Universal Head’s Latest Miniature Painting

[SoulsorcererParticipant]

Nice eastern dragon sculp and great paintjob…as always! 🙂

[Universal HeadKeymaster]

New stuff!

Two Hammers of Heaven:

… and two Shields of Taelfon (always makes me think of teflon):

The Hammers actually don’t have little bike shorts on the sculpt – I’m not sure what they’re supposed to be really, but the wrinkles look like cloth rather than skin (leggings?) – but the picture in the book has them with the black shorts and I thought it looked hilarious, like TV wrestlers.

[UthorocParticipant]

Very striking (haha). WHat do you use for the scenic bases? Assuming the minis don’t come out of the box with these,

[SoulsorcererParticipant]

Oh…never seen those before…are they KS exclusives…or did I just miss a box af specialists/characters???
The hammers could really be a WWF tag team 😉

[Universal HeadKeymaster]

The bases take a little longer than usual as they are ‘wells’. I put a magnet in them, fill them with gap filler, let it dry a bit, super glue a bit of bark on top, and do the usual texturing. The bark is only for the leaders and specialists.

These come together in a box, though I got 2 of each with the Kickstarter: https://www.miniaturemarket.com/cmnwok03006.html

[Universal HeadKeymaster]

Here’s the latest from the painting desk – The Red Willow and Hong Yao:

I must say, whoever painted the characters above for CMON did an amazing job. The detail is very tiny and you can see my work looks a little rough in these very close up pictures; however their paint jobs are impeccable. I just can’t bring myself to take that amount of time on minis for the gaming table anymore, and these look absolutely fine from a normal viewing distance.

… and at last, nine Children of Wrath! Great chunky fighting figures.

[SoulsorcererParticipant]

Great stuff…..WoK is the one Kickstarter that I regret not having backed!

[Universal HeadKeymaster]

The ladies in reeeeeeddddd ….

Twelve Iron Lotus Warriors and two Black Lotus leaders. Just a bit more to do and Shael Han will be completely finished!

Shame about the dancing pose of the Black Lotus warriors. Those war fans don’t look very threatening.

[8thParticipant]

You really do put my painting skills to shame. Do you have a magic shrinking machine so you become the same size of the mini while you paint?

[Universal HeadKeymaster]

Cheers. 🙂 The head loupe helps, it really magnifies things a lot and makes the detail easy to do. I once checked with an optometrist that it wasn’t ruining my eyesight, but he seemed to think it wouldn’t do any damage!

[8thParticipant]

I have a desk magnifier with lamp that revealed how poor my brush skills were before and helped improve a bit, but your shading makes them look good.

Is it highlighting or washes mostly?

[Universal HeadKeymaster]

I let washes do the shading. All I do are base coats and highlighting.

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