OD's SoB Prep Blog

[Old Dwarf]

11/16/14- Why, Why, Why Deliah -are your details so obscure Deliah .
(once in a while my inner Tom Jones pops out *) . The Female Rancher
I'm calling Deliah Morgan ( a fond memory of an Alpha Phi I knew long, long ago).

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQIK3Te9Coo

The point of this is that it's damn hard to puzzle out where her bandana ,
vest & shirt stop & start. I'm beginning to think it might have been better
to use a grey Base Coat for the Heroes rather than Black (too late now).

FFP indicated they were making the SoB Miniatures with painting in mind,
but for their human figs. I think they missed their target. I'll say again
I like the figs. & they can be made to look good but they are not painter
friendly.

Well end of rant, I doing the Female Rancher (obviously) & the Gun slinger
today so I best go up to the paint room & have at it.

Sweet Mother of God..... Deliah made me work for it (not unlike her namesake),
once I got into it I realized the fig has crossed straps over the vest. The vest is
done in war Paint leather so I need a darker shade of leather to do the straps
so they would show like the Hero Card pic. Lucky I still have a small amount of
GW Bestial Brown left which did the trick.

The rest of Deliah wasn't so bad I did her bandana/ribbons & her waist scarf
in GW Regal Blue + her hat band & her dress in GW Ultra Marine Blue. The sleeves/
shirt were white.


The Gun Slinger was much more reasonable (of course he's mostly black),I
painted the coat War Paint Shadow Black-from the SoB Hero Paints- but
left the pants in the black base coat color as it's a more faded shade of Black
so it avoids the 'Sea of Black" thing. His vest got Crimson Hand Red from
the SoB Monster Paints, it's a subdued shade that doesn't scream RED & matched
it to his hat band. I actually was able to match his Hero Card Pic hair with a mix
of SoB leather, GW Calthan Brown & GW Red Gore.

So the 2 figs. are basically done except for some appropriate Tone Shadings &
then highlights. I'll probably do these later in the afternoon as a yard full of
leaves are calling. I do find that working on 2 Miniatures at once works out
nicely.

God, Odin All Father, Cthulhu who ever cares, I'm getting too old for house
maintenance , raked the Front Yard ,carried 6 urns from the front porch
to the back porch for my wife( I no longer ask why) swept the leaves from the 2nd
floor roofs & cleaned out the gutters from hell, then raked the front part of the
back yard & transported 360 gal. of leaves out to the front curb.

So Heineken Break!- I should have recovered enough to finish off the Rancher
Chick & the Gun Slinger in about another hour.

The Beer worked (it always does of course) I finished these 2 figs.
The GW Enchanted Blue highlight I planed for the Rancher's dress didn't take
like I thought it would so I used Reaper Ice Blue which did. I also added
a little Ultramarine Blue to the mix to do the ribbons/sash /bandana .
I used Reaper woodland Brown to highlight the leather on both figs.

Tomorrow brings up the Marshal & the Fan favorite The Saloon Girl