The best laid plans… and the grey pile grows

Finally coming together

Plans do tend to go astray when sick family members and life comes up.  Spent half the week out of town so pretty much a bust this week.  I spent a couple of hours reworking the shield which is getting better slowly.  I also started working on the mock up of how my knight will sit on his base.

Rather than do dry run tests on the nice stained pretty base from last week I cut out a piece of scrap wood the same size to use for trials.  That way I can drill holes (and drill again when I change my mind) in the wood to work out the positioning of items without any worry.  I have the resin rock centred on the base with the bent tree at the back and the tree stump at the front so the helmet can rest on it.

I found that for the figure to sit properly I will need to grind down some of the rock (in foot size holes) to get a nice standing position.  Also in the final piece the flat ground area will be covered in milliput to give some undulation to the ground.  Then the snow on top of that.

Inanis in box

Also this week my “Inanis” figure from the Ater range by www.deadsculpt.com arrived (this was the Ater Kickstarter project).  A very well run Kickstart project that went along with no issues at all.

The figure is a 54mm resin sci-fi figure of a humanoid who happens to have a large hole in their chest.  Well packed in a little box and wrapped up in bubble wrap.  Some very nice details and hardly any flash.  The figure is quite skinny however.  Maybe I’m just use to chunky medieval knights.  I got the figure as it’s not normally something I would paint but the example paint job I saw was quite inspiring.  Into the projects draw for him :)