Barbarian time by Crom!

Originally this barbarian was to be part of the mutant marauders long ago.  Its a metal Reaper Miniature that I converted with a shield and chaos sword and some armor plates.

 I've probably had this miniature for 15 years or better.  I love great looking sculpts that have a lot of relief and undercut in them.  So this thing painted up very well.

 The musculature is wonderful.

 The face and hair on this mini is kind of a let down as the rest of it is quite awesome.

Well that is it for now.  More to follow.

Another RPG Reaper Miniature Painted

I have no idea how many years that I have had this miniature sitting in a box to be painted.   It is an undead hunter from Reaper Miniatures.

I always loved the cape and hood sculpting on this miniature.  And it paints up very well.

 I used my typical red and leather color scheme.  It's fun scheme that I was painting a series of miniatures with, I think a big batch Romans at the time.

That's it for now.  Its done.  This miniature will be going up for sale on Ebay.

CHAOS!.....Time for a Minotaur

 Seriously love the pose and detail of this Minotaur.  And the thing is absolutely huge.

 There is detail covering this model, everywhere.

 So, yea its been awhile since I have done anything beastmen related, but I still enjoy them.

 That axe is massive and so cool.

And more to follow.

Another Reaper Miniatures Paladin

 This is another Paladin that I painted up.  Its a pretty awesome miniature from Reaper.

 It paints up pretty easily.

I love the flow of the hair especially.

 You can see how that hair is layered.

 The blue tabard is something I needed to help with the color contrast.

That's it for now....more to follow.

I think I'm Back....Maybe...New Chaos Mutant Marauder

 What the heck PPC your BACK!!!????!!!?????  Well maybe.  Like with anything in life, you sometimes hit a cross-roads.  For me that occurred, 5-years ago with having been diagnosed with an Acoustic Neuroma and having 11.5 hours of brain surgery to remove the tumor that turned out to be benign. 

 Its to me that everything since then has changed.  I'm still getting better from it, but not without difficulty.  And the games industry that I was involved in from a hobby standpoint changed.  This has been complicated, by my single-sided deafness from the tumor, left eye issues, turning 50, buying a house, Photobucket's changes, the sort of collapse of the blogging and forums community, the closing of our local game shop, the disappearance of friendships, discovery of new hobbies, rediscovery of old hobbies, coming to cross-roads in my profession.

 So where does this take me....I'm not entirely sure.  I'll likely utilize my Facebook page more (Madhouse Workshop), I'm thinking about doing some YouTube, similar to my kart racing channel that is still going strong at Racing Psychosis.  Where does that leave the blog...again, I don't know.

 So what is this figure?  Well years ago, Mike Butcher and I were doing some things with James at Lost in the Warp.  We did a figure swap at the time.  James built this miniature to go with my now defunct Mutant Marauders in exchange for some beastmen that I built him.  I was to paint this up. 

 Its a strange miniature, definitely mutated.

As always more to follow????

Return of WIP on the Desk....been a bit quiet but hard at work

Yea....I'm still here and still painting and drawing away.  Recently, I've been on a Roman kick, painting away, but I also did a bunch of Saxons, Vikings, and fantasy models.  This is what is on the desk currently in different stages of completion.

I needed a few more back rankers in the Vikings, so with this batch of Romans are some red tunic Vikings.

 A bit of a closeup of this Roman officer.

 On my desk, I'm often way behind in spraying clear coat and finishing up bases, which are part of the process that definitely do not thrill me.  So here in the back you these sealed clear boxes are completely painted models waiting for that to happen.

Lower right you can see I have some fantasy models.  The Romans being painted are part of the complete overhaul/rebuild of my Roman army.  I probably have another 80+ models to paint as part of the Warlord Games Romans, then I'm completely finished with those Romans and will be adding some Victrix Romans in.

So as always more to follow......just busy, busy, busy.

A bit of inking....My inks over pencils by Bart Sears

Some classic X-O Man-o-War....love that character, a lot of fun doing this.