The Big, The Green, And The Technicality.

Whilst it would be a trifle inaccurate to say that the painting project continues apace, it does at least continue. So having actually finished up the last of my 10mm Dinosaurs I figured I should make the effort to put them up for the sake of posterity.

Well, posterity and ridicule. But it's the principle of the thing.

First we have Iguanadon. Because there's nothing quite like kicking it old school. One of the problems I've found in painting dinosaurs has been with skin patterns. The problem is in painting the pattern in such a way that it doesn't LOOK painted on. That it's all part of one layer. This is a lot trickier than it sounds. What I tried here was to blot some dark spots over the base coat using a dab of ink. Then, once that was dry I proceeded with my usual method of drybrushing and inking to build up the sort of skin tones I was going for. Thus resulting in dark spots that are under the surface rather than on the top. Reasonably successful, but I think there's a lot of room for improvement.

Next comes Kentrosaurus. I have a bit of a soft spot for Stegosaurs I must admit. And the only thing better than a regular Stogosaur is one with ALL THE SPIKES. Since the back plates on a Kentorsaurus were generally a lot more spike like than other Stegosaurs I figured I'd keep it simple and just do the whole lot in a bony effect. Looks pretty good actually.

Then comes Carcharadontosaurus. Because fuck you, and fuck your spell check software. Seriously, I know the chrome spell checker has problems with most dinosaur names, but it want's to correct this to Brontosaurus of all things. BRONTOSAURUS! Aside from being absolutely NOTHING like the word in question, that isn't even a dinosaur.

You know you're having a bad day when your image search turns up so much pornography you have to screencap G98 yourself.

Anyway, moving on...

Brachiosaurus is big. REALLY big. The great thing about this miniature is that you could easily use it in a 28mm game, and it's still be a large beasty. The downside being that the miniature itself wasn't nearly as good quality as the other dinos. It's cast in resin, but had a huge amount of problem with flash, mold lines, air bubbles and various other imperfections. Including a mysteriously sticky patch on the back. Maybe it was a dodgy batch of resin, I don't know. But there was an awful lot of preparation required. And even after that there are one or two areas that are still a bit dodgy, especially around the toes and teeth.

Still, he DOES make for quite an impressive centerpiece for the collection. Even if he does present a whole new set of problems when it comes to finding a display case to put them in.

After this I have a only have a couple of things to finish up and I think the 10mm Dinosaur project will be wrapped up with, at least for now. Unfortunately this is mostly scenery. Meaning it's going to take ages to get everything sorted, and not make for the most edifying blog post, even if it will be useful. Maybe once everything's in place I could have a go at some group shots. Or even actually try PLAYING the game they're for. Stranger things have happened.