Some painted Chinese

[fho]

Hi,

Here is my Chinese. I have chosen a color scheme which is fast to paint.  I'm quite happy about the result altought the Vallejo matt varnish gives a bit plastic effect. I play both Legends of the Old west and Legeds of the High Seas with these. An Old west Chinese Tong posse, or the Queen of China pirate Crew

I love the poses of the new Obelisk Miniatures. They are full of character:


All my Chinese together.  It has taken only three evenings to get these 31 figures painted.


Figures are from:
 - Obelisk miniatures
 - Redoubt enterprise, Boxer rebellion
 - Copplestone, the lady boss on black sunhat.


-fh
Ps. There is fluff about the pirate lady boss.

[Lowtardog]

Very very nice and well executed...3 days

[Mancha]

First I've seen the Obelisk minis painted.  They look great.  Thanks for showing us.

[argsilverson]

Very nice painting!

First I've seen the Obelisk minis painted.  They look great.  Thanks for showing us.

Yes for me, too!

Is there any possibility for some close ups?

[jet]

Your minis look really great.  I'm sure you'll have lots of fun playing with them.

JET

[dodge]

Very nicely painted, I'm wondering if those obelisks would work in Back of beyond 

Dodge

[postal]

very nice.I guess its ture when you have chinese your hungry for more in a couple hours

[fho]

Thank you for your comments.

Here is close ups for the Obelisk ones. They match nicely with Copplestone figures, and none carries a really modern weapon they are suitable pretty much for any period:




I have been painting these on three different Saturdays in past month or so, I guess around 5 hours on each day. I used 10 figure batches, as having too many underway seems to be never ending job for me. Motivation was easy I had already agreed a Lotow game.  I had to have the first set ready by the next day. After winning the two first games, wanted to recruit more men. It was obvious to paint more the following weeked. Then I read that max size for a Pirate crew is 30 and saw the Obelisk minis, I knew had to have more..

I like simple colors with big contrast. Especially the white socks give fun contrast. Steps:
1. Black spay as undercount
2. Clue figure to the base
3. Fix with black, and paint hand & face with white
4. Paint face & hand with skin color and ink it with watered down orange brown
5. Drybrush face with skin color and fix the figure with black
6. Drybrush the clothes with German gray
8. Highlight clothes with red and then carmin red
9. Paint the equipment, socks and the eyes with simple dots (brown dot on top of white)
10. Fix with black if needed, Apply varnish
11. Clue sand to the base. Sand does not have paint, just grains of two different colors.
12. Apply grass and some hairs from an old big wall painting brush

Note, I did not paint the black base at all.

Chinese tong has so far played 5 games in a campaing: 2 wins, 2 draws and one lost

-fh

[Orctrader]

Nice work.

I have the Obelisk Chinese myself and I agree.  Good match for Copplestone.

[Athelwulf]

I like the one with the chickens in the baskets. Can you tell me where he is from. Looks like he would be a great addition to my western town.

[Svennn]

very nice & quick work, reminds me I must order some for myself

http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/