I have a longstanding arrangement with my friends in the local gaming community. This is that I will agree to paint any figure that they want me to paint, for free, in whatever style they ask for. This arrangement does have a number of constraints of course. The constraints are;
- You only get one figure per lifetime (if you can work out how to get two lifetimes, you get two figures)
- I can take as long as I like to paint the figure
- I can photograph the figure and add it to this blog
- If they ever want to sell the figure, I get first option and at the current cost that you can buy the unpainted figure for.
A good friend of mine in Exeter is building an Ogre army and has taken advantage of this offer to ask me to paint his Ogre firebelly; and here are the results, I hope he will be pleased.
I have deliberately painted him with quite dark skin. this was in an attempt to make the bright parts of the flame look brighter still.
I have added a bit of reflected light onto the skin, but have tried to keep this quite subtle. Hope it shows up OK on these photos.
The weapon is a little bent. I did straighten it out a bit, but it is obvious from this photo that I should try again. The base matches his army bases and includes some cork bits which are painted to appear like rock.
Hope you enjoy.
