My first Mini

This past May I picked up the board game Descent, which came with about 80 unpainted plastic miniature figures. I've always wanted to try painting minis, so I bought some paint & brushes and got started. Despite the fact that I suck at it, I'm really enjoying it.

Here's my first paint job, a Naga:

Let's be completely honest here... both the mini and the photography are terrible. I might as well have just dunked the thing in a bucket of paint and then drew a picture of it with a crayon.

This is really the combination of two hobbies, as I used to be really into photography. My first few pictures before this one turned out really poorly. It turns out that my normal 35mm camera with all the automatic bells & whistles was bad a focusing on tight closeup shots. So, I dug out my old totally manual Pentax K-1000 that I've had since my dad got it for me on my 18th birthday. It is much better at closeup stills, but is finicky about lighting. This whole roll isn't as well lit as I'd like. My old flash for the camera doesn't work anymore though, so I'm stuck with multiple floor lamps in my make-shift garage photo studio.

Hell... its a start...