Moved! Now at http://arrch.blogspot.com

I've relocated to:

http://arrch.blogspot.com

Everything at this URL will stay intact, but new posts will be made to the blogspot location. You will find all of the existing posts (plus more) at the new location!

Sasia Samaris Redux

This is sort of like an improve-o-meter figure... except I didn't strip her down and repaint her. I've had this one sitting in my shelf for years... think I painted her late 2002/early 2003:



I had a spare trophy base sitting around after I re-based my Ork Nob bust, so I decided to do it up as a scenic base, and rebased her on it. I took the opportunity to repaint her head (just scrapped the paint off with a scalpel) and added some more highlights to the red and brown bits, and made the shading on the skin a bit more subtle.

B-Team and Thugs

So I have been painting Foundry lately, and practicing my 3-Stage "Dallimore" technique. It's great for these sort of gaming miniatures - it's centered around eye-popping contrast and impact, while maintaining an emphasis on clean, sharp brushwork. For me it is good practice, clean and neat is something I sorely need practice in (especially when it comes to doing freehand or patterns on display miniatures). Anyway, without much further ado...

The B-Team! Their guns were a pain - most of the detail they should have had weren't there, so I had to make it up as I went along.


Random thugs (two miniatures from Gazza's Boot Boys, in fact) also finished. Bad guys for the B-Team to kill.

Ork Bust

I finished this bust the night before the Australian Golden Demon finals! I entered it in the Open Category, which is the only category you can enter on the day. It didn't place, but it was fun to paint.

OzPainters has compiled a list of results and winners from the 2008 Australian Golden Demon.

Ork Kommandos

Firstly, thanks to Sebastian for taking some really good shots of my unit! In fact I am going to steal the photo as the first in this thread.

I actually started this unit back in June, I was planning on entering them at GDLA. Unfortunately, due to the excitement of being on holidays, I didn't get a chance to finish them off properly. So I decided I would enter them back in Australia instead.

The conversions have been kept to a minimum - only a few weapon and hand swaps (I didn't like the hand weapons, so I turned them into stikk bombz, and replaced two of the hands with those from the plastic ork boyz).

There are so many little areas I could have improved on, in particular I think I over-did the weathering in some parts and not enough in others. I also found weathering the Dark Angel green a lot tougher than weathering the red - probably due to my colour selections. There are also a number of areas where the painting could have been a bit sharper and crisper - in particular, the backpacks and their grey shirts. Anyway, I got more Orks planned, so it was a good learning experience!


For more information, including step by step photos:
http://www.mainlymedieval.com/ozpainters/viewtopic.php?t=1816

And the same article in chinese, thanks to Panzer for translating and posting:
http://bbs.warac.cn/viewthread.php?tid=11020&pid=94381

MOAB 2008

Rob, Sebastian, Paul and I ran the MOAB painting competition. Congratulations to all the winners, entrants and others who have contributed their time to make this event happen. Secondly, thank you to the sponsors: Shadowforge, Asmodee Editions, Maidenhead Miniatures, Derivan and Mainly Medieval for providing the prize pool, trophies and certificates!

We have a list of winners and photos at OzPainters.

Rob brought in his pirate town display which really livened up the display cabinet! We need to plan something even bigger for next year!

Games Day LA 2008

Congratulations to Todd Swanson for winning the Slayer Sword! I had a fantastic time at the Demon Lounge catching up with the US painters, and a few visitors from Europe too. Although I didn't place, I was really happy to make finalist with my Orc boss in Warhammer Fantasy Single - it was a really tough category, and as you can see in GW's coverage, the winners were all fantastic.

Games Workshop's GD LA 2008 Golden Demon Coverage

Games Workshop's GD LA 2008 General Coverage