In my previous post I was talking about painting miniatures and an old hobby. Well it seems that I've been doing a full circle and realize that almost all my creative stuff can connect together and go back to this old hobby.
When I was a kid, my older brother was playing Dungeons and Dragons with some friends and I've discover the little figures you can use as your avatar. I was fascinated by them and I've start painting them. I really enjoyed this and I've spend countless hours painting armies.
What's funny is that painting those lead me to met some people doing live role playing and since I was good at painting, I've start doing make up and prosthetic for those live role play, doing some monsters and crazy stuff. This gave me the bug for special effects. And I've jump into computer special effects a few years later and it became my job. Then for my passion of Jumbos Machinder all those prosthetic stuff I learned younger became pretty useful to create molds and painting the repro I did. Combining also the modeling skills for the 3D print I've develop during the years. And last year I decided to focus more on character modeling and go back to do things I love. When looking for a new character to model, I came across an image of a Warhammer character and decided to do it, but when digging more infos about this character I've let myself take a huge detour into painting miniature again.
I've spend the last year in Cyprus with my family and the local toy shop I was going sometimes for my kids had some Warhammer figures. I've been lurking on them every time I was going there But knowing that we where coming back to Belgium, I've never buy any. The day after we came back, I've completely let myself go and bought everything you need to start painting again. Lots of figures, tools, paints and build a little paint station at home.
At the end I haven't start doing the Warhammer character who gave me the bug again, I need to start it but I have a big pile of unpainted figures and I want to paint them. So I will have to try to split my free time between all this, 3D modeling and painting.
The ultimate goal would be the 3D print that character when it will be finish and of course paint it. So this would be some kind of creative mix of all the 35 last years of things I've do and learn.
Here's some pictures of that little detour I've done. Lots of experiments for the moment, trying various ways of painting. From fast techniques to slower one, from airbrush to paint brush. And somehow even the things I've learn when doing 3D textures are useful for this and vice versa.
And the funny thing is that my brother actually kept my miniatures from more than 30 years ago and here's a pict of them. Cool thing is that even if I haven't paint for 30 years I have the impression that I've improve a lot because of all those other things I've done during those years.
I really need to go back on the 3D modeling, can't wait to have this project pushed further and I guess it will lead to various experiments and hope to learn more and more new stuff and mix them together. But I wanted to share this story and how I've realize that everything I did all those years kind of connect together and this certainly explains why I still feel like a kid today.
