Halo Fleet battles human captain bust finished

Halo Fleet Battles Human Captain bust

The week I finished off the human captain bust from Halo Fleet Battles just in time for Cancon.  Wasn’t planning on taking him down but he went rather well and in the end I will take him over the Amy Johnson bust.  She is painted with straight out of the box flesh colours and it shows.  Long live the new flesh (colour mix)!

Back view

For the captain bust my colours were as follows.  Very much a study in blue.

Main Shirt
- VMC Sky Blue 40%
- VMC Flat Blue 50%
- VGC Ghost Grey 10%
Highlights with more Ghost Grey and white, shadows with Prussian Blue

Under shirt
- VGC Ghost Grey - base
Highlights with white, shadows with VMC Dark Sea Blue (very small amounts and glazed)

Hard Amour
- VMC Prussian Blue 50%
- VGC Night Blue 50%
Highlights with Flat Blue, Shadows with more Night Blue and Black.

Flesh base
“Cimmerian King” mix 50%
VGC Bleached Bone 50%
Highlights/Shadows as per Cimmerian King

Hair
- VMC Black/Brown 50%
- VGC Cold Grey 40%
- VGC Ghost Grey 10% - I found the Ghost grey makes this a bit purple so later on swapped it out for a straight grey mixed from black/white.

Under the sea...

My daughter has finished up her mermaid diorama.  Just needs the mermaid to be glued to the base.  I wish she would paint more than once a year :)  My son (a bit too young to enter) is very keen on painting currently so I will get him some figures at Cancon (probably Reaper Bones) just for him, so he has his own figures rather than getting them off dad.

Swim time

Now the wait until Friday.  Going to be a long week at work waiting…

Halo Fleet battles human captain and lots of terrain

Halo Fleet Battles human captain

Had a bit of a heat wave this week so in 34 degrees painting isn’t really an option, even with a wet palette.  January is always a bit of an enforced quiet time.  I did a bit of work on the Halo human captain bust.  I used the Cimmerian King flesh range but I started with a lighter base colour by adding in more VGC Bonewhite.  I wanted the bust to have a very pale look (fluro light tan ;)), tired and not that well.  After all he has been in space without any real sun for most of his life (well that’s my story).  He is going rather well and I’m thinking he may even make it for Cancon.

Just add mermaid

My daughter is slowly getting her mermaid diorama underway.  Should be able to get there :)

All the toys..

Keeping the kids occupied in school holidays time I got out all my 28mm gaming boards and terrain and let them have a play with it.  I had some 28mm Wargames Factory Persians that I had made up but were never going to be used.  So now they have been adopted by the kids to become guards of the various houses.

I also had some 28mm Wargames Factory (more bring and buy specials) Celtic calvary so I made up a figure for each for them so they can have some riders (for taking messages between houses).  Looking at all the terrain laid out I was thing that my 12 year old self would have killed for all this terrain.  Never too late for a happy fulfilled childhood.

Guarding the keep, with cars at the ready..

New flesh, mermaids and Dungeon Saga

Dungeon Saga Skeleton - quick and dirty

A bit of an easy week this time.  I finished off three Dungeon saga skeletons in the quick dirty method.  I even used dry brushing.  If felt so wrong.  Next figures to do may be some adventurers or more undead.  Happy to just putt along on these.

After doing the Amy Johnson bust I was fully sold on trying to do my own flesh colours.  Bubblegum pink premixed flesh isn’t really flesh like.  So I spent a few hours try some various colour recipes.  Sometimes I just end up in pink land, other times in mushroom grey.  Once I have something better I will probably make up a batch and store in a spare empty bottle for later.  I found an older 28mm figure and did some early tests.

New flesh trials

Test figure - Pale flesh

I spent a lot of the weekend making things with the kids.  I started on a new cosplay sword in an effort to up my foam crafting skills.  For my son I made a small wooden car (which he then painted) and with my daughter I did some work on her mermaid diorama that she wants to do for Cancon.  I’ve made a wooden base and we glued on a sponge (for coral) to it.  I had previously modified a 75mm figure to be a mermaid (by chopping off her feet and bending the legs) and today I mixed up some green stuff/milliput for my daughter to start making the tail.  This will take awhile but hopefully we will get there before January.

75mm Mermaid underway - peg for scale

Next week will probably be more flesh trials.  I have a 54mm barbarian (aka Conan) figure which I’m thinking about doing but want to get better doing flesh first.  I also have my original 54mm Pegaso crusader knight (the first 54mm figure I got) that I’m also thinking of doing.  If I pull the figure out I may have another figure ready for Cancon.