Saturday, December 4, 2010

Painting again, at last!

The other day, I decided that I should just paint a figure that I had sitting around in my desk, from start to finish. I chose the beggar figure from the Reaper Townsfolk II set, sculpted by Bobby Jackson. These are great figures, full of character and easy to paint; however, they are very very large, too large to work well with many other figures out there. I plan to use these figures as scenery for Warhammer games, and as NPCs in WHFRP, so the size should be ok.

A nice feature of painting a fantasy figure, and particularly a one off, is that there is no uniform consideration, and if I want to paint the pants one color and the shirt another, only aesthetics dictates what I should do. So I was able to zip along, and got a fair amount finished.

As you can see from this picture though, I had a bit of a handicap while painting though...


Since then, I have painted up another figure (the farmer with the withered arm from Reaper Townsfolk V), and plan to do a few more soon. Maybe this will get me back on track.

2 comments:

ZeroTwentythree said...

Those are very nice figures. I've just started painting some of them up myself, including the one you are working on. I have that pack and the "tavern" pack with the barman and two serving women.

Lasgunpacker said...

I just wish they were a little smaller in height and heft, so that they fit better with everything else I have got.

Looking forward to seeing how your versions turn out.