Paint Splosh...

Here are a few minis I finished for the Paint Splosh contest: All Alpha Forge Stuff...as that seems to be all I paint any more!!

Again, sorry for the lackluster pics...I've all but given up on taking good pictures. The top one is called an Asteroid Miner. Poor guy doomed to mine asteroids all day...The other two are part of a Salvage crew...I like how the camo pants came out.

Hello!!

Hiya....Moving right along, here are 4 of the 'Survivors' of the Zombie Nightmare range. These are urban survivors. I made a mini newspaper for the bum...the Headline reads THE DEAD WALK. I also sculpted a disposed Slurpee drink for the shopper, and have the Gangbanger with some police tape:


Click on it for a better look!

Also, here is a closeup of one of the zombies faces....I wish I could get a better pic. Maybe i need a better camera??

EEK! His eyeball plopped out.

Ok, until next time!!

A few more...

Hi all! Got a few minis painted over the weekend. I wish I could pick up the pace, but I'm so damn slow.

Anyhow, these are part of the commission I have for Alpha Forge: Zombie goodness! Two of them are 'floating', one is called Stitch-head. Click on the pic for a closer look!


The next one is a work in progess. Its a Hydrissian Scavenger, I am really trying to give it a 'irridescent' look. Still a bit more work to do on it. Its a fiddly model.

Hopefully, I won't get too burnt out of these to start working on my PAINT SPLOSH minis, but at the rate I paint, my outlook is bleak.

Paint Splosh...

Alpha Forge Games is running a 'Paint Splosh' contest designed to get the minis up and painted, so I have started assembling and priming a bunch.



The contest only runs through May, so I have my work cut out for me.

Also, I still have some commission work to finish up, but it was too nice to stay indoors today, so I worked on the above minis out on the patio. I've tried painting outside, but it just doesn't work.

Check out the others on this thread:

SPRING PAINT SPLOSH

In a hurry...

In an attempt to get these zombies out the door, I hurriedly took pics...which aren't the best. Sorry. First up are the Rural Survivors...I had fun making the base with the steps, and giving them an all around 'white trashiness'. How can you not love a granny with a chainsaw?

Here's a quickie of the zombies....
I'm working on yet more zombies now, a 'Hydrissian Scavenger Drone' (very squidlike robot) and some Urban Survivors.

PLUS: Rod over at Alpha Forge is having a Spring PAINT SPLOSH contest...the person deemed to spend the most time painting and converting Alpha Forge minis will win 50 bucks in prizes. I figure it's not fair that I count my 'commissioned' paint jobs, so I got to figure a way to paint up some of my own pile o lead.

Check the 'contest' out here http://alphaforgeforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=2303&sid=2f61169249b39568f4ca06d2bd6d37b2#2303

Ok, back to painting now!!

Works in Progress...

I noticed I haven't really been using this site as a work in progress log of my hobby projects...just one that shows them once I have finished....So, here are a few works in progress..

I've been having zombies on the brain lately...Reading zombie novels (currently World War Z), watching movies with zombies, so naturally, Its time to do some zombie minis!

Firstly, I wanted a 'zombie horde'. When the miniatures are each put on a base, the base itself takes up lots of space...so to make it more claustrophobic, I got the idea of putting several of these plastic minis on one base.



Obviously, there is plenty of work to do on these yet. I probably should have painted them first, but that is such a hassle to try and glue them on after painting. But, I managed to squeeze in 16 zombies on just 5 plastic bases....I think that helps with the HORDE look.

Also, I've been working on Alpha Forge's zombie line. Rod has come out with some really cool and unusual zombies, and a few zombie survivors as well...Here is a WIP of a few of them.

I've got lots of work to do with these yet too...but a few of them are nearing completion. I really like the looks of the farmer with his shovel...and the mutated guy I adorned with a high school lettermans jacket.

I even tried my hand at writing a serialized zombie story. I add a new installment every so often. It's at the Alpha Forge site if you'd care to take a gander. (its on the forum so, you can also see the responses I've had. It's bad enough I subject those folks to my ham-fisted painting, but now I make them read my hackneyed fiction as well....

Click on it to read it....LINK REDACTED BY NSA

I'll try and keep this more up to date from now on....

Notice I said try.

More Roboty goodness.

Here's yet another Alpha Forge...this one a big tank like fella called the Cyclops. I worked on this guy in between power outages caused by a big ice storm that rolled through. He also marks the last of my 'commission' stuff for now...so maybe I can work on some of my own ever growing pile of pewter..

Yay, new stuff!

