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Thief, Iron Heroes line. Pretty easy assembly, (the right arm from the elbow down is a separate piece). Rather than pinning, I drilled a hole in the arm socket, then filed the end of the arm into a point and used it as its own pin (maintaining a good connection with putty). The mini normally has its left pinky extended and a dagger balanced on that pinky, but during prep I ended up bending the finger-to-dagger joint so many times that I knew it would break off with accidental handling. I glued and puttied a small bit of wire behind the connection, hoping that would strengthen it at the expense of looking dumb from a rear view, but not long after the glue set I bumped it again and wrecked the gluing, so I decided to just clip off the finger and dagger and file the hand so it looked like a fist (pretty easy, actually). However, the player wanted the dagger on it, so I cut off the pinky and filed that area to look like a closed fist, then drilled a hole by the thumb and inserted the dagger there so the mini is holding it ready to throwr rather than balancing it.
Althoug I don't normally paint minis so dark (they tend to disappear on the tabletop), the player wanted a black and blue color scheme for his thief. His shirt and pants are black. The cloak is Ocean Blue highlighted with Dragon Blue; I make the highlighting a little more stark than I'd normally do just so the details would be visible at arm's length (the photo has been adjusted some to show contrast, the shading is not as intense as it appears in the photo). Flesh is Caucasion. Metal parts are Truesilver. Straps and hair are Woodland Brown. This photo is before I put a deglossing coat on it so it still looks a little shiny.
Flocking is a mix of green, tan grassy stuff (an herbal material from Michael's used to make scrubby soaps), and a little sandy-stony mixture.
I painted this for someone on Monte's boards in exchange for him doing some typesetting work for me.
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