Wamp Hassle Free Competition - WIP

After a few months of being busy and not taking time out to practice my painting, I have finally decided to do something. My boyfriend brought me the Hassle free miniature; Gen, as a gift and announced Wamp was holding a competition. 

I thought it was the perfect opportunity to get some practice in and actually finish a project I started as well. I've decided to go all out (for me anyway) and make this a proper display piece with detailed base. I'm not going to spoil the surprise yet but here are some photographs of Gen. Instead of the stereotypical evil demon; with colour schemes of reds, blacks and just generally dark colours, I decided to make her more of a mythical creature from Greek mythology. Her hair style seemed to have a Greek feel to it so I went from there.

Happy (late) 2013 - WIP

Happy new year to everyone even if it is nearly February now! I've been very lazy lately when it comes to painting but that's changed in the past week or so. The new year is bringing a lot of painting opportunities which come in form of competitions, board displays and new models. I have been helping my boyfriend with a display board for Battle group Kursk for Hammerhead in February. I might also paint my wood elf spell weaver for my local Games Workshop competition if I have enough time.

Last week though, I started painting a very cool infinity model - Scarface and Cordelia. The model is technically my boyfriends but he gave me the opportunity to paint it. So I've been a very lucky girl indeed. I absolutely love this model!

Artemis....Again

This is my 4th attempt at this model and I still can't get her right. Highlights are rubbish, she's too brown overall and I can't paint faces on 40mm models.
So after some careful consideration I'm going to strip her once again (throwing her out of the window was an option too) and re-do her once my painting skills have leveled up. For now I'm going to work on other models, so hopefully I'll have an update about those soon.

Artemis - WIP

This is my 4th attempt at painting this model as mentioned in a previous post. ~ here. I decided to go for a darker skin tone using Citadel paints; Mournfang Brown, Bugman's glow and Cadian Fleshtone, which was kindly lent to me by Mountain of Metal. I've still got to do more on her skin but I'm pretty pleased with how she is turning out. 

Hopefully I'll managed to get her finished this time, so wish me luck!

Shinomi - Completed

I finally finished the Kabuki model; Shinomi and I'm  pleased with how she turned out. She is now my 4th finished model :).

 I'm now going to start working on the Kingdom Death Model - Grand Mother.

WAMP 2012

On Saturday, Maelstrom games was holding WAMP 2012. After hearing that it had a few painting workshops that would be really useful me and my boyfriend decided to go. Along with the painting competition there were three workshops running; Speed painting, Painting faces with Tommie Soule from Golem Paint Studio and Weathering and Pigments with John Keys (which never happened as the painting faces workshop ran for 3 1/2 hours instead of 1.) The painting faces work shop was great,Tommie was a great teacher and we learnt lots of new but sometimes obvious painting skills. He also told me I need to practice my brush control. So lots of practice for me!

While I was at Maelstrom games, I thought I'd pick up a few new models to work on over the summer and after admiring the Kingdom Death models for some time, I bought two. One of the models was the limited edition Lion Knight 2nd and although expensive looks really amazing. The second is called Grand Mother.

Both are gorgeous and also creepy models, but the amount of detail in the sculpts is amazing.  I love the artwork and boxes they come in too. I can't wait to build and paint them.

Shinomi - WIP

I got the beautiful Kabuki model - Shinomi a while ago as a present but due to a combination of being busy and laziness, I still haven't completed her. I managed to get a bit more painted at the weekend so hopefully I should have her finished soon.

A few more details, a final touch up and her base needs doing then she's done! Hopefully the painting faces workshop at Maelstrom games this Saturday will help.