because she is clothed so much. But over all I am very happy with the end result.<br />
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-24380392374684452412019-09-26T06:02:00.001-07:002019-09-26T06:02:06.061-07:00Scion of Black Blood: Neverborn IndigeneousThe Scion of Black Blood has a very dramatic pose. A weapon in each hand, arms spread out, chest out, wide eyes. <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Puffy-Chest">Puffy-chest</a> incarnate. His <a href="http://thenutgallery.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_1290-600x450.jpg">M2E picture</a> invokes the moment as the <a href="https://practicallyserious.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/conan-1.jpg">crazed fighter</a> wanders through the fog of war out into the edge of battle, taking it all in, just before he's about to go berserk.<br />
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And then in third edition, they gave him a name.<br />
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Maurice.<br />
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Today, I wonder if the Scion has this pose because he's about to flip out that someone named the chosen heir of acid blood something more appropriate for a local British solicitor.<br />
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Anyway, I'm going to use the Indigenous color palette I set up on my post about <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2019/09/neverborn-skin-tones.html">skin tones for Malifaux's Nephilim</a>. (I painted him about 18 months ago before M3E decided he was half-blooded.) To get the "peanut worm" translucence -- I chose a purple base, light wash of a deep blue shadow in the crevices and then a thin overcoat of a light but dull blue tone over everything.<br />
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As to getting the colors right his other features, I found a decent reference to a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_action#/media/File%3AWinchester_Model_1912.JPG">1912 Winchester off Wikipedia</a> (technically a little ahead of the Malifaux's alternate timeline but it still works for what he's holding).<br />
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For his horns, I wanted to avoid the typical bone color but wasn't sure what to use. I little searching and I found a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/474538747/new-arrival-ram-horns-headband-3d?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_-active_topseller_1_notvetted&utm_custom1=5a2f6a95-5c94-4537-ba01-0548ebc4a913&gclid=Cj0KCQiAvrfSBRC2ARIsAFumcm-OaEIB-RCn4hyJOJOUWgX0Z4tYz7jEoHkqaLz-BLUOmW4cvP2UL1QaAgFhEALw_wcB">costume piece on Etsy</a> that had a nice greyish / dull violet look. </div>
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<b><i>Maurice, the <strike>tax auditor</strike> Scion of Black Blood Color Scheme</i></b><br />
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<li><b style="font-weight: bold;"><u>Skin</u></b><b> - </b><b style="font-weight: bold;">Undertone Base:</b><b> </b>Reaper Twilight Purple Skin,<b> </b><b style="font-weight: bold;">Shadow (Wash):</b><b> </b>Ceramcoat Purple Smoke,<b> </b><b style="font-weight: bold;">Main Base:</b><b> </b>Heavy Glaze of FolkArt Linen,<b> </b><b style="font-weight: bold;">Highlights</b><b>: </b>Reaper Bloodless Skin and FolkArt Parchment</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><b><u>Pants</u> - </b> <b>Undertone </b><b>Base:</b> </span>Reaper Worn Olive,<b style="font-weight: bold;"> Shadow (Wash):</b><b style="font-weight: bold;"> </b>Olive Drab,<b style="font-weight: bold;"> Overtone: </b>Heavy Glaze of Ceramcoat Autumn Brown</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><b><u>Arm Braces and Shoes:</u></b> <b>Base:</b> </span>Reaper "Nut Brown"** and Orange Brown, <b style="font-weight: bold;">Shadow (Wash):</b><b> </b>Heavy Wash of Ceramcoat Cinnamon</li>
<li><b style="font-weight: bold;"><u>Horns:</u></b><b style="font-weight: bold;"> Undertone </b><b style="font-weight: bold;">Base: </b>Reaper Cloudy Grey, <b style="font-weight: bold;">Shadow (Wash):</b><b style="font-weight: bold;"> </b>Reaper Cloudy Grey, <b>Highlights</b><b style="font-weight: bold;">: </b>FolkArt Mushroom</li>
<li><b style="font-weight: bold;"><u>Metal Bits:</u></b><b style="font-weight: bold;"> Undertone Base: </b>Reaper Cloudy Grey,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> </span>Reaper Cloudy Grey, <b style="font-weight: bold;">Overtone: </b>Reaper Concrete Grey</li>
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<i>** At least I think it's Nut Brown. It's labelled as "MSP Sample" and I got it for free in a Reaper package.</i><br />
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Here's the first cost of Twilight Purple with a heavy glaze of Linen over the main coat.<br />
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From the top down, I could see a mistake in the eye by the nose I would have to clean up.<br />
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More lighter skin glaze and 1st coats on clothes.<br />
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Leather gauntlets. Making sure to distinguish them from the pants.<br />
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1st wash on clothes and highlighting details<br />
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2nd wash on clothes. Belt clean up and definition. My first attempt at a tattoo - using a thinned out black. Not great.<br />
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Final thoughts: I'm really happy with the style of this Indigenous Nephilim palette. The overcoat method worked. The pants could have used a little more definition and shading, but overall I'm proud to bring this one to the table.<br />
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-78767868571500040532019-09-12T13:47:00.001-07:002019-09-12T13:47:18.219-07:00Neverborn Skin TonesPainting a demon seems kind of boring to me. Sure, when I was a kid, Chernabog was ominous in Fantasia. But fantasy lines are so rife with this <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad">BBG</a> that I now find them commonplace, much less scary. Red skin, big horns, goat's legs, Tim Curry's voice. Next please...<br />
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So I avoided picking up Nephilim figures from Wyrd's Malifaux line. It was too in the vein of what I was avoiding. I thought the nightmares from Malifaux captured my imagination more.<br />
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But my "to be painted" collection started growing bunches of these Nephilim: Nekima. Tuco. Angel Eyes. The Scion of Black Blood. The Bloodwretches. Stuck with them, I struggled on what to use for skin tones. Especially since each of them have a slightly different background.<br />
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So to start, I picked the most unusual part of the their biology: Black Blood. So what would a creature that had "black blood" look like? The closest real "Earther" counterpart creatures with purple or violet blood. Of these the most interesting palette I saw was this picture of the sipuncula <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Sipuncula.jpg/1200px-Sipuncula.jpg" target="_blank">or peanut worm</a>. The creature is interesting because different parts have different palettes based on how the camera captured its translucence.<br />
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Having recently picked up the 2nd Edition Core Through the Breach book, I got to read up a little on the history of Malifaux. The planet starts off with human-like people. Eventually they got to war with their greatest enemies - the Tyrants. To defeat them, they turn their blood black - basically a defense mechanism similar to the Alien Xenomorphs.<br />
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The lore also talks about a ritual to turn a human into a Neverborn. From some of the stories I've read, you can tell when someone doesn't look like an indigenous Neverborn who had existed in Malifaux before the Breach opened. As such, a transformed human can still disguise him or herself a little among other humans.<br />
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So I'm classifying them as three types of creatures: Indigenous, Once Human, Mid-Transformation.<br />
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One thing I learned from painting the <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2019/09/warpigs-gathered-in-their-marshes.html">warpigs</a>: A simple two-tone color scheme can have unexpected depth by using a a deeper or darker undercoat and then a heavy glaze of a lighter color for the base coat. Here the shadow is a third color on the undersides of the model. Final highlighting would be a white skin tone that had little-to-no red in it - probably a linen, recalling the Jen Haley tutorials.<br />
So terms I'm using for this process are: Undercoat, Shadow (Wash), Base (Heavy Glaze).<br />
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One specific thing regarding the term "undercoat": I'm still priming white, uniform grey, or black - and THEN applying what I'm calling "undercoat". (I recognize a prime coat is technically an undercoat, but whatever...)<br />
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So I'm breaking out skin tones in three sections:<br />
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<li><b>Indigenous</b> (e.g., Nekima and the Scion) would have a more blue/purple skin tone than a human one. The males have a deeper purple undercoat - Reaper HD Twilight Purple. The females slightly brighter purple - Reaper HD Gem Purple. Base coats will be straight Linen color. No fleshtones - like Caucasian.</li>
<li><b>Once Human </b>(e.g., Tuco and Angel Eyes) may still retain a little of the human skin tone. Reapers Dusky Skin tone might work as a undercoat base with an base of the Reaper Caucasian fleshtones, with final highlights being Linen.</li>
<li><b>Mid-Transformation</b> (e.g. Bloodwretches) would still retain more of that Caucasian skin tone with blends in the Once Human in the extremities - similar to the Swine-Cursed.</li>
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So taking the lessons learned from the Swine Cursed - this calls for undercoating and glazes.<br />
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<b><i>Warpig Color Scheme</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Main Skin</u> - Undercoat:</b> Reaper Maiden Flesh mixed with Reaper HD Entrail Pink, <b>Base Coat:</b> Heavy Glaze of Reaper HD Fair Skin Shadow and Reaper HD Maiden Flesh, <b>Highlights: </b>Thin Glazes of <span style="font-weight: 400;">Reaper</span> HD Caucasian Flesh, <span style="font-weight: 400;">Reaper</span> Maiden Flesh, and FolkArt Linen</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Hooves</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> FolkArt Butter Pecan with dark brown washes (FolkArt Walnut Brown)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><b>Eyes</b> -</u> <b>Base:</b> Reaper HD Bright Red</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Fur</u></b> - Autumn Brown with Reaper HD Golden Brown highlights</span></li>
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Having played a game or two running the Ulix and his pig crew, I realized I needed two warpigs for some heavy hitters. At the time I bought the figure Malifaux only had one sculpt. Since there's no variance in the sculpt itself, I needed to be able to distinguish the one from the other. (It makes a huge difference in preventing mistakes mid-game.)<br />
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So I decided one pig would NOT have the pre-packaged gremlin with banjo riding him. The other would.<br />
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Warpig 1 had the rider. Primed white and black wash for separation.</div>
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First coat was all pink. He really looks like a hot dog here.</div>
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With the first glaze of fleshtone you can already see the more natural pig skin color. I didn't take good notes here, but I think I used a warmer skin color with the first pig - like Fair Skin Shadow or Tanned Skin.</div>
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Another snap after more highlighting.</div>
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Warpig 2 needed to have all traces of the gremlin rider removed. Some Dremel work handled that nicely. Of course afterwards meant some green stuff work.</div>
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Primed and separated below. I was pleased with how well my green stuff work came out.<br />
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I missed taking a snap of the undercoating of pink for Warpig 2. But below you can see the first heavy glaze.<br />
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Putting him on a nice muddy base. <br />
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Final Thoughts:<br />
Very <b><i>very</i></b> happy with running an undercoat for painting pig skin tone. Big success. <br />
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Also I could have used a dark brown for separation on the ears rather than black wash. Separation on the ears and tusks look a little harsh. Still table top ready!<br />
