I bought Duke the Empire Wizard box for his birthday. I also promised I’d paint them for him, for his fledgling Empire army. I assembled and primed them…and then, like so many other projects on my desk, left them to languish.
But a sudden flush of painting/modeling inspiration, brought on by an invitation to the Throne of Skulls tournament in June, has had me attempting to clear some of the crap off my desk. The first step – finish these two models so I didn’t have to feel guilty about them sitting on my desk anymore 😛
The disclaimer: I suck at human flesh >.<. Also, the cloaks were less interesting to paint than I had hoped. Sooo…overall…models less awesome than I had hoped :(.
The first is a Life wizard in a delicious Snot Green.
The second a Death (or Shadow) wizard, in Lich Purple.
(I didn’t do the bases on purpose – left those to Duke’s thematic desire).
2 Comments
Cindy
March 7, 2011 at 5:08 pmOh those look good. But why didn’t you use your light box? 😛 you would have gotten better lighting for the colours
Craig
March 7, 2011 at 5:51 pmThey aren’t bad. They aren’t my best work, but not bad. I think the main issue is the photography 😛
The thing is…I feel like if I’m going to pull the light box out that I should make sure I’m doing everything I can right. Which means I need daylight, plus the lightbox, plus the lights, plus…yeah. So I started taking two kinds of photos – sloppy “whatevs” ones, and then “all the stops pulled” ones. I took another bunch on Sunday morning of the Krox that I’m going to post next chance I get – lots of light and did some colour management in Photoshop to make them look more like “reality”. I think they’re pretty good.