My hand is well on its way to recooperating, so I got busy with some painting here in the last week or so.

I needed to get these done for Rod over at Alpha Forge Games:


First some 'Asteroid Security Drones'. I tried to give them a military look.

Next we have the Asteroid Miner Chief. He is the boss of the 'Asteroid Miner faction' so I decided to give him a bit brighter scheme. Its a very cool mini, and I will have to get one of my own. I also have a much bigger mini, called the Asteroid Mining Cyclops, but didn't quite get him done. I wanted to get these off to Rod, as he needs them for a convention later in the week, I figured 4 were better than none.

Hopefully, I can start working on my own minis again soon...it takes me so long to paint them...mostly because I am the worlds biggest procrastinator. I'll tell you more about that later.

Temporarily out of the game....

Having surgery on my right hand to hopefully repair carpal tunnel syndrome has kind of put a crimp in my painting plans.

Although at first my hand felt pretty good, I have found myself using it more and more, but now that is really catching up with me. It hasn't even been a week yet since the surgery, and it hurts worse now that at any time since. Maybe that is a sign its healing....maybe thats a sign I need to stop using it. The Doctor has said to not use it for about a month...which is a hard feat to do, especially when I was back to work in less than 4 days. Oh well...I'll try to not use it and see whats what.

I did get some new Asteroid Miners from Alpha Forge and need to get them done for the owner there, but they will have to wait just a bit.

Moving right along...

Here is a sniper from Alpha Forge....It's a bit boring paint job wise, but I couldn't see a sniper wearing gaudy colors...Anyhow, the second pic looks a bit more harsh, maybe because I left off the photoshopped background. The photoshop kept washing out the fence, which was probably my favorite part of the whole mini....

Next up, I better get done with those Crunch Waffle minis...I kind of let them go onto the back burner. The owner wants them back...eek! Anyhow, I have three of them done, just can't get inspired on the last one...an assassin with a crossbow. I'll have to work up some inspiration quick like....Until next time!

Hmm...

Well, I had planned on keeping this a bit more up to date, but real life gets in the way.

Here are a couple of the minis that I just finished (they are all from the 'primered' selection below.



The big fella is a Superfigs miniature. The other three are Alpha Forge Minis, although I hadn't noticed it until I took the picture...they have a three stooges quality to them...Larry, Moe, and Curly Nyuk nyuk!

Hallo...

Here are the two entries I posted for the WYRD Rotten Harvest Contest....not good enough to place or anything, but I got several nice comments...

You can click on them for bigger pics....The top ones are some maniacs called the Twins, produced by The Wargames Foundry. I tried to make the base look like they were in a junkyard. The lower fella is called 'The Cutter'. Very unusual miniature from Jim Bowen. I liked the creepy feel it had to it.

Still working on various minis, but not getting the time I need or want to do that. I kind of gave up on the novel contest, I got 3000 words done, but soon got bored....Oh well.

Ready for Winter....

I figured there won't be to many days left to go outside and prime minis, so I best get a bunch done while I can.The humans are all Alpha Forge crewmembers. There is a big half assembled Alpha Forge Demo bot in the back (waiting for some more conversion work I am doing) and two SuperFigs! minis. The cool looking robot to the left should be fun to paint. Haven't decided on schemes for any of them.

I did manage to finish and upload two entries to the WYRD Rotten Harvest 2 Contest. They pale in comparision to what else is there, but its fun to compete nonetheless. I can't identify which are mine, per contest rules, until after the judging is complete.

I also finished one of the CRYPTO Critters from Crunch Waffle, the Jack-a-lope. Cute little bugger....I'll take photos when I am finished with the rest of them.

I also decided to enter a crazy 'writers' contest. The month of November is designated National Novel Writers Month. The contest is simply to come up with a 50,000 word novel in 1 month. Doesn't matter what the topic is, if its good, or anything. The goal is to FINISH the novel. I doubt anyone will ever read it, but I am writing one...

So, who knows? By the end of this month, I could be a novelist....

Long time no post!!

I did manage to finish the Alpha Forge Goodies, and I believe more are on my way...

Here is a quick look at the Asteroid Prefect...Unfortuantely, it lookes more boring that it did in real life....

I also did 4 of the miners....here is a shot of those...sorry these pics are bad, Rod, over at Alpha Forge will do some better ones...


I think you can see the little red solidarity fist I used as the units icon, in the 2nd pic.

Anyhow, I am now working on some terribly strange Crunch Waffle minis, including a Jack-a-lope, A hoop snake, and a flying pig. Part of CW's Crypto critters line.

