A homemade spray booth and some miniatures

I recently bought an airbrush. But when using it, even when painting into a box, paint misted out into the room. Opening a window probably would have helped. So I decided that I should get a spray booth. Sadly, all of the good deals that I could find were only applicable to the United States. So instead of spending $175 for one locally, I went to the hardware store and bought the necessary materials (thanks DIY sites!) to make one myself.

I'm sure you don't really care about the individual prices for the components, but my home made spray booth ran me about $80 (I spent more than I needed to on a fan that was quiet. Money well spent in my opinion). Then I found an eight pack of LED lights for $50. I put two inside my spray booth, which leaves six to go either in my painting workstation or under some kitchen cupboards.

Those are some miniature bases on top of my freshly minted spray booth.

A shot from behind. You can see where the fan connects to the plastic box and the vent tubing that will be hanging out of the window when I am airbrushing and have the fan on.

A look inside the spray booth. I couldn't find a furnace filter that fit the box, but I did find a filter that I could cut to size.

The fan behind the filter.

The LED lights in action. They'll come in handy during the winter months.

I think I'm going to try and find a lazy susan spinning plate. So that way I can easily move the miniature around while inside the spray booth. Hopefully I'll have some time this weekend to try it out.

Now, onto some poorly painted miniatures!

I painted these Imperial Officers around the same time as the Royal Guard Champion and the Royal Guards (it kind of sounds like a band name.). They weren't difficult to paint, but there was a lot of flash on them. I thought I got it all before painting them. But you can clearly tell in the pictures that I didn't. At the time I was running two Imperial Officers, so I wanted a quick way to distinguish between them.

I've seen a few different mods for these mini's, including a wicked looking Grand Admiral Thrawn. But didn't want to spend that kind of time on them. I thought about painting their uniforms a different color (I believe that the three uniform colors are black, grey, and olive. Each reflecting a different part of the Imperial military). But then I would have had to grab different paints. So instead I based them all differently. I think they turned out well. The next time that I base with flocking, I think that I'm going to mess around with some thicker clumps to make the ground look more interesting. One shouldn't slack too hard on the base. Especially since it can really tie everything together.

They went that way! No this way! Dolts, they ran over there!

Completely unrelated to Imperial Assault, here a few miniatures that I painted a few years ago. This Rock Troll is a Games Workshop miniature. I think there were four different sculpts. I picked up all four, but have only painted this one. For fun, I added an axe lodged into its back. Rock Troll's don't care. The axe came from the very first miniature that I painted as an adult, a GW painting demo Dwarf. There is a story behind the axe being there. It will probably come up one day in one of my fantasy games.

These two cult going adversaries belong to the Reaper Miniatures line. You can clearly see that the anti-Paladin's sword is broken. It isn't an uncommon thing with pewter miniatures. Both of the bases were home made.

That's all for now. Thanks for checking out these poorly painted miniatures!