Old School Fantasy Painting Log (Updated 24/12/20)

[DeafNala]

The Short Fellows have a TREMENDOUS amount of character/personality. I love your approach to painting, both the Fantasy & Sci Fi, AND your bases are OUTSTANDING. VERY, VERY WELL DONE...VERY!

[Dr. The Viking]

Wonderful stuff!

The straw is brilliant!

[Damien]

That straw is brilliant! But I really like the personality of the second dwarf; where is he from?


Great paint jobs,
 Damien

[Thantsants]

Very earthy - I can almost smell them 

[ilikepaintinglead]

Thanks everyone:

@ Scurv: Jesus man thanks very much your humble opinion means a lot, you have more faith in my painting than I do
@ Thantsants: Earthy I can do, if someone asked me to paint a nice clean High Elf, I'd probably have a fit.
@ Damien: The straw took forever to attach, it's just piece of Door mat attached with Matt Varnish, The Dwarf is an ancient Citadel Pre-slotta mini that came as part of an ebay junk lot. I think he's a variation of the mini in the bottom row in this pic
http://www.solegends.com/citcomp2/citcomp2022-01.htm
@ Dr. The Viking: Cheers, attaching the straw was a pain in the arse.
@ DeafNala: Cheers I love the older Citadel Fantasy sculpts, like you said they have a ton of Character.

Again thanks everyone, I should have some TSR sahuagin mini's to post up later in the week so keep checking back

[ilikepaintinglead]

Hey y'all I'm back with some new stuff, sorry for the delay but sometimes life kicks you in the nuts and you need a little while to recover, so anyway here's what I've been up to.

Now to the painted stuff, first up we have a really early Citadel CO3 cleric (second row down)
http://www.solegends.com/citcat1983comp1/citcomp1025-01.htm





Next we have the awesome Ral Partha Saughin:










Lastly one of the Grenadier Demon's that looked a little aquatic to me so was added to the bunch:




Let me know what you think
Also managed to jazz my desk up which I'll update on the relevant thread

[Suber]

Those colour transitions in particular are astoundishing!

[Dr. The Viking]

I love your style! You're making me want to try something similar!

[B. Basiliscus]

Wowy wow!
Dig the eyes in the shag... shan... fish guys a ton, and their gear is superbly done. That demon is one of my favorite figures!

[ilikepaintinglead]

Cheers everyone!

A few new things for your perusal:

Really early citadel Cleric:



Some Em4 proto-shoggoths:






Old Citadel Ghost from the Night Horror range:



I think this guy needs a little more work there's something not quite right about him, maybe needs a little more shading

Weird Earthdawn beastie:

I can't really get the purples to photograqph correctly he's coming out a lot more muted than the 'real' thing.

[DeafNala]

VERY COOL Old Lovelies, one & all! I really enjoy your sense of color. GREAT WORK!

[Damien]

As was noted above, your colour transitions are really well done.


Cheers,
 Damien

[Mason]

Some original colour schemes there, sir.
I like them, very nice indeed.
 

I have that Ghost to paint up soon myself, but would never have considered that scheme in a million years.
 

[ilikepaintinglead]

Howdy everyone, sorry for the slow amount of updates recently but I've not really had much in the way of updates to show off. I recently sort of completed my attempt to undercoat and base everything I own ready for paint slappage but ran out of space about three quarters of the way through so there are still a fair few mini's languishing in drawers.


P4030053 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr


P4030054 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr

Hopefully now I can pick up anyone of a ton of mini's and just crack on with painting something, which is what I did:


P4030051 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr

From left to right:
Citadel C34 Fire Elemental, Dreamblade Gutsoup Golem, Dreamblade Hulking Brute, Grenadier Copplestone Barbarian, Grenadier Ghost and finally dungeons and Dragons plastic mini with a little conversion work.


P4030034 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr

P4030032 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr

I love these Citadel elemental's that were released in the early eighties and would love to own the whole set but sadly I'm not the only one and they always seem to go for a little outside my price range on the old ebay, I only managed to get hold of this one as it was included in a bulk lot and didn't even appear in the ebay picture.


P4030029 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr

Next up we have the Gutsoup Golem from Dreamblade, really simple paint job that was mostly achieved with washes, glazes and thinned down paint finished off with a healthy dose of tamiya red and clear for that wet look. If you're in need of some crazy monsters check out the Dreamblade range as they always seem to pop up on ebay for cheap and paint up really well.


P4030039 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr

P4030041 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr

Another Dreamblade figure this time a Hulking Brute, I'm not to sure on this guy I think he needs some kind of tattoos or scarification to break up all the flesh.


P4030050 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr

Grenadier Copplestone Barbarian, really simple paint job and a ton of Tamiya clear red. You can still get this guy from EM4:
http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Infantry.html


P4030036 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr

I think this guy is a dungeon and dragons pre pained mini, He originally had a small hook like weapon that due to the bendy nature of the plastic that these figures are made of was completely ruined. I removed the hook and drilled through the hand and added the cocktail stick and wire club.


P4030045 by headnhalfilikepaintinglead, on Flickr

Grenadier Ghost, insanely quick paint job I just fired some watered down blue over the grey base coat added some fluorescent yellow to the face and left it at that.

Let me know what you think

[aggro84]

I really love your painting style.
I find myself frequently visiting your blog.
Your collection of minis is extremely impressive as well.