I´m back, or...?

Readers of this blog have realized that it was a long time since my last update. Work, family and lack of inspiration had been the cause of that. I don´t know how often this blog will be updated in the future but you can excpect to see a Death Korps of Krieg piece and some Evil sunz orks coming up in a not to far future. And who knows, maybe even some Fleashteares! I had some plan to start a Fleshtearers army a while ago, I bought some minis and well...then it pretty much stopped. We will see what will happen next.
Here is my Death Korps of Krieg piece with just it´s basecoat, a bad pic of some Orks and my daughters first mini ever! She is 4 years old, and I gave her one of King Orions dogs (Warhammer fantasy, Wood elves).
Hope to update soon again.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Almost done!

So, I´m starting to see the end of the tunnel with this mini. The closing date for the Grey knight terminator competition at the Brush brother is just a few days away (30th of April). so this will be the last wip on this guy. I think I will focus on the base tonight and figure out a good way to take some photos of him. I have realized that this much silver is really hard to get a pic of without getting the reflexes. Do you have any good trick when taking pics of minis with this much metal on, I´ll be happy to get that!

Untill next time, happy painting!

The complete presentation of Death from above

This is the complete presentation of Death from above, as last time the presentation is put togheter by my friend Muffin, thanks man, you are great! It´s also up on CMON, you can find it here.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Death from above, done!

Last night I finished my entry for the Sverok Painting Challange round 2, the theme was Death from above and I choose to display a lonely guardsman and a Genestealer. There will be more shoots of this entery since I´m really proud of it (it can be the best I have done so far) to bad the pics don´t show it the way it deserves to be shown. I will take some more photos and ask my friend Muffin to make a presentation from my pictures (Muffin, I beg you!). When I show you the final presentation i will tell you a bit about this entery and how it was done (if there is any interest?)

 

Untill next time, happy painting!

Sverok Painting Challange 2 WIP 3

Just a few shoots of my entry for the Sverok Painting Challange round 2. Since I will be out of town on the cloasing date and a few days before this entry needs to be finish by wednesday. Let´s see if I can find some time to do it!

Untill next time, happy painting!

Taking photos isn´t easy

We all know that taking good pictures of your minis isn´t a picnic!  Not only do you have to struggle with lights, camera settings, make sure the camera is totaly still while taking the picture and so on. Today I discovered yet another distraction, my Grots! I have two children aged 4 and 1,5 years old wich I love more than anything else. They also got me develop a sixth sence. Take a look at this picture and you know what I mean, don´t worry no miniatures was harmed during the photo session ( I saved the minis thanks to my sitxh sence).

It´s a top of a Pringles can that my youngest tries to smash into the minis (I suppose I have to learn him the value of minis:P)

Now, to something a bit more sseriously, the pics I wanted to show you. It´s from the first squad of Grey knights painted to TT+- standard. 

Untill next time, happy painting!

Grey knights first squad

The first squad of Grey knights is almost done, just some touching up and the weapons left (ok, bases to, but I don´t count that). Here is a quick and probably last WIP- shoot on squad one.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Sverok Painting Challange 2 WIP 2

Nothing fancy yet, just want to get some feedback on the Genestealer that will be part of my entry. I haven´t started to highlight the fleshy parts and the arms and legs need some more contrast, but what do you think, can the colors work? I´m rather pleased with the colors and think they looks great. Still it´s hard to tell before the mini is done, but I´ll give it a try and post it fore some response anyway:)

 

Untill next time, happy painting!
P.S. One or two paint sessions more and the first Grey knight squad will be done!

Necrotech and Grey knights wip

The progress on my Necrotech is really slow, last night I painted the first layer of paint on his weapon and started on the "tubes" on his side. I will try to make them look like "worms". As for the base I will be adding some more detail, but try not to do "to much", still want a clean look. The shaft for the weapon will be red to contrast the grey mini and base. I think I need some color on the base, not sure what yet. Well it will get to me in time:)

Apart from my Crys who I have put on a bit of hold at the moment are the Grey knights (I will still paint one or two, but I haven´t planned to finish them untill the GK are done are ). The first squad are basecoated and based. The first 4 minis have got there basecoat of silver and "white". Next step is to pick out the red and wash the armour with blue. After that the "real painting" begins:) This is just a qick WIP, showing that the GK get´s their share amount of paint.

