True scale space wolves detail shots

So, these have been a while coming.. just randomly grabbed a few of the pics I have of these guys.

True Scale Space Wolves complete!

Its been awhile since my last post.. since then, ive moved house, started a new job & finished my true scale space wolves!

The reason ive not posted for so long is that ive been working out my hobby space again after moving..
But its finally useable now!

Theres still a bit left to sort out though!

Anyway, I have plenty more pics of these guys that ill share over the next few posts, including some close ups of the finished shields from ThePaintingBunker!
I also have pics for a couple of product reviews too!

more nurgle

So I based the new bloke on the block with another one of the secret weapon bases I bought for the nurgle army..

then got carried away & made some spawn:

This one is for those unfortunate chaos boon rolls

These guys were just for shits & giggles.. not too happy with them though.
I think ill sell them & try something different

First mini of '13

So I randomly got excited & painted up this chappy:

I think '13 will be a good year for hobby.
I have bought almost all the models I plan on needing for the next year (or maybe more!), including two new full sized armies, two small allied detachments, some exciting display pieces & the largest Golden Demon project ive ever started.. stay tuned!

Golden demon '12 entries..

Ive just realised that ive completely forgotten to post any of the other work ive been doing towards GD this year!

So here are some WIP shots:

These pics are pretty old now.. with GD looming near, progress has been at full throttle.

Theres also one other project im working on for GD this year.. pics are due in the next week or so.

Painting re-work for Golden Demon '12 - Pt2

Okay, so part 2 of my re-work of my mounted Nurgle lord..

I put a lot of focus into adding contrast & depth as well as finishing off some details..

I feel its now looking much better.. id rate it as 7.5 or maybe 8.

So still definitely work to be done.. But its almost there.

Let me know what you think!

Painting re-work for Golden Demon '12 - WIP

At a recent tournament (Event Horizon) I got some somewhat unenthusiastic feedback regarding the paintjob on what I affectionately call fatty & stinkbeast (CSM Nurgle lord on daemon mount).. which prompted me to look a bit closer at it myself.
Turns out it was actually a bit.. uh.. lacking.

Im really happy with the model itself & it has many really enjoyable aspects from a painting perspective.. its just the paint didnt do it justice.
So I figured I should go back & re-work it to a level it deserves - Golden Demon level that is!

Underpinning this is a core strategy I plan to use to help me in my crusade to win a demon: Objective revision.

The basic idea is that once you have painted something & you are pretty happy with how its turned out, take the best pics of it that you can.

Once you have the pics, review them as if you were judging someone else's work..

You know when you look at something on CMoN by a stranger from the other side of the planet & you think.. "well this bit is all right.. but what the hell where they thinking there?! nah.. ill give it a 6."

You will cringe at the amount of little things that you forgot to go back & finish, or that looked good at the time.. or that you just plain missed!

It might sound like common sense.. & ive heard of this before.. but this is the first real time ive ever applied it to my work.

In the example of fatty & stinkbeast, it wasnt bad before, it just didnt have the impact it needed.

At the time I finished painting it before, I though it was brilliant.

After having it reviewed by some impartial judges though, I realised that how I saw it & how it actually looked just didnt match up..

Once I looked at it with an impartial & critical eye, I realised there were areas that were simply washed, or even just base coated.. admittedly they were in hard to get to spots etc, but in GD? Thats instant knock out material!

There were lots of little things that I had become so accustomed to during the hours I had spent painting the model, that I simply didnt see them any more.

The main thing though, there was no where near enough contrast between the rider & mount.. they looked like one big blob of the same colour without the detail to back it up.. I realised that I would have rated it maybe 6 or 7.

It certainly wouldnt have made it past regional level in GD.

This is what he looked like before:
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Not good enough.

So I set about changing the base colour of the mount.. aiming for higher contrast I went for blue & started building back up from there.

The result so far is much darker overall & the contrast between rider & mount is far more pronounced.

This is it now (Note, the colour is a bit dull due to taking pics at night.. but its WIP anyway):

So that is the result of my first objective review.

There is still more work to be done.. Some of the saddle details, the axe & horns for example..

but once thats done, I will take more pics & perform another objective review.. & I will repeat this process untill I would objective rate it at least as a 9 before I even bother to enter it into a GD.

Leviathan Crusader WIP

When I saw these, I knew my Iron Warriors needed one!

I missed the first release, but was lucky enough to score one from the second & final release!

Its been a really fun return to good old fashioned modelling for me.. it wasnt perfect out of the bag. I had to work to make things fit.. my room is covered with a fine layer of resin dust & all my other projects got shunted to the back of the table (even though im meant to be finishing off my Nurgle army for event horizon!).
All those things have given me a real sense of satisfaction while building this fantastic piece of kit!

Its almost finished the build stage now.. its magnetized for transport & to make it pose-able.
Just need to do a bit of greenstuff work to plug the odd gap.. then its time to chaos-ify it!