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-23693549946956550342019-08-15T13:31:00.003-07:002019-08-29T06:46:46.070-07:00Swine Cursed 1: The Gremlin-Pig Lycanthrope<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Werewolves scared me as a kid. I didn't need to see <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082010/?ref_=nv_sr_1">An American Werewolf in London</a> in theaters as a kid because the commercials alone kept me up at night. I was only ten when it came out, so I'm sure an analyst would point out it was all my fear of the inevitability of adulthood. Or perhaps more accurately, the dread of puberty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But when I think on it, the real scare was always the loss of control over your body. Disease doesn't tap that fear so much as the loss of your mental capacities to control your body, your actions, your words -- even your thoughts. In a minute, your mind has kicked out your personality like a bad renter. Or worse yet some small subconscious flaw has back-doored an outside influence to wrest command of the entire ship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It sort of compliments <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2019/08/doppleganger-fear-of-imitator.html">the imitator fear</a> in that you fit right into the new world that the Body Snatchers built without your conscious acknowledgment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You secretly wanted this. That's why the lycanthrope imprint took hold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That said, the Swine-Cursed isn't a scary figure but an homage to the trope with a wink. Instead of man-into-beast, we have gremlin-into-beast. At first glance, there's a fun juxtaposition that's a send-up of the werewolf. The gremlin of folklore engages in subtle mischief, causing things that work to malfunction. Whereas the swine is represents consumption gone wrong, or as Bricktop would say -- is as "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyEBXTL1Y3U" target="_blank">greedy as a pig</a>".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, in Malifaux there's more in kind between gremlins and pigs. Malifaux gremlins are more reckless to the point of no self-preservation. And Malifaux pigs charge into gobble up anything that gets to close to them. So I see it more as the "imprint took hold" idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As to the minis, I like this one <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0788/3475/products/WYR20639_1c74d40a-bee0-4435-ad96-f68a4fc5b9c7_480x480.jpg?v=1498993811" target="_blank">particular pose</a> of the standing figure. It's the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tph1aaSM1k">classic werewolf howl</a> stance. I see the color scheme in mid-transformation between gremlin and pig which I figured would be a fun challenge to get both tones right, especially since green and pink don't blend well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Above all I wanted to avoid making them look like a boar lycanthrope. For the uninitiated, that's an old D&D monster called <a href="http://www.lomion.de/cmm/img/lycawebo.gif">wereboar</a>. World of Warcraft has a similar looking creature called a <a href="https://wow.gamepedia.com/Quilboar" target="_blank">quillboar</a>. Both are all brown and red earth-tones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, I forgot to take initial coat pictures. But it was white primer, black paint wash for separation and some base coats as listed above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided to make the transformation to go from the upper extremities inward. The arms and face were the most distorted and pig-like with a pink tone, while the torso and legs were gremlin with a green tone. But while the face was fine - the arms came off mismatched, not transitional. It looked as an action figure had the wrong arms popped in, complete with demarcation gap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I pulled the gremlin green skin tone further down the shoulder and onto the bicep. That fixed the action figure problem. I put this figure down for a few days and would walk past it every now and again...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... and I still didn't like what I saw. The blue color overalls clashed with the other colors on the figure. So it was time to change it to brown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The overall result was... okay. I don't think I used enough colors here. But I learned a lot about undercoating and heavy glazes as a result of this (the main lesson: actually use an undercoat on a figure with a transition scheme *facepalm*). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So... less a successful paint job than a successful painting experience.</span></div>
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-56118238680098907192019-08-03T10:22:00.000-07:002019-08-08T13:57:10.438-07:00Doppleganger: Fear of the Imitator<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a sharp left turn from my <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2019/06/penelope-color-of-dog.html">previous post on dogs</a>, but it has a happy ending. So hang in with me on this.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last month, I was dreaming that my puppy was acting strange - almost feral - whenever she was in my peripheral vision.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A vet came to our house and said, "This is not your dog. It's an imitation. Right now, the imitator has taken a hold of your dog and she's like a zombie version of her former self. The only way to get her back is to kill the thing you see before you." </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And he handed me a rock.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I braced myself, sighed, and swung the rock at her head. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The blow didn't finish the job. She looked up at me, like she does in the photos my wife takes when she's at her cutest with big pleading eyes. Except now the side of her skull was lopsided and blood was pouring out of her nose and mouth.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I dispassionately swung the rock again - as if I were performing a task.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then I woke up... horrified at the dream but moreso at myself. What the hell was wrong with me? </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(And no, I </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hadn't re-watched </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/quotes/qt1635568" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Thing</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the night before.)</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My worst nightmares are always about the imitator. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And my worst recurring nightmare is right out of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OouTay_7_hw">"Invasion of the Body Snatchers"</a>: someone has clearly been replaced by a copy. More people start acting strange and I become concerned. Then, everyone I confide in tells me to stop worrying... and here, eat this strange food I've never seen before. Or drink this cup of milk with a thick mist rolling off the brim. Or just step in this shadowed back room and relax. Or just close your eyes - we have a surprise for you (no peeking).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a string of nightmares like this almost every night during my first trip to Ireland.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recognize these nightmares are rooted around </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">change and fear of it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used to think it was based around the fear that those around you have flipped their moral positions. Or everyone has started buying into some new hip philosophy that is terribly flawed, one that seeks my own death in a way that everyone else is steadfastly ignorant of. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While these might be the root for some, I've figured out my nightmares stem from the opposite: I have changed -- or had to change -- and my psyche is straining to catch up.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first time I pieced it together was all those years ago in Ireland. During the trip, I became enchanted with the land, the viridity, the people, the stout. Then, the doppelganger nightmares every night. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After one rather awful nightmare, I awoke with the clarity that the one who was changing was <b><i>me</i></b>, not my surroundings: I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> had adopted a slight brogue.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> So I forced myself to stop speaking with the lilt I was so charmed by (and cease what was probably an embarrassing cultural appropriation). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I r</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eaffirmed to myself I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was a Northeastern American on travel.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The nightmares stopped.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My most recent imitator nightmare definitely revolved around the death of our previous dog, Ammi, and the transition to our new dog. Ammi's passing left behind a void in our</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> household, and we were lucky to locate a dog that filled it so perfectly. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I was still struggling with moving on; it was harder on me than I wanted to admit to myself. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And my kill-the-fake-puppy nightmare manifested from my lingering numbness, fresh emotional confusion and guilt. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Numbness over the constant clean up as Ammi slowly lost control of her body and more of her personality. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Confusion over caring so deeply for a new dog when I still cared so deeply for Ammi.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Guilt over "replacing" her, probably sooner than I was ready to admit to myself. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things changed but I was struggling to keep up.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But like most fears, once faced into light, the nightmares dissipate. Once I realized the root of the issue, I came to peace with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the situation.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The nightmares stopped.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So... before I move onto to facing the paint job, I want to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">clarify a few things</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First, Spelling: Malifaux spells their creature doppleganger rather than doppelganger, which comes from the German doppelgänger.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Second, the creature definitely draws for the D&D-ish interpretation of doppelganger - a monster who has supernatural powers to imitate a person - rather than the more innocuous "<a href="https://twinstrangers.net/">twin stranger</a>".</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Third: the figure itself. The <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0825/4481/products/WYR20412-Dopple_1024x1024.jpeg?v=1431098267">Malifaux Doppleganger</a> figure can be painted two ways: one as if she's holding a towel, one as if she's grabbing a newly acquired sheet of skin to be added to complete her/its masquerade. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've seen <a href="http://www.coolminiornot.com/427613?browseid=7884026">many</a> <a href="http://www.coolminiornot.com/330438?browseid=7884026">done</a> <a href="http://www.coolminiornot.com/409134?browseid=7884026">as a</a> <a href="http://www.coolminiornot.com/400219?browseid=7884026">towel</a>, so I chose the latter. The sheet of skin needed something to define it a bit. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My inspiration to use veins was <a href="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/976x549_b/p00rdlms.jpg">Cassandra</a> from the first season of the rebooted Dr. Who series.</span><br>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Muscular Bits</u> - </b> <b>Main Base: </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reaper </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HD Brilliant Red</span>, <b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shadow (Wash):</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Delta Ceramcoat Cinnamon, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Highlights</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reaper HD Entrail Pink</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Red and Blue Veins</u></b> - <b>Undertone Base: </b>Reaper HD Brilliant Red and FolkArt Solid Blue<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">,</span> <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Heavy Glaze of Reaper Tanned Highlight</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Viscera</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>Tamirya Tamiya Clear Red paint, Uhu glue, Vallejo Black (see post from <a href="http://chestofcolors.com/something-about-painting-blood/">chestofcolors.com</a>)</span></li>
