Quick Update

Just been too busy of late to get around to posting, after the Hell Dorado miniatures I had a small rush of painting covering Flames or War, Lord of the Rings and Warhammer 40k The last job reminded me of how different it is to paint on plastic miniatures over metal ones. It may just be that the P3 paints aren't the best for the job when it comes to plastic or that I've simply being doing so many metal miniatures for so long that I've forgot how to do plastic ones :) Either way there's just somthing about metal minatures that says "quality" that plastic ones don't have. It's a real shame that Privateer have moved to plastic now too! Anway as well as painting I've been helping out a good friend here set up his Bangkok gaming shop. It'll be great to have somewhere to promote painting locally and build up the miniature gaming hobby.

Time for Hell Dorado and The Lost

After many many weeks of War Machine and Hordes work I now have something a little different to work on with an array of models in queue for multiple game systems. First up is a Hell Dorado set , "The Lost Starter Box." 8 very diverse models to work on. Already got the base coats and undercoats done on them all as they use all use a similar core paint scheme, from here on though it'll need a focus on each individual model as they are very different in style and presentation beyond the base colors.

After this I have some Lord of the Rings models, about 40 Flames of War infantry and a tank! Variety is the the spice of life :)

Wrapping up warmachine jobs

Well my last 3 months has been solid WarMachine and Hordes, I've lost count of how many models I've done, but I think I managed to get pictures from each unit onto the photo gallery. Still having some issues with the pictures, sometimes they look great and sometimes they need a lot of manual work to get them to look half way okay. On the upside clients are all happy so I'll not spend too much time worrying about the pictures just yet. Running out of some core paints though and need to get some more in. Been using the Formula P3 so far and been happy with the results.

Anyway I have about 6 models left to do for Warmachine, all Solos of one kind or another and then I have a batch of WH 40k, some 15mm and some FoW troopers and tanks to do. The change of theme will be nice for sure.

Khador , Khador and some other stuff

Not had much chance to update the site as I've been working through an army of models this past week. I started off with Laddermore, which was easier than a lot of cavalry given the amount of armor the horse is wearing, but trying to not make the blue wash away all the other colors took a little work. She's a little too blue.  I also had a couple of Lug and Cragback models to do. The bear was a cool combination of armor, fur and blood.  And after that I've been doing Khador...dogs, casters, Doom Reavers and more... lots of red paint being used :)  

Precursor Knights and Unit Attachment Done

Busy weekend here, but Monday is a holiday so I have had time to crack on with some work.Complete a complete unit of Precursor Knights and their unit attachment. I still need to spend more time working on the eyes of models as some of them come across looking a little "off" at times. I decided to give the Knights a bit of a "been in battle" look as they just came across as too clean and white. A little muddied effect looks good on the clothing. Didn't come across so well in the photos, actually all the photos were a little off from the lastest batch, I was in a rush and didn't spend enough time to get the focus right.  Note to self : take pics when I have more time! Next up I have a range of Solos to do, mainly unit attachments and a couple of casters.

Fixed Gallery and Hammerfall High Shield Gun Corp

Found that the gallery was having a few display issues and fixed most of them, struggling to find the page that makes the largest image appear though as there is some kind of link error there that I could fix....if I could find it.

Anyway in between fixing that I worked on a large unit of dwarves. Units of 10 odd models that are the same isn't the most thrilling of projects, but I can usually do 10 models that are the same in the same time it takes to do one large unique model.


Above are some of the Hammerfall High Shield Gun Corp dwarves from WarMachine. You'll also note the photo quality has improved vastly. I changed from using the macro setting with flash to using the AV setting and no flash. Looking good!

Also did a slightly custom version of Anastasia di Bray, changing the black for a seductive lilac scheme. I prefer it to the dark standard scheme.

Great Bears of Gallowswood, Kovnik Markov and Photos

Just finished working on a few more Khador models. These are for a local friend so he was okay with me trying a few things with them to see how they'd turn out. One thing I was keen to try was a snow effect. I see a lot of figures with "snow" terrain that just looks like a layer of white "stuff" on the base. So what I decided to do was apply a rough and grass terrain first and then apply the snow over this. I think they figures turned out okay and you can check out the results in the gallery as shortly. I was tempted to try adding a scattering of snow to th figures themselves, but decided to stick with the horses hooves for now and get some feedback before getting carried away. Anyway, the Great Bears of Gallowswood and  Kovnik Markov.

The pictures look to have improved too, changed the way I was working on them and the results look better, though I won't know for sure until I edit and upload them. What I do need though is a better background than "all white".