Curdled Milk

My daughter has always been interested in art. She draws, colors and paints like crazy. She has also always been interested in my miniatures. It has been a while since she first took her foray into miniature painting at 4. She is now 5, going on 6 and has shown interest in painting again.

 I feel real bad as I bought a small pack of fanstasy horses (unicorn and pegasus) for her to paint but took a long time to get them out for her to paint. From now on I am going to make a bigger effort to work with her on Sundays so that she can paint miniatures and grow as a miniature painter. I am not much of the teacher kind of person but I found real enjoyment helping her along. She knew exactly what she wanted to use and I found that her favorite part was mixing the paint colors…

So this Sunday she painted a unicorn. Learned a bit about mixing colors and even tried a very light ink wash on the very light grey body. I think next week we will work on the pegasus.

I have spent the last couple nights working further on the Librarium Online Miniature exchange figure. It is just about ready to go. I think I will try to prime it tomorrow night and start painting.

This was probably my most ambitious idea to date in regards to cutting and positioning a figure on a game base. Overall I think the positioning works and once painted I hope it conveys a good story of  marine that is wounded and trying to call for help. The knife is a bit more stiff in appearance that I would have liked but works well enough I think.

Initially I had plans on making a lot more “little stuff” - for example a “booby” trap ready to go off if an enemy came in contact - but I quickly realized that surface space filled up fast. It is crowded on the base but I hope I have enough little things to make it interesting.

I have also started prepping Harry the Hammer. I want to get him going as well. I really liked the way he looked in the White Dwarf magazine as well as a few I have seen in some forums. It is a very nice figure - especially all the base details! At any rate he is cleaned and ready to be assembled.

 

I spent a few hours tonight working on my miniature for the painting exchange on Librarium Online. It took me some time to decide on what I was going to do. Initially I wanted to do something cool and chaos like but that wasn’t what my secret person was really into… so I am instead working on a piece that can be used for multiple purposes… I figured that a plain vanilla marine wouldn’t really be special and I didn’t have the pieces to put together a special “character” so I figured maybe taking the vanilla marine and posing him in such a way as to appear injured, etc. it could be used as a special marker in the game… It could represent many different things…

At any rate - I am test fitting for positioning at the moment. I started to glue some initial stuff and cut some rough areas for the base. Currently he is blue tac’d down so the positioning is definitely not final. I plan on cutting the knife blade hand and re-positioning it. The base buildings will be cut to fit a bit better and all the other “litter” will be applied. I plan on painting the base and the figure separate and then glue it into place after…