A strange and distant land (my pulp terrain) Now with 70% more monsters

[BugPope]

Was going to clean up the place, but got distracted and accidentally painted a mammoth instead. What do you think of the base? Too flowery?

Mammoth by DeeZee. I have mixed feelings about it as a model: the sculpting is beautiful, and very realistic.
On the other hand, the resin had a bunch of bubbles, the tusks had to be bent into shape by hand (which was a pain, especially when one of them snapped in half) and theres no slot for the tail. So it's a great model, but requires a lot of green stuff to work.

Also finished my fifth hut.

[vodkafan]

Those jungle huts are fantastic

[d phipps]

Nice work! And the bases look good as well.

[BugPope]

Been painting Japanese mythology stuff lately (check out my thread over in the far East subforum for that), so here's my first purely pulp figure in a while. I've named her Miriam, and while I'm still figuring out what her story is, she's definitely not someone you should mess with.
The model is by Lucid Eye. I'm not used to painting the female anatomy (I usually paint victoriana and such, there's not a lot of cleavage there), so the shading isn't great. Still needs some more work.

[BugPope]

Looking at all the junk in my apartment. On one hand, creating fantastical landscapes and making models satisfies me in a way that I've never felt felt doing anything else, it makes me proud and feel like I'm accomplishing something.

 On the other hand, it has made me a very lonely man (none of the local tabletop nerds want anything to do with me. It's a long story, but basically I made the unforgivable mistake of talking back to a neo-nazi psycho who threatened to beat me up for childish reasons, and that was apparently the worst thing anyone could ever do according to the people at my local game store. And I know I shouldn't say this, but trying to discuss anything on Lead Adventure really has been frustrating, to say the least), I can't share it with anyone in my dump of a town, it's cost me a fortune, it hones no useful skills, it takes up a lot of space (making me even more tethered to this place, and I get nagged about it constantly) and I get a bitter feeling of regret every time I look at anything in room.
I wish being happy with just being me and doing what I'm good at was a possibility.

[mikedemana]

Do our hobbies have to hone useful skills? If it makes you happy, and you create beautiful works that bring joy to other people across the world, what does it matter if it serves no mundane purpose? Cheer up! You said it yourself: "satisfies me in a way that I've never felt doing anything else, it makes me proud and feel like I've accomplished something."

You said a mouthful there, brother!

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com

[hubbabubba]

Cool thread, lots of great eye candy here. You've built up a great table set up.