Mu 22 - Infamy Miniatures, Henrietta Jekyll

by Roman aka jar

posted by roman, jarhead, kong


Time for another Miniatures Unpacked.
Find those from the past behind this link!


This time I am up to unpack Henrietta Jekyll from Infamy Minatures in 32 mm, sculpted by very talented Sebastian Archer.

First there is the manufacturer's commentary to the figure - copied and pasted from their homepage:


"Once a respected and famed chemist, Henrietta Jekyll's life changed the day her sister was put into a comatose state. She became obsessed with reviving her and finally brewed a cocktail of elements do do just that, but Hyde came back as a psychotic killer and Jekyll found herself on the run, with the monster she had helped create.
This 32mm scale model has been resin cast to the highest standards in a limited first run of 275, of which 260 are available to buy. It is supplied unconstructed and unpainted
You will recieve:
  • One two part Henrietta Jekyll miniature
  • One 30mm lip edged base
  • A hand numbered first run card, showing the concept art, painted miniature and gang logo.
The model comes in a miniature white craft box packaged with three layers of protective foam."

So far so good - let's have a look inside ...




The box comes in simple unspectucular but nice white
 and unpacking reveals these little secrets:




First, what catches the eye is the card with the colourful promotion version of the model,
 beautiful paintjob done by Stephan Rath.




The model itself was secured by 3 layers of foam and is inside a plastic bag.
 A simple plastic base is also included.


Unpacking the model it is really great to find so much lovely detail on a 32 mm sculpt. Every fan of Steampunk figures will hit a homerun with this figure I would say. Awesome sculpt by Mr. Archer.


When it comes to the cast I would give 5/5 points for the upper area with the glass bottles and face is truely awesome. You find her right arm with a small flame thrower as a single piece to glue it in place and the fitting is also very good. There are some small rests of the resin cast but they are killed easy with the basic tools.





When it comes to the lower part, legs and feet I would give 2/5 points for the cast quality. There are some minor mould lines on her skirt - they ain't the problem but when you go lower on her the great sculpted shoes and lower legs are kind of a mess when it comes to cleaning from mould lines. Maybe I did recieve a Monday cast but down there I am scared of the things I see. For sure with some patience you get it don for sure but those tiny shoes really scare me. 


All in all I would give the figure 4/5 points - a great unique sculpt with a lot of options to paint her. Only the lower area scares me from cleaning but maybe I am just a lazy cleaner ... :D

Hope you enjoyed that little MU 22!

Best Wishes
Roman


Musica

by Roman aka jar

posted by roman, jarhead, kong


Primitivo

by Roman aka jar

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

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In a dark grim night,
the Strongholds of the North Guard burned,
Screams and death everywhere.
No place to hide from a primitive axe.

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Why I named this 'Primitivo!' is not hard to explain.
Sometimes I like to drink a glass of red wine and there is one special grape sort that I like most.
The vine is called Primitivo and I felt it fits very well to one of my latest finished figures.

I have done the figure for the Russian Alternative Contest and really enjoyed creating the little scene. I will have an article about "masterclass snow" ready soon, done during this and some other projects. This will be the 3rd artcile about snow and I think this topic is done then :D

The base was build from parts of Forged Monkey's upcoming release - pssttt!! - and a lot of scratchbuild. In fact I am little bit dissapointed in spending so much time on the base as in the end I learned from a judge's commentary in a forum that all basing won't count in the judging to keep it fair. I am ok with that, would loved to know that before - I just knew that a 5x5 cm base is allowed and that is exactly what I did. Next time knowing this before the work is done would surely help a lot of people spending too much time on a base, if only the Russian Alternative Figure will be judged. As there were are so many great entries I could cry for those cool bases not to be in the contest.

Primitivo
Russian Alternative, 28 mm






Sadly Raffa and I did forget to take a photo through the door. We did on the first photo session but all those where way to bright as we had problems with the snow to take good shots of. Now on the second go we just failed and forgot about it :D

The vase you can find in the upper area are from Pardulon.
The table consists of a coin from "The Witcher 2 - Special Edition" as far as I can remember.

Hope you like it?
Let me know what you think or just say "Banana Forever!" :D

Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman

Kong's WIP Thoughts - July #02

by Roman aka jar

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



Another day passed in the studio :)
Progress available.

As today is more or less a boring day as I don't find the time to go there as I have to wait for another UPS guy to pick up a parcel from Raffa and I am painting the wall in my old workspace (I made it dirty somehow) nothing too exciting will happen on my workdesk. Yesterday did.

