Firstly, a start has been made on a commission of vehicles and figures all with a cyberpunk/neo-noir theme to them. The blog will be seeing more of those in future posts, as well as some beautiful old figures from Ral-Partha. Starting out with the smaller cars first, with one down and two to go. I aiming to make each a little different, not just going for plain colours. I broke the red bodywork up with some off-white panels and went for a two-tone blend on the purple, the green may get some racing stripes(?). One slight snag I hit was the chrome detailing. I had a couple of options in mind: standard acrylic silver metalics, which wouldn't have looked too bad, but, ideally, a closer-to-chrome look was the aim. So I ordered a bottle of AK Extreme Metalics Chrome, and while it looked better I thought I'd try a chrome marker by Molow. It's seen it used by Adam Savage on one of his projects and it looked impressive. Anyway, long story short, it (for me) was the best of the lot. ...

A partial progress report on some commission models as well as a few bits of shop-stock painting. I know, crazy, right!? Let me start with the first few models from a bundle I'm currently painting from Black Scorpion Miniatures. I've painted a range of their stuff before, from pirates to cowboys, and for starters I'm on a set of grim-faced mercenaries and a Knight riding a giant chameleon (why not?). Next - although I forgot to get some photos of them - are eight beautiful cannons; seven solo and one that has a crew to go with it, but I'll upload some pics of that on a future post. Other figures I've been painting come from Bad Squiddo. One pack is a semi-regular purchase, the Action Heroines and the others are new for me, mercenaries Gwen and Evie. I've only painted one of each at the moment, but pretty pleased with the way they turned out. With the Action Heroines I usually go for an 80s style to the paintjob, but thought I'd keep it a little more subtle t...