Ned paints at the speed of an asmatic snail

[nedsta]

hasslefree fig's arrived yesterday, the first thing about them was how good they look, cleaning them up and i'll get some pics up of them when they are undercoated, get an update pic done with the goblin too later after some shopping (bloody shopping grumble grumble)

[juicytomatoes]

bloody shopping grumble grumble

Give and take, mate

Watching this space for a pic of those models.

[nedsta]

A couple of crappy comparison pics, the sunlight seemed scared to come out today and once again had to rely on my trusty nokia to take some snaps, camera's sorted but the bloody data cable has gone for a walk









there are slight differences between the alice's with the rabbit and pistol, one has high heels and is slightly taller and the other is wearing big hefty boots, pure coolness

[nedsta]

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of all of them i think Alyx (last pic) is the best, i've made her like most others i've seen with her teddy and pistol, hopefully pick anouther one up soon to make one with a magic wand and spell book, honestly cannot recommend hasslefree highly enough, order came through nice and safely, with a nice little thank you note and a sweetie

[nedsta]

Picked up some slow drying gel and some flow enhancer for my paints, makes my paints slower drying (funnily enough) and gives me a more transparent coat, but they are making the paints quite glossy but a matt varnish at the end should fix this,

quite bad pics of the cheerleader but best i could manage, maybe 2 more coats on the skin then finish the hair and get some more red wash on the pom-poms then she's ready for a basing

[Fist of Crimson]

Get some paint on those Hasslefree mini's!
I can't wait to see them when they are finished. I've been considering getting something from them for a while but I really need to focus on shifting my backlog before adding more toys to the pile.

Nice log. If you don't mind I'll continue to drop by every now and then

[juicytomatoes]

Those are some really nice figs from Hasslefree Nice progress on the cheerleader, although I still shudder at the thought of a goblin in a miniskirt

I'm also lookin' forward to your paintjobs on the new minis, although I'd also like to see those Reaper ones

[nedsta]

lol JT i'd actually like to see the Reaper ones lol, still haven't turned up, so i'm expecting a letter from customs saying i have to pay an import tax or something,
not actually that much left on the goblin to do,deffo going to be doing some tomorrow (my GF is starting to threaten me to get it finished ) hey i might even get it finished lol

hope the weathers better tomorrow too so i can get them hasslefree girls sprayed up.

cheers crimson much appreciated, honestly you should consider getting one or two of their figures just as a little tester real soon, i honestly think you'll be impressed by them.and feel free to drop by any time

[nedsta]

had to strip two of the ladies () as i wasn't happy with the undercoat or basecoat, just waiting for the undercoat to dry again and then i can start once again, also knocked the teddy arm off little alyx so pinned it this time, little bit of green stuff on her shoulder and she'll be ready to spray, pics to follow

[juicytomatoes]

had to strip two of the ladies

the things you say...

Hey check this out. I just found this site and found out they give 20% off reaper minis! I'm waiting for some of the newer releases before getting some of their figs.

[nedsta]

Ooooo very nice find, muchas gracias senor its a month tomorrow i think since i oredered mine from reaper, so i'm going to give it another two weeks to see if customs have the package then give them a call to try and find where it is

[nedsta]

Very small update this time (like that makes a change )

[juicytomatoes]

The fleshtone looks really nice!
You've got to get better pics though. It'll show the model better.

[nedsta]

best i'm getting at the min (well at 2 in the morning anyways ) found the cable for the digi cam and was sat playing around with it for ages until we found out that for for some strange reason sony thought it best not to include a macro function on their dsc-s600 so i'm stuck with my nokia N95 till we can get hold of a camera that does have close up mode

[juicytomatoes]

well, don't worry about it then Just post up the pics best you can and it should be all good.

By the by, did you put blue tack around the neck of your paint pots? Is that to slow down the drying up of the paint?

[nedsta]

just stuck the blue tack on only to hold the figures on with, these ol' pots dried out many years ago






me and green don't agree when it comes to highlighting, seriously dissapointed with my painting on this figure (even though its only the dress) seriously debating if i should strip it once again and start over,

[juicytomatoes]

I actually quite like the green (it's kinda an emerald sort of green, is it?). Perhaps a little more highlighting and shading will win you over? It's a lovely color on a lovely fig, and a potentially lovely paintjob.

Did you get some of that green on the back of her forearms or am I seeing things again ?

[nedsta]

lol yeah its only a base coat of dwarf flesh on her so far so easily repaintable, cheers dude it looks quite rough up close on the back maybe due to the white in the highlights,

was thinking about trying the whole dress using catachan green as theres just something not right with it at the min,photos haven't shown it up at all but there are some quite extreme highlights on it going from dark angels green up to skull white but i gave it a bit of a glaze whn i'd finished as the highlights were a bit too extreme

but this time i'll make sure she don't look like she's redecorated her house with paint all over her before i post pics

[Fist of Crimson]

Unfortunately it's hard to see anything due to the photograph. It just looks like a base coat of green without highlights

If you really hate the green, you could try using a green base coat and a quick wash?
Although you probably want a better finish than that on such a nice mini

[nedsta]

yeah i'm going to strip it again later on today, think the glaze killed off the highlights a bit to much, ah well third time lucky lol