Warzone Ressurection Brotherhood (WIPs) part 3

I finally finished all of the starter box models as well as an extra unit of troopers for Rob and I have almost finished the older casts of more troopers, mortificators, Valkyries, cardinal Dominic and another and the older cast of the judicator. Work has been even more hectic but they have been coming along slowly!

Deadzome terrain

My partner has finally decided to put together his dead zone kickstarter terrain and I've been asked to help design images for the signs. For now here is the assembled terrain with no help from myself! 

And finally have a picture of our cat playing a game with Adam.

Warzone Ressurection Brotherhood (WIPs) Part 2

Finally started the brother hood troopers this week and after doing a test model, I have finally started the rest of them. I'm going for a relatively light grey armour with white highlighting but the inner armour/squidgey almost fleshy bits are black. The colour of the shields hasn't  been decided yet but I'm starting to get a few ideas with some goo suggestions. 

For now enjoy a WIP photo. 

Warzone Resurrection Brotherhood (WIPs)

So I've finally started to paint Rob's Brotherhood Army and after deciding to get the bigger models out of the way first, I have now finished two inquisitors and a judicator who I have now named Frank. Rob wanted his army painted with the standard colour scheme, so I hope I've done it justice! 

More WIPs to follow later!

UK Games Expo 2014

We attended the UK Games Expo this year which was held at the Hilton Hotel at the NEC Birmingham. I was only there for the Saturday and I was helping aka observing as the lads were having a demo game of Saga; a viking invasion.

The event had a brilliant turn out, although I found it much too hot and busy to actually browse anything but at least the board had a good amount of interest.

Also next to our demo game, was the Very British Civil War Game with some fantastic looking scenery.

Artwork - Mermaid WIP

I recently purchased a Bamboo graphics tablet as well as the program Manga Studio in the hopes to improve my art and get me more active when it comes to painting in general. So far I've been playing around with the tablet and I've got to say I love it!

I've decided that along with my miniature painting, I will start including some of my artwork as well. 

Here is one of the first sketches I completed using my tablet.

I am currently working on  larger piece and have already completed the sketch and inking of the piece. I've found a lot of great tutorials for lighting and colouring, as currently they are my weakest points when I come to drawing. 

Here are the WIPs for my current art project. 

The initial sketch

The sketch after it has been cleaned and inked.

Painting update

Although I haven't posted any thing on my blog is a while, i have helped with a few projects over the past few months. Since it's already half way through the year (how time flies!), I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to update what I've worked on. 

In April, my war gaming group; Leicester Phat Cats, managed to place at Salute with a demo board based on 2008 Russian invasion of South Occetia. Due to our lateness, we only had 8 weeks to completely build from scratch a 6" x 10" board and all the models. I was tasked with painting some of the buildings for the residential area. 

    Before

    After (buildings on the left) 

    Full board photo, courtesy of Ant 

Also this month I have helped paint a viking long ship for our demo at the UK Games Expo at Birmingham this Weekend (30th May - 1st June)

I am also starting commission work for a friend. I will be painting his warzone brotherhood army from Prodos Games. A bit of a challenge for me as it will be the most models I have ever painted at one go or even completed (I have only ever fully painted 7 individual models, not including scenery). I'm really looking forward to painting these as they are such gorgeous models! Here is some photos of the assembled models and I'll hopefully update the blog with more images once they have been completed. 

Thanks for reading!

Victoria Darling - Kraken Hunter WIP

Hello! I've finally gotten back into the habit of painting after my very long hiatus due to life being busy and me being partly lazy.

 I picked up this model from the derby wargames show last year in October. She is a lovely model which caught my eye immediately; the same as any scantily dressed lady model does if I'm honest, but it was only recently that I decided to start working on her. I've spent 3 hours in her so far, trying to get her skin as nice as I possibly can.

I'll upload more photos later. Thanks for reading :)

A look at my work so far

I started painting models last May after being influenced by my boyfriend and in just over a year, i have only fully completed five models; although I have started many others but haven't finished them yet. This post is really for me to prove to myself that I am improving in my painting and the more models I paint the more I should improve (hopefully). 

So starting from my first completed model from May until now, here are my completed models.

Thanks for reading! 

Wamp Hasslefree Competition - completed

I finally finished my entry for the Hasslefree competition and I'm pretty pleased with the results. I've been working on the model and base for a good few weeks now trying to make and paint it to the best of my abilities. For a first attempt at making a display base, I'm really pleased with the results. The base is made from cork while the tree is a combination of wire, plaster and green stuff with lichen as the leaves. I really want to practice using resin water some more, so that will be one of my goals over the summer while I'm home from university.

There are loads of amazing entries already in the Wamp Gallery and hopefully I'll receive some feedback on my model so I know what I can do to improve in the future. 

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.