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Apr. 17th, 2013 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretI bought into the Reaper Bones kickstarter because the overwhelming number of miniatures entranced me. They showed up this past week and I have slowly started painting them.
I am terribly inexperienced at painting minis. I had never done it before this past fall, when I acquired a minimal amount of equipment to start painting the pewter dwarf minis from another kickstarter. That is going very slowly, because I love those pewter minis and am quite hesitant to paint them and risk screwing up. They're extremely detailed, beautiful miniatures that are not exactly beginner level projects. I bought some super cheap plastic orcs to practice on, and that's been very helpful since I don't care if I screw up so I can experiment. However, they're also super cheap and not very detailed, and I'm unsure how well they prepare me to work on the dwarves. Important but tricky features like beards are not a part of the orc models.
Now I have like two hundred well made but reasonably inexpensive plastic minis to practice on. This is hopefully a lot of opportunity to practice. I'll try to post some photos of them as I paint, and maybe people can critique me? Thus far I have painted a skeleton, an orc, and what I think was supposed to be a human noble, but which I painted as a ranger with a long, flowing green cloak. The ranger mostly didn't come out well, but I like how the cloak came out, with interesting shadows and highlights. The orc was neat, until I changed my mind on the green shade for his skin. I don't like how the second shade dried quite as much, but I still think it's pretty decent for where I am now.
Today is the twenty second day of the Omer.
I am terribly inexperienced at painting minis. I had never done it before this past fall, when I acquired a minimal amount of equipment to start painting the pewter dwarf minis from another kickstarter. That is going very slowly, because I love those pewter minis and am quite hesitant to paint them and risk screwing up. They're extremely detailed, beautiful miniatures that are not exactly beginner level projects. I bought some super cheap plastic orcs to practice on, and that's been very helpful since I don't care if I screw up so I can experiment. However, they're also super cheap and not very detailed, and I'm unsure how well they prepare me to work on the dwarves. Important but tricky features like beards are not a part of the orc models.
Now I have like two hundred well made but reasonably inexpensive plastic minis to practice on. This is hopefully a lot of opportunity to practice. I'll try to post some photos of them as I paint, and maybe people can critique me? Thus far I have painted a skeleton, an orc, and what I think was supposed to be a human noble, but which I painted as a ranger with a long, flowing green cloak. The ranger mostly didn't come out well, but I like how the cloak came out, with interesting shadows and highlights. The orc was neat, until I changed my mind on the green shade for his skin. I don't like how the second shade dried quite as much, but I still think it's pretty decent for where I am now.
Today is the twenty second day of the Omer.