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Brave-Mode Candy and Never-Lost Cola

This week I finished painting Brave-Mode Candy and since she’s never seen without her pet kitsune, I finished up Never-Lost Cola as well. Candy is the mascot for Soda Pop Miniatures so I wanted to keep to the traditional colour scheme. I did slightly modify her eyes as I believe the pre-sculpted irises have a tendency to give her a cross-eyed look.

Brave Mode Candy

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Croak Raiders Conversion: Feral Nyss

It’s taken me almost a year but I’ve finally finished my Feral Nyss unit conversion. I was inspired by the updated Privateer Press conversion policy to convert a unit out of a completely different unit. In this case, I tried to make models that capture the spirit of Croak Raiders, but make them Nyss so that they fit better into my Everblight army.

Converted Nyss

I started with Circle Tharn Bloodtrackers and swapped their heads for Dark Eldar Wych heads. Then I sculpted tiny gourds and flames for their weapons. I hope that the orange wrist/anklewraps and green warpaint helps to tie them to the Croaks even more.

Converted Nyss

Converted Nyss

Converted Nyss

Converted Nyss

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Video: How to Paint Miniatures – Layering

In my latest video, I demonstrate the layering technique. Layering is a highlighting technique which involves manually painting lighter colours over a darker basecoat, leaving the dark colour in the recesses. It results in a smoother finish than drybrushing, so is better for surfaces such as skin and cloth.

Layering

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Dragon Blade

The colours in the original card artwork for the Dragon Blade were various hues of blues and greens. I prefer a more limited palate so I tried to mix up a colour between the green and blue and ended up with aqua.

Dragon Blade

His cloak provided a good opportunity to demonstrate the layering technique for my next video which I’ll be posting next week.

Dragon Blade

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Video: How to Paint Miniatures – Basing

Basing is an important paint of miniature painting. A good base can make your painting look more impressive. In this video I show you some basic basing techniques.

Basing

I am not affiliated with the following suppliers, but I have used their products:

Australia: Back 2 Base ix
Poland: Micro Art Studio
United States: Wyrd
United States: Dragon Forge

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Iron Kingdoms Roleplay Character Conversion: Donovan

I play with a few different roleplaying groups using different systems. Although I initially converted him as an Iron Kingdoms character, I’ve ended up using the model with my Dungeons and Dragons 5th ed. group instead.

I started with the Rutger Shaw model. I swapped his sword out for a more traditional one and gave him a shield that I had leftover from my Croak Raiders/Nyss/Bloodtracker conversion.

iron kingdoms roleplay conversion

Donovan is a useful member of the party; he’s witty, charming, he heals them and talks them out of difficult situations…but he’s a womanising swine so the party hates him. Haha!

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