Restarting an old hobby - painting miniatures

[jkn]

I've needed something different to pursue lately - and I found it in painting miniature figures.  I haven't bought anything yet - but I did dig out all the ones from 20+ years ago.  

Below are some figures that are on my "short list" and the colors of paint I'm planning to purchase when finances allow. 

I love music, and computers, and websites, and this community - and none of that stops!  I just need something physical in my hands as a big change of pace. I think most artists can relate to it.  This is going back to the roots of something I used to love - and uses different thinking, and muscles, and concentration.  I'm excited.  Anyway - here are the figures (all around 28 mm scale) - and the paints below.

These are 28 mm Samurai by the Perry Brothers...  http://www.perry-miniatures.com/

The above miniatures are from Corvus Belli for their Infinity tabletop game.  (I just want to paint - no interest in playing the games...).   http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/en/

These two are from Cipher Studio's - Anima Tactics game.  http://cipher-studios.com/

The paints are from Vallejo. Their Model Colour line.  http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/en_US/model-paints/division/3

And lastly, I'm planning to order from The War Store in the US.  http://www.thewarstore.com/

John

[Chad Kettering]

Love the samurai armies! Imagine 100s on a board battling it out like Kurosawas movie Ran.

[jkn]

I was totally thinking Ran.  

And the Infinity figures - some of them pull very heavily from Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed. Love those. 

There are so many good companies out there doing interesting stuff. 

[Harry N. Dibrell]

The samurai figures are great! I would love to see a large battle scene of them, as well. I have fond memories of when I was in 6th grade living at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and being within short walking distance to the military museum there. They had a large collection of miniatures there depicting various military units from history. Mostly European armies from Napoleonic times, but also Civil War, WWI and II as well as some from British units in India, etc. It was a fascinating collection. I always wanted to get some and paint them. The closest I ever came was painting the football players in my electronic football set I got for Christmas once :). I have to say it was more fun painting them than playing electronic football which was a very boring game watching players vibrate around in circles.

[jkn]

Ha!  I had electric football!   My whole neighborhood had tournaments one year (and pretty much only one year because, well... electric football was only fun for so long... hahahahahahahaha)

[jkn]

Just ordered these from Studio McVey ( http://studiomcvey.highwire.com/ ) - I'll be saving these on my shelf until I learn how to paint better!

[jkn]

Ok - most of my stuff has arrived to start painting including a fairly wide array of miniatures.  A few quick cell phone pics...  

All the miniatures I've ordered except the 3 in the above post that are coming from the UK.  On the left in the open boxes are Perry Miniatures Samurai.  Infinity sci-fi miniatures (influenced by anime like Ghost in the Shell and Akira and such...) are the 2 boxes at the top and the row along the bottom.  In the middle row on the left is a Soda Pop Miniature - and the rest are Anima Tactics... very anime / video game influenced.

Closer shot of the Samurai with a metric ruler.

And finally a big bag of paints.  

[eyes cast down]

Wow - that'll take a steady hand. I could never do that. Just give me a roller. :)

[jkn]

I need a magnifier and a lamp yet...  ;-)    My eyes can't see this small anymore!  These are all 28mm scale - meaning roughly 28 mm from base to eyes.  Although every manufacturer is a little different.

[Fred Teifeld]

Amazing!

[Chad Kettering]

Wow! You really went all out. I remember the days trying to collect enough allowance to buy miniatures back then. Now it seems so affordable compared to audio gear. Have fun painting those.