Commission: Foundry Argonauts, Heracles, and Zetes

Last night and this morning I worked on a group of 10 figures as part of an ongoing commission. This group was comprised of 8 Argonauts, Heracles, and Zetes, made by Foundry.

4 Argonauts in helmets

4 Argonauts without helmets.
Maybe veterans or officers.

Heracles & Zetes

These figures were a lot of fun to paint. Aside form the fact that I have not painted ancients in years(and even then only Romans), they are lovely figures. Although with all the bronze trim on the armour, they can be time consuming.  The way I paint usually requires me to undercoat any metallic with white, so that it starts very bright. Since the rest of the armour is  medium/dark grey, highlighted then black washed,  I have to both edge in white, THEN the bronze colour, and then give it a wash. so in effect I have to do all the bronze edging twice.  Fortunately I enjoy the occasional fiddly work.  especailly when it's so very different from anything I'm currently painting. After all, Variety is the spice of life!


also, I'm about 22 hits away from having 100,000 hits in under 4 years since I started the blog(4 years on May 29th).  I'd celebrate by having some sort of contest or something, but I don't really have the funds to pull that off.  maybe by the time I hit 200,000 hits I'll have gotten a brake and be able to.

ACW Buildings for Martin

At out last game day Martin gave me a pair of buildings to base up for him. It seems I have convinced him that buildings look good with bases.

 The church was painted presumably by martin(or possibly bought painted). the clap board manor was painted by me earlier in the year. both buildings are made by Hovels.

The fences, gravestones and raven/crow are all Renedra plastic offerings. trees are Woodland Scenics.

I had wanted to make the buildings easily removable for storage, but hovels are cast in one piece, and are either solid castings or hollow with extremely irregular inside edges making it hard to do so.  i may revisit them at a later date to see what else i can do.

The next commission: IHMN+

I've now started a 2nd commission form the same gentlemen who commissioned me to paint the 'In Her Majesty's Name' figures i painted in March.

This time there is a total of 70 figures, including an IHMN Dragon Tong,  Foundry Argonauts, Empress mid 1800s naval crew, Conan figrues, and some Hinterland female sailors.

from left to right:  Dragon Lord(Reaper Minis),
Dragon lady, Master Wu-jen, Yeti

last night I finish off and photographed the 15 figures that make up the Dragon Tong.

Dragon Warrior, Tong henchmen

These figures were generally a joy to paint. the Dragon lady. and Dragon lord have a wonderful amount of detail, although the Dragon lady's face make her look like the most manly looking Asian woman I've ever seen. the patterns on the Dragon lady and Lord's robes are freehand.

2 Tong Henchmen, 2 Boxers

4 Tong henchmen (unknown manufacturer)

next to be panted in this commission are teh 10 figures that make up Argonauts from foundry. These should be done in the next day or 2. Also  either tonight or tomorrow morning I have a couple of  buildings, suitable for AWI, 1812 or ACW that, I've based for my friend Martin.

IHMN: Lord Curr's Company

I finished off Lord Curr's company for IHMN last night to finish
 up my current painting commission.  this will be dropped off the the client at Hotlead this coming weekend.

Lord Curr, Lady Felicity, "Mad Mick" Macfarlane, Mohan Siagh

 

Lord Curr's Incorrigibles

 

More of the Incorrigibles

Additional figures that look like they would
fit in with the Scotland yard team.

RN Naval Boarding Party

so yesterday after posting, I finished up a set of 8 Ironclad Miniatures Royal Navy Boarding Party figures as a 2nd lot for a recent commission.  they were lead by a west wind officer in similar garb.

interesting figures to be sure, and unique too. Although the sculpting is not to the same level as the IHMN figures I painted yesterday they still came out nicely. They are also noticeably smaller.

Lord Curr's company is next on hte block. they will be started on tomorrow.

IHMN commission

I recently took a commission of a few teams of In Her Majesty's Name figures.

The first team I worked on is the Scotland yard team  it consists of 12 figures, including notable characters like Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as consultants.

Left to Right: Chief inspector, Sergeant,
The Consulting Detective, the Good Doctor

Special Branch with carbines

Constables with English All Electric Truncheons

the detail is overemphasized on these figures so they  take washes very nicely.  i was rather pleased with how the turned out.


I was in a bit of a painting rut last week.  had some insomnia which threw my mood off and I could not bet to painting anything.  I'll be getting back to painting again as i have several things I have to finish to get ready for a big game at Hotlead.  I'm hoping to finish the other 2 teams in the commission by the end of the week.