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.
Monday, May 28, 2018
Friday, September 15, 2017
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.




Sunday, August 27, 2017
Leonidas
Sunday, August 20, 2017
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.











Labels:
Akivasha,
Atali,
board game,
commission,
Conan,
Gitara,
Monolith,
princess,
Taramis,
valkyrie
Thursday, August 17, 2017
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).







Labels:
board game,
commission,
Conan,
Hadrathus,
Monolith,
N'Gora,
Shevatas,
wolf,
Zelata
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
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).







Labels:
Belit,
board game,
Brom,
commission,
Conan,
Monolith,
Paolo,
Savage,
Valeria,
Xavier
Sunday, August 13, 2017
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.




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barbarian,
board game,
Brom,
commission,
Conan,
Conan Brom,
Conan King,
lion,
Monolith
Friday, September 16, 2016
Feylhin the Savage
This is a character figure from the old Rackham Confrontation line. I believe she's now available through Cadwallon. Anyway, I wanted something different from the typical "barbarian chick" paint job you normally see with this figure (or the unhealthy zombie look of the original box art). Instead, I wanted something similar to Jim Murray's Kavai the Wanderer.
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