L Figure - Elf Fighter!

L finished this guy this week while he was off (it was his birthday, so he took the week off work...yes, I was jealous).
Good colour palate on the clothing.
Great job on the face! It's hard to get the eyes right.
Nice detail on the border of the cloak. I think I would have done a bit more complicated pattern, but that's just me.

Sheila Figs - Odds and Ends

I have a serious backlog of pictures to post - I'm going to try to get them up today so that I will only have newer pictures hereon in.

This is a female dwarf fighter that I just fell in love with: I really like how she turned out. I like the skin and the folds of the cloth came out well.
Lots of good detail on her.

I call this the "Inigo pony" - it's a horse-type creature and I matched its markings to my cat, Inigo, right down to his pink nose and toes.

Comparison of Inigo:The shading on this piece is good. The elf girl is kind of weird-looking. Nice fur bikini. How can you tell that men create these figures?
Crazy frog demon:

Another one of the first floor polish pieces I did. I really like the pattern on his skin. I am really pleased with his details; they look just right to me.

A really old piece! I did this one probably close to 10 years ago - it's about 15 cm tall. This is a limited edition figure (1551 of 5000, I think that says). It's a 5-headed dragon (Tahkesis, if you geek out on those sorts of things), and I did the entire thing without any putty, which meant I had to dry-fit all those necks onto the body perfectly and carve them until they fit right. The belly part is hollow so I put a little time-capsule in there; who I was, when I painted it, etc. I guess if this piece breaks next time we move, I can fix it. I like the idea of having that little surpise in there.

This one's recent. Evil fighter with owl helmet. He's an old figure, though - I've had him for about 10 years before he finally hit the painting table.

Not very exciting to paint.

The folds on the cloak are good.

This is one of my favourite dragon figures that I've done. I love the colours on it. This is a fire dragon with rider. I started by painting the entire dragon black and then brushing with dark red, orange, yelow and a bit of white to bring the colours and detail up on it.

Hee, I like the rider's seat.
A close-up of the head:

Scary!

Sheila Figs - A Few Recent-ish Ones

Elf Queen on Horse: This is a Games Workshop figure. I don't usually like their figures at all. For one thing, they are way overpriced. For another, they are usually made of plastic, instead of being cast metal. I just can't pay that much money for such cartoony-looking figures that are only plastic. Luckily, this one was a Christmas present from L's brother.

This was an early stab at brushing over a darker colour for getting depth (pre-floor polish). I painted the horse grey then brushed it white. Eh, it's okay.
I do really like the tiger-skin cloak on her; also, the colour combinations look good.
Hippie Cleric: A floor polish figure (within the last year). Nothing terribly special about him. I like the folds of his cloak and his colour combo.
This is one of the first figures I did blacklining on. Blacklining is taking a very thin black wash and "outlining" the main sections of the figure to make it really stand out.

Drow Duelist

Just finished last night! This is a Drow duelist. A Drow is a dark elf (evil) - they live underground and are nasty. Male Drow have white hair; all Drow have dark blackish grey skin.

This guy is pretty awesome (I wish I had him). He's got a great pose, with the cape billowing out and his groovy armour and sword. Great shading on the cloak and the purple armour is funky (must be magical). I find the black/grey skin doesn't photograph well, though -I'd like to see some shading/highlighting on it to really bring out his features (I have a Drow female coming up in my next batch of figures, so I'll get to play with that myself). A shot of the back:

You can really see the shading on the cloak here and the highlighting to bring out the texture of the hair. This is one of L's best figures, in my opinion - he's really stepping up his game.

L's Figures

Here are some of L's recent figs:This is Lolth - she's some sort of spider queen. Definitely evil.Gorilla Gladiator with Victim. Nasty end for the human gladiator. Good gore and blood!

An awesome giant! I like the rhino head he's using as armour, the patchwork leather pants and his creepy tongue hanging out. And yes, he does have 3 arms. Wouldn't want to run into him!

Elf mage. Superb detail work on the robes, both the highlighting on the blue and the coloured parts. The coloured bits are done by painting that area then dry-brushing over it with silver.