Harlequin Miniatures Skeletons... My first airbrushed.

Well I splurged and I got myself an airbrush for Christmas.  Since I ordered it from eBay and my hose never showed it wasn't able to start using it until mid January.  I decided I wanted to try something simple for my first figures with it.  These 3 Skeletons I got off of Kijiji, which if you don't know its a better version of craigslist that people tend to use more in Canada.  They are by Harlequin Miniatures and they were stamped 96', so they are coming close to 20 years old.  They are nice sculpts though and are available here.  I layered them with 3 colors and then gave them a burnt umber oil wash.  The colors go from ocher brown -> bleached bone or bone white -> 50/50 bleached bone/ white.  I thought they turned out pretty well.  I hope to use these with my new pathfinder rule book I picked up.

I know the picture isnt great.  But I think they look good even with bad lighting. 

#7-12 The Bones Brigade

So 6 miniatures in 3 weeks turned into 6 in 4. I know it's been a while since my last post, but in this time I have been able to do some other things with my time than paint (Skyrim, LoL). I doubt I will try to do this many at a time again. It's not that I cant it just begins to feel like a chore. It's probably the reason I didn't get a lot of my Warhammer 40k miniatures painted when I used to play. Although it does feel good to be 2 weeks ahead of my goal.

Alright now for the skeletons. These guys come from the RAFM box set Shambling Death. I have quite a few RAFM miniatures for 2 reasons. They are readily available at The Sentry Box where I buy a lot of my miniatures and hobby supplies, and they are cheap compared to a lot of the other companies out there. This box of skeletons only cost $22 and came with 18 miniatures. I painted the robes on them different colors so that when I use them for D&D I can tell them apart on the table.

Things I liked about these paint job was the blue and green clothing. I think I am going to try and work more with these colors in the future. I didn't like the bone color. Particularly the brown ink. I think in the future I am going to prime white from now on with skeletons.

Let me know what you think, and if you have suggestions for future minis. I might do a sci-fi figure in the next couple of weeks maybe even a GW model.

Taking advantage of the warm day to clear coat and prime my minis.

 I need to start editing my photos so they don't look jumbled like this.