US Trip in August

Some of you may know that I will be attending a few conventions in August. Here is my itinerary:

• 14th-17th August: Gencon Indy (Indianapolis, Indiana)
  
• 23rd August: Games Day L.A. (Ontario, California)
  
• 29th-31st August: Penny Arcade Expo (Seattle, Washington)

Hope to see some of you there!

Onyx

Pretty much finished with this one for a friend, but I'd like to hear feedback since I have a few other unpainted wolfen to do in the future. So this was both a bit of practice and also a semi-commission.

I did something a bit different with the base, and actually did it all up with flock and stuff first, and then undercoated and proceeded to paint it it. I like the effect of painted flock, think I'll do this more in the future.





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Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful festive season! Here's a quick one I finished up, commissioned as a Christmas present for a friend. It's a Reaper knight, with an added cloak. The armour was coloured through multiple washes of liche purple, dark flesh, hawk turquoise, terracotta and oxford blue.

More French Foreign Legion

I was just mucking around with doing Foundry style all white backgrounds and whipped this up using the Castaway Arts French Foreign Legion I painted a while ago.

Certainly gives a much different look to the figures! Goes to show that different backdrops do make a difference to the way the figures look, or at least, people's initial impressions. I imagine that using an all white background like that you want to have quite bright and contrasting paint schemes so that they stand out.

Thousand Sons Dreadought

I was very lucky to walk away from the Demons this year with a bronze! I honestly didn't think my Dreadnought would place, it was quite a rush to get it finish, and it is the first year I have entered a stock, unconverted model (due to most of the year being devoted to thesis and other university related work).


Painting related things? Well not much actually. A rather stock standard paintjob I'm embarressed to say! I did try to concentrate more on the weathering though, as it is something often omitted from Tzeentch models. So lots of little metal chips, running rust marks and stains, and dirt build up. I did a small bit of glow effect on the plasma gun, but it is hardly a feature - I kept the glow small and not spread it onto the body or legs, incase I wanted to swap weapons later on (I know, you probably think I'm crazy for having weapon swap options on a Demon winning model!).

The other winners? Well congratulations to Glen, for walking away with his fourth slayer sword! That chaplin model was totally 40k and oozed a lot of character from the universe. Also congrats to Sebastian and Rob for a Chatswood triple sweep of the golds in the Single Figure categories!

Gashapon Repaints

I finished off these two guys recently, they are characters from an anime called "Kyo Kara Maoh". They were painted as a gift to a very special friend, and originally started life as keychains.



I removed the chain connector from their heads and filled in the holes with Greenstuff, which I then discovered was a bad idea as it was really hard to get a smooth finish (the figures were made of a PVC type flexible plastic). So I removed the Greenstuff and did it again with Milliput that worked much better!

The bases were laminate circles I had lying around, over which I sculpted some flagstone with Milliput. The ducks were litle accessories from Eureka Miniatures.

Overall I am very happy with the way these turned out, as it was not only something out of the ordinary, but also the first figures I had finished after taking almost a year off from painting.

OzPainters

In discussion with a number of painters, I have set up a new forum called OZ Painters, that will try to consolidate the painting community in Australia and provide a useful resource for anyone interested in painting miniatures for competitions or to a high display standard.

You can find OZ Painters at http://www.mainlymedieval.com/ozpainters