Cat Ganondorf (WIP)

Alright folks, here's a quick picture collab of a Ral Partha miniature I own. I don't know wich race this represents, or the name of the miniature. But, the mini is cool as heck and I wish I could get more of these fantastic sculpts someday.

I think I'll give him a showcase-base (IT WOULD BE MY FIRST COOL BASE) and then finish his legs and maybe give another tattoo/warpaint to him somewhere. I'm not sure about the colour of the sash he has under his belly. Maybe there'll be some changes before I call this a finished piece.

Tutorial (well, kind of)

Well, I'm been asked to make a tutorial of miniature painting and especially about the advances of white basecoat, so here's one. Enjoy and feel free to give me further advice how to make these tutorials better!

Let's paint another santa's little helper with blood and stuff.

Step 1: White basecoat over the miniature.

 Step 2: Tanned flesh over randomly picked areas



Step 3: Charadon Granite, Snakebite Leather and Tamiya clear orange and W&N nut brown with water and a drop of dish washing soap.



(Here's a picture of my palette after that mixture - with a little bit of black added for the next mix)


Step 4: The same mix again with a bit of bloodletter included.


Step 5: Again; the same paint mix as before with added Blood letter shade! Added to areas wich looked like in need of reddish tint! In this step it's important to build up gradient with the fles mix as used before. Few light coats does the job.



Step 6: The previous mix with a little bit of added black.... Added to the places I have no idea. The picture tells more. The poxes are painted with black and the eye got a orange glow from Tamiya clear orange over white. Poxes are highlighted with charadon granite. Highlighted some of the muscles with a mixture bleached bone and ceramite white.



Step 7: Finished. Tamiya clear red with black added to the wounds and the previous flesh mix added to deepen the skin tone if needed. The tone is mixed again with a tint of black, and the paint is added to the deepest parts of the minitaure (Under muscles and so on). I also used Clear yellow to pick out some wounds, and made a mixture of Tamiya brown and Tamiya clear red and black to make realistic looking feces. The mix is added between the *cheeks.



And that's about it. As you can see, I use the same mixture of already used mixed and just add something more everytime I wan't to make new tones to the miniature. Using wet palette makes this thing possible and saves your paints and helps to keep the tones earthy!


-Turska

Santa's little helper

Well, here's one of my Germany souvenirs painted. It was interesting to see if I had forgotten how to use paints anymore. White basecoat, green, brown and red washes and a little bit of blood. Few minimal highlights and that's it. Darn I like this hobby!

Next I'll start AGAIN with chaos dwarfs or plague boss (for which I have a marvelous idea!)

Feel free to comment and rant :)

Back from the dead

Okay fellas, I moved back to my home after a three months perioid spent in Germany, and it's nice to see that things in the miniature world have taken huge leaps to the direction of awesomeness. Forge World has released the new Bull Centaurs for Chaos Dwarfs,  GW made new daemons and other things chaos that really pleases me and gives me new hobby motivation! To be honest, I visited the local wargames store quite often to see if there's any new releases, and the new daemons were spectacular in my opinion, and I bought me little souvenirs from Germany... Not beer pints or any other local things of coolness but plastic soldiers:

I have no idea what I'm going to do with the AOW dwarfs, because for me it was only interesting to see the differences between GW's boxed sets and AOW- sets. I think that the AOW Dwarfs' sculpts are phenomenal, but the casting is a bit poor when compared to the newer GW-sets - There's not so many mold lines in the new GW's plastics, but the AOW castings have the same problem what GW had like 7 years ago. Mold lines, mold lines, mold lines in horrible places what you can never scrape totally off.... Argh.

But I think that these dwarfs will join the evergrowing gang of mutants or evil dwarfs, who knows. People of internet have made cool conversions with the AOW Dwarfs and I assume that next I'll fetch my knife and file and start working with them - Let's see what happens.

Also, it's interesting to see if I can paint anymore!

Mindless purchasing - CD edition

Well, after this Germany trip I will totally reward myself with this fella. I'm 100% sure about it. Really; thinking about ordering this piece of resin makes me a little too excited to assemble and paint this piece before finishing Chaos Dwarf infantry that I have, so this must be stored well to my secret collection of unstarted miniatures.

My full-metal Chaos Dwarf army consists of the following ingredients:

24 Chaos dwarf warriors (painted? no? yes? stripped again?)
18 Chaos Dwarf Blunderbussers
20 Sneaky Gits
6 Bull centaurs
1 Sorcerer on Lammassu
1 Lord on Bull taurus (painted!)
2 Heroes
Earth Shaker+crew
Rocket Launcher+crew (Halfway painted!)

At this point my Chaos Dwarf collection is large enough to keep me busy a long time, but here in my secondary apartment I can't do anything to get this project going on - except that in a local hobby store they also have AOW plastic Dwarf Berserkers which have given me a good idea of converting some slaves to the army. Hobgoblins would be cool to own (I have 20 Sneaky Gits with identical poses - oh gosh) but I'm sure that I'd need to spent a fortune to get a playable unit of those guys. The other thing I've decided to order are these three daemonsmiths. I already have few characters of the old range, but I think that these might fit to a special group I'm planning to build.

And how about the new Bull Centaurs? The old ones are tiny compared to them... but that's the policy nowadays - bigger is better. I must agree.

Where am I?

Hullo friends!

The reason for why these blogs of mine haven't been progressing lately is that I moved to Germany for three months (studies abroad) and I'll be moving back to lovely Finland at the end of August. That last week before I moved was the rushiest days of my life, and I was not able to update here NO MINIS FROM 'TurskanPerkeet' FOR THREE MONTHS 'SOB' (reason: hysterical arrangement and endless paperwork). Here I don't have access to internet so often, so this is the first time when I have a little time to write an update here.

