{"id":670,"date":"2013-10-05T01:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T05:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2013-10-05T01:33:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T05:33:01","slug":"birthday-2013-painting-through-gritted-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Birthday 2013: Painting Through Gritted Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on my birthday, I take the day off from work to do something I normally don&#8217;t get much of a chance to do; traditionally this meant drawing, but this year, the one thing I&#8217;ve been pining to do more of was paint. Specifically, painting random one-off models just because they look nice. I almost never get a chance to do that anymore, so I was really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>I took a four-day weekend to give myself lots of time to work. On the very first day of my vacation, my website was hacked. I won&#8217;t get into the horrible details, but suffice to say that I now won&#8217;t need to think very hard to come up with a &#8220;worst birthday ever&#8221;. <span style=\"font-size: 80%;\">Yeah, I know&#8230; first world problems. \ud83d\ude1b<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the end I only got to spend about one day out of my four-day weekend painting, but in that time, I was able to finish a single model that I&#8217;m really proud of: Theodore, the snooty English paladin my fourth-best friend Tom is playing in our Pathfinder game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-673\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_02.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_02.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_02-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWe had discussed giving him &#8220;shiny blue armor&#8221;, but I decided to take this one step further by going with fully reflective chrome, using the Sky\/Earth Non-Metallic Metal technique (though mine uses metallic paints for extra shininess).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-672\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_01.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_01.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_01-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never tried this technique before, and in the end I didn&#8217;t come out with the smoothest blends in the world, but I&#8217;m still completely thrilled with the overall effect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-674\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_03.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_03.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_03-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Certain angles are better than others. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-675\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_04.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_04.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_04-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And closeups reveal the shoddy blending for all to see!<\/p>\n<p>The model itself is an old Confrontation mini I picked up a few years back, reposed and with a sculpted Green Stuff head. To be honest, I actually didn&#8217;t spend that long on the conversion job&#8211; I converted the mini quite a while before I got around to painting it, and at the time I was treating it as a &#8220;bash something together quickly&#8221; conversion. As a result, it&#8217;s quite rough in certain places&#8211; the right hand doesn&#8217;t grip the sword properly, and all of the putty except for the head itself is very rushed and lopsided.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-671\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_00.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_00.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Teddy_00-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, yeah&#8211; nice paint on top of crappy modeling. I&#8217;ll leave it to you to decide how much that hurts the end product.<\/p>\n<p>This concludes my Birthday Adventure for 2013. I&#8217;m hoping that it also coincides with the conclusion of my Hacker Adventure for 2013, but I&#8217;m not counting my chickens quite yet on that front. :\/<\/p>\n<h2>-Spud<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on my birthday, I take the day off from work to do something I normally don&#8217;t get much of a chance to do; traditionally this meant drawing, but this year, the one thing I&#8217;ve been pining to do more of was paint. Specifically, painting random one-off models just because they look nice. 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