Ok , this is a very cool (and big) mini that I had the pleasure to paint on commission for a very nice german guy :)
Don't know way  , but it's been very hard to take good pics of this beast , maybe is because of the big wing creating shadows  , the lightning ... I dont know. The base was build totally from scratch , somekind of ancient ruins....
So, here's this "faceless demon" for your viewing pleasure !

Some more warriors done

Phewww I just had a few hours to finish these trio of oldies today. Nothing fancy and the photo is in bad quality as well. Good news, I'm done with the first 10 nurgle warriors, I also primed 6 more today and got most of the skin done on one more dude. Progress is floating along nicely as I'm trying to finish the first regiment by mid January. I feel like I'm starting to get a better feel for glazes and working with mediums, It actually makes painting skin 'fun' again :D

Mr. Bargainer

Okay, I found my Badrukk model from the forgotten pile of miniatures and I gave him new looks with some random plastic parts. Nowadays he's the richest guy from a planet that has only sand and ferocious tentacle monsters under it's surface - He is the guy who makes a fortune by selling tuned up weapons and fancy clothing - Only things he totally understands are the value of good bullets and fabric... He is the fanciest mutant around. You can call him Mr. Bargainer if you wish, he also ha the names like Mr. Shinystuff or Galactic Business Mutie.

He's made to serve my 40K chaos fanatics from the DV set. Conversion and painting took about a day to finish.

Well....How F*****G cool is that beast ?!?

Ok , just got this the other day....and guys i'ts AWESOME and HUGE!!
The upper teeths are not glued yet , as they are so long and will block any further access to the inner mouth.

A rush of inspiration - FW toads more or less done

Hello folks!

I had a ton of inspiration the last days and with the gorgeous FW plague toads in front of me I went to work. The minis have great detail and FW really lives up to the high standard they claim to have. However the choice of minis might have made issues like airbubbles hard to spot due to the nature of the miniature (as well as that I did not have to assemble/clean/glue them). The toads have plenty of character and they have good differences in skin texture which makes painting them a treat with plenty of different boils, wounds, sores and other goodies. My least favorite is the one with closed mouth, I can't put my finger on what bothers me with it but like that one the least of them.

I tried some new brushes from DaVinci  - nova synthetic line size 0 and 0,50. I really like them and only used a smaller brush for the last details. I also used tons of matt medium for the skin and gloss varnish for the gore/blood as well as glazes for texture and fades. I am still learning how to use these techniques but I enjoyed painting with them and I feel a big improvement with each mini completed.

The slime effects were also new for me and created with a contact glue. So far I like it but very few minis will have it as it can easily go OTT. I added it to these as I wanted something to give a feel of them being working hard (like horses froth when they pull stuff etc.) - I hope you get my drift.

 
The minis will be pulling chariots so they are not 100% done but last touch ups will be added when the rides are done.

Thanks for watching
//Erik

Competition Time?

Oooh, shiney new blog header pic, nice!

Anybody thinking of entering the Warhammer Forum Conversion challenge? It's just for fun of course, but I thought it might be a nice bit of friendly competition between us. There's only three weeks to the deadline, so it would have to be done fairly soonish. I am hoping to enter my very basic conversion of a chaos army standard bearer, based on an Avatars of War figure. Maybe you proper converters could show me a thing or two?

Another one to consider is the Massive Voodoo Bananalicious Contest. As I understand it, you can enter up to five pieces, at least one of which must be new. So you could pick three or four of your previous jobs, paint up one or two new figures and enter. A chance for the grimesters to show the painting world what we are made of! What say you?

Plague marines anyone ??

Ok , just a few wip pics of my always on  wip state  W40k chaos marines.

Life in the old dog still

Hello guys, number four signing in.

I have been around for a while now, some of you will know me from the Warhammer Forum, where I contribute as Old Fogey. I also lurk and occasionally add to a few other forums, under various names such as Bagpuss, Nord, Soulseeker and TheGreenMan. Some of you might even know my ancient website, Griffin Painting. It's hardly surprising I get confused so easily! On the basis that I am most likely to remember the name I have used the longest, let's stick with Old Fogey.

One of the problems of old age is PILES. I do have a severe case of piles. Every time I sit down, I jump up again in discomfort, muttering to myself, "I must get those piles of unpainted figures out of the cupboard". So I shamble off, down the corridor, turn right, then left, then realise I am in the toilet so turn back round and go to the cupboard. I open the door, and there they are, glistening dully in lead heaps, piled high in dusty boxes of unclipped sprue, or hidden away behind my precious copies of Pipe Smokers Weekly, Caravan Adventures and Which Walking Stick. Where do I start?

Hopefully, the young uns in this ere blog will be able to help out an old duffer like myself. I have several ongoing army projects that I am likely to add to, mainly Chaos (in all three forms of Warrior, Daemon and Beast), Dwarfs, Orcs and Goblins, and possibly even Elv....no, I can't say the E-word in this grimey place. I also have a simmering desire to paint up hordes of grave guard, zombies, ghouls and yes, I literally do have skeletons in my closet.

So that's what you can expect from this old idiot. Bad jokes, rambling posts and maybe even a bit of painting now and then. Oh, and that picture, it's not really me, though I do have slippers just like it!

Ribbit Ribbit FW toads a comming

Hello folks

I will take the opportunity to welcome our latest member ;) and I will celebrate it with posting some WIPs on the commission I'm working on. These are some lightly converted FW toads with added beastmen chariot harnesses. I added some gs for fat folds etc. to make the harnesses fit more with the toads. The colors were first chosen to match the nurglings but they turned our far to bright and fleshy so I went back and after a dozen of glazes and washes they looked far better. I finished with adding some slime effects (first time for me) with glue around the tongue/ mouth - I hope you like it I'm quite happy with it. There are some details to be fixed but most of the paintjob is done (except the wood etc which is obvious). Final touch ups will be done when the toad gets some wheels.

Thanks for watching
//Erik

4 horsemen of apocalypse

....Galloping this direction!

Okay folks! Our crew has grown again with another grimelover, and now we can officially say that our paintsniffer group is international - and the painters in this site share few common things what comes to this hobby and especially to painting. So now there's people from Sweden, Spain, Great Britain and Finland, but there's still some countries to conquer and unite the grimers!

Let's see what future will show in form of Brushes United (name still in under construction), so stay tuned fellow hobbyists!



-Turska