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

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

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!

The annual Day Before Demons workbench photo

So it's Golden Demon Australia time already. Here is my annual tradition of taking a photo of my workbench as I rush to finish my entry - it's actually pretty clean this year!

I only have one entry, a Thousand Sons dreadnought, sitting there in the middle. The Warmachine and Inquisitor retinue models are there for painting reference, as is the book on the right with the Egyptian imagery. Up the back is another Forgeworld Dreadnought - the MK4 Venerable Bling Dreadnought.

My paints are a mix of Vallejo, Palmer, Games Workshop (that Boltgun metal sitting near the Dreadnought was a pain to open!) and Matisse-Derivan. My brushes are taklon brushes, primarly a size 0 and a 5/0 liner brush. Haven't actually had to use anymore than what you see on the table.


Well my next post will probably consist of my MOAB commentary - we had a great turnout for the number and quality of the entries. I'll get photos up very soon! Till then, good luck with last minute GD painting.

Golden Demon Weekend

I had a fantastic weekend at the Golden Demon, this year held in Parramatta. I managed to walk away with two trophies, a Silver in 40k Squad with my Ordo Xenos squad, and a Bronze in 40k Large with my Nurgle Terminator Lord. A big congratulations to all the participants and winners, competition was fierce this year and will only get better next year.

Also congrats to my fellow Chatswood entrant, Sebastian, who not only won gold in 40k Single, but managed to walk away with the Slayer Sword!

And no Golden Demon coverage would be complete without mention of the dinner afterwards, held at it's traditional venue, Thai Laong in Newtown. Photos of the night can be seen here:

http://photobucket.com/albums/c306/oz_gd/2005/golden_camel_dinner/

We all had a fun time. No figures were lost in the food, though some food might have been lost as people were busy sculpting, painting or glueing! And the suprise ingredient for this year... No Metallic Paints! That's right. Everyone had to speed paint in NMM!

Congratulations to Ben$quig for winning the trophy! And congratulations to everyone who came along for some truly bizzare, creative and inspirational miniatures! The link above has photos along with everyone's name/nickname.

Also thanks to Games Workshop (for supplying us miniatures at the last minute!), Matisse Derivan (for all those paints!) and ASACS (for giving us tools to lick and greenstuff to play with over food).

Here is a collage of the minatures we came up with on the night.

Golden Demon Store Qualifier

I posted these stats on WargamerAU but I thought I'd might as well turn it into a blog post.

I went to my local store (Chatswood) today. Entries were good in some categories, and next to non-existant in others. I made some new friends, and all 4 of my entries made it through to the next round (though I expect casualties at that stage).

Off the top of my head, some rough numbers for the categories:

40k single ~15-20 entries - by far the best entries were in here.
40k squad ~2 entries
40k large ~10 entries

Fantasy single 1 entry
Fantasy unit 1 entry
Fantasy large No entries

LOTR single 3 entries
LOTR large 1 entry

Duel 1 entry

Youngbloods - lots in all the categories, especially 40k single.

Anyway, I was happy one of my models got it's own round of applause during the awards ceremony - like it has a life of it's own. ;)

As you can see there weren't many fantasy entries. I regret not finishing my Fantasy entries now! I wonder how many other stores had categories with slim representation for some categories. Either that, or Sydney is so saturated with GW stores that painters are distributed far and wide. Anyway, at least it was good competition in the 40k categories, and I got photos of the 40k single qualifiers which I might post later after I send them to the respective artists first.

And a special picture for today, one of the WIP shots from my 40k Squad entry. I feel like teasing you all. Maybe I'll post a few more after the next round of qualifiers.