My eclectic painting habits

igirisujin

Member

• Jun 29, 2020

• #1

I have spent the best part of this month working on this quality figure. I bought it back when I was a teen and the mniature was released.

Here are the before and after pictures.

 

igirisujin

Member

• Jul 7, 2020

• #2

Next up is a classic Balrog/demon by Nick Bibby circa 1982. I have had this one since I was given it in 1986 and finally got round to stripping the paint and repainting. Sadly, I forgot to take pictures of the before, so here is the result of my efforts.

 

Berkut666

Member

• Jul 7, 2020

• #3

I like it. Nice vivid red on the model and the base has turned out really well.

 

symphonicpoet

Moderator

• Jul 8, 2020

• #4

I love what you did on the bases for the minotaurs particularly, and yes, that demon came out very well. Very vivid!

 

igirisujin

Member

• Jul 8, 2020

• #5

Thank you for the kind words. The figures were a joy to paint. I have been experimenting a bit with my basing techniques.

 

igirisujin

Member

• Jul 18, 2020

• #6

From monsters and demons to a small group of adventurers.



Led by the grey wizard.

 

symphonicpoet

Moderator

• Jul 23, 2020

• #7

If you're gonna play with hexes, you've got to have a wizard in the band!

Wait . . . I think I just referenced a country tune. (Not even a particularly good one.) Very sorry about that. Please forgive me.

Neat group of adventurers. Those are some great looking old sculpts, and you're telling a truly classic fantasy story with all this lovely.

 

igirisujin

Member

• Aug 20, 2020

• #8

Some more adventurers to go out into the wild places.





Can the survive the beast that lurks in the dark for them.

The dread Ambull

 

Sleepysod

Member

• Aug 20, 2020

• #9

Was casually scrolling through thinking "mmm nice", and then I got to the ambull and I said out loud "mmm nice!"

 

igirisujin

Member

• Aug 20, 2020

• #10

Thanks. I am not the most confident of painters and it is always nice to hear positive things. I am really happy with how he came out. The poor fella had sat in my storage tin for far too long and deserved a facelift.

 

symphonicpoet

Moderator

• Aug 21, 2020

• #11

In answer to the original question . . . no, they cannot. Not unless they have a lot more firepower than it looks like. Or maybe if they all run in different directions. Then at least some of them might survive. (You don't have to be faster than the ambul, just faster than the adventurer next to you.) Great bunch of characters and a really nice ambul!

 

igirisujin

Member

• Aug 21, 2020

• #12

Quality answer to my question. I will be using the Ambull as the final monster in a dungeon crawl that I am running next month. Let`s see how many players he kills.

 

igirisujin

Member

• Aug 21, 2020

• #13

Another creature to kill the adventurers with.

 

igirisujin

Member

• Aug 27, 2020

• #14

A couple more pictures of my recently finished manticore.

 

igirisujin

Member

• Aug 29, 2020

• #15

 

symphonicpoet

Moderator

• Aug 30, 2020

• #16

That's a neat looking fellow. Preslotta dwarf wizard? He looks good!

 

igirisujin

Member

• Sep 1, 2020

• #17

He is the pre-slotta adviser from the pre-slotta dwarf King`s court set.

 

symphonicpoet

Moderator

• Sep 2, 2020

• #18

"Advisor" sounds like a good civilian title for "wizard" if you asked me. Love it! I may have to look that set up.

 

igirisujin

Member

• Sep 2, 2020

• #19

Here is a link to it.

http://www.solegends.com/citboxes/ss2dw ... /index.htm

 

igirisujin

Member

• Sep 7, 2020

• #20

The scorpion man strikes.







I do think that I am going a bit too subtle on the flesh highlights, or it could be my photography.

Perhaps, these are better shots.







Help is on the way.







Horror lurks in the dungeon.



Remembering the fallen



The figure was suffering from quite serious lead rot. After removing the bad metal there was a lot of damage and I thought it would make a better statue. A shame, but at least the miniature will still be used.