Finished! Tartaros pattern Lameneter

This is the last mini I'll finish in Wisconsin. I didn't use my usual set up for the pics but they're decent enough. I'll be making more, I really went for this model. I know it's just a space marine but among the hundred varieties I guess everyone has one soft spot.

He's also up on Coolmini, yay! 

Next up I should have some finished Vehicles for all the Blood Angel fans :)

WIP Blood Angels Heavy Support

The last few days have been spent finishing off a massive commission from a while back. It's only four tanks..See for yourself.

I like seeing these big projects come together but some days knowing you'll be painting silver for 4 hours isn't much to look forward to. My brain has a switch I can hit in these situations though. 

Almost there and not a moment too soon. My upcoming move is approaching fast, four days away fast. I'll get some posts up in those few days so stay tuned.

Finished! Warhog and Doom Reavers

Finally got around to taking some pictures of some projects I entered at Gencon. Wooptie. First up is the Warhog aka Beebop in some circles.

He's swimming with the fishes on Coolmini

I'm still tinkering with the Mountian King but he should be along soon enough. Until then, enjoy some Doom Reavers for that ass.

You can have a playdate with them here

Deep Jammin'

I sat down with a friend last week for a more in-depth paint jamming. My impending move has my time limited so jam deep we did :) 

First I wanted to start on paper. I'd recommend everyone give this a try if you haven't yet. It all transfers, just another angle to examine for the budding artist. So i drew up some skulls and we used the same techniques I use on miniatures to paint the skulls. Laying a base coat and then blending the shadows and highlights.

Hours of goofing around later we got to the miniatures.

Then, working from the same pallet we attempted to split the atom and make some science/magic.

Gotta love them yellow ones. That's as far as we got but more on him later. Maybe eventually I'll have the time to photograph my Gencon entries. Moving, packing, searching for a van and saying goodbyes has been hectic. I'm also having to go to random places to use the internet. Today has me in a steamy laundromat and behind me the world's greatest dad and his two kids with nothing but cookies to occupy their time in a stroller while he plays some dragon shit on line.

Back to the grind!

Finished! Pedro Kantor of the Crimson Fists

Just a quick post of a quicker job. This guy was for me bro :) About 7 hours total but it's hard to guess once you get into it. Being a bit of a quicker piece I tried to focus on making a few elements shine.

Here's the set up:

This way while one color was drying I could be working with another.

Wooptie doop hope you like it bro :) 

Return of the night of the week long Gencon 2013

I'm finally back and finding time to drop some of the 172 pictures I took this year. I kept telling myself to "take more pictures", boy howdy did I ever. Looking back I realized I didn't take any pictures of the 2 painting competitions going on..I guess I've seen too much cabinet glare in my own shoddy work. I did well in them though :) I'll have to make another post once I photograph all my P3 Entries so more on that later. There were some really nice pieces and some great people who painted them ;) 

In these pictures I was trying to capture my perspective of the con for my friends back home. My personal experience summed up goes like this: drive 8 hours in a Penske moving truck packed to the gills with product from the local hobby shop. Unload it the next day and begin setting up the booth (125 feet long, number 2209 if you were there) from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. Eat, get up at 7 and do the same thing until they kick us out whenever they kick you out. I then spend about 50 hours standing behind a register and dart away here and there to enter paint competitions, drop off commissions, and grab a few gifts..Oh yeah, once in a while I take enough time in there to piss. Good times, exhausting, flu inducing, bromancing, good times.

It begins here:

I'll be seeing you next year. So pay attention ahah.