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Chantal Van Pelt

(jamaajaah)

Belgium

very very very nice!
Can't wait till mine are painted as well (slow process).

Edited Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:37 pm
Posted Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:36 pm
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(squash)

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Cambridge
Ontario

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jamaajaah wrote:

very very very nice!
Can't wait till mine are painted as well (slow process).

Thank you very very very much!

It is a slow process! I would guess that the total time for each figure was around 10-12 hours.

Posted Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:24 pm
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"Sometimes game rulebooks are meant to be used as a guide - not chiseled into stone tablets as scripture. If using a specific rule makes a game more fun for you, then it is not only your right - but it is your duty to change it." --Rob Bell

“My opinion is that a game has its own life when published, and is really alive when players want to add their own house rules!” --Bruno Cathala

The Medusa's face has obviously been fuzzed out because if you were to stare at it directly, you would be turned to stone. It has nothing to do with my photography skills... whistle

Posted Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:57 am
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Ken Henderson

(Henneth)

United Kingdom
Seaham
County Durham

Very nice indeed - this makes me want to buy the game! I especially like the pattern on the Medusa body / tail. thumbsup

Are these around 25mm scale or larger?

Posted Thu May 27, 2010 11:23 am
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"Sometimes game rulebooks are meant to be used as a guide - not chiseled into stone tablets as scripture. If using a specific rule makes a game more fun for you, then it is not only your right - but it is your duty to change it." --Rob Bell

“My opinion is that a game has its own life when published, and is really alive when players want to add their own house rules!” --Bruno Cathala

Henneth wrote:

Very nice indeed - this makes me want to buy the game! I especially like the pattern on the Medusa body / tail. thumbsup

Are these around 25mm scale or larger?

Thanks!! The Medusa was definitely the most tedious of the bunch! snore

I don't know much about scales, but the Cyclops measures 3.5 cm from hoof to top of head and nearly 5 cm to the top of the rock, for example.

Posted Thu May 27, 2010 5:29 pm
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Jason Schoof

(Flanders)

United States
Farmington Hills
Michigan

Hey PJ, sweet figures! Very nice job.

I know I sound like a super noob, but can plastic game figures generally be painted? I used to paint lead D&D figures back in the day. I am getting back into gaming and I didn't know we could paint the plastics. Is process similar - model paints, fine brushes, lighted mag-glass, hours and hours of work?

Posted Wed Jun 9, 2010 6:48 pm
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"Sometimes game rulebooks are meant to be used as a guide - not chiseled into stone tablets as scripture. If using a specific rule makes a game more fun for you, then it is not only your right - but it is your duty to change it." --Rob Bell

“My opinion is that a game has its own life when published, and is really alive when players want to add their own house rules!” --Bruno Cathala

Flanders wrote:

Hey PJ, sweet figures! Very nice job.

I know I sound like a super noob, but can plastic game figures generally be painted? I used to paint lead D&D figures back in the day. I am getting back into gaming and I didn't know we could paint the plastics. Is process similar - model paints, fine brushes, lighted mag-glass, hours and hours of work?

Thanks for the kind words!

And yes, that process sounds about right! I'm fairly new to painting minis myself, but the ones I've painted have all been plastic. Here are the general steps that I follow:

-trim flash (excess bits of plastic) from figures with a sharp knife
-scrub figures with soap (dish soap) and water using ~~my wife's~~ an old toothbrush and rinse them with clean water
-to reshape any figures with bent parts, I then drop them into a bowl of nearly boiling water, let them sit a minute, remove them and bend them into place (if they haven't naturally done so in the hot water already) and then drop them into a bowl of nearly ice-cold water
-leave the figures to thoroughly dry
-spray them with a coat of white primer (although some painters prefer black)
-block in the main colours, moving from inner layers (skin) to outer layers (clothing and then armour and accessories)
-apply appropriately-coloured washes to each of the coloured areas to shade the recessed areas
-dry-brush in lighter tones over each of the coloured areas to highlight the raised areas
-pick out all the little details (eyes, belt buckles, etc.) using a tiny little detailing brush and with the aid of the previously mentioned lighted magnifying glass
-spray with a protective clear-coat
-play!

These are the only other figures I've painted (and my wife painted some of them too):

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/408909/my-wife-and-i-hav...

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/419852/my-wife-and-i-mak...

If I had to take a guess, each of these figures took me roughly 10-12 hours to complete, from start to finish.

Thanks for your interest!

Edited Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:52 pm
Posted Wed Jun 9, 2010 8:14 pm
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Jason Schoof

(Flanders)

United States
Farmington Hills
Michigan

Thanks! I can't wait to get started.

Posted Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:19 pm
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Tobias Sölvefjord

(supersiamesisk)

Sweden
Skövde

Very nice!
Funny caption as well.

Posted Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:49 pm
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Shawn Woods

(baconcow)

Canada
Halifax
Nova Scotia

squash wrote:

-spray with a protective clear-coat

What do you use for clear-coat? Something like Pledge Future (clear acrylic used for making washes)?

Posted Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:05 pm
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"Sometimes game rulebooks are meant to be used as a guide - not chiseled into stone tablets as scripture. If using a specific rule makes a game more fun for you, then it is not only your right - but it is your duty to change it." --Rob Bell

“My opinion is that a game has its own life when published, and is really alive when players want to add their own house rules!” --Bruno Cathala

baconcow wrote:

squash wrote:

-spray with a protective clear-coat

What do you use for clear-coat? Something like Pledge Future (clear acrylic used for making washes)?

For most of my figures, I used Games Workshop's Purity Seal, although I'm sure you can find cheaper products that work just as well.

For my stubbornly sticky Last Night On Earth figures, I had to resort to a clear, spray-on shellac.

Posted Thu Mar 3, 2011 4:27 am
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