Blue Lotus from EricJ on Cool Mini Or Not

DISCLAIMER: This is not my work! Shouldn't be hard to tell that from the pictures below this one. This piece is entitled Blue Lotus. I highly recommend following that link and checking out the larger version. And Vote! This guy deserves credit for some fabulous painting.

Not only did he pull of a shimmering fabric really well on the model, not too mention the Sky Earth NMM armor plates. The skin tone work really well on this model, not sure what Dragyri skin tone should be, but this looks really good.

The killer here is the base work, it looks like the macro photography wasn't too kind on the perspective of the base work, giving a bit of forced perspective.

Unscheduled outage

Apparently Miniature Defacement observes MLK day as well as took the day off for Inaugural celebrations. Either that or I've been neck deep in foam core slivers and had all my fingers bound up with adhesive. As evidence from the last several updates my interest in Urban Mammoth's Urban War line of miniatures has been greatly rising. To go along with that the Gaming Mecca requires in influx of fresh urban terrain. Luckily for me the terrain will work wonderfully for Infinity as well as Urban War, and probably metropolis as well. Luckily for the acolytes of the Gaming Mecca it will probably also work exceptionally well for 40k games as well as any other modern to near sci-fi settings.

Over the weekend I took on the assembly of an Industrial building, out of Foam Core rather than the recommended Cork Board. Also assembled a three level office building using the great line from WoldworksGames Bits of Mayhem Downtown. Only I made the building out of Foam Core with access to each individual level. Just need to cut holes in the floors and build staircases on the inside.

Working up some ideas for a modular urban city terrain. Still finalizing how things will be made, but I've got a rather ambitious plan. More details will follow on the blog as they develop

Urban Mammoth Nyx Bio Mech

Following up from last Sunday's Post here is a Nyx Biomech. Sadly they don't seem to be readily available anymore. Like the Artemis Biomech from last week these were in the first 2-3 rounds of Urban War Sculpting, also like the artemis she has a bad case of fuzzy primer.. I'm working up more of the force now, hoping to have the Medusa Biomech finished in the next week or so and then hopefully knock out some of the Androsynths. I'll post pictures as I go along.

Urban Mammoth Artemis BioMech

So the miniature WarGame Urban War by Urban Mammoth has really been tickling my interest as of late and I worked this chica up over the extended weekend I took for New Years. All in all I'm pleased enough with the paint job. Particularly as all of my Syntha figures have the worse case of fuzzy primer I've experienced in a long time. Instead of stripping the lot of them and starting over I decided to work with them the best I could to see what I can manage. I also finished of a Nyx Biomech, and she will be featured next week.

New years resolutions?

Painting resolution time huh? Last year I rearranged my painting space 3-4 times, into three different rooms in the house. Not counting the numerous times I set up shop at the living room coffee table to do some work while my wife does her jewelry work and we both catch up on old TV shows and movies. Guess I'll keep mine vague and general, much easier to B.S. a success story at the end of next year, just like my performance reviews.

1) Paint more of my own stuff: This past year I have done more painting for others than I have for myself, knocking out one 40k Army and about a dozen units for a Warmachine army. Sadly I end up doing table top quality work to get the job done quickly, then have to relearn how to do the painting work I'd rather be doing. On the upside it feeds my pewter crack habit.

2) Enter pieces into the National Capital Model Soldier Society Show: Last year I went for the first time and saw the great work need to add my own exhibit this year.

3) Update this place at least once a week. Yes I know it states at the top of the page I'll update twice a week, but it's pretty apparent how well that works. Post below this one is sometime in late November I believe. I didn't want to turn this into a general crap about my life blog, and I'll still be avoiding doing so. But this may turn into more miniature PR0N of other work I'm impressed by, properly attributed to the companies and artists. So I'll need to look into the legalities and ethics of that.