Bow October Painting Competition

Greenskin:

My entry to the Oct painting comp.

I need to replace some bits, fill in some gaps, and add some extra detail.

Also I’m going to be making a custom base

Primed after a bit of cleaning.

I’ve got rid of the flash, also filled in some miscast parts.
Gives a better look at the model, I think. I have a colour scheme in mind, but I think I’ll keep it to myself.


The arm muscles didn’t meet up properly under the bangles cast in the arm joins.
So I cut them away and pinned them further apart, I’ll sculpt some new ones in.
Also the rear leg is too fat for its socket, that has been sanded down and mounted with a gap.
The front leg meets better, I should only have to redefine a muscle or two.

All the gaps were filled with MMD putty, basically ‘like’ the Vallejo and GW paste putties out now, but cheaper per gram.
I started using it on scale kits, now I couldn’t do without it.

In addition to the resculpted areas, I’m also planning on adding a bit of extra tribal jewellery, feathers, and a couple of other details to make this more of a personal model.
This is purely for display, so I can go all out with the details.

Tutorial

I've posted a quick photography tutorial. Link is above. :)

Red Samurai WIP

Some more work done:

BOW competition figure.

Painted this Samurai up for the Beasts of War, infantry figure comp.  

Quite pleased with the results, I'm going to try and do all of them this well.
I'm going to use them as a break from painting camouflage on various things. :)

Bombard WIP

A 25mm bombard I've been working, on though its been slowed by other projects.






A 25mm single figure I've been working on.
Based on the Russell Crowe character Maximus, from the film Gladiator.
Still some stuff to do on the base, adding in stakes for example.

New Blog

I've decided to move my wargames posts over here.
They were getting crowded out on my display figure site.

This blog will focus only on wargames figures, while One Tonne Automaton concentrates on the large scale Sci-Fi.
I'll be keeping to a roughly once a month update schedule, to give me more chance to have something worth putting up.

Let me know what you think about the layout. :)

Next Post: A 15thC Bombard and maybe some Samurai too :)

PK Cameraman

First fully completed model of my SS unit and its a non-combatant!

Contrary to what I've read this Model has no weapon at all, not even a sidearm.
So armed to the teeth with his Arriflex 35 here is my Propagandakompanie figure.




I may convert a armed version in the future, a pair of binos would turn easily into a Leica camera.

Progress continues on the Sd.Kfz 250/8.
The bolts down one side are a bit wonky, but it won't show too much once its painted..