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-60818905758064546682019-07-31T16:51:00.004-07:002019-08-21T20:06:08.966-07:00Trees and Contrast PaintsIf not obvious already, I love using terrain in a wargame and RPGs with miniatures.<br>
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But I didn't always have this appreciation. Most RPG's I played in the 80's and 90's used "<a href="https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/92447/origin-of-term-theater-of-the-mind">theater of the mind</a>" to visualize spaces. This style of play relies on the game master to communicate the placement of all the relevant pieces in an encounter. (Map drawing helps too.) <br>
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But after having played with a group who frequently uses terrain and miniatures, there's an immersive experience that prevents me from going back to the theater of the mind.<br>
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Mini painting soon became a creative outlet - as I wanted to re-create the same environment my gaming group had. <br>
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Then it became an addiction. Seeing a <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2019/04/and-evil-casks-it-classic-it-ridiculous.html">unique figure</a> plants the seeds of encounters and adventures. It even forces you to pick up more mundane <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2019/04/barrels-and-casks.html">objects</a>. I'd purchase figures I might not use, but looked too cool to pass by.<br>
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Then it became a storage concern with the advent of Kickstarter and the board game revolution. Decent unpainted plastic minis came cheap.<br>
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And now, I'm reflecting on all this hobby consumerism gone wild. I'm refocusing on its personal importance and artistic value. <br>
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It's also partially because I inherited a small terrain legacy.<br>
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I had a friend who I knew to be a gamer. We'd chat about figures we picked up, but where I was focused on grabbing one or two figures - sweating over which highlight to use - he went the pre-painted miniature route. Then pre-painted terrain. That eventually became 3D-printed terrain. His mission was to create the ultimate campaign. Four 3D printers ran non-stop making houses, towers and trees.<br>
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But he passed away before he got to run his ultimate campaign.<br>
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His family was looking to clear out his home. No one - not even gaming stores - wanted his unpainted 3D-printed stuff. I grabbed all of it before they hit the curb.<br>
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Conflicting feelings car-crashed in me:<br>
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<li>Responsibility - I cannot let my friend's work go unnoticed or unlived. There's a unrealized dream behind every tree he printed. </li>
<li>Panic - There's not enough time and space to paint all his stuff, much less complete my own surplus. </li>
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While I have come to terms that I have some auction-purging to do, I will note that <a href="https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/06/12/citadel-contrast-paints-the-future-is-here-review/">Games Workshop's Contrast Paints</a> came at just the right time. The "one coat and done" has a great appeal to knock out some of my new acquisitions.<br>
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And since I had a lot of new trees, it was time to start there.<br>
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First - white primer.<br>
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For my First Trial, I used five colors from the Citadel Contrast paint line. These colors are dark to light and I used them from bottom-to-top: Dark Angels Green, Camo Green, Ork Flesh, Militarium Green, Plauguebearer Flesh.<br>
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Realizing that these paints are very thin, I heavy-loaded the brush to be able to move the paint around on the figure to do some wet-blending. But starting from the bottom up, the paint was constantly dripping down and collecting under the tree and running on to the trunk.<br>
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With washes, you can mop off the run-off with a clean brush. But with Contrast Paint this made smears everywhere. The only chance to really save other areas that get spilled onto is to catch the paint before is slides into the area - which defeats the purpose of saving time.<br>
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Overall this is an expensive way to paint this. But the speed combined with detailed look is just what I need to get things done!</div>
Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-56513849068579204832019-06-30T10:47:00.000-07:002019-06-30T21:00:32.193-07:00Githyanki: Best Fiend<span style="font-family: inherit;">In September 1983, a thirteen-year-old version of myself was staring at a ditto sheet entitled, "Name three (3) books you read during the summer". It happened to be a summer I didn't read very much, which was unusual for me. My mother kept yelling at me to read "A Light in the Forest". I struggled with the pacing and daydreamed too often. Eventually I wrote down:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Light in the Forest </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Johnathan Livingston Seagull</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fiend Folio (Dungeons and Dragons)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The hours mulling over the creatures in the book is probably what fueled all my daydreams. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needleman_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)">Needleman</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaad">slaad</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penanggalan_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)">P</a></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penanggalan_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)">enanggalan</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penanggalan_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)"> </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)">forlarren</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_fear_and_flame">Eye of Fear and Flame</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)">One entry</a> rebirthed my childhood fascination with scarecrows. I remember dreaming about whether one could play out an encounter with a <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fiend+folio+1e+enveloper&t=ffab&atb=v157-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F89%2F2f%2Fde%2F892fdeaeda803717cc25e1e5a5c4837c.jpg">revenant</a> just like the splash page.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not all were great. The <a href="https://i.somethingawful.com/u/elpintogrande/july09/fiendfolio2_5_1.gif">triapheg</a> looked like a couple melted mannequins repurposed for a low-budget sci-fi film. When I saw Wes Craven's Shocker, I thought, "This movie is so bad, it actually makes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)">old monster</a> look frightening." And the <a href="https://www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/fiend-folio-1/1/">adherer</a> ranks among some of D&D's goofier creations (although they got a fantastic new coat of paint in <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8gnj/discuss&page=5?Pathfinder-Campaign-Setting-Misfit-Monsters-Redeemed">Misfit Monsters Revisited</a> and got a lot of love from me.)<br /><br />But the best fiend of the folio was posted on the cover - the <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/FiendFolioCover.jpg">githyanki</a>.</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Survivors of a long enslavement, descendents of a rebel, now living in the Astral Plane, as ruthless pillagers with silver swords.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So my old college roommate surprised me by announcing he was playing D&D again <i>and</i> convinced his DM to play a githyanki. Immediately shuffling through my mini shopping sites, I found a pair of <a href="https://www.miniaturemarket.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/w/z/wzk73190.jpg">Nolzur's Marvelous Unpainted Miniatures githyanki</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I wanted to recreate the classic Fiend Folio cover, though admittedly the color palette needed a little updating. I'm not going to have a lush blue background so all those yellow-browns, brownish-yellows and gold colors are going to look flat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Leafing through google, I found some great updated reference pics: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">the <a href="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/forgottenrealms/images/d/d2/Githyanki.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070414223407">one</a> I remember fondly from 3E by Sam Wood</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.waynereynolds.com/magazine-art?lightbox=dataItem-imyzguhu">one</a> by Wayne A. Reynolds - though his colors are overlit by a blue light source </span></li>
<li>this <a href="https://www.belloflostsouls.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/githyanki-hate-illithids.jpg">personal fave </a>by Wayne A. Reynolds - where a githyanki is in full swing, dicing up a mind flayer </li>
<li>but probably the best reference for this figure is <a href="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/forgottenrealms/images/3/3d/Monster_Manual_5e_-_Githyanki_-_p160.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141112214919">this one</a> from the 5E manual</li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><b style="font-family: inherit;">Wraps</b></u><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Base:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Reaper Ashen Brown, <b>Wash:</b> FolkArt Walnut Brown, </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Highlight:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Reaper Dusky Skin Highlight</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><u style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Bracer straps and </b><b>defensive skirt</b></u></u></b></span></span></span><b> - Base:</b> Delta Ceramcoat Cinnamon, <b>Wash:</b> Reaper Dark Highlight</li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Straps</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper HD Golden Brown, <b>Wash:</b> Reaper Dark Highlight, <b>Highlight:</b> FolkArt English Mustard</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Eyes</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">FolkArt Autumn Leaves with Mix of Autumn Leaves and Antique White in middle</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Hair</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Delta Ceramcoat Cinnamon, <b>Wash:</b> Reaper Dark Highlight</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Lioncloth</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> </span></span></span>Delta Ceramcoat Cinnamon, <b>Wash:</b> Mix of Reaper Dark Shadow and Cinnamon, <b>Highlight 2:</b> FolkArt Autumn Leaves</li>
