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For this week’s showcase I thought I’d show off one of my favourite minis.  He’s a bloodletter of Khorne from Games Workshop.  He’s also my highest scoring CMON mini, although if I’m honest I have …

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Valkia the bloody, consort of khorne appeared in the latest incarnation of games workshop’s Warhammer Fantasy Battle Chaos Warriors army book. I was flicking through this book around the time of its release, and I …

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It was a week before GD a dew months ago, and I decided I wanted to do a 40k squad and spend some more time with my airbrush.  Thus, the Tau Stealth Suits were decided …

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The first moment I saw that the guys at GWHQ had come up with a bunch of pirate sculpts for the collectors range I knew that I had to get in on the action.  I …

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Welcome to the third installment in my ‘Showcase’ Series.  In case you missed the others, the previous two projects are shown here and here.
I began my ‘Tharanduil’ project first thing after winning a couple of …

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I was very pleased to see that ‘Zorg’ of Platoon Britannica has made a tutorial about how to photoshop images of miniatures, and has seen fit to use my Ninja Goblin project as an example.  …

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So after the response from my previous ‘Showcase’ article, I have decided to crack on with putting up some of my favourite projects, both from me and when I’m done (well it is my blog!), …

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So here’s my first in my Showcase series.  To begin with I’m going to showcase my own work.   This is my blog, so it only seems fair!  Once I’ve done with my stuff, I’m going to show …

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So on monday (7th Dec ‘09) I packed up my projects and my paint (no mean feat with the size of my car), and charged off down to the Wellington Academy for a fun-packed painting …

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I have another update, and I’m very excited about this one!  Toenails are complete, sandal straps complete (and highlighted more than is showing in the pics frankly), and now he’s assembled. Yay! He doesn’t need …

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More progress…belt, toe/finger nails and some overdue pics of the sword blades.

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My painting is weak tonight. Just not feeling it. aah well, I’ve made a little progress, I’ve finished the blades (although they look rather similar to the last pic tbh), and I’ve gotten some of …

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So I thought I’d paint the strap.  It took about 15 minutes, but its one of my favourite bits of the mini.

As you can see, I did the strap. I really love the texture of …

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Right then, a bizarrely small but fun update to take away from all the monotony right now, I thought I’d paint the patch on the back of his leg. The ‘official’ paintjob featured a …

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I’m a little unsure of the work on the cloth because i don’t think it’s bold enough to stand out and score decently on CMON (which is an aim of this piece if I can …

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I decided to wash the face with pink. waddya think?

Ok, so that’s not entirely true – the maskol is simply that wierd colour.  For those who don’t know, maskol is a rubber substance that …

Here is a pic of the face now I’ve done the eyes, smoothing and final highlighting. Now its time to cover it and crack on with the clothing. updates over the next few hours as …

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I truly love oil paints! fabulous! Last night simply involved mixing up some oils, shading in various colours, and then mixing in white and highlighting with them. I’m painting it on, and wiping 99% off …

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ok then folks, here are my next pics… first come the swords:

a few rough points still, but I should be able to smooth them out with a brush. Meh. anyway, next came the flesh. …

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Next up were the NMM swords. I’ll have 3 stages of mask and spray, plus hand painted white highlights on every angle and hot spots to do, but I’m not quite there yet. I had …

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So here’s where I’m at – I have got to the point of the first layer of masking.  Here it is:

So, next out came the airbrush, and I started with the base and the scabbard. …

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This project is almost done, but I am keen t0 share the process with you on my blog so the process that I go through on a painting project of mine are apparent.  As such …