And one last thing, I got a small box of paints and stuff from Maelstromgames today, one of the best places to shop paints and goodies from (in my opinion).
Untill next time, happy painting!

Quick WIP on the Grey knights

Just a quick wip on the testmini for the Grey knights. There is still some shading and highligts to do and I haven´t started on the stormbolter and just done a first layer of highligt on the force weapon. Still it gives a hint of what they will look like  when finished.
For the base I think I will go for something brown with a bit of yellow, maybe dead grass, what do you think?

Untill next time, happy painting!

Sverok Painting Challange 2 WIP 1

Since the painting round for Sverok Painting Challange round 2 started last night (actually midnight) I did an hour of painting before bedtime last night. Since my post about my entry I did a base for my minis and now it´s undercoated and with a first layer of paint. Just wanted to show you what I´m plannig to finish untill the 24:th of April. Probably a few day earlier since I will be out of town a few days before closing date.

This will be painted along with the Grey knights I´m currently doing.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Warmachine and Grey knights

I haven´t painted any Warmachine models for the last past week, but last night I did a few strokes with my brush on my Necrotech (the never ending Necrotech...) He still needs a lot of work but at least now I can visualize how the mini will look when finished.  I stripped his weapon for the second time, I still can get it to look the way I wants, but I´ll give it a third try! Anyway, this is how the Necrotech looks at the moment.

Apart from the Necrotech I have my desk full of Grey knights! As I wrote in last post I got a comission on a Grey knights army, and I have started to paint! I still have to strip about 80% of the army, but while waiting for the chemicals to do their thing I started to paint the other night. I work on a Rhino (this one was alreadyu glued so I could not paint it i pieces as i would have want to, but It will be an experience at least) and one test mini right now. But I will start on the first squad as soon as I got an OK from my client.
First is a pic of the first GK that will be used to test squad markings.

And here is a singel shoot an the one who actually got some paint.

And at last an early shoot of the Rhino. This is still with just the base color and a thin wash of blue followed by starting to mark out the squad marking.

 Untill next time, happy painting!

Grey knights!

Today I picked up a batch of Grey knights that I will do as a comission for a fellow wargamer. This will be my first real comission work and I´m really looking forward to get started. The first thing to do is to strip the models and clean them from flesh, mouldlines and to drill out the barrels.
I plan to paint them in batches of five models at a time. I´m not really sure about the bases yet, but time will show.
Pics will follow as the work proceed. But I can tell you that the army includes
1 Landrider
1 Rhino
1 Dreadnought
5 Terminators
30 Grey knights in power armour
and a bunch of models without power armour.
So keep your eyes up for some Grey knights, a basing tutorial and my entry for the Sverok Painting Challange!

Untill next time, happy painting!

Sverok Painting Challange round 2

It look´s like I´m going to enter the Sverok Painting Challange round two after all, since this theme are Death from above I thought that it would be a nice opportunity to paint one of the tyranids from Space hulk that was re-released in 2009. I´m also going to use one of the limited edition wounded Imperial guard from the Preatorian army box. The Preatorian have been in my bit- box for ages and this will be a good opportunity to paint it. I´m going to make a base for the models but I´m not quite sure about how the base will look like. This is a quick shoot (taken with a cell phone) of the models who I will enter in the Sverok Painting Challange round two. Wish me luck!

Untill next time, happy painting!

On my desk

There are mostly Cryx for Warmachine on my desk at the moment. I´m trying to finish a Necrotech, a Nightwretcher and another Mechanithrall (still need to finish the first one...) But I also trying to finish some Orks for Wh40k. I´m doing a Meganob and some Àrd boyz, but a Kannon (using the FW Kill kannon as a regular kannon)and the Killa kans are still waiting for my brush. Pics of the rest of the Orks will come up later.