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Plastic minis always come with an annoying amount of flash. I've noted where bits needed filing or cutting on the forearms and the arms...<br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Black Wash, work on the eye. Very happy with the squint in the left eye, but the right eye was too blotted out with the black color. At the time, I thought I would be okay with it. I wasn't. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">First pass on skin color. Embarrassed to say I can't remember exactly what color I used here. Either it was a Vallejo Khaki or FolkArt Teddy Bear Tan. I would revisit that right eye (stage left) later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">As I started filling in my first coat, I found some gaps in my palette plan, specifically on the wraps around the legs and arms. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">The belt would look best in gold and browns. But I had to be careful not to overuse those colors against a yellow skin. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Other browns would be needed to help separate the NMM golds. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Reds and </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">reddish browns had been taken by the loincloth, hair, </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">and the defensive leather skirt (which to borrow a term from the Romans is called a "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteruges" style="font-family: sans-serif;">pteruges</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">")</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">. One other minor challenge: the githyanki on </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">the <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/FiendFolioCover.jpg">old FF cover</a> didn't have the leather pteruges (or definitive legs for that matter).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">So </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">with a palette drowning in yellows, browns and reds - another color was needed for the wraps.</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">So it needed to be a dull color that wouldn't confuse the palette. Reaper's HD Ashen Brown - with its muted purplish beige - came to the rescue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Cinnamon and brown wash to get that reddish brown leather look on the pteruges and bracer straps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">While hard to see below, I fixed the right eye. That done, it was onto practicing my <a href="https://miniaturehobbytutorials.com/tips-advice-tutorial-nmm/">NMM abilities</a> on the sword. With a base coat of Reaper HD Armor Grey, I had to consider colors for the githyanki's legendary silver swords. I considered a <a href="http://img0.etsystatic.com/010/0/6174680/il_570xN.431283314_6fal.jpg">sterling silver</a> look, but opted to emphasize the peaks similar to the edge at the <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b3/13/8a/b3138a77aa65a3831d2887ec36f3e929.jpg">base of this sword</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">First pass on sword. The back of sword is correct but the front lines were all wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Starting over again on the front of sword with a solid base coat of Vallejo Cold Grey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Also, the mold defects began to show its faults on the front bracer. It lacked detail and the layers were more lumpy. So normal NMM painting techniques - feathering glazes toward edges and applying washes to the recesses edges - don't work. This </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">would have to be manually fixed later on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Some gemwork. Cool blue as an accent helped give it a little pop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">So a quick note on the smirk. I was painting a </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">thin black line between the lips for a little separation. Unfortunately, I ended up giving him a happy smile. </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Correction required adding more of the yellow flesh color, which needed several passes since black-on-yellow mistakes need multiple coats of yellow to hide. You can see the results on the left - a serious expression with a squint to consider where to put the blade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">In the final stages, I was adding a thin glaze of FolkArt Buttercup to the lip area. When I was done he got a bit of the smile back. </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">But this time it was a small smirk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">These are the moments I love in the creative process. I didn't plan on that smirk - I was actively avoiding it. But sometimes the piece tells you what it wants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Now - time for the base. Evoking the otherworldly Astral Plane feel from the old 1982 Fiend Folio meant imitating the blue background on the </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">base itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Some small wisps like what I did with the <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2016/08/widow-weaver-creep-factor-10.html">Widow Weaver</a> would also be key in creating that extra-planar feel. But I had to ship this to Germany... and I knew from experience cotton/PVA would get re-shaped in shipment. It would be best to have the wisps of mist removable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">That meant - magnets again! First step, I drilled some holes first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Next I filled the holes in with green stuff and let it cure overnight. Next day I put some saran wrap around the figure. I put some pins on the magnet areas (below). Finally I would mold green stuff over the pins. That way the "bits" holding the wisps would retain the shape of the base.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Next was to paint the base and bits in the greys and blues listed above. Then glue on the wisps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">FINAL THOUGHTS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Never thought I'd say I missed the ability to assemble a mini! Being able to paint piece separately would have "de-complicated" painting the areas in between the arms. That said, I would have never enjoyed assembling the arms together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Also not a fan of the type of plastic used here. Flash is near impossible to remove.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">I also need to study painting the final highlights on skin better to get the "shine" of skin more realistic. I could have gotten some of those bits a little sharper. But overall, I'm pleased with the results.</span><br />
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-40899163948246964002019-06-06T09:25:00.001-07:002019-07-02T12:20:06.695-07:00Penelope: The Color of a Dog<div dir="ltr">
Anthropologists credit <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/01/hunting-with-wolves-humans-conquered-the-world-neanderthal-evolution">humanity's survival against Neanderthals</a> with its domestication of dogs. This means my childhood home would probably have starved to death in ancient times. Growing up, everyone except myself had allergies to cats and dogs. So beyond the once-in-a-lifetime hamster and a series of fish, I never got to live with a pet until I was nearly in my 30's.<br />
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Although I'd always pictured myself as a cat person, I married into a dog home and converted. Look - I can admit I got very lucky in how I was eased into the dog world. My "starter" dog was very timid around other dogs and people - with the exception of my immediate family. My second dog loved people but was anti-social with her own kind. Now, we're raising a puppy who is social with dogs and humans alike.<br />
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I really didn't start paying attention to the colors of a dog's coat until my second dog, Am-mi. She was visually striking. Her coat had a light-brown hue that would get very red in the summer, and dark fur pigmentation around her eyes that gave her an Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra look. Once a month, someone would comment she looked like a fox. Every week, people stopped to ask me what breed she was. (The unimpressive answer: a mutt).<br />
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It's in these interactions that I recognized how often humans make that impulsive connection between <a href="https://www.dailydogdiscoveries.com/dog-coat-color-patterns/">coat</a> and breed: a dog-lover's search to find the right companion that will meld with one's home. (Though now raising a puppy, I find I agree that the breed is really only as good as as the <a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/there-s-no-such-thing-as-a-good-dog?utm_source=pocket-newtab">owner</a>.)<br />
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So deciding what to paint my first canine figure carried some weight with me. I'm looking at <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr4juu4pYmt1BfNVPnmW0EZf0guNYHuLrH85X_c8D4cCRT9IL0x9jmHxaTLr_KxkusRv_yea_3LCGGSl9gNMwupgNxwHKjsAqS9bEIACOz1qbYLJ6iV_PgTPXUO90yb0EYrHSpgFQUZic/s1600/Ulixs+Hog+Wild+-+Penelope+Assembled+%25281%2529.JPG">Penelope</a>, <a href="https://www.wyrd-games.net/ulix">Ulix</a>'s partner in herding pigs. Malifaux books describe her as "a brown merle coat -- her eyes... ice blue in color."</div>
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The problem with painting her "merle" is that it looks <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_(dog_coat)#/media/File:NordJW-06_Mudpaws_Duke_Silver.jpg">Dalmatian-esque</a> or a like a glaring palette mistake since the mutation neuters <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_(dog_coat)#/media/File:Pete_may01_web.JPG">some pigmentation</a>. I wanted my first foray into paint to not look unfinished. So I opted to try my hand at a brindled coat instead. The brindle has a tiger stripe marking overtop of a more blotchy under-pattern.<br />
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<b><i>Penelope Color Palette</i></b></div>
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<li><b><u>Eyes</u></b> - <b>Black Dot:</b> Vallejo Black; <b>Center:</b> Reaper Lighter French Blue</li>
<li><b><u>Muzzle</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Cloudy Grey, <b>Wash:</b> Reaper Dusky Skin Shadow</li>
<li><b><u>Undercoat</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Desert Tan; <b>Splotches:</b> Reaper Golden Brown, <b>Wash:</b> FolkArt Coffee Bean</li>
<li><b><u>"Merle" Coat</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Mix of FolkArt Walnut Brown and Cloudy Grey (very thin) also Dusky Skin and Ashen Brown highlights</li>
<li><b><u>Chest & Forelegs</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Mixture of Reaper Desert Tan & Apple Barrel Antique White; <b>Highlight:</b> Reaper Bloodless Skin</li>
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First coats to get the blotchy under-pattern I mentioned above. It looks like a failed pattern here, but I trusted my instincts that the brindle application would pull it together.<br />
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First passes on the brindle stripes filled the coat out they way I wanted.<br />
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A few grey highlights to add some shine to the brindle stripes of the coat.</div>
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Overall very happy with the final pics. The brindle coat came out the way I hoped it would - and it's a good day when you can say that!<br />
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-38642944949952206922019-05-26T07:20:00.002-07:002019-06-04T13:51:36.397-07:00Sasayakko: In The Race To RelaxIn 2004, not long after I'd moved to Philadelphia, I'd been invited to a gaming group in North Philly. Not knowing what to expect, I'd arrived to a VFW building with about 60-odd gamers. I knew a total of nobody+1, so I walked around and casually introduced myself to each table. Most of the RPG's we're closed & in mid-story and the other tables were mid-tournament where sign-ups were weeks in advance.<br />
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Eager to geek-out but clearly side-lined, I meandered back to person who'd invited me. A handful of other "no room at the inn" gamers had also gathered around him. So he suggested we play <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_(board_game)">Puerto Rico</a> by Rio Grande Games.<br />
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It had been the first time I'd enjoyed a game that wasn't either an RPG or one of the pixelated variety. I bought my own copy, introduced it to my family, and found myself re-invigorated with a gaming revolution that happened under my nose: a resurgence of great board games.<br />
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My wife recently picked up Tokaido - a competitive game to see who can vacation the hardest. She'd grabbed an expansion and got a bonus figure: <a href="http://agreeordie.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sasayakko.jpg">Sasayakko</a>, the geisha.<br />
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<a href="https://www.wyrd-games.net/news/2017/9/25/monday-preview-hinamatsu">Hinamatsu</a> was in my "to be painted" queue so I decided whatever color scheme my wife chose is what Hinamatsu would be getting as well.<br />
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My wife wasn't thrilled with the style and palette of the Sasayakko box art (what I dubbed "super-lavender"). I was relieved as trying to figure out how to paint a tiger that small would have been a challenge. So we circled through several geisha pictures until she chose a <a href="https://www.canstockphoto.com/retro-character-attractive-japanese-21141527.html">stock photo</a>.<br />
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<li><b><u>Eyebrows</u></b> - Thin Glaze of FolkArt Autumn Leaves, then a Thin Glaze of Cinnamon (thin glaze); Touch up with FolkArt Autumn Leaves (thin glaze) </li>
<li><b><u>Undersash and Belt</u></b> - <b>Undercoat Base: </b>Mix FolkArt Autumn Leaves and Reaper HD Entrail Pink, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Cinnamon around edges, <b>Base:</b> Heavy Glaze of Reaper HD Entrail Pink <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>Reaper HD Entrail Pink mixed with Apple Barrel Antique White </li>
<li><b><u>Back Undergarment</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Thin Glazes of Reaper HD Solid Blue</li>
<li><b><u>Main Dress</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>FolkArt Aqua Wash, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Reaper HD Solid Blue , <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>FolkArt Aqua Wash mixed with Apple Barrel Antique White </li>
