Pathfinder Trinia Sabor

Trina Sabor from Reaper's Pathfinder line sculpted by Patrick Keith.  Painted and sold in April of '12

I painted her to match closely the art for her character used by Paizo.

Cleric of Calistria

The Cleric of Calistria.  28mm metal, Part of Reaper's Pathfinder line (sculpt by Patrick Keith).

I don't know much about Pathfinder so I had to look around the web and find some info on what exactly a Cleric of Calistria was, since by all rights to my un-indoctrinated eye she looked more like an Rogue Assassin of the Badlands with all those pointy weapons and leather!  I did find out that Calistrian clerics favored the deity's color of yellow, so I wanted to incorporate that in there somewhere so I chose her inner leggings.  Part of the fun for me is exactly this kind of research before tackling a project.

Painted in March of '12 and sold in April of '12.

Now this paintjob was an exercise in differing leather types.  I love painting black leather because when you take your time and approach it with the right work up, you can get some pretty convinving effects at this scale where the eye starts to believe it's seeing actual leather.  It's one of the easier materials to replicate with paintwork in my humble opinion, at least for me it is.

Leather is everywhere in this hobby! All forms of minis from historical to sci-fi to fantasy, leather is ubiquitous on our minis. Coming in every color and condition; having many approaches to tackling the different types of leather is extra useful for a painter.

I will do a tutorial on the various leathers and how I approach them one day when I start work on my tutorials section for this blog.  One day very soon as that is on my agenda moving forward.  Adding content like that, tutorials, tips and tricks, methods I use and thoughts on technique is something I want to express here in great quantity, so if that's your thing....this will be a good place to watch.

Alahazra, Iconic Oracle Version 2

A mini so nice, I had to paint her twice.  Here is my other take on Alahazra, with the silver staff head.

Alahazra, Iconic Oracle, Pathfinder mini Version 1

 

Sometimes I like a particular mini so much that I get the urge to paint up multiple versions of a piece.  Alahazra, from Reaper's Pathfinder line, (sculpted by Julie Guthrie) was one of these.  Here is the first the version I painted, which I refer to as the "light" version. 

Her base was made from lab stone, hand carved, over which I applied raised relief that I made from taking castings of a piece of jewelry I special ordered for this piece.  The castings are also lab stone.  All painted to lend the impression of well-worn-and-weathered desert sandstone.

This piece was painted in August of 2012 and sold (along with her matching counterpart, the dark version) to her buyer in Hong Kong in September of 2012.  

Tomorrow I will post the second version I painted of this fantastic mini.