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Monday, April 6, 2020

Quarantine Miniatures

 Back in 1990 I inherited some miniatures from my uncle (Heritage Miniatures appropriately.) They have sat unpainted for decades. I finally got around to painting them while quarantined.
Here is an overview.


Here is a closeup. The lantern is my first attempt at scratchbuilding
It's a little rough but so is the whole sculpt. I rate it a 'meh' for a first effort.
The hand holding the lantern is from a different kit.

Lantern boy all alone. Maybe this picture is a little too dark.
Sorry

Here we see Barry the Bagman. My favorite mini of the group

I like him even more than the wizard with the owl-like thing background of his picture.


Here you can see my first attempt at object source lighting on the torch boy.
His face was so miscast I figured the best thing to do would be to have it in shadow

so I could paint the part that was featureless lead blob pure black. If this cast hadn't been such a mess I never would have attempted the OSL.

Here is the shield. I tried to get a nice blend going

The druid in the middle of the back row was so misaligned I had to sculpt half of the back of his head. So here is a look at the resculpted head.

4 comments:

  1. I love the old style miniatures.

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    1. I developed a real love/hate relationship with them over the past month. The casting errors and lack of detail can be frustrating, but they have a ton of character and they look more desperate than heroic a lot of the time, which is great.

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  2. Nice work, both on the outcome and on preserving your uncle's legacy. David Sutherland's adventurer's also have that desperate look.

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