<li><b><u>"Waves" in Main Dress</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>FolkArt Buttercup, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> FolkArt Ochre Yellow, <b>Highlights</b>:<b> </b>Vallejo Ghost White</li>
<li><b><u>Arm Drapes</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>Reaper HD Twighlight Purple, <b>Transitions: </b>FolkArt Night Sky (glaze at top) to Reaper HD Gem Purple to Mix of Reaper HD Gem Purple and Apple Barrel Antique White<div>
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The eyes are always the toughest to do, so I've learned to start there. Experience has taught me to not get hung up on how war-like a figure will look in this stage, because filling in the face will soften all the "dirty tricks" to get them done.<br />
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Applications of base coats done . Here I managed to get the little white dot in the eye that drove me crazy when I was trying to paint <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2016/08/sonnia-criid-1-sly-and-fiery.html">Sonnia</a>.<br />
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First Glazes on Sash and layer 1 dress. Originally started with Cinnamon on headpiece, but over time I realized gold would be a nice contrast.<br />
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Eyebrows were important here as most oshiroi I googled had this <a href="http://nd06.jxs.cz/033/857/642dda4c84_95676290_o2.jpg">orange red style</a>.</div>
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Most painting techniques for black hair tend to encourage you to start with a base coat of black and then highlight the tops of the hair charcoal grey - working up to a dove white for any strands that might gleam. In the past I've done a heavy glaze of charcoal grey first and then heavy wash of black. I also work dark blue in the undershadow where a gleam might pop out.<br />
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The moons and the arm drapes were just balls at this point.<br />
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On the "globes", when you have to paint an exact shape like a perfect circle or a moon sliver, it's really challenging to make it look right at this small a level. I've found it's easier to paint a simple shape and paint out the unnecessary stuff with the color of the background... than try to paint the shape itself.<br />
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Next up to paint was the blue and yellow "swatches" (I'm calling them this because they have a very "80's" shape and look to them. Problem is they had no pop...<br />
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...and the key to give the pop was to outline with Antique White.<br />
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Final touches didn't do much. Nuln Oil on Gold - not much of an effect. Ran a little dark grey wash on the recesses. I wanted to dull the recesses to produce a more realistic look. But for some areas it just looked a little more dirty.<br />
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The very awesome <a href="https://www.stonehavenmini.com/">Stonehaven Minis</a> had a figure so well-suited, he became the character basis for the next Pathfinder game I played. Meet the <a href="https://www.stonehavenmini.com/collections/dwarves/products/sh0013" target="_blank">Dwaren Brewmaster</a>. Have cask will travel...<br />
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So I'm still curious what the tool on his back not sure what it is but I think <a href="https://pixabay.com/en/beer-brewery-tools-barrel-wood-377034/" target="_blank">this is it</a>. I'm going to call it a "brewing ladle" for now.<br />
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<b><i>Brewmaster Color Scheme</i></b><br />
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<li><b><u>Kegs</u></b> - <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2019/04/barrels-and-casks.html">as per other post</a> </li>
<li><b><u>Skin </u></b>- Reaper Tanned Skin palette for skin, with a little Reaper HD Sunburt Skin wash.</li>
<li><b><u>Apron </u></b>- <b>Base:</b> FolkArt Butter Pecan, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> FolkArt Walnut Brown, <b>Highlights:</b> FolkArt Linen </li>
<li><b><u>Cuffs </u></b>- <b>Base: </b>Vallejo Heavy Goldenbrown, <b>Highlight:</b> FolkArt Ochre Yellow</li>
<li><b><u>Shirt </u></b>- Reaper Military Grey and Reaper Misty Grey for raised cuff</li>
<li><b><u>String Belt and Bands</u></b> - Antique White</li>
<li><b><u>Pants </u></b>- FolkArt Cafe Latte, dark brown wash (FolkArt Walnut Grey)</li>
<li><b><u>Shoes </u></b>- Reaper Dusky S<span style="font-family: inherit;">kin Highlight on tips and ankle, Reaper Dark Skin for mid foot, dark brown wash (FolkArt Walnut Grey)</span></li>
<li><b><u>Hair </u></b>- originally going to do dark tones - but decided on Reaper Ash Grey, Cloudy Grey, and Misty Grey</li>
<li><b><u>Brewing Ladle</u></b> - FolkArt Butter Pecan with dark brown wash</li>
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<b><i>Beer Mug Color Scheme - all Heavy Glazes</i></b><br />
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<li><b><u>Mug Edges</u></b> - Reaper HD Tusk Ivory and Folk Art Sunflower</li>
<li><b><u>Mug Face, Bottom</u></b> - Folk Art Ochre Yellow, washed over with Reaper Golden Brown</li>
<li><b><u>Mug Face, Middle</u></b> - Reaper Golden Brown</li>
<li><b><u>Mug Face, Top</u></b> - Reaper Dark Skin</li>
<li><b><u>Bubbles in Glass</u></b> - Reaper <span style="font-family: inherit;">Maiden Flesh</span></li>
<li><b><u>Foam</u></b> - Reaper Maiden Flesh and Reaper Stark Naked, wash of Folk Art Sunflower, then <span style="font-family: inherit;">Reaper Golden Brown / Dark</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Skin</span></li>
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Nice thing about the mini is he has a raised surface for the pupil of the left eye. Under my jeweler's glasses that I notice the same was not the case for the right eye. Given the pose, I figured the figure was making a bit of a squint - which was a nice character touch.<br />
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As mentioned above, as I started painting on the tanned skin tones, I realized he just pops more with the white hair as a contrast.<br />
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AJ, a fervent non-gamer, asked me why would I bother buying and painting a bunch of barrels. I picked up the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Marvelous-Unpainted-Miniatures/dp/B078223W4G/ref=pd_bxgy_21_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B078223W4G&pd_rd_r=57425af9-c5bc-11e8-acd3-014d22b419b9&pd_rd_w=d2ceE&pd_rd_wg=xh361&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=6725dbd6-9917-451d-beba-16af7874e407&pf_rd_r=7TC8XWXPBDEYMV0H0QHF&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=7TC8XWXPBDEYMV0H0QHF" target="_blank">Wizkids Mimic Set</a> (which included a keg mimic) and said, "So I could use this." He groaned and promptly left of the store, shaking his head. <br />
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For the uninitiated, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" target="_blank">mimic</a> is an "object doppleganger". It's been around since the very first D&D Monster Manual and considered one of the <a href="https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-10-most-memorable-dungeons-dragons-monsters-1326074030">most memorable monsters of the game</a>. Older gamers like me smile when we unexpectedly are bitten by one.<br />
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Why such a creature like this even exists gets a few different explanations:<br />
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<b><i>1) The Insane Wizard </i></b><br />
The quintessential hand-waving explanation of fantasy gaming. A long-forgotten wizard went mad and made a bizarre life form.<br />
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<b><i>2) The Protective yet Morally Flexible Wizard</i></b><br />
Another classic gaming explanation. Wizard has macguffin. Everyone wants macguffin. Wizard hides macguffin in dungeon. Wizard creates new multiple new life forms to protect macguffin. And thus - the Dungeon in Dungeons and Dragons.<br />
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<b><i>3) The Batman/Arkham Paradox </i></b><br />
The more attention Batman receives at putting mobsters in jail, the more he ends up inspiring villains as weird as himself to exist. So the more popular adventuring becomes, the more a sub-ecosystem evolves to feed on them.<br />
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<b><i>4) The</i></b><b><i> "Scholarly" Lore </i></b><br />
Early Dragon magazines expanded on creature lore in articles called "The Ecology of..." The fourth article was on the mimic. It had details on how it's capillaries would shift brown-pigmented fluid from its inner body to outer body, how it uses its pseudo-pods for movement, how it sensed others through patches of sensitive pigment.<br />
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The only thing missing was a companion article in the vein of People Magazine reading, "I didn't plan for a career on acting as a chest, I just sort of fell into it".<br />
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I grew up on "The Ecology of..." articles and loved the extra details. It enriched the game for me, and inspired me to convert one of my first characters into a biologist-Dr. Frankenstein.<br />
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But in retrospect, there's a really obvious 5th reason why a creature like this exists.<br />
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<b><i>5) The Game Master Wanted to Throw You a Curve Ball</i></b><br />
My stepson pointed out an article by Aevee Bee that creatures like this exist because "<a href="https://medium.com/mammon-machine-zeal/the-chimera-in-profile-f1a77816e0b5">They’re pretty nakedly nothing but a particular type of trouble or trap for people playing a game</a>". The lore came after the fact, shaving the corners off the square peg to fit in the round hole.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anyway... regardless of why the mimic is even exists... AJ's reaction also reminded me the mimic lives in <a href="https://malzowowper.blogspot.com/2019/01/luther-pascha-hare-1-uncanny-valley.html">that uncanny valley of comedy and horror I love</a> - or more appropriately, bizarre and ridiculous. It's a </span>surreal nightmare where the the room literally comes alive in the worst kind of pun -- a pun that tries to eat you.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps gaming is more frought with ridiculously terrifying things than I give it credit for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So the sculpt shows the keg mimic coming to life and I wanted the monster bits to have the appendages transforming to its non-chameleon state. </span><br />
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Next to work on the tongue. I originally highlighted with Misty Grey - which left the tongues too white. So a wash of Reaper Ghoul Skin tones it down then a little Reaper Pale Olive to punch up the ridges. Also dabbed a little Vallejo Heavy Skintone and Vallejo Khaki on the grey parts of the hoops to produce a mottled effect.<br />
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-75582607580206102832019-04-11T06:52:00.000-07:002019-04-11T06:52:25.522-07:00Barrels and Casks... "Real ale."<br />
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On my recent travels through the Finger Lakes, my wife and I came across a brewery called <a href="http://senecalakebrewing.com/beerocracy/">The Beerocracy</a>. With I name like that, a tasting was mandatory. I was familiar with English style ale so the samplings had a wonderfully warm tone and maltiness. Plus, the traditional English style pub added some apropos atmosphere.<br />
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The bartender proudly announced they were the only brewer of "real ale" in New York. At first, I thought was just snobbish bit of boasting. But I later learned it was another name for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cask_ale">cask ale</a>.<br />
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Around mid-20th century, aluminum kegs began replacing traditional wooden casks. This transition prompted cask-ale-lovers to sponsor the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Real_Ale">Campaign for Real Ale</a>. And thus, cask ale was synonymous with real ale (or in the UK at least).<br />
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What's the fuss? Well I might be used to it, but apparently keg beer is "fizzier". Modern brewing techniques keep beer under a "blanket" of carbon dioxide so oxygen never makes contact throughout fermentation process to the keg. The carbon dioxide also gives keg beer its carbonation. </div>
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But before keg beer, brewers didn't know how to kill the yeast after the primary fermentation process. So cask ale was delivered "alive" (i.e. yeast alive and still making alcohol) to the pub where they had to store and handle it properly before tapping. Cask ale is less effervescent than keg beer since no carbon dioxide is pumped into it. But it tastes maltier and tastes as fresh as if poured at the brewery, i.e. "brewery fresh".<br />
