Phil Butts
@butts1000
Miniature painter, pro computer toucher Instagram: philsdoinghobbies Mastodon: pivotal@sunny.garden
I've had a lovely set of gouache paints sitting unused since my birthday in June and I finally had a little time to attempt something with them! Literally the first time I've used the medium so be gentle 😆 It's going to take some practice to get a feel for what is possible.
Just want to follow up and show off the open mounted squig's butt crack, because I think it's great
Is it necessary to get the subway windows right when you're going to graffiti over most of them? No. Did I spend too much time on them anyway? Yes.
If your zenithal colors are cool enough, do you even really need to paint the mini? Just kidding these are gonna be a good time to paint. The rear left one has an actual butt crack. #BloodBowl #Squigs
They aren't fully painted to my liking for league start on Sunday (not that that's stopped me before), but they are at least flocked! Now just gotta slap some numbers on there, which is technically the only thing I really need to play 😆 #BloodBowl #MiniaturePainting
When you find yourself in possession of a large piece of framed board, your first instinct is to start painting a dark ride on it, right? It's proving to be quite a change from painting minis. A ways to go here. #painting #WhackyShack #DarkRide
I have finished The Pale One. The miniature is from the Westfalia Mork Borg Kickstarter set, which is a lot of cool critters. I could fiddle with the NMM much more, but this was really just kind of a pallet cleanser so I'm going to call it good enough! #MiniaturePainting #MorkBorg
Blood bowl league starts at the end of the month, my stunty squigs need details but are looking good. The theme for this season is cheeses, so naturally I needed to scribble a fun logo. Still need to make the background transparent so I can upload it to the tournament software we use. #BloodBowl
Wip Pale One from Westfalia's Mork Borg minis. Unexplained alien in a dark fantasy setting is my favorite idea in a game that is absolutely stacked with cool ideas. Starting to attempt some NMM on the smallest chains I've ever seen, which might be a mistake. #MiniaturePainting #wip #MorkBorg
At the flea market today, a guy gave me an uncut sheet of baseball cards for free. While I like watching baseball, I don't do it much anymore and I never really cared about the cards. What might make me put this up on the wall though is how funny player names are
Sometimes you're trying to get a picture of your cat and all you get is blur, other times they compose a shot better than you ever could. Truly magical creatures
Was happy with how the chameleon squig came out, so I figured it would be fun to do the same for these goblins that will be used as turn/reroll/coach markers. More refinement and saturation to come. ...and happy early Pride 🏳️🌈 #BloodBowl #MiniaturePainting #pride
It's always instructive to try and paint something simple and common. How many Canada Geese have I seen in my life? A million? A billion? What even do they look like?! Think this came out ok and at least reads goose enough for arguments sake. Good enough to field! #BloodBowl #MiniaturePainting
Blood bowl season is coming! I'm thinking squigs again, but we're going full stunty, no messing around this time. Chameleon squig, roughing in the colors, quite like it. #BloodBowl #MiniaturePainting #squig
Old Hoss Radbourn, who played for the boston bean eaters, is often credited with popularizing "the finger"
Image of the universe telling you maybe you don't need to get anything done right now
The gaslands crew is complete! Obviously Miss Frizzle is the crown jewel but I'm happy with everything. The worst part was trying to figure out how to get a decent group shot (photos are always the hardest part of a mini) Additional pictures below since there are many! #MiniaturePainting #Gaslands
Spent a little time this morning sketching and trying to recreate a Witch Hat Atelier image, and while I already deeply appreciated the quality of her art, this added appreciation. Her use of lines and detail is absolutely bonkers. Also CocoxAgott4eva
Painting miniature dragons with ten ten year olds you say? This Saturday at a birthday party? Who is? Oh me, well thanks for letting me know I'll get right on that 😂 (In actuality I don't mind, it's a joy to do)
What I have learned in this gaslands project: if you're going to disassemble for paint, make sure you know what is going to be visible on reassembly. I'm very close to the finish line and suddenly I have a bunch of extra stuff to prime and paint! Oops! #Gaslands #MiniaturePainting
I think I'm ready to consider the Miss Frizzle pin-up part of this piece done. Now I need to be brave and do all the weathering and washes to really bring this thing into gaslands. A bit scary when you've done all this work! Also I added a quick Liz to the side! #MiniaturePainting #gaslands