Met a woman. Moved in with her. We paint, we game, we love.
Long version
My prolific blogging on the past stemmed from the fact that I had a dedicated space for photographing completed minis. My girlfriend (her name is Elizabeth) will let me have that space in our home, but with all the new distractions (we love to play board games together!) I just hadn't gotten around to setting it up. I did have the day off and took some photos of a few projects completed in the past few months (not a lot of figures from what I'm used to, but the painting slowly but surely continues.) So I'll be putting together a few posts over the next week catching you all up to at least my more recent projects.
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TOKAIDO
One of the wonderful things about Elizabeth is her willingness to take on new creative hobbies. I introduced her to minis painting, and the first thing she painted were most of these figures for Tokaido. I had intended to paint most of them, letting her choose two or three favorites to paint, but she ended up painting a lot of these while I was at work. It was a pleasant surprise to see her progress through these.
I prepared the figures the same as I do for all plastic figures: Prime with Army Painter (I prefer black), brush on a layer of black craft paint (Delta Cermacoat) to add some tooth and to provide an easy-to-see matte surface, paint as usual. We used the character cards from the game for reference and painted the figures using those colors. The figures turned out great and really take on a quality that fits the look of the game. Elizabeth did great.
We're both looking forward to the soon-to-be-released Matsuri figures for Tokaido -- another set of 16 figures. I expect Elizabeth will paint most of those, too. I have no problem with that :)
By the way, here's the new set-up. Still much the same, and nice and cozy:
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Lovely painted Tokaido figures.
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Alan
Lovely painted Tokaido figures.
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Alan
These are the second set of figures that were unlocked via the kickstarter. I preordered mine via Miniature Market:
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The big romantic in me goes awwwwww.
ReplyDeleteThe wargamer in me says if you clean those circular paint things and put tin foil over the top, smooth it into the recesses you have a disposable cleaning pallet.Saw this somewhere on the interweb, can't find it though.
Hmmm, I like this idea.
DeleteGreat work by Elizabeth on the minis and congratulations to you both. :)
ReplyDeleteNice to see you back. Tokaido is a great game and I keep meaning to paint the miniatures but I haven't got round to it yet.
ReplyDeleteHey, great to see you back! Those Tokaido figures turned out very nicely, she should be proud.
ReplyDeleteFinding a girl that didn't roll her eyes at my hobby 30 plus years ago was hard enough, and that girl who has been my Wife for said 30 plus years is still supportive. Times have changed and more women have come into our fold, you are a lucky man sir to have found not only love but someone who shares your love for the hobby. A fortunate man you are indeed. Congrats:)
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Kevin
The Tokaido miniatures look wonderful. Cheers, Karl
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