Lizardman repaint

As I say elsewhere, I started painting when I was 12. I have many of these early figures lying around, and they serve as a good reminder when I want to toss all my paints and brushes that I have made progress. That said, some of those early models are now classics and it would be to see them painted better. Case in point, I decided to repaint a late-70s or early-80s Grenadier lizardman. The first picture is the paint job (when I was 13 or 14) before going into the dip. The second two are the new paint job. As you can see, there was some alteration. The original sword had deteriorated to a wire, so I removed it and replaced it with a spear built with a couple lengths of sprue and a spearhead from a Reaper figure.

Batman Pez Dispenser

So a couple of years ago I saw this post on the Reaper boards from a guy who repainted a Green Lantern Pez dispenser. I loved the idea because I too was interested in painting miniature busts, but a lot of those can be quite expensive and not the kind of thing you want to start out on. So I went searching for a Pez dispenser to paint myself. I'm a Marvel guy, but all of the Marvel Pez dispensers are just the character's head, not a proper bust. So I used the BvS-era Batfleck Pez dispenser below. The base is a cake decoration cut to accommodate the dispenser.

Wyatt Earp

My FLGS briefly carried the West Wild Exodus game line, but I guess it didn't do well because one day all of the figures were in the bargain bin. I picked up this one, a steampunk version of Wyatt Earp. I'm particularly proud of the base, which resembles wood flooring. I built this out of slats cut from a coffee stirrer.

 

Leonidas

Crocodile Games' Leonidas from its Spartan range was an excuse to work on my NMM. The sheild gave the most problem.

 

Conan, Part 4

I paint on average less than 10 figures a year. I'm very slow and, quite frankly, I don't have a lot of free time for painting. I can somehow find the time for commissions, however. I finished these 21 Conan: The Board Game figures in about a little more than two months. Here's the last batch, with the Vanir Valkyrie, the Princess, Gitara, Akivasha, Taramis-Salome and Atali, the Frost Giant's daughter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conan, Part 3

For this latest look at my large commission of figures from Conan: The Board Game, we look at some of Conan's friends. They include Shevatas, N'Gora, Hadrathus and Zelata (and her wolf).

 

 

 

 

Conan, Part 2

This is the continuation of my large number of commissioned figures for Conan: The Board Game by Monolith. I'm going to focus on the ladies in Conan's life, four versions of Belit and two versions of Valeria. I should note that all of these figures were a mixed bag. I'm not a big fan of plastic because it doesn't hold detail as well as metal. One of the biggest problems is faces as I don't think it's very easy to get an expression, instead creating figures with bland faces. But you can use paint to fix some of that. In case you wondered, I achieved the pale flesh for Belit's latter three versions with a base of Reaper's Vampiric Shadow, which I shaded by adding a little purple and then highlighting with linen white (also Reaper).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conan, Part 1

I recently completed an extensive commission to paint several figures from Monolith's Conan: The Board Game. I will include them in a series of posts, starting with the big man himself. These are the main Conan, the Conan based on the painting by Brom, King Conan and King Conan's lion.