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So another successful NaNoWriMo. Much easier this year since my goal was not actually to complete NaNoWriMo, but to finish my entire novel, Shifting Winds, by the end of the year. I have my wordcount 50,921 from just this month. The novel right now clocks in at 116,414, though it’s still not finished. I am having some issues with the very ending section and how things come together, so working that out will be my December.
So almost a year ago, I spent a large part of the beginning of my vacation in Williamsburg, working on creating a gallery page of old pictures I had of characters in php. It worked wonderfully, but apparently between working on it, and loading it up again a week later, the version of MySql changed and the page no longer worked. I had no idea why at the time. Now I have it up again, and so there are now links to them under The Gallery.
Dove into painting this bad boy. I fixed the top of the left wing from the previous picture. (See if you can find the error.) I finished painting the back end of the gryffin, which I was a little worried about, but it came out nice. Then I added the chestpiece and painted it a little. I need to finish that up, and prime the man who sits on the gryffin (Karl Franz turned into a high elf. 😀 ) and then it’ll be pretty much done.
Been a long while since I worked on this mini, mostly because I’ve been in Florida. I finished the detail on the bottom of the wings, but the pictures look pretty crappy. It’s hard to get a picture that shows off the detail without it being washed out.
But as for the top, the pictures at the beginning of today, and at the end of today.
Last in a series of posts to show off minis I have painted in the past two years.
I like the high elves in Warhammer. They’re pretty and I like the minis, so I started painting some minis of them. Not for playing, but just for painting.
This guy took a long time to finish. There was a lot of detail. I’ve gotten a good number of compliments on him.
Just one guy in the little group of sword guys. He was the captain, so I finished him first. I am probably going to change the color of his jewel at some point, but I still like him.
I bought the dragon knight set cause they just looked so cool. It took *forever* to get these guys done. I only have the captain up here because I don’t have any good pictures of the rest of them yet.
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My first paid commission. I painted this mini for the girlfriend of a player in the tower campaign. The pictures are pretty bad, but I don’t have the mini anymore to take better pictures.
This mini is super plain and is for one of my husband’s One Piece characters. The black pieces of Tam’s outfit actually turn a rainbow of colors based on which of his 9 personalities is active at the time. For as boring as it is, I really like it.
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Near was my main character for the Lich King and Cataclysm expansions in World of Warcraft. My husband was going to run an ‘evil’ campaign for which I bought this mini and planned out the character. he has since canceled that campaign since a lot of campaigns end up as ‘evil’ naturally. I still love this mini. I modeled on the horns, the bangs, and the tail.
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I loved the look of this mini and bought it with the point of painting it to look like a nightmare. I did the fire effect with the help of an online tutorial and lots of washes. Took a while, but I’m happy with the result.
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I have been participating in a 4th ed campaign set in the world of the One Piece manga/anime. These are the two characters (We all have two so we have a proper crew without having to have too many players.) that I play.
Klesk is the first character I came up, and is, admittedly my favorite. See, I have this thing for gryffins. Maybe you can tell. Klesk was raised as a slave, given a random devil fruit so he would be a better pit fighter. It ended up being a mythical zoan type gryffin gryffin. He was released by Ophelia, the ‘at the time’ captain who he now sees as a mother figure. He is a melee, single target fighter who abuses speed, which comes from learning to fight in death matches. And yes he can fly in character. After their time in hell he has realized some of the ruthless lengths he will have to go through in order to protect his ‘family’. This mini was modeled together from three different minis by Blake and painted by me. It is surprisingly well-balanced despite its top heavy look.
Kithara is my secondary character. She came from one of my stories, redone a bit to fit into the One Piece world. She was a fishman noble who went out to become a pirate captain. She was, for a while, vying for position of captain of the Steel Fist Pirates (since it was under debate for a while). After their time in hell, Kithara has realized that there are other aspects of herself that no one has ever gotten to know because she’s hidden them. The only modding on the mini was the crest on her head and the flower, done by me.
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When I bought this mini, I was going to paint her like my wind serpent, Raika, who was my raiding pet in World of Warcraft for my character Nabith for many years. But when I got it, I was in a campaign where my character was soon getting a medium flying form and the DM dropped some plot reasons that I could turn into a coutal, so I decided on that route instead. I like how it ended up.
