WIP: Kurt Helborg

Heres a little something something im working on for a friend of mine.. 

Mechanicum Thallax Cohort

Just a quick & dirty shot I found on my camera.. 

I use these guys as spawn in my Iron Lords csm army.

Nurgle Daemons win best painted at Emperor's Legion 2014!

 

I recently took my pure Nurgle Daemons to the Emperor's Legion tourney at Tin Soldier in Penrith.

It was a great event with a solid turnout. Lots of great games were had by all!

 

Highlight for me though, was winning best painted!

 

 

 

So, here they are in all their revolting glory!

 

 

 

Epidemius.

I used this guy as a great unclean one.

Borrowed this guy from my good mate Luke from Sound of Machines commission painting.

 

For those who are so inclined, the army list:

 

Paint to sell: Helldrake

 

Im not a fan of this model.. but it was a lot of fun to paint & they are great on the table.

I needed one for a tourney, so I built & painted this guy.

Took me 3 days, start to finish.
Wings & base are removable for transport.

 

Problem is, it doesn't fit the theme for the rest of my army (I have other plans for counts helldrakes.. but they are on the backburner).

That means im going to sell this one. If anyone is interested in buying it, get in touch via the comments & we can work something out.

Otherwise, its going to ebay!

 

 

 

This is the first mini that I plan to sell painted.. keep your eyes peeled for more in the future!

Hobby tips: Take better pics, easily!

 

 

Looks like crap right?

 

Something that I see time and again, is people who put a lot of effort into their painting, but who cant do justice to their work when taking photos.

 

That's fair enough. If you wanted to be a photographer, you'd have started that as your hobby instead. But rest assured, there are some simple steps that will dramatically improve the quality of the photos you take!

 

 

First up, the tools you'll need:

 

All you need is some blue tac, a paint brush or similar, a piece of plain paper (grey is a good colour as its not too dark or too bright) & somewhere with some decent indirect light.

Note: the tripod is optional. 

 

A separate note on lighting: avoid warm or frosted lamps as they will change how the colours of your mini show up.

Get some clear light blubs & point the lamps directly up rather than at your mini.

I use $5 lamps from a discount store with $2 bulbs from the supermarket. I have one set up either side of my desk. Its also worth noting that all these photos were taken at night..

 

 

 

Next, setup: 

 

Blue tac your piece of paper to a wall as shown above.

Put another wad of blue tac underneath the paper & stick your hobby tool in it (this helps get the angle of your mini right for the pic).

 

 

Place you mini so its in the middle of the paper, above the tool (it should be on a bit of an angle).

 

 

Lastly, take the shot:

 

Get in close.

Real close.

Keep your camera steady (if you are not using a stand, try putting the camera on a flat surface in front of the mini, or balance it on a paint pot, spay can lid etc.)

Note: be careful your shot only includes mini & background. This helps to ensure that the camera has the white balance & focus correct by reducing the amount of things in the photo.

 

 

That's it!

Cameras these days (even the one in your phone) are so good, that they will do the majority of the work for you if you just give them something decent to work with.

 

Now, go on & take some good photos!

Army painting: Daemonette step by step

 

Okay, so this guy obviously isn't a daemonette.. but he was as close as I could find from what I had laying about.

This is a quick step by step I whipped up to help a mate get his army painted.

 

One thing that's worth noting is that the key to this technique, is the undercoat.

I have sprayed black all over. Then sprayed at aprox 45 degrees with gray before a final zenithal (90 degrees) coat with white.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All told, this took me only a couple of minutes to paint, including dry time!

 

 

BFG Imperial fleet complete!

They are done!

More detailed pics to come over the next few days as I get ready to list them for sale..

And this is a little something I whipped up during drying times..

WIP BFG Imperial fleet update

Here's the fleet almost complete! 

Remaining: lights, engines & bases. 

More pics soon! 

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WIP: BFG imperial fleet

I recently found my old BFG fleet that had been languishing under my mums house for eons.. figured, since im between jobs for 2 weeks, I ought to do something constructive.

This is basically a rescue job. At this stage, ive stripped the crappy mismatched paint job from them,  broken them all back down to the original parts, chipped off the caked on glue, replaced any missing parts with bits I cast myself or scratch built, rebuilt them & based all the metal models using metal rods (because fuck those stupid plastic sticks!). 

This whole fleet will be for sale once ive finished painting it!

There is also a decent space marine element to this fleet.

Since these pics were snapped, ive almost finished painting the whole fleet!

The SM are Imperial fists & the imperial ships are an attached navy fleet who have been given the honour of being able to bear the Imperial fist\ colours.