Some minis I've painted with Glen...

[Gizzard]

I wanna paint a dragon but wife says -before I can buy more- I have to finish the minis I have first!!

Oh, thats cruel. I dont think I'll ever catch up; I have boxes upon boxes of unpainted stuff. And there's always new stuff coming out - new stuff that, if I dont buy now, will go OOP and I'll never see again. Better to buy now and store in precious stacks. Precious tottering stacks of miniatures. My lair, filled with my treasures.

Dont paint the Dragon -- be the Dragon. ;-)

 

[Van Dyksun]

New in the Fiend Gallery

The Troll Chieftan

 

[Lucius Foxhound]

That Wyvern scared the crap out of us when he took it out of the box. It's amazing how painting the minis can add to game play!!

 

[Tom Cashel]

The latest

Gotta love those diseased pustules...

 

[benhamtroll]

The eyes have it

The easiest way I've found to do eyes is to simply (yet carefully) paint the eye white.

Buy yourself a Micron Pigma 005 black pen and make the pupil/iris. You can also use blue/green/red for different effects.

It's amazing how the eyes can totally change the appearance of a mini, and take a ho-hum mini to spectacular.

One thing I've found indispensable for texture on the bases is cornmeal, or polenta. Simply put the glue on the base (making lumps and whatnot for uneven terrain), and then dipping the base in a pile of the meal. I usually just pile it around the base and let it sit until the glue dries. This does a wonderful job of creating a ground texture, much more pebbly than dirt. Make sure you use a crap brush to paint it, though, since you'll get bits and pieces stuck to it.

 

[pogre]

Bases

At the risk of giving unwanted advice...

I would suggest adding bases to your reaper figs to give them added stability. You might build up a fender washer with a bit of A&B putty. Texture the putty with a piece of gravel and add a few pebbles for texture. Sprinkle a combination of baking soda, dirt, and sand over the top. Paint the soild with light drybrushing and add some static grass in clumps with white glue. I like to paint my static grass dull yellow to tame it down a bit. I think a detailed base can really add a lot to a figure's overall appearance.

 

[Gizzard]

Buy yourself a Micron Pigma 005 black pen and make the pupil/iris.

I tried this technique, but was not happy with it. The Micron didnt seem to have great flow, so you end up poking at the little guys eyes trying to get a smooth iris. At least a good brush has good flow, so you know what you'll get.

The other occasional problem I had was that the pen-point would peel up a little bit of paint (and then be gummed up). Maybe that means that I painted too thickly; I do definitely put multiple coats into areas like the eye-sockets before getting around to painting the eyes.

OTOH, I know other people swear by the Microns, so maybe its just me. Any tips for making them work well?

 

[Mark]

Sound advice from pogre there. I think a mini with an enhanced base certainly looks a lot cooler. I'll be sure to take that advice to heart as I get into my pile of minis.

btw, does that eye (and face) painting advice from Mike McVey on the wizards site work well?

Love those pustules!

 

[pogre]

Sound advice from pogre there. I think a mini with an enhanced base certainly looks a lot cooler. I'll be sure to take that advice to heart as I get into my pile of minis.

btw, does that eye (and face) painting advice from Mike McVey on the wizards site work well?

Love those pustules!

I paint my faces and eyes in a very similar manner with a slight difference on the eyes. John Blanche used to write the painting articles for WD and the method comes from him. I paint the sockets dark and the paint a white line. Ithen go back and dot the pupil in black and touch up areas where there is too much white. This is important to avoid the buggy eyes look.

 

[Guillaume]

For the flocking of bases, I've tried a cheap technique that I read somewhere on the web (can't remember the link, sorry) with good results. And to boot, it's cheap !

I use white glue as an adhesive and flock my bases with ground black pepper. It gives a very convincing pebbly look to the bases.

Just my 2 c.p.