Very quick post here, just to show orf a slight variation I made to a pack of May Queens from Bad Squiddo Games. Having already painted a set in a traditional folksy style, with off-white gowns and flower garlands in their hair, I thought it would be interesting to paint another set with a more occult dark look to them. I didn't want to be too cliche and go outwardly satanic, but certainly strange, maybe other-worldly. As you can see, I also carefully straightened the staff on one of the figures and added some flames with green-stuff. Nothing outstanding, but I'm reasonably pleased with the result. Part of me wanted the skin tone to be a little more soft grey blue than it turned out, but, again, I quite liked the result. Anyway, that it really. Very short post on how a different colour scheme can change the nature of a model. And I know I'm somewhat biased, but these sculpts lend themselves so easily to variation when it comes to painting. Highly recommend picking up a pa...

  A few weeks back I was asked if I was able to paint up a small set of figures from Bad Squiddo Games, and I was happy to accept. Initially I had another commission lined-up, but while that was being confirmed, I had some time spare to squeeze them in. Of course, it's always a pleasure to paint anything from Badsquiddo; as well as having a nice range of genres their models have plenty of character to them, making it a breeze to let your painting creativity loose - I've long been a fan of Badsquiddo's Action Heroines duo; simple figures but brilliantly blank canvases!   Anyway. I recieved a pack of Zombie Shieldmaidens and Amazon Elite guard. Nice extremes. Grand and Grim.   Nothing too over-the-top for the Amazons; sticking to a bronze with a muted patina for the armor and plain colours for the tunics. I did, however, want to break-up that bronze a little, so made some of the details on the shin-guards and belt into turquoise gems.   The zombies were more of a chall...

Well, first of the Objective markers done; a pair of, rather grim, hanged skeletons, and some early prep on another goodie? , the strange Octren Glimscry. Need to catch-up on finishing two more Onna-Musha, but reasonably pleased with the first one. As usual from Bad Squiddo Games models, these are nice little scultps with plenty of detail. Just a short-and-sweet post this time!

Another quick update from the painting desk. Torgillius is done, and the next out the box is a 'goodie' this time; Dagnai Holdenstock. A nice steampunk aestetic going on with this one, so lots of brass, copper - should be fun. As you can see, I've also finished a couple of Bad Squiddo 'Shin-whackers' (trainee bugeisha) for the Feudal Japan set. Next on the list there are a set of Onna-Musha.

A selection of finished figures ... From Hasslefree Miniatures and Bad Squiddo Games, I did some very lightweight conversions to all of them. The main model is the beautiful Lilith sculpt by Kev White at Hasslefree; £15 but well worth it. I made a basic base for her using a few pieces of burnt coal from the garden and used some DAS clay for the lava. A few scattered bones added to the ominous setting for her and, as it turned out, I received a freebie skull with my Bad Squiddo order, and added that as an additional detail. Speaking of Squiddo, as well as purchasing a pack of Feudal Japan Widows, I got another pack of my favourite Bad Squiddo sets - Modern Action Heronines. Love these two, and, having painted a few set of them, wanted to do something a little different with them, so gave one a hair-cut and removed the top off the other - I know, I know ... but, in my defense, I had intended to just lengthen her hair, but couldn't find any spare Greenstuff putty, so fell back on taki...

With my sporadic painting time at the moment, as well as trying to get some model painting in, I've also started using up a large collection of Ice-cream sticks by painting them. For what? Not entirely sure at the moment; they may find themselves on the shop as just strange micro-art pieces, but you could use them as thick bookmarks? ... okay maybe not. They may look a little better in box frames too. Hmmm - Anyway, this is a quickie post to show them off. I still need to finish the lower areas, but they're pretty much done. I decided to keep them fairly simple, and go for generic fantasy types: Wizard/Mage, Elf, Cyborg, and Lovecraftian creature ... Have a few ideas for others, but for now this is just a sideline while still painting from a suitcase!