Terraining Arc

 Hi, it's Festival Rumpus. There's a bit about making a Rumpus board and I have been meaning to make a 2'x2' board for Mischiev28 so I'm combining the two things into one! I had some sketches done up as an idea for my Mischiev board already, I wanted half buildings and half forest. I still want that, and I'm going to do my best. It's sort of going to be the edge of a town as the board I guess. I hope I get it done in time, if not I hope I get it done enough to want to finish it later! We'll see!

rough layout to see

I like the silhouette of this

Carving into foam sucks. Cutting into foam at all sucks. Making bricks sucks. I hate making terrain! But it's kind of rewarding watching things fit together. I have to make a couple buildings soon. 

ah genius

Well that was all pretty exciting huh? Ok well that's it, hopefully will have Dope Off winner announcement in the next post! bye!

Fistful of Dopes

I've got a box full of pewter. Not to brag, of course. At last I've got my wonderful Dopes! It's been a bit over a year since I shipped them off and it's quite surreal to hold them in hand in their duplicated forms! 

oo shiny

 I'm having a pretty fun time painting them as well. It's quite interesting looking at these sculpts. I can tell I'm more of an adept sculptor than I was then. They were an important breakthrough in deciding to just go for it. I'm proud of my Dopes. 

 

The casts need a bit of tlc while we wait for the First (and possibly last) Annual Dessicated Dope Off  to come to a close. As soon as I announce the winners, I'll list these for sale. It will either be two separate sets or the whole eight figures, I haven't decided yet. There is one consistently flawed cast which make me a bit apprehensive to charge a lot for these guys. I guess that's all there really is to say about it all!

Hope you're all doing well, don't forget to not drink your water!

 -twabbis 

Ah ah ah, it's time for an update

 Friends, hello. It's been a minute! The DOPE OFF is over (it ended on the 28th of the last month.) I've been stunned by the entries, 25 in total! What an incredible feeling. Me and my cabinet of MISCHIEVOUS MEN are judging the entries and will have a verdict by the end of this month (July). Please look forward to it, and thank you for taking the time to paint a Mischievous Man! I'll save talking about the entries until a future blog post, but be assured I have thoughts and feelings about every entry! 

Now for the important content. I've been painting a lot more. I turns out, I enjoy painting and I especially like painting when I don't have to think too hard about colors. 

"Hey these aren't cool branded hobby paints from my favorite miniature paint company!" 

It's really a simple palette. Two pairs of contrasting colors and white.  When combined make lovely neutrals for shading. Plus, I really really love how this green looks when it's mixed with white, makes a fantastic patina. And the orange is lovely for rust! I guess I should mention, I have used metallic paint as well from I THINK Army Painter. I can't be bothered to dig through the paint box to verify. Metallic paint is cool, someday I'll try to learn nonmetal metallic but I'm in no rush. Oh, I didn't take a picture of the one other color I use. Oops. Saffron Yellow from the same line.

progress

That egg guy in the front? Made him for the pal Matt's EGGBASH competition. Really happy with him, I sculpted the body out of beesputty and glued some (probably GW) arms to it. It painted really easy, my palette is a lifesaver. 

What else... I did sculpt another snail knight. I need to get moving on sculpting more. I really enjoy making these guys, and that's the thing that I should let guide me. There's some science behind maintaining motivation when you consider the aspects of projects that you like over the aspects of doing things because you want to do them. So, I'll give that a go going forward. 

What else what else... I continue to want to produce more minis in metal. I like pewter minis and I like seeing people paint my minis. Therefore, I should like both of those things enough to motivate me. I like the way I feel hyped up about this therefore it should motivate me! ANYWAY!

I suppose that's it for this blog post, hope it wasn't too much of an eyeful to read! I like blogging! I hope you're having a wonderful day and liking the things you do! Take care, forget to drink your water!

twabbis