A Man of Wealth and Taste

Heresy Miniatures call him the Netherlord but let's not kid outselves: he's the Big Guy, the Great Adversary, Old Nick himself.

This was a long one. Bought, built and pinned just before the birth of my eldest, he was the first miniature I ever tried an airbrush on for the Base coat.  He then got packed away with all the other stuff while life got taken over with work, a child, buying a family home and a Masters.

But I cracked him out a couple of months ago and I've been chipping away at details and layers on and off between other projects since the summer.

And now he's done.

The only question is, where do I store him? He's a massive piece of lead!

WIP

Just a quick update; while I was faffing about with the airbrush I did some work on an old Heresy piece I dug out of the lead pile. The intention is that this will end up in the Dark Elf Dragon Rampant force as a Warbeast - or possibly a Bellicose Foot with Flying.

And the current position:

Return to the Doctor

Just a quick one today. After looking at the pictures uploaded last time, I realised there was something missing from the Third Dcotor:



It took me a while to put my finger on what it was until I was watching some Who while doing something else:

I hadn't done the lining on the cape. That little splash of vivid colour that Jon Pertwee used to flash around with a flick of his cape.

So I cracked the brushes out today and tidied up the face and added the lining:



I think it makes a massive difference to how much the mini pops.



Again, quite happy with the shading on the black.

I also did the final glaze on Dr Hugh - incidentally, Heresy currently has a 25% off sale so there's never been a better time to treat yourself - and tidied up his face as well:




He still has the white toe-caps on his converse to add.

I'm in to the last stretch of the holidays now, so I realistically have time to get two things finished. My plan is to do the second Bloodbowl team and some medieval cavalry.

Stay tuned!

More Temporal Travellers - HAI!

This time from Crooked Dice:

Although you can't tell it from my paintjob - I'm going to have to revisit this one - the likeness is very good for Jon Pertwee.

He's joined by the ever faithful Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart:




And they're off for a trip to Cromer.



I also found, tucked away in the garage, the Heresy Doctor Hugh:

He needs another couple of glazes on the back of his coat to finish off.

Thoroughly enjoyed painting all of these and now trying to decide whether to go Victorian or Medieval for the next batch. Or maybe the last Bloodbowl team? What do we think?

The Two Doctors

I treated myself to some shinies from Heresy Miniatures and spent a lovely afternoon watching Doctor Who and painting.

Here's the results:




The Doctor Payne figure is probably one of the nicest miniatures I've painted in a long time. From a painting point of view I decided not to do the usual highlighting on the jacket but to instead concentrate on the weathering. I think the result does the job quite nicely.


The temporal northern vagrant was painted in a much more traditional fashion; the trousers and jacket were highlighted with different shades of grey and toned with blue and brown respectively. The different temperatures don't really show on the photograph but work in person.




The TARDIS is from Ainsty Castings. I have some decals to print and stick on next week (currently I have no ink for the printer!).

I am expecting some more shinies tomorrow so expect another post soon. In the meantime, if you like these two buy them from Andy at Heresy. He's a top bloke and a phenomenally talented sculptor. Now if only he'd get on with that Capaldi he keeps promising....