Update Feb-March: Part 4: "More figures, Hobby Lobby, and a trip to the ER..."

 So as this multi-part update continues...

More figures to paint....

So with some of the figures done, it was (once again), time to reach into the "drawers of stuff", and pull out some for the next batch that is queued.

So let's see what is coming up eh?

The first one is a Reaper Chronoscope "Dorothy".

This is an interesting figure although I wished they would've given the option of a picnic basket also.

Since I had done "The NSFW Witch" I thought, "Why not Dorothy?"...

That's right Toto (the dog and not the band), She's not in Kansas anymore...

 And then the next was a pack from the Old Westwind "Vampire Wars" line.  Always need some 19th Century Female Victims. (I painted these up pretty quickly...)

Victims, Clues, or Objective Markers? Your guess is as good as mine...

And another Reaper Chronoscope. I swear this nurse is up to no good...

Time to take your...."medicine"...

So a part of me was getting tired of the "Pulpy" stuff that I have been doing and in doing so, ended up pulling out a pack of Foundry Pirates!  Arrrr!  Now THAT'S the stuff!!!!

Oooooh...these guys will paint up nicely...

And then ANOTHER Reaper figure...however this one is from their "Savage Worlds" line.

You can never have too many dames with a gun...I think...

And yet ANOTHER Reaper! But this time a fantasy figure from their Dark Heaven Legends line...

And ooooooooooooohhhh....a dancing girl...*sigh*

Aye...with just a wiggle and a shimmy, she can captivate an audience...

And then I decided on a custom figure.

See I got out a pack of the great stuff from Pulp Figures, in this case pack PMX02 from their Western/Mexican Revolution Line.

This one gunslinger kept giving me the eye, and well...I got thinking....and scheming...

He's kinda got...."that look"...

So then I got to thinking..."What could I do to him?"

And then.....THIS...popped into my brain.

Yeps...I decided to do a version of Marvel Comics "The Rawhide Kid".  Although this version is well...a bit "light" in his boots...

You can go ahead and use mind bleach now...

So...*ahem*...with that all behind us....Let's move on...

Next stop...Hobby Lobby!!!!

Hobby Lobby!!!!!

I'll admit it. 

My wife, and I, both love Hobby Lobby.

With that being said, we always try to make the best out of the deals. For me the best part is when they discount their paints even more and put their high quality brushes on sale.

So naturally when they had "a sale", we went.

Yay! Hobby Lobby!

And I got some nice brushes that were on sale...

Good paint brushes are like dice...you can never, ever, have enough...

And picked up some paints. The burnt umber paint is one that I go through a lot of due to weathering and base colors and groundwork.

All the colors of the rainbow....or maybe not...

On top of this, I needed to buy another set of brass rods as the ones I had previously disappeared in the clutter. The brass rods are being used as bars for the customization of the Knuckleduster Jail that I have been slowly working on. (Note to self: Never do a "from scratch" customization of a Knuckleduster building ever again...)

Bars for the cell....

So that was the end of my recent Hobby Lobby purchase...

And then something happened...

So on March 11th I got to feeling a little "not well" in the chest area...
My wife being concerned for my health, decided to take me into ER to get "checked out".
Once there, they looked at me and said "Get him inside..."
And so I spent the night at IU West ER.

I'd rather be at a Holiday Inn Express....Comfy it wasn't....

And naturally they did this...

I've had so many in this arm, I have a permanent tap I think...

After a night and morning of tests, I had good news and bad news.

Good news:

"It's not a heart attack."

Bad news:

1: I have the beginning initial signs of Dystolic Heart Dysfunction.

2: I am just in the crossover range of Type II Diabetes.

So welcome aboard the health and lifestyle change train!

With my wife, we've decided to lose weight, and change our lifestyle.  We need to lose weight or die...

And then the next weekend when I was home, I started a new project...(but that's for another time)...

More to come!

Update Feb-March: Part 2: " Halloween Horror Figures and such"

As promised, we are moving onto Part 2:

Of the tons of my figures, I always have liked painting up "Halloween Style" figures for games and running Halloween style/Horror games. Unfortunately in the last few years, Halloween always seems to get crowded by "other stuff" also known as "real life" at times.