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Ironically, I had been lucky enough to be gifted several miniature <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Barrels-Tabletop-Miniatures-Paintable-EnderToys/dp/B00TNYS9AC" target="_blank">barrels</a> for my birthday presents. But after lagging behind my painting sessions, it was time to get over myself and see if I could "knock it all out". I looked on YouTube to find a nice and quick barrel painting tutorial. Happily, I found <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIDXqJ591w4&t=298s&list=PLri0dT50EXLkIsE91FALL52nMpguNWab3&index=4" target="_blank">How to Paint Wooden Barrels</a> by "Watch It Paint It", which looks like it would result in something I liked.<br />
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I made the following substitutions borrowing a lot from my Vallejo NMM paint set:<br />
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<li>Vallejo Leather Brown = Vallejo Heavy Brown</li>
<li>Vallejo Bronze Fleshtone = Vallejo Heavy Gold Brown</li>
<li>Zombicide Machine Metal = Vallejo Cold Grey</li>
<li>Zombicide Survivor Shader = Vallejo Black thinned down to a wash</li>
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For the stands on the kegs, I used FolkArt Coffee Bean.<br />
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And of course, once I knocked all that out, I had something I liked... but could not leave alone. I kept thinking the bands (which are called hoops) looked better when they were all black. In my mind's eye, I guess what I imagined were beer barrels were closer to older <a href="https://i.etsystatic.com/12468306/r/il/260f9b/1369252228/il_570xN.1369252228_803b.jpg" target="_blank">barrels</a>. New ones have a <a href="http://www.kentuckybarrels.com/hoops.html" target="_blank">shiny steel look</a>, but I prefer an older "just rolled up out of the cellar" look.<br />
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The barrels on the left were probably made with a 3D printer. It's my first time painting something made this way, and I felt many details were missing. The paint slips in between <a href="https://e2e.ti.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-07-88/image2.png">the cracks of the plastic "tubes"</a> with brush painting. I think an airbrush would work a lot better with these.<br />
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More on the thing in the middle on the next post.<br />
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On the subject of <a href="http://www.reapermini.com/PowerPalette/" target="_blank">corks</a>... I always love having terrain that a mini can stand on. So I drilled a small hole in the top of each of the kegs, and glued in a magnet. That will be our cork.<br />
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Barrel/Cask Color Scheme<br />
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<li><b>Hoop</b> - Reaper HD Armor Grey, Edges Reaper HD Ash Grey</li>
<li><b>Lower Hoop Areas</b> - Dusky Skin Shadow, Dark Skin Shadow, Vallejo Black </li>
<li><b>Gleam transition</b> - Reaper HD Ash Grey, Reaper Cloudy Grey, touch of Vallejo Turquoise or Reaper Misty Grey</li>
<li><b>Cork </b> - FolkArt Butter Pecan Base with heavy Reaper HD Golden Brown glaze, Reaper Dark Skin Shadow border with Fair Skin and Bloodless Skin Highlights (more on this)</li>
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Zooming in on cork you see a <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Cork.jpg/1024px-Cork.jpg" target="_blank">"flaky" pattern</a> that I wanted to replicate. Being the magnets are so small, I thought the best method would be to layer the dark up to the light - rather than base with wash and borders painted on.<br />
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That of course makes this first pic a complete lie because it's so washed out the color is too bright. But keep my theory in mind. I'm still on the fence as to whether I should have stopped at #2.<br />
1) Butter Pecan Base. On the top one you can see I started adding the Dark Skin Shadow to get the cork texture.<br />
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2) Heavy Glaze of HD Golden Brown, and then add more cork texture (Dark Skin Shadow)<br />
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The lighter colors were too bright for the color scheme I was going for.</div>
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Anyway... Next I really wanted to recreate the hoop gleam from my <a href="https://i.etsystatic.com/12468306/r/il/260f9b/1369252228/il_570xN.1369252228_803b.jpg">main picture reference</a>. There's a touch of blue in some of the gleam which I used the Turquoise from NMM. <a href="https://sc02.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1w2OBjDJYBeNjy1zeq6yhzVXaa.jpg">Newer</a> barrels don't seem to have that color in hoop. <a href="https://i.etsystatic.com/8942013/r/il/2b747a/1068432410/il_570xN.1068432410_43k8.jpg">Older hoops</a> seem to have that variance in color.</div>
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In this starting pic, you can see the where I had the shadows beginning with a heavy glaze of the Darker Skin tones to delineate where the transitions would be.</div>
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Brown added below the middle of the hoop to show where the shadow begins.<br />
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Just above the shadow line, I used Reaper Cloudy Grey and Misty Grey for strongest highlight and Heavy Glaze of Vallejo Turquoise to get the metal gleam right.<br />
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A little heavy glaze of Reaper Armor Grey around the gleam to smooth the transition.<br />
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The painting experience on this was a little frustrating due to the 3D printed stuff not taking the paint too well. Even when completed, you can see bits that stick out compared to the D&D ones which made from a mold. That said, getting practice on the metallic "gleam" was good experience.</div>
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This seems like a lot of time on the style for barrels and casks. Part of all this work is to hopefully get better at knocking this stuff out quickly. Mastering the little details hopefully builds talent. But there's another reason. In fact, someone once asked me this very question...</div>
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One of the biggest challenges in gaming is balancing the realism with abstraction. Too much realism devolves into rule-heavy slog-fests. Heavy abstraction bears fruit much faster - you get right to the fun of the game. But over time, its all the same repetitive blocky shape and reality gives way to loopholes.<br />
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Let's focus on heavy abstraction and how its used to represent "getting hurt" and "getting better".<br />
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The most common measuring stick for getting hurt is the hit point system. Healing comes from different sources. Fantasy games usually lean on clerics with godly spells. Modern and sci-fi games may lean on devices like a <a href="https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Stimpak">stimpack</a> which may soon have <a href="https://www.medgadget.com/2017/08/xstat-fda-cleared-stop-gun-knife-wounds-arms-legs.html">a real life equivalent</a>. <br />
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But both types usually have a fascination with food where the abstraction gives way to the loophole. Eating an apple could arguably heal a hit point or two. But why would a bushel of apples in one sitting become nigh magical healing devices?<br />
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It's not like this is relegated to a few games -- this is a weirdly popular mechanic. The near-dead character stumbles away victorious from the boss battle to open a chest with a chicken dinner in it, which fully restores all health. Or mid battle, the gamer can live pause to rifle through inventory to eat an apple. OK sure - eating properly aids the healing process, but only with proper rest. If I've been shot in the leg, pigging out on power bars isn't going to make the wound close. </div>
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I've been reflecting on all this when looking at Malifaux's slop haulers, and wondering if they creative team at Wyrd have decided the loophole is great source of comedy. Slop Haulers are gremlins that haul buckets of vegetable matter and swill around so they can be tossed onto fellow pigs (and gremlins). To heal them. In mid-battle. We've gone full-in on the next level of abstraction: you don't even have to stop and eat - just get slathered in tossed vegetable matter. </div>
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Though admittedly, it's tonally accurate for the Gremlin faction...<br />
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So onto the figures themselves. The expressions on these two poor saps look like they are shouldering the unsung hero spot of any gremlin crew. I'm going to make it clear they are trudging through the swampy mud to keep their allies going.<br />
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Pig feed doesn't look like green slop to me. Wet yes - but it should be <a href="http://www.auri.org/assets/2014/01/RHP2153-300x199.jpg">made of grains and oats and the like</a>. So I'm going for a "mash" look. But it needs to be wet too. Sounds kind of gross. So a great reference would be the most disgusting school lunches in the world. <a href="https://thenanfang.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/pig-feed-school-student-lunches-header.jpg">Done</a>. Reaper's Palomino Gold and Khaki Triad would work well but I'm going to sprinkle in some FolkArt equivalents.</div>
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As to the second hauler (without the hat), he seems to be carrying an oil drum. Where they got oil drums in Malifaux, who knows. But let's make the most of it. I wanted to avoid <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0288/5248/products/CF40Drum_x1400.jpg?v=1412878086">modern</a> <a href="https://smhttp-ssl-50579.nexcesscdn.net/80290BE/media/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/5/5/55-gallon-th-steel_4.jpg">colors</a> and thought this <a href="http://www.keeleyhire.co.uk/images/items/full/4939.jpg">one in the background</a> was closest to a Victorian color palette while still looking old.</div>
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<b>Slop Hauler Color Scheme</b></div>
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<li><b><u>Skin</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Fair Skin and Reaper Worn Olive, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Reaper Worn Olive, <b>Highlights</b>: Reaper Moldy Skin </li>
<li><b><b><u style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Shirt</u> - </b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><b>Base: </b></b>Reaper Concrete Grey, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Reaper Moldy Skin, <b><b>Highlights</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span> </b>Reaper Bloodless Skin</li>
<li><b><u>Gloves</u></b> - Reaper Darker Greys</li>
<li><b><u>Buckets</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Ceramcoat Autumn Brown, <b>Shadow (wash):</b> Ceramcoat Cinnamon</li>
<li><b><u>Hat and Pants</u> - </b> <b>Base:</b> Reaper Ashen Brown, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Ceramcoat Dark Forest Green </li>
<li><u style="font-weight: bold;">Old Oil Drum</u> - <b>Base:</b> Apple Barrel Wedgewood Green and Reaper Ashen Brown glaze, <b>Highlights</b>: Reaper Dusky Skin Highlight and Wedgewood, Reaper Ruddy Brown toward rims</li>
<li><b><u>Pig Slop</u> - </b> <b>Base: </b>FolkArt Ochre Yellow <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> FolkArt Honeycomb wash, golden brown shadows, <b>Wet Blend</b>:<b> </b>pools of Folk Art Fawn, Reaper Tusk Ivory </li>
<li><b><u>Leather</u> - Base: </b>FolkArt English Mustard, <b>Shadow (Wash): </b>FolkArt Walnut Brown glaze</li>
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Being that these guys traipse through the mud weighed down with containers of swill, I didn't pin the mini down like I normally would. Instead I used my spackle (for mud), made the impressions of their feet into the base, solidified the spackle with some watered down white glue, and then super-glued them right on. <br />
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When ever you have two hands that meet together, you are sure to run into a lot of gaps. This was no exception as his left shoulder looked like it had been dislocated. Serious scultping work and sanding.<br />
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Priming used Army Painter's Uniform Grey, then black wash and drybrush white. This is where craft paints normally work better for me - as the "dry part" usually easier to get. But I got it too wet and got this mess. Worse yet, the drybrushing sheared the other bucket right off the mini. A lot of swearing this night.<br />
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Weird detail - on the right you can see this gremlin is not wearing a knit cap. He's wearing a doo-rag as evidenced by the flap of material under his carrying stick.</div>
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Here on Slop Hauler 2 you can really see where the white drybrush should have been dryer. Still - a little more black wash helps. Not unfixable.</div>
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First coats on Slop Hauler 1...</div>