I'd move here if it was in Finland...

Home ;_;

I have not any of my hobby-equipment with me here, so the only things I'm able to do here in Germany is to drool the Avatars of War minis at the local hobby store... Maybe I'll take few champions with me. I've also decided that when I come back from here I will buy myself something big made out of resin - with wings and attitude and a rider with tall hat.

Germany is a nice country for it's almost free-like beer from the stores, and people here are maybe the friendliest I've ever met. But as I have grown up in a country where summer is the time when people actually start to live their lives - swimming in the forest lakes, sitting in front of campfires trough the ever light nights, catching trolls in the forest and listening to the sound of the wind- it's hard to me to see that here the nights are cold and dark, there's only one lake and I must live in the city centre... It's nice but different.There's no place like home!

Spirit of the water - a good old friend of mine from the fountain near my home

When I get back to Home, I'll build a fortress out of sofa pillows and chairs, and just paint miniatures inside my citadel until my bones break and winter comes. 

The inner burning flame!!!

I've realized that miniature painting is something that gives me energy - like if you listen a good record or draw a picture or enjoy a horror movie - and three months break is a long time for me ;) I start to feel typical kind of anxiety if I can't just do my own thing, and I've seen that painting miniatures is one of those things.
But, If you have time please feel welcome to visit me here in Germany. I live in City of Hof, and I think there's many nice places to sit down and talk about miniatures or beer drinking.

See ya at the end of August!

Desert planet force

It's been quite a rush last couple of weeks - there's been a lot of things to take care of and I have had no time to sit behind my table and relax with miniature painting. Two days ago my month long summer vacation started and I celebrated the situation with mindless purchasing. I saw very interesting documentary about egyptians and sphinx building, and somehow I got inspirated about Necrons and Metroid games' Chozo ruins colours.

Necrons have always been my favourite race in the 40K universe, don't know why, and desert themed living metal soldiers gave my brain a nice kick to start something unique with the miniatures. GW studio's paint jobs with Necrons are tarher nice but they remind me too much about Matrix. Here's a test (and most likely the last) Necron army piece I will ever have. What a blast to paint but dreadful to assemble! Also I experimented with strippling - in this case foam - and what I see is that the technique suits 40K dudes quite well.

I think that the twin linked tesla coil will be added later to the bottom of the vehicle. There's also few things that I need to fix or finish before I call this all done.

What do you think?

The darker side

Butcher and the slavers

Hello readers!

Here's a project that I started years ago and finished recently. When the first ogre armybook came out, I immeadetly had the idea of a butcher with this familiar steel mask.

He plays the role of Slaughtermaster in my ogre army or a lousy unit filler in my chaos dwarfs army, dunno yet.

Why did I make this piece?
Well, the ogre imagenery is full of harsh pointy shapes, fangs and stakes and so on, and the red fang is a familiar warpaint style on ogres. So, my ogres carry the image of their spiritual leader on their backs - the unholiest killer of the tribe who's face is a mystery. Is he a living dead construct or a genetic test of chaos dwarfs? Who knows.


Your comments are highly appreciated!

I've made three versions of this model. The first incarnation of Pyramid Head butcher was quite catastrophic, and the pyramid looked funnier than I thought and not menacing at all. The second incarnation was better but still not perfect in my opinion. And then, 3 years later I decided to construct the pyramid once more with the looks of Silent Hill movie monster (and Silent Hill 5) with this net-like sides (which really isn't net, it's small square rivets but I was lazy and decided to make this pyramid out of mosquito net. If I someday make newer version of the pyramid, I'll totally do the riveting.)

The pyramid was made out of thicker paper and mosquito net with some guitar wire and knobs from a old toy. There's also little amount of green stuff and a bucketful of superglue...

The blade is  made out of plastic sheet and it's covered with my hair and superglue. The apron is a part of plastic giant kit, I just gave it few stiches anf glued to it's place. That's about it!

The boss of the bosses + random WIPpery

The first warhammer army I got was the mighty Orcs and goblins.

I started to practise painting with the 6th edition army boxset warriors and bowmen and I still have them somewhere. Now a decade later the army is far way from finished but it has some tasty looking units that need a fresh coat of paint. Here's the lord of the army - Gorbad Ironclaw - with a banner of extra manhood and "don't get to my way"-attitude.

The banner was made out of paper and superglue. I also swapped the little horns to curvier ones and added a small moon idol to the top of the stake. I know that the moon is more like goblin's stuff, but hey, what the heck. Maybe this Gorbad fancies fabulous fabrics?

Oh yes indeed he does! That's the reason for the stripey pants (a salute to the Spiky Rat Pack's awesome work with the 40K characters, and with the clown pants)!

Then there's few more or less WIP's of Chaos stuff - Nurgle flyman and Chaos Dwarf rocket launcher. I prefer the inversed rocket more than the original position... I just have to add somekind of weight or anchor to the other side of the rocket or the launching could end up in a horrifying disaster. Heh.















Back to the track with Chaos Dwarfs. I decided to do a test with the shields by adding a piece of paper to the shields back. This looks like that shield has taken some beating and aging, but note that that particular shield is just a test.

Trio of Walrus Fang Warriors

Howdie.

This sunday was happy for the three white primed Chaos Dwarfs that got lost to my table.
Here's a short WIP-documentary about those brave boys:

Notice that the shields are totally not the ones that I'm about to use on the finished warriors :) There'll maybe be converted shields or plain shield with actual markings, not only mess over mess.