Friday and painting

[lederhosen]

Had a good Friday. After about a week of not enough sleep, I finally got a proper night's sleep before that - had forgotten just how much better I feel for sleeping. Debugged code to the point where all known bugs were solved and stopped there so I could go home feeling good about it :-) Was also reminded that it is a long weekend, which I'd totally forgotten, so I have an unexpected day off work. Being forgetful has its advantages.

Painting figures. Last time I was in Melbourne I bought one that was marketed as an 'ice elemental', but I've decided it works better as some sort of mineral-crystal thingy. By dint of coating it with gloss black, a deliberately slapdash coat of red metallic, and then another slapdash coat of slightly watered-down gloss black again, I got a rather nice look, a bit like some forms of obsidian I've seen.

And then, because we're headed off to the Plane of Water, I got to work painting up some water beasties for reynardo to menace us with. I've just finished painting a big dragon turtle that's been sitting in the cupboard for years, during which I rediscovered why painting heavy spiky figures is uncomfortable. But he looks very pretty now, with the help of the satin paints I've enthused about before - brushing lightly with them gives a wonderful iridescent sheen to his shell and scales. Next up: a sea serpent, a were-shark, and maybe a water elemental if I get around to it.

I also have a Great Cthulhu figure, but I think I might leave painting that until *after* we leave the Plane of Water...

Comments

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

Pics please?

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Yup, when I get around to it... I'm still trying to get the hang of photographing miniatures so the detail shows up properly.