The Fang 2012, Stockholm is over

The Fang Stockholm 2012 was held at the Games Workshop store and now the event/competition is over. There were a lot of really well painted miniatures entered this year, I heard it was about 150 entries and all of them held a very good quality.
So how did I do at the competition? Very well I tell you, much over my highest expectations. I actually placed myself in four categorys!


Duell - first place with my "Tyranid attack".
 Warhammer fantasy single miniature - Second place with my Chaos sorcerer.
Wh40k Vheicle - Third place with my Death company Dreadnought.
Open category - Third place with my Nurgle lord.

This made me very happy since I never expected to get in the top three with any of my entries when I entered them. So, did I tell hyou that I cellebrated last night? No? Well, I did!;)

What´s next in the pipeline then? Well, some flesh teares are primed and waiting for me to start them, and a Whirlwind as well, yeah and another Dreadnought! Then there is my expanding collection of Malifaux miniatures, some Warmachine and a Studio McVey miniature! These are part of my personal collection, then I have a comission coming up soon.

Untill next time, happy painting!

The Fang 2012

I decided to take part in this years The Fang painting competition in Stockholm. I left my entries there today and tomorrow I will know how it went. I did well last year, but I don´t excpect it to go the same way since I rushed the painting. But who cares, I paint for fun and for myself. Then it´s a bonus that I actually finish some models for my Flesh tearers (I guess they would still be on sprue otherwise).
I took part in seven categoris, yes seven. It´s pure madness I know, but there was so much to choose from and I couldn´t decide so I did almost all of them...I suppose I would have got better looking minis if I only hade choose one or two, but again. I paint for myself and sometimes I need a deadline to get something done...
Here are a few pictures of some of my entries.
First up is a Treeman for the monster category.

Then a Nurgle lord for the open category.

 Some Deatha company marines for wh40k squad. The pic isn´t as sharp as I would have asked it to be, but I´ll take a better one later.

My Death company Dreadnought for the Wh40k vehicle category. This mini was painted in less then 10h, I think it was about 8-9h of painting from start to finish.

And my entery for the duel category, Tyranid attack. It´s hard to take pictures with so much white in it, but again, I´ll try again later.

I also entered the Chaos sorcerer and Lemartes but I was in a hurry and didn´t took any pictures of them, but I have showed them off earlier.

I let you know tomorrow how it went.
Untill next time, happy painting!

Wow! I got first prize, twice!

This saturday the GW store in Stockholm was holding The Fang, wich was a miniature painting competition. I took place in three classes, single miniature 40k, Warhammer fantasy regiment and diorama. Today I found out that I got first prize in Warhammer fantasy regiment and diorama! I don´t know yet how my Big Mek for singel miniature 40k manage, I just know it didn´g got first prize, but who can complain, I got two! Today is surely a happy day!
The pictures was taken by Anders Bilving for GW, Stockholm.

Here is a link to the Facebook gallery that GW, Stockholm created.

Untill naxt time, happy painting!

Dryads, better pics

Better pics on the eight Dryads that will be my entry for The Fang at Games Workshop, Stockholm.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Dryads, all eight!

Here is all eight Dryads that will be part of my entry for the Fang, Stockholm. Before I hand in my entry I will do a touch up on the eyes I think. and a few parts witch need a stronger highlight, still its pretty much the end result. I have decided to keep the bases like this, I think they work quite well with the Dryads.

And keep your eyes up for another basing tutorial.
Untill next time, happy painting!

Dryads, last wip and halfways there

I did some basing on the first four Dryads for the fang last night. I´m not sure about the bases yet, but I´ll wait and think it looks ok for now. The Dryads still needs a final touch and some smooting out to do, but since I lost a bit of inspiration in them I thought it was time to do some basing to see if I can get a hint of the final result.

Untill next time, happy painting!

WIP Space hulk and Dryads

Since the kids have been ill some time and then it was passed over to me I havent been able to paint for a few days. Last night was the first night in a while that I held a brush, god I have missed it!
First out is a WIP on a Terminator for Space Hulk, althou it doesn´t really show in the pic but the armour got I think it was 8 different tones of red before reaching this step. I will finish it of with some final sharp highligt keeping the dark tone of the armour. I will do that tonight.

 Second is a WIP on one of my Dryads that hopfully will be entering The Fang.

And since my lite trolls at home thought that it was a good idé to use almost all of my Boltgun metal for painting the floor...I´ll try to get some new today sonce I got a squad of GK terminators begging for my time man, those are great minis!)

Untill next time, happy painting!

The call of the wild

Ok, I have decided to do a mission impossible...while doing some comissionwork I will at the very same time enter The Fang at Games workshop Stockholm. I decided to go for Warhammer fantasy regiment wich is just plain stupid as;
one, I didn´t have any fantasy- models (at least not a whole regiment).
Two, I don´t even play warhammer fantasy...
Three, where should I find the time to do this entry?
Four, I decided to do a blog project out of it.

Well...I bought 8 second handed Wood elf dryads throu Tradera (as Ebay) and I got them yesterday. Last night I start working on them and I took som pics while working.
First pic is when I just opened the box.(I won´t do any photo mambo jambo at this stage as I need that time to finish this project).

Next step was to remove the Dryads from ther bases and take care of mould lines and start doing some basing. Mouldlines done, and basing begun.

Basing is done now when sand was added to the bases.

All that was left was to attached the Dryads to their base.

Sine I use both black and white while priming, I give you two pics on the primed Dryads.

The whole group of dryads again.

The first four will be these.

so what else can I say than pure madness...
Untill next time, happy painting! and stay sane...