More bones...

This month a figure from stock, 

no idea when I bought it, nor why.

But I wanted to test out my latest purchase, 

the Redgrass holder, 

look how nicely it fits on this!

At the bottom edge is a strong magnet

so you can place it firmly

on a metal surface,

or on the included metal plate.

The figure is not quite my taste,

I decided to make him a bit more colourful

as you would expect.

With some dark wash, he eventually became creepy....

Despite looking quite scary,

I personally did not find it a fun figure to paint.

Well hopefully in the next month a more cheerful figure,

meanwhile I will of course continue with some roman soldiers,

hahaha

Europaparix

This month is all about the Eurovision Song Contest,

so I decided to do something with this because 

the Dutch entry lends itself perfectly to it....

So I went looking among my many duplicate Asterix figurines,

and finally chose the shield bearer(s)

 

From both figures I made a new one by swapping the arms,

this made him exactly as I had in mind.

He also got to take off his helmet.

Then some pieces of paper clip at his shoulders

and on his head in the holes I just drilled.

With greenstuff then build up the shoulder area,

and I gave him as well a nice new haircut .

Then it got its coat of primer....

After which I started mixing some blue paint by color,

something I don't normally do, but I didn't have the right color.

   

And while painting it came to life,

really nice painting when something becomes as you have in mind.

Tell me, this really is Joost Kleinix after all!

But I wanted to put it on a base,

so I decided to make some flags, 

just like in the music video.

Instead of four I made two, otherwise it wouldn't fit properly on the base.

Two bamboo sticks with just some paper,

with some layers of PVC glue on them, I poked into a half-cut cork.

Of course, I brought a wave into the paper,

which stayed nicely in shape after the glue dried.

Then paint the stars on all sides, which was a less fun job, 

and didn't turn out super tight either.

That European flag is not the easiest one to make.

I had doubts about making it a Dutch flag hahaha.

After sweating quite a bit, I saw nothing but stars.

After this it was time to place everything on the base,

okey the rear view is not super.

But from the side...

But from the side...

 

But particularly the front, yes I wanted to

him exactly would present it, mission accomplished!

I hope you guys like it,

I purposely put this post online on this day because Joost has his first semifinal,

and of course I am assuming that he will finish in the top 5 at least, 

we will see, the competition is great.

I only can say: The Netherlands 12 points!

Don't know the song Europapa yet,

despite its 24 million views on youtube,

check it out here....

This was my inspiration for this scratch project.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for visiting my blog.

12 points to the Netherlands

Wizzard

This month I am starting with a detail of a figure 

that I have had lying around for a long time.

It comes from Reeper Bones, these figurines don't cost much, 

and there are really many cute variations.

 

This wizard looks nice, and the first dilemma is finding the right colors for it.     

In the end this is what it became, colorful right?

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Also this figure is painted without effects but in hard colors, which is just my style....

     

Hope you guys like this wizard too....

It was a pleasure to paint him!

Thanks for your visit!

 

Now back to my Romains again...

600 Romains

Those who know me know that by now 

I am busy painting my Roman Asterix soldiers.

It would be boring to make a blog post of this every month,

but now that these two are done, I'll make an exception for once.

While the stash on my painting desk is slowly growing,

I have reached another beautiful milestone.

First remove all from the painter's cork, 

and poke again briefly on a Styrofoam plate.

So that looks nice, and ready just in time

for the EME fair in Lingen (Germany).

It has become an impressive army,

when you see all 600 of them together,

yes there are exactly 600 of them now!

It is pretty crowded, but also quite cosy together like this.

Hopefully Obelix will stay away for a while,

because my goal is to get 1,000 Romans ready for him,

so yes I passed more than  half of them now.

Funnily enough, it still doesn't bore me,

it's only 7 different figures each time.

And actually it's a double hobby, not just painting,

but also to find these figures from the 1970s,

which is also quite an achievement in itself.

But then when you hear the reactions at such a fair,

you immediately know what you are doing it for.

Such a huge army attracts quite a bit of attention I can say!

Many photos were taken, so people can still enjoy them at home.

No they are not camera shy, but proudly pose all 600!

Well that was my monthly post again,

as you can see I still paint more than 1 figure a month.

 Just to keep some variation in it,

I try to paint something else as well, as you can see. 

I am quietly continuing towards that goal of 1,000 Romans,

but wanted to show this milestone this month,

and because they were at the fair anyway,

I had a nice overall picture this way.

Thanks for your visit,

I will start looking for new Romans again

and continue painting in the meantime.