Can't wait to bring some serious paint upon the 'Orc vs. Dwarf' as the base is now more or less finished. Just have to head back to the comissioner if everything is fine with him. I still did not sculpt that damn tooth of the Orc as I wait until the point when I start painting seriously on him.


Nope! 

That is the wrong photo - that is falling Gandalf WIP ... here you go with the right one!
As some of you might know I am not doing the photo series of so early WIPs for fun or to show off. I do them mainly because I get to know the scene, the interesting spots, the composition and dive into the mood of the project ...



And some more Falling Gandalf ...


Bye! Bye! 
Keep on happy painting!
Musica:



Gynnade Krigare - Red Box Games

by Roman aka jar

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



Olá Olá Jungle Friends!

This time I just want to show you something I found really interesting. As I used to try to start a Chaos Army way back in the past I am always fascinated by the strange forces of Chaos. For all of you loving Chaos Models like I do I found something great over at Red Box Games. 

The Gynnade Krigare, a set from which you can build up really cool models optional. That is truely revolutionary and the best is they come in the perfect quality of RBG ... Tre is just a genius!!

I got some shots for you too so you can see what I am talking about ... enjoy - I think you quickly can see how cool those dynamic sculpts are:




You can get Sets of them with weaponry and heads over at Red Box Games.
What I also liked a lot was that Hero and the massive Wolf!



 I just saw that Tre is having some picture problems on the second page.
I will tell him that asap.

Hope you can see what I mean and why this will bring the Chaos gods to cheer!



Russian Alternative Entries ...

by Roman aka jar

posted by roman, jarhead, kong


You can now find all the entries to the Russian Alternative Contest over here ... where?
Yeah behind this link!

Enjoy!

Some superb entries there!
No easy job for the judges!

Kong's WIP thoughts - July #01

by Roman aka jar

posted by roman, jarhead, kong


Time again for my WIP thoughts ... it has been a while since I felt to write them.

To me the last months is a blurry past with way too many WIPs and no courage to get things cooking.
Today's bicycle ride brought me to the Studio and I entered the yellow magic banana door without plans on what to work next. Sure I got many projects running and I am aware of that but today made me feel that this ain't a problem for the future days. The room made the decisions and brought up mad plans to the schedule for this years miniature events. I will prepare myself for the german Games Day and try to enter with some entries and also I want to finish one truely big project I got in my kitchen for this years Monte San Savino Show. The studio has its own magic like I told you. Working, creating and painting without a computer close to me really frees my mind and keeps me focused on getting things done as there is no other option behind the magic yellow banana door. Just me and time. Plain awesome this day was!

... but in the end  I took a ride on my bike home and could have stayed there the whole night.
Let me tell you about the first day with way too much time :D

The last week I was pretty nervous about moving and was not really able to paint much. So there is just little progress on my version of Wonderlands Project's "Sergent Corwinn". Sadly I was not able to get hold of a good photo today while I took one of the bust in the cabinet. They are pretty stupid to judge or look at the painting so far but in the end I like their mood ... sometimes I feel like a gorilla with a camera :D



As far as I understood I had some ISO problems with the light situation but I did not had the time to invest more time in my errors as I had to go - my lady was waiting for dinner with me that I hunted during the way back home. Sorry for the bad photos, better ones are for sure up in the jungle someday soon.

Neverthless, I think what is really important to mention is that Wonderlands Project got the bust back in stock as the first charge was sold out pretty quick.  



I started to work on the base of "Orc vs. Dwarf" and enjoyed this pretty much to achieve a nice overall composition. There is still a little bit of work to do until I can concentrate on the painting of the figures, the base and resculpt this broken tooth on the Orc. As said, last week was mainly filled with nothing.


Easy on the start ...

Position check ... 
Pretty easy when it comes to a duel, 1:1 :D
Next step was filling up the base with common earth to get a natural effect.

Check the article about it if you are interested:

Using common earth instead of sand creates a more realistic effect.

Up on my list for tomorrow is creating some more composition candy with more detailed ... mmh, let me say "War garbage" on the base and finalizing the figures positions with pinning them. I will for sure paint them without the base and fix them later but I got to have a plan if I want to step forward with this project.

I carried this book, which is one of my favourites in my backbag on my bike. 
Just wanted to have it in the studio and it is so damn heavy
 but it makes a good photo background :D

What else have I done?
Some minor work in the studio. Cleaning up Gandalf, at least starting to do so. Shooting my WIP area in the studio's cabinet as I only got WIPs with me at place. What a beautiful day this was. Can't wait for tomorrow, but I have to wait until a very important UPS delivery took place. And as you never know when the UPS guy arrives I have to stay home first :(




Kong's WIP Thoughts out!
Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman