First Official Project: Joan of Arc by Corvus Belli

And the time has come. My first full step-by-step of painting and assembling a miniature. My first model, Ms. Joan of Arc, the reincarnation of a legendary French maiden, re imagined by Corvus Belli, a Spanish company producing a well known tabletop Infinity.

I recieved Joan with a book by Corvus Belli master painter Angel Giraldez, Called Painting Miniatures from A to Z, Angel Girladez Masterclass. The miniature, just as the book, came out as a limited edition (15000 units if I recall correctly).

Now I will outright tell you, I am no master painter. I suck at all the Non Metallic Metal (NMM) techniques, so I choose to paint my miniatures with different colored armor and mostly metallic silver sword blades. They still come out pretty good or at least I am told they do.

On to the miniature!

The scale (top to bottom for miniatures) is 32 mm, 4 parts, aluminum forged.

 After a few minutes with some small low grit files I freed Joan of all kinds of excess aluminum, and she was ready for assembly. At least i thought so. Notice the little bar at the bottom of Joan's legs? It's supposed to go into a slit in the base the miniature stands on. The only problem was that the base provided did not have one, so I had to get my trusty hobby knife and get to it.

Joan standing on her base

Next was glue. Super glue. Now I will tell you, assembling metal miniatures can be a bitch. as detailed and pretty as they are, some parts come to wide or to narrow, they need excessive filing, risk of damaging detail added. This time, it was Joan's neck. it was so wide it did not fit into the socket, and filing so close to her braids and chin was damn near impossible. Still, after some stressful strokes of the file, all parts went into their sockets almost as well as in the picture provided.

Joan looking all bad ass

Joan and her bad ass

Now, after all was glued up, I was putting the miniature away for the glue to dry, only to notice Joan looked sad: HER DAMN HEAD SLIPPED OUT OF IT'S DAMN SOCKET.

A few extra strokes of file, a slight alteration to the direction of her face and she is finally ready to go to the paint station, Which I will cover in the next part of this blog.

Till then,
Banshee Legend
The Painter

Also, *ahem*

THANKS FOR CLICKING THE BLOG, YO!

Introduction, plans and great internet friends from Narnia or some shit.

Ohai!

Ladies and gents, my name is Banshee Legend. It's not a real name of course, but a name I have grown fond of in my life.

I am starting this blog as a part of my dream. Dream to paint miniatures and get noticed. I know I may not be very good at it, but the only way to get better is to keep on doing it, right? So that's what I do.

Recently I received my first paid commission for miniatures, which made me all kinds of happy. Now that the miniatures are done, I have decided it was time for me to show people my work. And then the idea of a blog came back to my mind. This time I decided to go for it for real. I present to you - The Circle of Paint. The point of this blog is to show my work, thought process and techniques, sometimes finished, sometimes step by step. Also, all the money I receive from commissions will be invested back into the beautiful world of miniatures and dioramas. 

one of the commissions, a miniature form Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd ed.

Finished miniature - excuse the sub par quality, posting these from facebook while at work

As for a second thing I am very hyper about - my good internet friend (the best kind I believe?), let's call him Miles, has decided to gift me a few sets of Dropzone Commander 10mm miniatures, namely of the Post-Human Republic (all links open in new windows!) army for my first ever full scale diorama. I have a few plans for it, and as soon as the miniatures come i'll get right into it. 

Not sure if this counts as a full scale diorama, but it was my first. Grey Knight terminator vs. Genestealer

I truly hope this blog will show you guys how fascinating the world of miniatures truly is. Also, any tips/constructive critique will be appreciated! 

Thanks for clicking the blog, yo!

Till next time,
Banshee, the Painter

P.S. Miles, you are amazing. 

If this was any more true, there would be a religion for it.