Big ol update dump!

Some of the "basic" uniforms.

Wowsa, what a delay on updates! I'm back. I have been busily painting away in the background this whole time. The xmas deal was very succesful and it's given me lot's to do for the new year. I've been painting like a madman and also renovating my house (dealing with a bit of a scumlord situation so taking some control over things like room colours and little repairs here and there for my sanity.) 

My first two orders of the year were a really nice and succinctly sized Bolt actions russian order. The order was a mix of winter uniforms (duh!) and one big gun. I always revel in an opportunity to get my homemade snow recipe out and flex my creative muscles with that. I thought I had it down to pat by now but it just keeps getting better and better. In this order, I also enjoyed the "dirty whites" of the full winter uniforms (the ones that look like hazmat suits) as the client specifically wanted them to be a bit "off yellow" in their shading, and I always welcome and enjoy a specific direction as it gives me something to learn. 

Note the aforementioned yellow undertones of the white oufits.

The same gun from above minus le snow.

I also really enjoy Bolt Action armour, though let's be honest, it's more often than not a bit of a backache to assemble. Gladly, I can say that I have my mini dremel these days, so pinning and such other finnicky procedure is no longer such trouble. 

A cinematic shot I knocked up for the home page.

A smaller order I squeezed in was this interesting one for some 2000AD miniatures (I think!), and this was its own challenge. The main reason is that the miniatures "cards" were very dark brown in all of their tones, meaning that a lot of the painting was guesstimation. I knew I wanted them to all feel distinct, so I tried out a method I see a lot online, which is to use different base coats for their skin, hoping to give them different tones throughout the lot. The most obvious of these is the big guy onthe left, whom I painted with an almost purple to start, which gave his bulging muscles an almost bloody and veiny tone.  

Another huge order that has just flown by is this big Indian Mutiny order from the Christmas deal. My close indian friend told me that in India they call it the indian rebellion, which makes more sense, so I will call it that from now on. Above are the test models for the four different types of models that came in that order. I really liked working for this fella, as he was very calm about creative license. His main direction was to make the "whites" of the clothing a bit more off-white/ beige than the off-white grey tones that are found on the internet for other people's finished collections. 

Despite working on this for a whole month, I didn't take a ton of photos (though of course I took a few for my client). This big picture shows the vast majority of the finished models. During this order, I stabbed myself with a bayonet (I know, cliche) but it went right through my middle finger and hit the bone! It got a bit infected, and it's only just healed now. Needless to say, I bloody dislike pointy bits. Regardless, I had a blast painting these and my Indian friend gave his approval. I particularly like the blue hat,s which are'nt "too blue" and the mixture of "different" but cohesive beige and white tones. I did change some minor things from the inspiration, as beige clothes with white straps felt both monotonous and from a process and painting standpoint a little futile. I think the brown straps pop on these miniatures and also help to differentiate them on the battlefield from a standing eyes view.

Below I've uploaded two pics of stuff to come. If you want to see more as I go along, I tend to upload bits and bobs to the lead adventure forum under this post: 
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=149535.15
However, I don't have the internet so I struggle to do regular uploads. I shall do my best to keep everyone updated, and as usual if you want to discuss a potential order email me at [email protected]