However, that doesn't keep me from wanting to paint figs for the atmosphere, (as well as painting figures)....

So here for your viewing pleasure dear readers are some of the recent, Halloween themed figures I've been doing recently....

Figures and painting: 

NOTE: Once again the figures shown have a glossy/shine look to them in the pics. This is far from how they actually are, and the shine is a result of the OTT light reflecting off of them.

First off, we have a Reaper "Classic Vampire" style. He would make a good "Classic Strahd" from the old AD&D Ravenloft adventure.  I did a color pic and a Noir style B&W for him (for honor of the old classic vampire films)...

I'll be honest with you by saying that he was NOT an easy figure to paint. What he lacked in figure detail, he made up for in complexity. I think the worst part was that I just could not get a good color on the ladies clothing to make her look good. I think I repainted her five or six times before I went with the metallic blue-gold trimmed outfit. That finally came out best.

Next up...a simple Halloween marker...

This is simply an additional piece to a Reaper Witch figure. It makes a good plot hook piece, or an objective marker, or any other little item that will garner attention from wandering players.

Next up was something that I needed, for fantasy games and regular Pulp/Horror games, and that was skeletal guards.

A long time ago, there was some fantastic adventure movies about Sinbad that were produced. The special effects were stop motion modelling by a man named Ray Harryhausen. Now for those of you in the under 30 crowd, most of you won't know about this, as all of this was done before CGI and graphics and computer interface effects designs, and green screens, etc.

Stop motion was the process of taking a model and moving it one small bit, then shooting a frame, then moving it again, and shooting a frame, and so one. It was long and time consuming process but in the end produced an extremely cool and creepy effect of movement from things such as these skeleton guards below:

The skeletons always fascinated me and they just looked "evil"...so when I found a set of three from Reaper "Bones" I decided to go with them.

After all, one can never have enough temple/tomb guards....

Reaper Skeletons mounted on my standard 1/4" Fender Washer bases. A quick paint job and they are ready to go!

And then I went ahead and did the same thing with a set of mummies...

One of the things that always seems to strike fear into the hearts of man and trick-or-treater during the Halloween season are scarecrows and "scary pumpkins".

In this case we have Reapers "Pumpkin Horror"

"The October season brings the last of the late harvests. The cornfield shocks are brown and dry and the first of the chill winds blow across the fields. 
It's the time for candles, colorful leaves, and Halloween.
It's the time for when the humans come out to the pumpkin patches and snatch up the innocent pumpkins and carry them with malicious glee back to their hovels.
The poor pumpkins unsuspecting of their gruesome fates, are helpless to defend themselves as they are sliced, carved, and gutted in manners most obscene. The innards of the poor victims used as pie fillings and "pumpkin spice". Their bodies; used as decorative art pieces for a human ritual which includes candles lighting their poor gruesome remains to the delightful squeals of the two legged costumed brats that scamper about from hovel to hovel in cheap costumes begging for sweets from the murderous homeowners.
And each year, one faithful friendly acolyte waits in the pumpkin patch beneath the light of the moon, and stays true to the faith. The other kids always make fun of him, but he stays true to the cause.
He shall be spared, but the loudmouthed whiny little blonde that calls him "her sweet babboo" , and the bothersome beagle in the ancient flying attire, shall be dealt with...
For the others....The cries of his pumpkin family and friends have once again, brought the spirit of Freddie,The Pumpkin Horror; back to the pumpkin patch to avenge the horrible murders rendered upon his family.
They carved first...
Now it's HIS turn..."

And where would Halloween stuff be without witches???

First a nice RAFM "classic witch", cooking up a cauldron of "something"....

"Bubble, bubble...Toil and trouble...Gin and Tonic...Make it a double!!!" (or something like that...)

 And then there is *ahem*, "Another style of Witch"...
This one is from the Reaper Chronoscope line...

And finally, I completed my evil scarecrow.

This is from the Reaper Bones Line and is known as "Gauntfield".

A nice color and a classic Noir/B&W pic...

Figure by Reaper Bones

Base is a 1 1/2" fender washer

Static Grass by GF9

Paints by Vallejo and blood on blade by Games Workshop "Blood for the blood god"...

Okay that's it for Part II folks.

Stay tuned for Part III where it gets really interesting....