I'm back. . .

Hi all,

I've been hiding under a rock recently but now I'm back, it's been a Golden Demon shaped rock I've been under, at least that's what I like to think lol. . . Anyway, I can show off my attempts from that particular event, unfortunately no hardware as yet, but a super inspiring event as always!

A special shout out has to go to, firstly Natalie Slinn for her friendly advice and generally easy going demeanour, lastly, a big thank you to my good friend Julian Bayliss! Having seen my miniatures for the first time in the flesh, (like everyone else I kept them secret from the rest of the world), he told me he thought they were finalist worthy, to only then turn around and give me his finalist pin! All I can say Julian is a truly class act and good mate!

My entries from the new Eavy Metal class, 40k single miniature and Age Of Sigmar monster categories, please feel free to let me know what you think. . .

Carnivale, a painting log. . .

First up, I apply a thinned base coat of white, I'm not too worries about being overly tidy just yet. . .

Second, I've applied an initial wash of Winsor and Newton orange ink that is very thinned down, to all the white areas to help with visual definition. . .

This time, I apply another wash of orange ink, but straight from the bottle, the aim here is to dab the ink on so it pools more and starts to create the extra vibrant colour I'm looking for. . .

Here, I've applied another orange ink layer alongside bloodletter glaze whilst it is still wet. . .

Continuing on, this time I dabbed on more orange ink, followed by carroburg crimson into the recesses. . .

Carnivale expands and more. . .

The Planet Null

The Red Count & The Ice Warrior come forth . . .

An overview. . .

So much yet to come. . .

We Are Legion

Legion went to Warhammer World yesterday, good to get them pretty well finished in time some how, there will be more to come in the near future. . . Better pics will be taken in due course too. . .

We are Legion. . .

We are Legion. . . Anther unit WIP. . .

We Are Legion. . . The project continues. . .

Project progress

A couple of shots from my 2 current projects:

Project Escalation 40k

Project We Are Legion

2 new projects, a teaser. . .

I've recently started 2 new projects, hopefully with an aim to improve my work in at least a couple of the areas of modelling, painting and gaming, I'll leave you with a taster from both. . .

Golden Demon

Unfortunately due to real life getting in the way and also my complete lack of anything resembling skill with my airbrush I have had to change my mind about my planned Golden Demon entries. . . Originally I had said that I would be entering my kill team I had been working on but have decided to shelf this idea so I can do it justice. . . In the mean time I am putting the finishing touches to another model I have been working on for  long time now, if you're interested you can head on over to Olde World Chronicles (formally the New Realms Of Chaos) on Facebook to get a preview. . .

Getting back on track

I've finally managed to get through all the other hold ups I've been having with my modelling, both physical due to work etc and motivational. . . The big factor is that Golden Demon is now looming and having bought my tickets ok'v e got something to aim for, so much so, i intend to complete my little warband and give them their first public outing there. . . To add to the experimental nature of all this, I've just gone and purchased myself a whole load of Citadel Air paints and will be testing these on my models, maybe i will try and review them too, look forward t seeing all the crazy inspirational paint jobs and models at Golden Demon soon. . .

A terrain theme is emerging

Sorry I've been away for a while, now I'm back with a vengeance I hope! I wanted to share with you a project I started a while back to create some new scratch built terrain, mainly aimed at 40k use. This is an early look at the biggest thing I've created so far, I've just started to work on painting it with my airbrush, hopefully aiming for something along the lines of my last lot of terrain, I'll be back with more WIP photos in the near future hopefully. . .

Airbrushing in a Blanchesque manner. . .

Now I bet that's something you don't here every day! Following ion form my airbrush announcement a while back, I thought i'd share a little bit of my progress with you all. For me, getting an airbrush isn't about redefining my painting, so much as it is about evolving it, basically the airbrush gives me new options for painting and also allows me to paint some larger pieces much faster, some of which I'd like to share with you now. . .

Looking through the photos, it is obvious I've still got a lot of work to do, but having said that, I quite like the effect on these buildings, although I feel some more work needs to be done. Feel free to comment. . .

Miniature painting heresy!

I know I've been quiet on here for a little while and it is partly because of my unashamed startling revelation of miniature painting heresy of sorts. . . You see I recently have bought myself an airbrush!  This may come as some surprise to those who know me and know my style of painting, you needn't worry though I have no intention of abandoning my roots though. I'm moreover looking to add something new and exciting to my painting so keep an eye out for that, also I hope to increase my productivity, so I can finally show off some of my other projects that have been waiting in the wings for a while, I look forward to coming back to show off some of these wonders ;) . . . Also, I hope to produce some more conventional 2d art as a result so will show off anything worthy, you heard it here first. . .

Not far now. . .

Some more progress has been made on the wolf lord. . .

A bit more progress. . .

I've made a bit more progress with the second wolf lord now, this time I thought I'd show some more angles, I promise to take some better photos when I get my lighting sorted. . .

Second Wolf Lord WIP

This is the second of my wolf lord conversions now underway with painting, only a couple more of these guys to go then some other interesting characters to come. . .

A little announcement. . .

I would just like to announce that I'm somewhat honoured to have been invited as a contributor to the great blog at: The New Realms Of Chaos, joining the likes of Julian Bayliss and Legatho and so will hopefully see some of my fantasy chaos and the like models appearing on here in the near future. . .
You can find the blog at: http://thenewrealmsofchaos.blogspot.co.uk and also there is a Facebook page that can be found by searching for The New Realms Of Chaos. . .

Hobby Zone

Following on from the last post is the built up contents of those 2 boxes. . . These came from a company called Hobby Zone, based in Poland and they are very affordable for the quality of the goods. Unfortunately I did not take any WIP shots before I put these together, suffice to say though I will be getting some more of this stuff from them as it is excellent for organising tools miniatures and anything else you might need to sort out.

You can find them at: hobbyzone.pl