I was out the other day and collected some basing materials for a tutorial. This is what I mainly will be using.

And...it look´s like I´m allowed to enter round two of the Sverok Painting Challage, so keep you eyes open for Death from above! It will probably be a two model piece...where one part is the the Imperial guards from the Preatorians.



Untill next time, happy painting!

Sverok Painting Challange round 1

I actually won the first round of the Sverok Painting Challange and I got to chose the theme for next round. I chose Death from above for round two.
This was my entry for round one, and since I´m not allowed to participate in round two (because I got to chose the theme) I can just enjoy all the good enteries.

Keep your eyes up for another basing tutorial that will be posted shortly.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Cryx: Mechanithralls wip

Just a quick WIPshoot from my desk. I work on two Mechanithralls among other things. I have almost compleated the shadowing on these bastards. Now it´s time to start work the highlights!

I´m also working on my Slayer, a Nightwretcher and a Necrotech. So more to come in a few days.
Untill next time, happy painting!

Basing: Doing a industrial/mesh base

Today I will show you a way to do some industrial/mesh bases for your miniatures, in the past I did one on weathering yellow and now it´s time for another. For this tutorial I took a 50mm round base from GW (but It will work on any other base).
First of all you will be needing some tulle, superglue, a base (of course), a scalpel and a pair of scissors.
For painting the base I used,
Black
Dark Flesh (VMC)
Tinny tin (VGC)
Boltgun metal (GW)
Gunmetal metal (VGC)
Mithril silver (GW).
Besides that I used three kinds of pigments,
Orange rust (Forge world)
Dark earth (forge world)
Rubbel dust (MIG).
Step 1
Take a piece of tulle and cut it to the right shape, don´t worry if its not correct, we will fix that later. Now take some superglue and put it on the base, use an old pice of card or something to spread it over the base. Now put on the tulle and carefully use the card to press it against the base. Be carefull not to glue the card as well. Leave this to dry for a while, go grab some coffe!

Step 2.
Take your scalpel and trim the edges of the tulle so it fits to the base.

Step 3.
Paint the entire base with black.

Step 4.
I use Darke flesh from VGC and staple it onto the base.

Step 5.
I repeat step 4 but this time with Tanny tin.

Step 6.
Staple some Boltgun metal onto the base.

Step 7. Drybrush the base using Gunmetal metal.

Step 8. Pick out the finest highlight using Mithrill silver from GW.

Step 9.
Bring out your pigments! I started by brushing Orange rust over the base, here it´s a matter of what you think looks good.

Step 10.
I brushed Dark earth over the base, be carefull not to overdo it.

Step 11.
This is the last step and I took som Rubbel dust and carefully applied on the base. I only did some Rubbel dust on one part of the base to make it look more interesting.

Hope this tutorial was helpfull! This base took about 5-10min to do if you exlude the drying time and is beside the cost of paints and pigments almost free. The tulle can be bought for almost nothing at any store selling fabric.
Untill next time, happy painting!

On tonight´s desk

There wasn´t much paint on my brushes tonight. I thought I should show you what I´m currently working on. It´s a Bad moon meganob for my Orks, a Necrotech, a Slayer and a burried marker (for the Helldiver) for my Cryx. Tonight was mostly about priming the models, and started on the base for the Necrotech and the Slayer. I also started to do the first layers of metal and yellow on the Meganob. Hopfully I will have something more intresting to show in a day or two.

Untill next time, happy painting!

Sverok painting competition

I finished my entry for the on-line Sverok painting competition last night. Not so much painting then, except doing the leafs on the base. I still have a lot to learn about taking good photos of minis, but I think this is the best I can do at the moment with the resurses (that would be light) I got. Let me know if you like or dislike the mini. I mostly had a lot of fun doing this piece and I tried out a whole lot of new things and techniques. Here it is, a Grot revealing himself from cover.

Untill next time, happy painting!