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Captain Griffon (My Hero)
Captain Griffon and Firefox were painted up for Wyrd Games' Iron Painter contest. Each round painters are given a theme and two weeks to bring it to life. The theme in this round was 'My Hero'. In my vision for this scene, I was trying to make it a little ambiguous whether Firefox is the villain, or rescuing poor Captain Griffon from his captor. In my head, the scenery was meant to look like an underground cement lair or something like that, with newspaper clippings and blueprints on the wall. I don't really feel that I achieved this. I kept the figures separate from the base so they could be used by Reaper Miniatures as display models. I'm reasonably happy with the comic book look of the painting, and the conversion of Captain Griffon, however. His chains were added using Reaper's chain kit, with GS for the wrist cuffs. He's based on a piece of GF9 slate. The newspaper was made by creating a custom tabloid front page via a website. I inserted the B&W catalogue picture of the figure, as well as a custom headline and then printed it out. I painted the page with a wash of gray to give it more of a newsprint feel and age it a little.
Posted: 13 Sep 2010
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