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...and his stoopid bucket.</div>
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In progress shot of #2 with the straps unpainted.</div>
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Slop Hauler one with washes completed.</div>
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Slop Hauler 2 with washes completed.</div>
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A few notes about the oil drum. Considering the Malifaux setting is supposed to be late 1800's / early 1900's, a gremlin carrying on oil drum is a serious anachronism. Why the sculptor didn't decide to use an actual wooden barrel... </div>
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<i>Anyway,</i> color scheme... Black would blend in. Blue would clash. Thought green would be to similar to the skin tone... Until I found a good reference for a <a href="https://img-aws.ehowcdn.com/200/cme/cme_public_images/www_ehow_com/photos.demandstudios.com/80/5/fotolia_4651435_XS.jpg" style="font-style: normal;">weathered oil drum</a>. Then I was in on it.</div>
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Past experience says once a thin plastic piece has snapped, it's just a matter of time before it breaks again, especially when you're manually moving it along a game board. So I a made little hot glue strand to support the reattachment of the bucket. Some tuft pieces will do it's job on hiding it. But first...</div>
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... making the base look like wet, goopy mud. I just added some Vallejo's liquid water to the base, being careful not to get directly on the feet</div>
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A little heavy glaze of mud color (<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Ceramcoat Autumn Brown) </span>on the feet and a tiny bit of mud spatter. Then hide that hot glue support with a tuft of grass.</div>
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As a kid coming home from the movies, I would fantasize about my friends and I being in the starring roles. But I puzzled over what role I had. I was fast but there were better runners than me. Not the strongest. Not the smartest nor the most clever. <br />
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But I was a big collector. When someone needed something, I always had a solution in my pockets. That's probably what lead to my appreciation of engineering characters who can MacGyver a way out of the problem. (Granted, I'm no engineer - but I still respect them like mad.)<br />
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My miniature hunting discovered a fantastic culprit from the very great <a href="http://www.stonehavenmini.com/gnomes/" target="_blank">Stonehaven Miniatures</a> line: the <a href="http://www.stonehavenmini.com/gnomes/gnome-tinker" target="_blank">Gnome Tinker</a>. He looks perfect for that "I have one of those" abilities to pull something out on the fly.</div>
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One really important technical discovery on painting figures this small: washes don't work well on faces and small objects. Wet blobs dominate the tiny crevices and everything just dries the color of the wash.<br />
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So I went with the grey primer / some very CAREFUL black liner / retouching grey areas / then white dry brush.<br />
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Most my color schemes don't have washes listed. It's just way easier to paint up from darker colors - OR - just paint the shadow area directly and wet blend in.<br />
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<b><i>Gnome Tinker Color Scheme</i></b><br />
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<li><b><u>Face and Hands</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Tanned Highlight, <b>Highlight:</b> Lips color (below) thinned out</li>
<li><b><u>Lips</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Tanned Highlight and Reaper Rusty Red HD</li>
<li><b><u>Beard and Hair</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Woodland Brown HD, <b>Highlight:</b> Reaper Woodland Brown HD and Antique White</li>
<li><b><u>Teeth</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Moldy Skin and/or Antique White, <b>Highlight:</b> Reaper HD Concrete Grey and Reaper Dusky Skin Highlight</li>
<li><b><u>Pants</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> FolkArt Teddy Bear Brown, <b>Wash:</b> FolkArt Walnut Brown </li>
<li><b><u>Coat</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Ashen Brown, <b>Highlight:</b> Reaper Dusky Skin Highlight</li>
<li><b><u>Floppy Hat</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Dusky Skin Highlight, <b><u>Highlight:</u></b> Reaper HD Concrete Grey, <b>Hat Band:</b> Reaper HD Ashen Brown</li>
<li><b><u>Leather Straps</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> FolkArt English Mustard, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> black/cinnamon</li>
<li><b><u>Twine</u></b> - Reaper Moldy Skin & Bloodless Skin</li>
<li><b><u>Bags</u></b> - FolkArt Butter Pecan</li>
<li><b><u>Drawers and Chests</u></b> (<a href="https://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/12128135/100-percent-Solid-Wood-6-drawer-4-2-drawer-Chest-d37da593-cd6f-49c7-bf3e-d1112567e145_320.jpg">red chest reference</a>) - Cinnamon</li>
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<b><u>Tentacles</u></b> - Reaper Dusky Skin</div>
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<li><b><u>Potion Bottle </u></b><b>- Base:</b> Reaper Ice Blue </li>
<li><b><u>Plant Vase:</u></b> FolkArt Aqua</li>
<li><b><u>Plant Stamen:</u></b> Reaper HD Mossy Green and Field Green</li>
<li><b><u>Petals</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>FolkArt Ochre Yellow, <b>Highlights:</b> Buttercup and Sunflower</li>
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Sometimes I forget to snap a pic of the primed figure. This time I remembered after I finished the first coat of flesh on his face, hands, and ears.</div>
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It's not easy to tell from this rather blurry photo, but I actually got the eye under his hat painted. Yes, that took the jewler's glasses and a some clean up. But it's a fun accomplishment.</div>
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Just to show how small this guy is.... A double AA battery for size.</div>
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Some final pics... and thank God for my jewlers glasses to get those details right!</div>
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Bargain sales on sites like coolminiornot.com are the bane of all New Year's resolutions for me. I see a figure and my imagination runs wild on what I can do with them... and then that's it. I have to pick it up.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hfminis.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hasslefree Miniatures</a> <a href="http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=toothy-fairy~hfx013&category=fantasy-%26%0D%0Asteampunk~fantasy-daemons-%26-faerie" target="_blank">Toothy Fairy</a> is a great example. I'm pulled in by the unique and the unusual, and this one has that in spades. The tip-toe "shush" pose with one hand. The pair of pliers in the other. The lanky awkward frame. The wavy, wild hair. The ugly buckteeth of a wild hare. And those expressively odd eyes. This is a fey creature of a Neil Gaiman <a href="http://sandman.wikia.com/wiki/Puck" target="_blank">story</a>, a dark fairy belonging to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classifications_of_fairies#Seelie_and_Unseelie_Courts" target="_blank">Unseelie Court</a>.</div>
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I liked it enough that I didn't get just one, I got two. I had a creature in mind I wanted to use in a game, but they needed to fly. So I also picked up <a href="http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/fairy%20wings/latest/03486" target="_blank">Reaper's Fairy Wing </a>pack. Some major pinning was in order for these.<br />
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So I was surprised at how few pictures there are of this figure. The <a href="http://www.coolminiornot.com/230677?browseid=13719759" target="_blank">only one I found</a> was on <a href="http://www.coolminiornot.com/" target="_blank">coolminiornot</a>. The artist's approach there was for a sad and haunted looking creature whereas I wanted to emphasize the otherworldly look I got.</div>
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Tricky thing about her is she needs to be assembled and her arms are tiny tiny tiny.</div>
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I cut her off the tab with a pair of clippers. Surprisingly I was able to get a pin in the foot without going through the foot (which sadly I do at times).</div>
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I decided that one figure should go for a warm tone, the other a cool tone. I dabbled around a bit on the palette before deciding.</div>
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For the cool tone - FolkArt Aqua and transitioned into Anita's Light Green.</div>
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For the warm tone - Apple Barrel Burgundy into FolkArt Autumn Leaves into Reaper HD Rusty Red</div>
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Cool tone fairy with feather wings in the "Just one minute, I have to yank this kid's tooth out" pose</div>
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Warm tone fairy with butterfly wings in the shush pose</div>
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These pics were just a comparison of color matching. Assembling them they looked good. But attaching to the base, they did flop over a bit. Especially the butterfly wings which we so heavy for the pinning I was doing.</div>
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-87520700546364596792019-01-31T11:28:00.001-08:002019-01-31T11:28:19.040-08:00Coryphee: A Flourish and Knife-shoesIn terms of style and character, I'm going on record to say that the coryphee are unique to <a href="https://www.wyrd-games.net/">Malifaux</a>.<br />
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A coryphée normally refers to a rank in ballet. The rank-and-file ballerinas are the "corps de ballet", and the coryphée serves as their lieutenant -- the lead dancer of the corps, but below the other dancers.<br />
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But of course, this a wargame. So even dancing becomes violent. In the game, Malifaux's coryph<b>e</b>e (sans acute accent) keeps the dancer garb but are embellished with blades on the hands and feet. They have an ability to move into an opponent's space to attack and move out without getting hit in turn.<br />
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So you have a nimble dancer adorned in taffeta with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Scissorhands#/media/File:Edwardscissorhandsposter.JPG" target="_blank">scissorhands</a> who deftly tumbles in to cut you to ribbons and then tumbles out in time with the music.<br />
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Further, they're man-sized puppets, not people... because it helps to be a mannequin if you're going to dance around in <a href="http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ballerina-Shoes-with-Knives.png" target="_blank">knife-shoes</a>.<br />
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So... graceful bladed ballet-lieutenant puppets. Can't think of where I've seen that elsewhere.<br />
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Onto painting them. I've played these only with basic priming done in a game or two. I found it was really difficult to figure from the card which one was half kneeling down (aka <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54fe412ce4b0c449f7369857/t/55c0b4fce4b0ec33f39aba5c/1438692606383/" target="_blank">Coryphee 1</a>) and which one was re-enacting the crane kick in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCenGKkj3YQ" target="_blank">Karate Kid</a> (aka <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54fe412ce4b0c449f7369857/t/55c0b4fce4b0ec33f39aba5c/1438692606383/" target="_blank">Coryphee 2</a>). So lesson learned? Paint them the same color as the cards (i.e., same color as the <a href="http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/33619/coryphee.jpg" target="_blank">box</a>). I don't often follow the canned color pattern, but experience showed the way to wisdom here.<br />
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<i><b>General Color on both</b></i><br />
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<li><b><u>"Skin" Fabric</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> FolkArt Butter Pecan, <b>Wash:</b> Vallejo Sepia Ink, <b>Highlight 1:</b> FolkArt Linen</li>
<li><b><u>Boots</u></b> - <b>Base: </b>heavy glaze of black, <b>Highlight 1:</b> FolkArt Metallic Black to finish (to give a shiny leather look).</li>
<li><b><u>Blades</u></b> - Vallejo NMM Grey Metallic set</li>
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<b><i>Coryphee 1 - Color pallet Pink</i></b><br />
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<li><b><u>Corset and gloves</u></b> - Reaper Gem Purple</li>
