Miniature Figurines

This is a beautiful figurine, crafted by Tim, the MidniteMaker , and is in 1/10th. scale. Her name is "Tuya - Queen of the Plains" and is one of many wonderful 1/10th. designs from Ritual Casting. I have only ever painted two horses in all the years of my delving into figurine painting and both of them were a lot smaller than the steed carrying Tuya! They were Napoleonics, white-metal castings and I think were in 75mm size. I am intending to do Tuya's horse with an airbrush; conventional brush-painting would be likely to leave brush marks on the vast expanse of horse-hair. So I recently bought a relatively inexpensive airbrush kit (brush and compressor) and have had a couple of practices over the past fortnight. At this time I have no intention of leaping straight in to the job....more practice is required. But I have started to assemble said horse.......... The horse comes in four parts....hindquarters, mid-section, fore-quarters and neck with head. Today I attached the

I got great pleasure out of assembling and painting the 1/10th Felicia so I recently made enquiries with Tim, the gentleman who 3D-printed the figurine, as to whether he could do the same young lady in a smaller scale. Tim advised that 1/16th would be the most viable - anything smaller (1/20th and below) would risk losing detail. So I placed a custom order with MidniteMaker and last week the box arrived and I wanted to display a shot comparing the two sizes. What you see of 1/16th Felicia are the raw pieces held together temporarily with Blu-Tak! I am delighted with the result. Perfect in every way and all the detail of the larger figure is evident in the smaller scale. At this time she has been cleaned and primed and is sitting on my workbench, ready to be painted. I'm looking forward to it. (Image enlarges when clicked)  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UPDATE SUNDAY 24th. September I have primed little Felicia and have temporarily assembled legs and her right arm to the body

  It's early days yet, but I have started doing the finishing painting and I'm using oils. Today the first touches were applied to her hair and also the start of her face and neck....the only bare skin on the whole figure. She now has at least a bit of colour in her cheeks!  Much to be done yet. I'll start on the leather next.

  I have finished the preliminary undercoating using Vallejo Model Air acrylics and am now ready to start the final painting using artist's oil paints. The prime reason behind the decision to use oils is that Eowyn wears a lot of leather, and I have found over time that I can get a more accurate likeness in oils. I think it's because of the natural satin sheen of the oil paint. So I'm letting the figurine sit for several days to ensure that the undercoats are perfectly dry and hard and then I'll start applying the oil-paint finishes. As mentioned in the previous post, the chain-mail was done using the acrylic Rust and Aluminium, so that part is completed. More will follow.