WIP - Trollbloods Madrak Ironhide - skin & armor

Took a few photos of my Madrak Ironhide as I needed to check if I am doing " okay " with the painting of the skin and the bronze armor parts. I thought I'd share my progress as well.

After seeing the the photos, I think the pink parts are too light colored and the armor parts needs more highlights. I am happy with that I managed to paint those tiny teeth and gums though and should be moving on to the other parts once I do a few touch ups.

Painting miniatures is not as easy as I thought it would... but I am having a blast and enjoying it so much. I should have not painted a very important character like Madrak for my first attempt... as I think I could improve more as I practice on more figures.

Anyways here are some progress photos of my Madrak Ironhide Trollbloods figure so far...

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ROTF Leader Class Starscream repaint ver DC23

I have here some photos of my recently finished Tansformers toy repaint. This was a really quick 1 day painting work on the Return of The Fallen Leader Class Starscream figure. I used some Citadel metallic paints, Vallejo metallic paints, Vallejo washes, Vallejo pigments and Pledge Wipe and Shine to seal everything.

Nothing much to tell aside from the fact that I got this very nice toy on sale at half it's original price. I needed a quick project to try to condition myself on doing Gunpla, thus I thought of buying and working on this figure. It was a really fun build, thus I will hunt for a Leader Class Megatron on my next trip to Greenhills. 

Anyways, here are some photos of my Starscream ver DC23 repaint...

Thanks a ton for dropping by! Til' next post! :)

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God of War NECA 12" Kratos figure repaint

I just finished painting and taking photos of this 12" Kratos action figure. I will give this to my client / officemate today and I hope he'd liked it. I actually enjoyed painting this toy specially the blood stuff. Battle damaging this is better than battle damaging Gundams! I will also look for my old LOTR toys and repaint once in the same manner.

I painted this with some Vallejo and Citadel paints and I never used any enamel washes this time. I basically re painted the gold and silver parts as they were too dull. I also added a few wounds to the figure and added blood using a red Gundam marker.

The red looks like real shiny blood as Gundam markers dries to a shiny hard paint. The flat coat of the skin tone together with the shiny blood and metallics completed the look that I was going for. I blended the skin tone of both the Medusa head and the Kratos figure with Vallejo pigments.

Overall I could have done some spot enamel washing to improve the painting and have removed the mold lines. But I love how easy the Vallejo pigments are applied, so I got lazy to mix some enamel paints. Besides enamel paints easily damages my brushes. 

I also did a simple base for this action figure. It is just a simple ground work that was also painted with some Vallejo paints and pigments. Vallejo paints and pigments and citadel paints came from above! These are fabulous paints for toy repaints and I highly recommend them.

A lot of thanks goes to my Skype buddies Hummingbird, Kamm and Decay for their suggestions on how to tackle this repaint without actually repainting everything. The next couple of photos shows the quality of the final photos ( lol ) and the jump before and after my repaint. Now here are a ton of photos of my blog's first TOY repaint...

Thanks a ton for dropping by! Hoped you liked this post as I plan to paint more toys! Thanks! :)

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