<li><b><u>Bows on Corset</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Entrail Pink, <b>Wash:</b> Brilliant Red, <b>Highlight:</b> Entrail Pink and Apple Barrel Antique White (also see final touch notes below using FolkArt Metallic White)</li>
<li><b><u>Dress</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Entrail Pink, <b>Wash:</b> Reaper Crimson Red, <b>Off Shadow:</b> Brilliant Red, <b>Highlight:</b> Entrail Pink and Apple Barrel Antique White</li>
<li><b><u>Bows on dress</u></b> - Base: Reaper Gem Purple</li>
<li><b><u>Undergarment</u></b> - Reaper Moldy Skin and Bloodless Skin</li>
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<b><i>Coryphee 2 - Color pallet Turquoise</i></b><br />
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<li><b><u>Corset</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper Ghoul Skin, <b>Main Shadow:</b> Reaper HD Field Grey, <b>Lines:</b> Bloodless Skin</li>
<li><b><u>Dress and Bow</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> FolkArt Aqua, <b>Shadow 1</b>: Reaper HD Turquoise, <b>Deeper Shadow:</b> Reaper HD Winter Blue, <b>Highlight:</b> Reaper HD Ice Blue and Apple Barrel Antique White</li>
<li><b>Undergarment</b> - <b>Base: </b>Reaper Moldy Skin</li>
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Quick shot of what Coryphee 1 looked like after Grey prime, black wash, white drybrush while I worked on the "skin" fabric<br />
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Coryphee 2. Initial work. Stripes on the corset worked out well. And I was also pleased with the undershadow colors on the back of the dress.<br />
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<li><b><u>Fur</u></b> - <b>Undertone Base:</b> FolkArt Barn Wood, <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Reaper Stormy Grey, <b>Main Base:</b> Heavy Glaze of Reaper HD Ashen Brown, <b>Highlights</b>: Reaper Concrete Grey, then Reaper Misty Grey</li>
<li><b><u>Jacket</u> - </b> <b>Shadow (Wash):</b> Reaper Olive Shadow, <b>Main Base: </b>Reaper Worn Olive, <b>Highlight:</b> Reaper Moldy Skin</li>
<li><b><u>Eyes</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper HD Brilliant Red, <b>Shadow (Wash)</b>: Reaper HD Rusty Red</li>
<li><b><u>Inner Ears</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Reaper HD Entrail Pink, <b>Shadow (Wash)</b>: FolkArt Barn Wood (select areas) </li>
<li><b><u>Denim Patch</u></b> - <b>Base:</b> Ceramacoat Denim Blue, <b>Shadow (Wash)</b>: Reaper CCC, <b>Highlight:</b> Reaper HD Military Grey</li>
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Re-primed. The bulge stands out from the fur a bit but I knew a good paint job would help cover up the differences.<br />
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Some first coats. It's funny how the pink in the ear dominates at this stage. Washes and highlights focused on grey tones (not reds) will tamp that down a bit. </div>
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First washes made him look really dirty.<br />
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The heavy glaze of ashen brown moves him away from a dirty looking creature to a more rich fur color. Though at this point the face bulge is clearly standing out from the fur on the figure.<br />
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The contrast between the grey-ashen-brown and the concrete grey provided a nice contrast I wasn't expecting. The concrete grey has a little blue in it. And normally I avoid mixing a warm and cool tone, but it really helped make this bulge work.<br />
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Some final fur highlights and eye work.<br />
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Went with a straight denim color for the patch on the back.<br />
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There's a some lessons learned on the figure that I would do better if I did him again - mostly green stuff lessons. But the end result fits right in that uneasy place I'd hoped he'd be.<br />
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-5349410179023720942019-01-03T08:43:00.000-08:002019-01-09T06:45:24.190-08:00Luther the Pascha Hare 1: The Uncanny Valley Between Comedy and HorrorIn college, my American Literature professor taught me that humor was based on "a subject losing his/her pride" in the moment's resolution. I internalized that theory for many years, thinking humor had the ability to save humanity from its own collective ego. What I didn't know was this was only the second of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_humor">three modern theories of humor</a>. What I knew was the superiority theory. The other two being relief theory and incongruous juxtaposition theory.<br />
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I want to focus on Incongruous Juxtaposition, or as I like to call it: the sudden moment you realized that you perceived the now absurd situation very wrong.<br />
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If I had known about the last theory - all my papers in college would have centered around it. I relate to it like it was a family member. As I've gotten older, I see modern humor has taken the comedic juxtapositions to more and more absurd extremes, to the point where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_humour">surreal humor</a> are just older memes now. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu2DcHzokew">Charlie the Unicorn.</a> It's humor for a world where resolutions comes from places so unexpected, it's bizarre. Almost anything on adult swim qualifies, but the obvious example is Aqua Teen Hunger Force.<br />
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But I've also noticed how the "bizarre unexpected" can quickly swing in the wrong direction. For example, Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) hiding in the closet of Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney) in the Cohen Brother's <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887883/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Burn After Reading</a>. The set-up feels like a wind-up to a slapstick scene complete with Chad's goofy look when the closet opens. But any initial laughs are cut short by the sudden violence. Then Harry's concerns over Chad being "a spook" brings back a very nervous humor. The audience is stuck between laughter and jump-scare fear.<br />
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A bizarre resolution can cause a reaction that doesn't make you laugh and teeters on the uncomfortable. Seeing Pulp Fiction in the theater, I remembered some people laughing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8kPqAV_74M">when the Gimp came out</a>, while others started to close their eyes and cringe in their seats. There's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEikGKDVsCc">great video on the "creeps" by vsauce</a>, that talks about that reaction when we approach the valley between certainty and ambiguity.<br />
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It leads me to think there's grey area between comedy and horror: the sudden moment you realize the absurd situation can go two different ways (or in the Coen Brothers case, both at once). Personally I find a use for both. If humor can teach you to laugh at yourself, horror can prepare you to be unafraid of the unexpected.<br />
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I guess this is why I gravitate towards monsters that are more unnerving than obviously dangerous. Sure, I hold a handful of classic tropes that frightened me as a kid (e.g., werewolves, body snatchers). But the warped ones that sit on that cusp of "ambiguity" speak to me more.<br />
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Which brings me to Luther the <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pascha">Pascha</a> Hare. He first appeared in <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/147828/Wyrd-Chronicles--Ezine--Issue-17">Wyrd Chronicles 17</a> in a short story that was ridiculous, unsettling, and fun. But it was <a href="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wyrdforumbucket/monthly_2015_09/image.jpg.cd8b87307211de67daf33e6fff41837e.jpg">the cover</a> that grabbed me in the same way that the <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5b/25/a9/5b25a950f933f5465569dc242f052199.jpg">original Teddy figure</a> grabbed me: a childish figure warped into an absurd terror. It's frightening but not in a realistic way - like disease, violence or sudden change. He's stuck in between a cartoon and a threat.<br />
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The subjectively "fun" part of the story was reading that Luther swallowed people whole, and seeing the handprints pushing from inside his belly on the cover art. That gave me an idea for his figure...<br />
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So on the sculpt... I love the face and the pose, but there's two features that bug me. First, Luther is wearing a top hat. It's not the character on that front cover. The second is "the swallowed" inside Luther's belly. You can see Luther's stomach is angular like something is bumping around inside, but you can't see a face or hands pressing outwards - probably due to the fur detail. This is probably a compromise the sculptor had to make: the figure needs to visibly have fur but sculpting fur will obscure any impression "the swallowed" makes.<br />
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Malifaux made some inserts based on different terrains. One was an orphanage... but clearly a <a href="https://elementgames.co.uk/images/products/4781/3931-orphanage-bases-30mm-med.jpg">very haunted orphanage</a>. One of them was a ghost coming out of a rug. I'd already made a copy of this with <a href="https://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/instant-mold.html">Instant Mold</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Green-Stuff-Yellow-Epoxy-Putty/dp/B002MB61RQ/ref=asc_df_B002MB61RQ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312184153387&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13399627235019604252&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007233&hvtargid=pla-524338469426&psc=1">green stuff</a>. I could cut out the face and hand pressing up from the rug.<br />
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My first run on applying the face of "the swallowed". I was not going to re-sculpt fur over the face for fear of running into the same conundrum the sculptor probably ran into. Painting some fur on would be much easier than sculpting it.</div>
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Ugh!! The hat had to go! The more I looked at it, the more I hated it. Too much comedy, not enough creepy.</div>
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Malifaux 2nd edition is known for it's <a href="https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/68066951/i-survived-yan-los-beard.jpg">confounding assembly schemes</a>, where tiny important model bits can be mistaken on the sprue for flash to ignore. So Luther is unusual in that he arrives assembled. With the hat off I could see why they made this decision. It looks like the pieces didn't quite line up as smoothly as other builds, and all the gaps culminated in the head piece.<br />
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Speaking of gaps, more green stuff was needed on other areas. I was starting to worry about my face. It was bulging out so far from the stomach that it was going to need a lot of green stuff to fill gaps and make the folds in the stretched skin look natural.<br />
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Sculpting some the scalp and adding a little fur in.<br />
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I kept adding green stuff on to make my initial bit of face bulge work. But eventually I had to admit it wasn't working. The piece was too thick and to make it work would mean adding so much green stuff it would take over the figure. So I made the decision to take it off and start over. This time with a thinner piece. It worked out much better, though sadly some leftover green stuff was stuck on the figure.<br />
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This is the only pic I took where I tried to integrate the hand pressing out. I eventually took it off as I couldn't make the creases and fold look natural so close next to the face bulge. The end result was that area looked a touch rough from left over green stuff residue.<br />
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Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955659328710120693.post-70775238154842468072018-12-27T05:25:00.004-08:002018-12-27T05:25:58.630-08:002018 Update: there will be more in 2019For the record, I am not a hobbyist who got overwhelmed by the "new shiny" and faded out on a part-time obsession with painting the small figures. Reality is I've been painting so much over the last handfuls of months that I've barely had time to write about it.<br />
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Well, that and a tendency to overreach.<br />
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But I made a commitment that for 2019 that I'm going to turn all those note-scraps of color palettes and half finished musings into a blog entry bi-monthly deadline.<br />
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Looking forward to the first post in a couple days...Malzowowperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828851988578525306noreply@blogger.com0