Last week I come home from work to discover a 2 kilogram package sitting on my recliner, covered in Royal mail markings. This was a package from my good friend Drew Wood who is the brain child and founder of Nexus Miniatures and he was kind enough to gift me samples of line. And when I say samples, I mean like the entire line, along with extras to showcase all the possible main "intended" conversions. This included some 70 metal figures and about 7 LARGE resin figures, along with a few non-Nexus "extras" thrown in.
Full disclosure, I'm the guy who has has been doing the majority of the artwork for Drew, but still, this was still a gift,, and a very generous gift at that. So, the best way to thank the man is to log my progress painting thru the collection.
In this effort to thank Drew, I recorded the unboxing and transferred that video to my computer for editing and hoped to launch this painting log with that... Sadly my computer decided to crack-out and said video MIGHT be lost.
Well, not to let that stop me from giving a proper thank you to Drew for his generosity and launch my project log anyway. At this stage I've gone through and assembled most of the resins and 80 percent of the metal, which can be seen below.
And while I'm in a thank mood, I should thank the many talented sculptors that Drew has gathered together on this project. Including Ian Mountain (
http://www.mountainminiatures.co.uk/ ), Martin Buck ( Let me know Martin ), and Dave Stone ( http://wargamesterrainworkshop.co.uk/ ), and has brought some other talented sculptors in for future releases (I'll update that later). That full disclosure thing again, I did digitally sculpt two of the things here: The skimmer (that flying ship), and the MATAT (that law enforcement robot, along with help from Dave on that one). But anyway, this is a thanks to those sculptors for bringing to life some figures that when I was a kid I really REALLY wish I had (some particular alien Visitors come to mind)
And since a painting project log should always start with some actual painted figs, I figure i throw in my painting resin models I got from Drew earlier this year.
I'm hoping to try out some new (to me) techniques on this project. For one, I've cut open and hollowed out one of the sentries (the large resin robots) in hopes of trying to fit fiber-optic lighting up to the chest light, the eyes, and down to the palm lasers. Still need some more parts off ebay to make THAT happen, but something I've wanted to try for some time.
This weekend, gonna swap out a few of those heads off the ASPs for the alternate helmets, finish up some of the conversion work on the F.O.N. hopefully a batch of uni-techs will get some paint on 'em, and I'm itching for that and hopefully have something to interesting to update the log on my Sunday. Later all.
Anyway, I LOVE what I got, major thank you Drew. Everyone else, if you like what you see, you order from Drew directly (just shoot him an email at varian@nexus-miniatures.co.uk or nexus-miniatures@outlook.com) and you can find his catalog at
http://www.nexus-miniatures.co.uk/store
22 December 2009, 06:05:44 PM