Finished! Da Headbangas

A personal project for my growing collection of shadespire warbands (2). Orks have always been my favorite and that will never change. I love barbarians but I love them with giant teeth and a variety of wild skintones even more.

WIP Orruk Megaboss

One more addition to the ranks of Da Jungleboyz, coming right along!

Almost there, it's now to the point I can start finalizing areas. The armor still looks a little bland so I'll add some dags or something to zazz it up a bit.

Mista Snaaaaakes!

Another Orruk for my personal collection! Nicknamed Mista Snakes but actually the name came before the model during a paint jam with my buddy Jeff. Paint jams can be like long drives sometimes complete with the side effect of dumb jokes being especially funny and fully fleshed out. This model provided some interesting experiments, a chance to freehand texture on the hyde and a really saucy opportunity for some OSL.

The only drawback about all the negative space on this model is I had to leave some parts separate until later stages of painting. Not so bad usually but some of the seams need filling before painting..Anyway, he wouldn't be Mista Snakes if he was just a regular Orc, he needed snakes!

He came along swiftly, I had been planning this piece for a while in advance and the scheme was already laid down on the Brute I painted in the past.

What have I been listening to? Pseudogod

Banana Boy Redux!

After looking back at the pictures from the first time around a few times they just started to look worse and worse. I changed the settings a bit and this time I think the colors came out more true to how they appear in person.

CMON

A second look never hurts.

Jammin' with Jeff, Day 2!

On the second day, as more colors came together, I felt we were really getting somewhere. So intense was our focus that we went without showers or fashionable legwear. Our hygiene in disrepair did not matter, for there is not value in the messenger, only the message. Paint!

Neither of us finished our models that weekend but the momentum kept going. At this point I've finished mine, which I'll post up soon, and Jeff is working with his own deadline, midnight on Sunday.

Onwards and upwards, stay tuned brothers and sisters, stay tuned  for the good message of painting meditation and spiritual coolness!

Jammin' With Jeff Day 1

Over the last weekend I got together with friend and fellow miniature painter Jeff Bowden. Following Adepticon I've been a little more enthusiastic to join more people together in the painting community..So far that has equated to me having one dude stay over for a weekend and paint but it's a start.

Jeff hasn't finished any projects in a while, he even has a Slayer Sword under his belt. I think winning awards carries expectation. Forget about everyone else, it's personal expectation I'm talking about. You've set an all time high for yourself and anything less won't do. This has slowed me down as well, the post competition slump sets in. But my advice is, fuck it, painting started as a for fun activity with, I hope, anyone reading this. Here is how Jeff and I got to some paint jamming and had a great time not thinking about first prize :)

I invited Jeff up to show him some chaos magic on the new Orruk brute models

After prepping and discussing the paint scheme, I showed Jeff the way of the wet. Blending that is. I wanted to portray a jungle setting on these orruks, because it was cool and because the colors would be complinentary for a yellow ork.

With the mid level beer flowing, a freehand did come into clearer vision.

Stay tuned for day two's progress!