I also have finished a few minis for the World Of Minis Competetion, I'm not crazy about these as they were rushed, but at least I finished them...

The Thing: Repainted Hero clix and a sci fi warrior called Kurgan, sculpted by my friend Mark Kraggs (klute).



I also have various half realized projects that I would like to move on with...

and hopefully, more frequent updates!!! Thanks for looking!!

Next up...

Marching on with my next projects....I was going to paint up some random stuff I have, but I have a chance to work on the very cool (and bizarre) Asteroid Miners from Alpha Forge.

They look like this....
I have 4 variations of these that were sent, and I need to get them back to Alpha Forge in 3 weeks or so. PLUS, I have one much bigger fellow, called the Prefect as well.



I just got them, and have started the prelimainary work, cleaning, assembly....Hopefully I can knock one or two of them down during this long holiday weekend.

Appearances on the Web...

The 'hawaiian Ogre' I referred to below is now on the Crunch Waffle site, in their ON LINE store. Looks like they took a new picture of it too...

Here is the link....
http://www.crunch-waffle.com/gallery/old_magi.htm

Kind of cool to see my little painted version next to Jason Weibe's original sculpt. He has been one of my favorite sculptors for some time, so it really feels like an honor to me.

Here is the picture as well:

Also, the fellow over at Superfigs noticed my 'almost Wolverine' mini I made out of one of their sculpts. I just added some bobby pin claws and gave him a 'x-man-ish' paint job. But he asked for a pic of it and I noticed it was in their gallery now.

Here is that link and pic....http://www.fourcolorfigs.com/gallery.html



Lastly....The nice lady at Queen of Credits
Has me listed in her "FAVORITE ARTISTS" Category. Very cool honor indeed, especially when you look at the caliber of artists she has there. She commissioned a couple of things from me, the first being the Shark-at-law recreation I did for her. I had made this same conversion once before, but send it off to an attorney friend of mine. Queen of Credits, who is also an attorney, wanted a recreation and so she got it. She uses it to intimidate the opposing council!! Good to see my work has some positive effect in the real world. I did another commissioned item but she has told me to keep quiet about it until she posts it on her website...

Here is my page over there!

Thanks for reading (and listening to me brag and prattle on)!!

The Results are In!

I'd like to happily announce that the results for the Alpha Forge SALVAGE RUN contest are in...

I was selected as the Overall winner! I'm very excited about this, as it was a long project that really paid off nicely in the end. Win or no, I had tremendous amount of fun painting, planning and converting the project.

Here is a pic of the trophy...

I will also recieve a never released model of a spaceship, and 50 dollars in credit on the Alpha Forge on line store...

Very cool. The competition was tough because of the other great entries, and everyone was able to grab some sort of prize. I'm already looking forward to the next contest.

My latest...

No word on the Alpha Forge Contest winners yet......Hopefully soon.

Here is the latest project I've been working on . It is a mini from Crunch Waffle Enterprises. I was contacted about painting this thing up very quickly so the owner could take a painted version along to the GenCon (a gaming convention). It was really fun to do and I hope the owner likes it. I mailed it off today.

I've Met the Deadline!

Sorry about not having many updates, but I was feverishly trying to finish this crew up for the Alpha Forge Salvage Run Contest. Here are the pics. First up is the shot of the entire crew, The Desert Rose Salvage Company. I believe all the pics are clickable if you want a bigger view.

Here is the Salvage Dog gun truck. I scratchbuilt a little plow for the front from cardboard and bits of plastic. I made it removeable as well....I also added a bed cover and an exhaust pipe I got from a matchbox car.



Here is the big Demo Bot...This was probably my favorite of the bunch to work on. I really wanted his coloring to be reminisant of a construction vehicle. His hands were like big digger claws, so I mae them rusty and scratched up. I also was attempting to make the light in his eye look like it was bleeping back and forth...
Here is a closeup of the scratchbuilt trailer I made. Its made of some plastic lid I found, and some spare parts from the models. I also made this removeable. All the 'gear' in the back of both the truck and trailer are removeable as well.
Lastly, here is a few shots of the truck and trailer steaming thier way to a salvage find...

I have had these done for a while, but didn't get a chance to get the pics onto the computer...

These are the 'crew' for the AlphaForge Games contest.










You can click on the pics to get a closer look....

The final stretch is coming now, I have some major painting to do to get those going...

The big robot I showed earlier will need paint, as will a truck with an armed crew...as well as some accessories, like a cutting torch tank and so forth...