Rocket's Minis

Kingdom Death: Monster has arrived!

Blue Petitgguy!

Finally bit the bullet and decided to try candy-coating with lacquer paints. Hot dang this was a lot of effort for a $4 kit! Great practice though, and it’s easier to accept the mistakes than on, say, a $40 kit. Started with an Alclad gloss black, then Alclad chrome metalizer (two very light coats), then several coats of Spaz Stix candy blue. White pieces were just Alclad Flat over bare plastic.

Things I learned: - I should probably at least consider basecoating the inside of color-mismatched parts - it’s really obvious in the seam on top of the head - Better yet, start with darker colored kits instead of one that is 100% white - I should definitely fill in seam lines or I will be unhappy with myself - More gloss topcoats, and longer curing times on them! Lacquer should be really durable but I didn’t wait long enough and ended up scratching a couple spots while assembling - Color matching is going to be really hard! I think I did either two or three coats of clear blue on each piece, but a few (like his right ear) ended up with a substantially different shade. - I need to get better at brush painting lacquers, and panel lining. I aborted my attempts on his nose and chest (respectively) and just had to clean it all off. - Dust and gloss paint are mortal enemies and I’ve already ordered a HEPA room filter for next time

The Green Ogre!

Scarecrow!

This guy was an experiment that turned out really well. I did some zenithal priming on this guy to define the highlights and shadows, then used repeated washes to color/shade the majority of the model.

The Pink Angel!

The Golden Angel!

Lion

Planning to switch to a less-than-daily schedule (which means I can’t use the queue function, blegh), because I am out of painted minis and there is no way I can average painting 1/day. Unless you just want photos of my gunpla kits next.

The Angry Villager

Well, uh, this guy turned out really well. I think there’s a weird paradox where I’m more willing to try new or risky techniques on models I don’t care about, but then when it works those models end up looking really great.

I’ve been watching a lot of mini painting videos by Tabletop Minions, and one of the things he brought up was doing stronger and brighter highlights. Even if they look like to much from up close, they hold up from several feet away, whereas more subtle highlighting tends to wash out.

Midnight Piper

Guest Post! This damsel of the dusk was painted by another victim member of my D&D group. Don’t follow vampire floutists into the night!

Khanjira WIP #3!