Category Painting

Essays in painting – The plan 2

Feb2

Well I have been racking my brain trying to think of things too write about for the site.  At the weekend looking through the various forums, sites and painting community sites. Looking at some suburb painters that are out there  got me thinking several things

  • Can I become a better painter?
  • Will it take long time?
  • Will anyone be willing to help me with problems?
  • Will people like my work?

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Whispers from the Warp 0

Jan25

Over the past few weeks I have been in the midst of building a new Chaos Warriors army, now normally I do this through a process of constructing army list upon army list slowly eliminating those that are unplayable until only a handful lists remain from which I choose the best – but not this time.

Stef prefers a buy what is cool and mould that into a workable force method, Cooper combines the army list method with what looks cool, Spencer picks a theme and holds on to it die hard to the end even if his vision was rose tinted.

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WIP Sunday 24-01-10 0

Unfortunately no progress with the terminator this week, mainly due to working on this commission job – some of the new beastmen minis. I’m looking forward to getting back onto the blood angel once these are done! continue reading »

WIP Sunday 0

Another painting session out of the house this week. I’ve had the urge to paint something seriously. It’s a long time since I painted anything to the best of my ability – especially recently. So here’s the start of a Blood Angel Terminator from the Space Hulk box. So far the method has been very simple… aaround 10 layers of GW Blood Red building up the highlights.

MiniPainters Painting Guide: Planning Your Colour Scheme 0

By now you’ll have your models ready to paint – but how do you plan to paint them? I always have a think about which colours each part of the model will be, whether it will work and plan exactly what paints I’ll be using. continue reading »