Back after a break

So been a few weeks.  A few reasons behind that.  Got rather sick for the better part of a month, did a lot of machining work, added a gas struct to my milling machine, worked on some robot stuff for the kids and generally just ran out of steam for painting.  So gave up for a bit and had a painting break.

Terminator Genisys figure

So getting back I started with a gentle start and did a few more Terminator Genisys figures.  Another 8 to go and then I'm onto LotR figures as my "other" painting project.  Nothing special here just some quick tabletop level painting.

..and another one

Second up was a Ral Partha figure that I think I got from the bring-and-buy at MOAB one year.  It's been in the box for awhile.  Really liked the almost Gary Chalk feel to this figure.  I had another go on painting wood texture on the spear shaft and I'm getting happier with the result.  I used four main colours

Ral Partha how I love thee

- Blue tint on the armour
- red on the cloak
- green on the clothing
- light brown on the horns/gloves

Reasonably happy with him.

Next was getting back to the Orphan 9 figure and base.  I worked on the base as I was still warming up and wanted to get the background colours sorted before moving onto the figure.  The two holes are the mounting point for the figure.

Starting to look like a base

The wall was undercoated a red/brown.  I then picked out individual bricks and painted them lighter/darker to add some variation to the wall and then painted in the mortar.  The mortar impressions in the foam are very slight so I couldn't go for a 'cover everything and wipe off' paint trick to do the mortar.

The posts around the top will have some wire on the so I started with the off white to pretend the ends are porcelain insulators.  The large door I went of green to give some contrast to the wall to and make it obvious that the second point of interest in the diorama after the figure is the door.  Just got the base colour down for it.

I used some Vallejo stone paste on the ground to add some texture to the plastic card.  Then I painted it grey and did some dust glazes followed by some dark brown/black glazes.  It was still not looking like much so I added the pavement lines.  There was still a bit of moisture from the previous glaze with allowed the dark brown/black paint I used for the lines to bleed a bit.  This resulted in a great effect of making the pavement lines look much more natural.  I then added in some extra cracks.  Need to add a few highlights next, but more as splotches/stains of colour.