Warhammer fantasy, Pirates, skeletons and Landsknecht

A few fun things I've been painting up, first of all a pirate! I made him a little wooden deck to stand on.

Next up Some skeletal warriors. I couldn't resist the goats skull. These are very quick and easy to paint because they are so thin!

 And finally an empire greatsword drummer. I really love the empire and their style. Having done my research I found out that they are based on the mercenary armies of Landsknecht (german: Land-servant) who fought for the Hapsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire. I think I will be getting more empire troops they're very fun to paint.

Painting High Elves.

I thought I'd do a little painting tutorial, nothing too complicated. So here are some bog standard high elves fresh off the sprue.

First I spray prime white, then apply a layer of watered down P3 red and green ink (equal parts), then when thats dry apply P3 armour wash thickly.Then I drybrushed delicately with white and wet-blended white highlights on every surface that faces upwards - this needs some artistic skill I would say, light and shade - that sort of stuff. I usually add more armour wash to deep shadow areas and any areas supposed to be ferrous metal, but high elf armour is supposed to be like mithril silver so I wont do that here.

At this point I would say its ready for colour. I wetblend in vallejo flesh tone (kinda beige) to any area supposed to be bright and warm, so gold, skin, blond hair, rope, leather.

 Next I use the vallejo wash range to add colour to areas - the washes are quite subtle and I apply them in layers. I've used just sepia for the wood and gold, flesh wash and then a thin layer of sepia for the leather

After the colours have been applied I highlight the wood and add grain with flesh tone, add flesh wash on the skin and pick out the gems with red wash, then gloss varnish.

 Finally I bring it all together, finish off the base and add shield.

Some reaper miniatures to brighten your day. Ones called foxy brown and the other one... I can't remember what shes called but she is wearing chaps. Very 70s.

And they are done! Mostly painted using vallejo washes and P3 inks.

I've got a good feeling about today. I think I'm going to need a better airbrush and some more paint soon.

Anyway to start off the morning I spent some time getting a creamy base layer on these foaming at the mouth priests. I used to do this base layer fairly automatically with bulk washes and drybrushing, but these days I like to wet blend the white and apply the wash in layers to get it just where I want it.Its a less random way to develop light and shade.

Welcome

Hello and welcome to my commission blog. My name is Allexis but you can call me Lexi. Others may know me as weetyskemian44 of dakkadakka.com. I hail from sunny Cornwall in the UK (its the bit that looks like Britain's foot). I have trained all my life to be an artist, eventually achieving a Bachelor of Art Honours Degree in Contemporary Crafts. Having left Uni I remembered how I had briefly been fascinated by miniatures many years ago in the early 90s and decided to resurrect the hobby. The hobby turned into an obsession and the obsession is now a blossoming business.

You can follow my mini-painting learning curve at my dakka blog here

I also do animal portraits, landscapes and sculpture, see them here

I now live to paint your miniatures.