Now that the building phase is done, it’s time to reveal the final result! Here is the Space Station Yaumato, fully painted, with some models to give an idea of scale. No more useless banter, we go straight to the pictures.
Two weeks ago was held the Northern Defenders Painting Contest (now known as the Northern Defenders Show), probably the biggest miniature painting contest in Eastern Canada, or at least on the way there. For the first time, the event used an Open format, in which each painter presents a display of their best work, instead of entering single pieces in various categories. (You can find more information about the Open format on their new website.)
I’ve been called out by Yaum to partake in the Donate or Paint challenge. It’s a social campaign started by the Chain Attack podcast crew for one of their local player, Marc Harrison. He has been suffering from server health issues for the past three years, with all the financial and personal impacts a tragic event like that can have. He’s a passionnate painter, and can’t even paint anymore. They lauched the challenge to help him out, either by donating and/or painting model as moral support for Marc. You can find all the info about the challenge there:
http://www.chain-attack.com/donate-or-paint/
I chose to paint a Winter Troll I had already assembled, and painted in the 3 days the challenge required. I just uploaded a quick video on Youtube that explains the concept, where I also share the paintjob and nominate 3 new challenges. If you don’t want to suffer through my bad accent and my face, just scroll down a bit, I’ve posted a picture of the miniature and my nominations right after the video.
My most recent painting project was bit out of left field; for the first time, I painted a miniature representation of someone I knew in the flesh. The model in question is that of Baron Celcius Von Fahrenheit, from RAFM Miniatures. That miniature was created after a steampunk cosplay contest, where the winner got is personna transformed in a 28mm scale version of itself.
The friend in question is the steampunk cosplayer Alexandre Adam, who is behind the character of Baron Celcius Von Fahrenheit. He is also the guy behind the Youtube channel Kinetoscope Parlour, where he meets “strange and wonderful people”, coming from the steampunk subculture or other completely different way of being strange.
