From the workbench of the esteemed Horati0nosebl0wer

So I’ve been hobbying more and one thing leads to another with finding there’s stuff going on in the mini painting world around me. I’ve gone and committed myself to more work. I’ve been finishing the Orktober project slowly but surely and trekked out to gather my entry into last month’s competition today. As it is still Orktober I’ll shamelessly plug in my current orky project as it please me so much to see this come together after nearly a year of sitting in my Hoard of Shame.

What I got from the competition wasn’t the best of feedback when I got the printed notes for response but it turned out to be a larger deal than I guess the shop anticipated with 23 entries. Overall I’m glad to have participated. Thinking that, when last I checked, there was a painter that’s regularly been at Reapercon and has painted for some of their box art I’m not so butthurt after taking a breather and getting some food in me. I really think that infants have the best destress strategies of either eating or napping that might well be emulated.

After hearing that there is another contest for Halloween I put my money down for another figureto then go home and go about to building. I had already been working on another copy of the witch on a jack’o’lantern and decided to build once more as a second shot and probably give it away as a gift later. The new purchase was the Reapercon Iconic: Bonehenge Priestess. It got the use of some 5 min epoxy (damn I love how useful this stuff is for minis) and the addition of a headstone I sawed off another figure. I’ll be carving off some of the resin display plinth and remove a skull detail below the headstone with my rotary tool in order to build it back up with Golden gel medium coarse pumice. Once done with that the ever handy human skeleton detail kit and some of the skulls from Secret Weapon will give it more “oomph” for a real graveyard feel. Once done with the painting I’ve collected enough downed leaved that I can use my Greenstuff world punch to create whatever eery vibe hasn’t been touched yet.

Yeah, this month is busy and I still have a Giftmas present to work on and plan on shipping time to arrive for the big day. I need to start getting paid more for this.