Mantic Ork Marauder Faction

This faction was my favourite so far.

These big exo suits were a challenge to do .

 

The boss and his pet cyberlions, because if you cant have sharks with friggin lasers on their heads then lions with chainsaws in their mouths is plan B

 

Goblin sniperz. Sneaky!

 

The Boyz

 

And a big happy group shot.

Not Yet Dead Miniatures Commission

Good morning internet denizens. Today I finished a commission for nyd-miniatures.com which is a great place for zombie genre fans. They make 50mm stuff but are going to branch out into 28mm as well.

So far we've only got three zombies to play with but there's more just around the corner. I hope you all have  strong stomachs

Ok now the survivors, we've got a whole crew of them to choose from:

Mantic Plague Faction Commission

More miniatures from the Deadzone game. Its looking strongly possible that I will paint all the deadzone factions. I've chosen to move away from the entirely pink stock paint scheme and include some yellows, reds and greens.

Greatsworder Champion

I'm practicing my NMM technique.

Mantic Deadzone Enforcer Faction Commission

I think this is my largest commission to date:

Mantic do good models for an incredible price; very detailed but slightly flimsy plastic, a lot of mold lines, but they look great once painted and this bundle is like £19. I bet GW would want 3x as much. I'm hoping I'll get a chance to paint the other factions from deadzone too, especially the marauders!

This is just a test piece, but its come out really well so I'll share it. Its an odd colour for a berserker but I think it works!

New commissons and a competition entry!

Hooray new commissions are in and the promise of more to follow! First up is Marco Columbo, warhammer fantasy's explorer character from the old dogs of war range. I've always wanted to paint this miniature so it was a pleasure to accept this commission.

Next up is El Curandero from freebooter miniatures. I got a slight magician vibe from the sculpt so I put some stars on his cloak.

Finally this chap is a kitbashed Courier with a steampunk vibe, made by inmygravenimage of dakkadakka.com

And finally I entered a competition recently, the idea of which was to get everyone to paint the same simple cheap plastic miniature but put their best paintjob on it, to see who's got the mad skills. I did quite well; I came fourth out of 17. Here's my entry

Handgunner Regiment

This is a bit of a batch painting experiment to test if I can keep up the same high standard paintjob across a unit. It went quite well.

 

And here's a gun captain I did for fun.

Painting River Trolls

I wanted to give my river trolls a greenish tinge to give them that slimy look, so I started with a wash of P3 green ink, P3 red ink and P3 armour wash in a 2:1:7 ratio. After that's dried I drybrush with white and wet blend vallejo skin tone into the fleshy areas. Next a wash of vallejo red wash (a very cherry red), followed by vallejo flesh wash and more red ink worked into the shadows of the skin and the mouth, finally I pick out details like the teeth and claws, the eyes and his bones n stones.

A River Troll and more from The Empire

Business has been slow so I'm working on my own models for competitions and just for the joy of painting. I love the bright colours of the empire, so here's what I've been up to.