When I said I have a 'boatload of unfinished projects' I wasn't quite with it enough to actually detail some of those out.
The arena piece I'm showing is part of a number of them that are prepped. Prepped = fully assembled and with their grey stone paint. Technically they're done at this point. But I figured if they were meant to be decorative I would make them decorative, darn it.
My friend Abaroth has instructions for painting marble on his site here. Of course, I chose a color he didn't have detailed. I'm currently fascinated with using copper as my metal so I went with blue. (If it isn't immediately obvious to you why copper and blue are good together I recommend a quick read on color theory. Go ahead, I'll wait.) And now I'm completely in love with cobalt blue, which is the base color for my blue marble.
After I get these done I have a fountain that will be getting red granite accents, also based on Abaroth's instructions and also not a color he detailed. See a trend here? The fountain will then need to be varnished before I add the water effects. Varnishing after would dull the water.
Side note. I had already assembled the fountain when I saw that I had the fountain heads in the wrong place. I left it that way until I decided to see just how strong the epoxy bond was. Let's just say that I'll be using more epoxy to repair the breaks in the fountain.
After the fountain I'll be painting up a set of the arena pieces for a friend. We did a barter. He's not getting marble. But I am looking at doing the columns black with gold on the tops. The roof sections will be in burgundy and there will be burgundy runes on the columns to bring the color into the build more. Sounds more complicated than it is. I'll be doing one piece for his approval before painting them all like that.
Believe it or not there are projects after those. I have a Hirst Arts Dragon's Inn to finish. That one just needs a roof and some basing terrain.
The I have two small village shops that need to be completed - magic shop and a take-away food joint. The buildings are pretty much done but all the interiors need work. Lots of fiddly bits.
Lastly I have a huge dice roller that is being completed. It was started as a present for Mr. Rastl. He picked the design. And then 3/4 of the way to it being complete he decided it was too large. That was the third attempt at making a dice tower for him. Current popular opinion is to give him a bag of bricks and a bottle of glue. But I'll give it one more try.
Somewhere in here I need to complete a mini for a mini exchange. That's a double-blind where you put your name in the hat and the organizer picks who you paint for. And they also pick who paints for you. So you don't know who is painting the mini you're getting. I received my completed minis already and they're quite fun. More monsters to kill my players.
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