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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 »

To paint or not to paint? 4

Jan11

As my painting comrade Stef has already mentioned in his WIP Sunday post, we spent the day round a friend’s house painting. This is not an unusual occurrence as we do this often but it got me thinking is this unique to us or do other groups of friends get together and spend a whole day working on hobby projects? continue reading »

WIP Sunday… 2 2

Not quite made Sunday with my WIP Sunday this week as I’ve been painting at a friend’s house and only just got home, but here’s a shot of what I’ve been working on! Managed to get the blue on 6 Skinks and made a start on their bases too. The blue for these is very simple – a combination of ink and drybrushing. Enchanted Blue basecoat followed by an Asurmen Blue wash. They are then Drybrushed Enchanted Blue, 50:50 mix of Enchanted Blue and Ice Blue before a final Ice Blue. Now it’s just the details and that’s a whole unit complete!… apart from one that ran away… continue reading »

WIP Sunday 0

So its Sunday again, so time too see another WIP shot from one of the MiniPainters team.

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