Kingdom Death Monster - Zachary

Woohoo - I finally started painting my KDM set!

As you can see, I tried to really push the contrast for the OSL on this one.  Considering it's the first time I've done this, I'm really happy with how it came out.  What does put me in two minds though is the fact that now I've done this, I have to do this for all the survivors and monsters otherwise they will look odd next to each other on the board!

The other thing that happened is that midway through painting this, I lost motivation and it sat there for a couple of weeks while I waited for a spark of interest to return.  Looking back, I've been doing a lot of single minis so I think I need to cleanse my palette by doing some simple army painting (i.e. basecoat and wash).

Zombie game - Smith - Complete

Wow - it's been a long time since I posted an update here.  I actually did a whole bunch of painting at Christmas (when I had some sudden inspiration!) but outside of that ... yeah, it's been a while.

Partly, it was because it got cold in Hong Kong.  Without any real form of heating, you end up wearing so many layers (and still find it's cold!) that fine motor control for painting is the last thing you want to do.  That doesn't fully explain it though.  The reality is that, even after the temperature warmed up, I didn't have much motivation to paint. 

Part of the reason for this is that at some time over the last year, I changed from painting for stress relief to painting for games.  And seeing as my current lifestyle means that I don't have much time to game ... yeah, there went my motivation.

I still don't have much time to game but I do have an intention to do more painting.  Not for stress relief but just so that I can get that measure of satisfaction that comes from looking at a finished mini and saying, "I did that."

Anyway, another finished mini!

A quick paint job but I like how his trousers came out.  And as you can see, I still struggle with black!

Zombie game - Zombie Dogz - Complete

An entry in my series of "Anyone can paint"*

As with my other zombie figures, these are painted to a basic tabletop quality.  The paint job consists of a basecoat and wash followed by the blood effects.  Simple, easy, quick while still looking okay on the table.  👍

I didn't even bother painting eyes!

I also didn't bother breaking out my lightbox for these pictures as there isn't much detail to look at.  Slightly larger picture of the dogz below though.

* Not an actual series but it probably ought to be!