Top Tip - Recipe Cards

Today I'm gonna share with you one of the techniques I use to achieve consistency across a given force (the one shown is the photos is my Space Wolves but that's just as the photo has a perfect demonstration in it).

We all know that painting a reasonable size army is not only a labour of love but also very time consuming meaning a force can often take years to finish (especially with rule changes and changes to force distribution and 'new stuff' to include) that being the case how do you paint something the same way as you did that miniature you painted two years ago?

Most of us are blessed with the ability to just about remember how it was done and with a bit of trial and error can do a reasonable copy of the original. My method removes the trial and error part and allows you to focus on the fun part the actual painting.

I call it the Recipe Card  (wonders if he should try and trademark this as its so simple)............

Tutorial - Basic Techniques - Overbrushing/Drybrushing

Following on from the last Basic skills tutorial (which can be found here) we were left with a Space Wolf base coated and washed to really darken those recessed areas (see Picture below)

This tutorial will introduce the first step in highlighting the raised area of the miniature, and this step is called Overbrushing, while often called drybrushing, this is actually incorrect as drybrushing and overbrushing share the same technique but differ in paint saturation.

Tutorial - Basic Techniques - The Wash

I was in my local Games Workshop yesterday to do some painting and due to some case confusion picked up my space wolves not my high elves thereby confounding the painting plan, however being in the store anyway I was chatting to another fellow hobbyist, and as these thing always do talk very quickly turned to painting techniques.
It transpired that my fellow hobbyist had little experience with the wonder that is the world of washes and it has occurred to me that there may be a few painters out there that don't know just what washes will do for them.
So for my first ever Tutorial I have chosen this very topic.

Showcase - High Elves Frost Pheonix

Todays showcase is yet another of the many, many, many high elves that will populate this blog (after all that is the army I am currently building very slowly).

Due to the size of this model and my somewhat limited photographic skills these do not follow my normal 'showcase' photo format but features a somewhat more 'in game' feel.

WIP - High Elves Spearmen

Well silly season is upon us and everyone is gearing up to party or working overtime (that would be me :( ) as such hobby time is quite slim on the ground at the moment however I have managed to find a bit of time to make a start on some spearmen for the high elves army that I am building at the moment. So it is time for yet another Work In Progress picture

At this stage they have only been undercoated white and very roughly painted with a base steel colour (Citadel Base Paint - Leadbelcher) as much of these miniatures is scale mail or helm this seemed the most sane base to work from.

Showcase : Battle For Blood Island - Warhammer Style

A while ago my local Games Workshop Store (Peterborough) ran a contest with the title and theme of conflict, it was intended to be a conflict between two (or more) heroes battling it out, This is what I entered

Battle For Blood Island

Bad Paint Monkey!

Yep I know I have been slacking..... no new posts for a while .... Bad me!!!
Well real life has infected me with a job and as such hobby time is greatly reduced, however today I have a WIP photo of those Sisters Of Avelorn I unboxed the other week , see this post for the reveiw.

Totally legless

Some Pictures From Games Day 2013

As a regional winner for Armies On Parade I was fortunate enough to go to Games Workshops flagship event Games Day this year and as I'm sure you can imagine I did spend a good deal of time taking hints and tips from my fellow competitors many of  these ideas I recorded in the form of photos and here are a few of them

Unboxing the sisters of Avelorn

Ok here are my first impressions of this kit from Games Workshop for their high elf army. Firstly this kit produces two different troop choices (this seems to be their latest production gem, I would guess to save on tooling swaps in the machine shops) . With all the others kits they have made in this duel unit format this one produces the most divergent options I have ever seen.Now what does this mean to you and me? In one short sentence lots of bits for conversions etc.