11NOV2019 Fire Giant

I took work off today and spent some time doing Veteran stuff (like going to the local Strategic Air Command Museum in Ashland NE) and listening to a fellow Iraq veteran share their experience (in this case, Nick Rucker creates country music informed by such experiences).

Earlier in the day however, as my kids got me up early, I got a chance to work on my Reaper Bones Fire Giant:

I purchased him at The Game Shoppe in Omaha a couple of weeks ago during my local game group's Necromunda campaign.  His purpose is to stand in for Narthak the antagonist of the very first delve in my copy of Descent 1st Edition by Fantasy Flight Games (which sadly is out of print, but has been superseded by a very solid 2nd Edition.  Why might I replace the FFG miniature with this one?  Well, my kids are playing, and a painted unique Giant certainly looks better than the red unpainted boss monster (yeah, I haven't painted my Descent miniatures, yet...). 

He was just sitting on my desk with some 3D printed bases and other sundry unfinished (or I should say, under-finished...) models.  I decided to paint him first.  As a base coat, since this is Bones, I just went strait to the acrylics (Delta Ceramcoat) with plain black.  For the areas I intended to have lighter colors, I painted Ivory (an offwhite light earthtone/bone color).  He stayed like that the first game.  Fast forward a few days, to today.  I finished developing my color palette for my non-metalic gold and steel.  I have been particularly inspired by the Glass armor (upper tier light armor) from Elder Scrolls: Skyrim (the computer game, one of the best CRPGs in the last decade that is still played avidly by the fan base to this very day almost 10 years later from release).  Yes, glass armor, look up tank armor where they laminated two sheets of steel over glass and got better armor than similar thickness steel...  It works (well, prior to doing the same with depleted uranium and other exotic hyper-dense materials).  

I set up my handy wet palette (a food container with airtight lid, paper towel dabbed in water, and parchment paper on top) with the above colors.  Typically, I start dark, and blend a highlight, and then move into the lighter color.

Today I spent about an hour painting the arms with the sword and almost got it done today.

I am not certain I like the look of the sword blade yet, however the palette looks outstanding on the arm bands and the sword hilt.  Well, until next time.