Trollbloods Gargantuans in Progress

I am prepping a few small kits and some Privateer Press Warmahordes miniatures for painting for my new Youtube channel this coming weekend. 

I primed and painted this with my Harder & Steenbeck Silverline airbrush with Vallejo polyurethane primers and Vallejo Game Airs a couple of years ago. HERE is the priming blog post and HERE is the painting blog post. I have yet to do hand painting on these. The painting was all airbrushed ( thus the oversprays ).

Yes, a couple of years ago, as I have been really busy with commissioned illustration projects ( including this Trollbloods Poster I sold as art prints ). 

I also gave both a nice Vallejo gloss polyurethane varnish before putting them in a plastic box. 

Fast forward to today. I will be recording on video the rest of the painting process of this Trollbloods Gargantuans. I will exclusively paint these with Vallejo Mecha Colors tho ( and some Vallejo texture and effects paints for the base ). As much as I love my complete set of Vallejo Game Airs, my new Mecha Color set ( unboxing video at Youtube ) needs some love. 

Looking forward to sharing to you here and my Youtube channel the rest of the painting process of these two beautiful beasts! 

Stay tuned guys! Thanks a ton as always for dropping by! Cheers! 

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Khador Unit Kayazy Eliminators

I felt I needed to practice before I paint the Gunpla pilots in front of the camera for my new Youtube channel. So I decided to finish this unit of Khador Kayazy Eliminators. Nothing to write home about, just table top level painting for these two.

I had fun painting the... errr... torso.

Made sure the chest parts pop out well. I might have overdone it a bit, but I like how the upper torso looks on the table. I made the details pop out a bit more with Mecha Color Pure White, mixed with Game Air Bone White. The red parts I highlighted with Model Color Orange Rust and Mecha Color Yellow.

I definitely need better set of brushes. I only have a no.1 workable brush atm. A 00 or even a 000 sable brush would help me highlight the finer details like the hair next time. Decided this is done tho. Will try to do better with better brushes next time. Besides, it could be that I am rusty, as it has been a while since I painted minis.

Lastly, due to my experience in illustrations, I rarely use blacks or dark greys in shading shadows. I usually use purple inks ( specially on my trollbloods ). Purple shadows looks good imho, even when a bit overdone. Much like in illustrations, deep purple shadows in model kits and minis, enhances the base color. Purple ( inks ) shadows even on the ground work looks better for me.

This was also a quick photography test. I need a third light source at the back. I thought 2 strong lights will do. Alas I need 3! Hee hee

Thats's it! I hope you like my tiny little Kayazy Eliminators.

Until next update guys! Just enjoy the hobby!

Cheers!

Shout Outs

I only paint my Gunpla, Miniatures and Action Figures with Vallejo Colors 

I only use Harder & Steenbeck airbrush

I get my tools only from HobbyMate Singapore 

I get my Vallejos and Miniatures only at Neutral Grounds 

Thanks! 

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Warmachine/Hordes Painting - The 50mm Painting Contest

New Monthly Contest!! I know all of us have unpainted models out there and some of us procrastinate the most on the big models! So this month anyone who enters will have 30 days to paint a 50mm model. It can be any figure as long as it has a 50mm base (Example: Epic Borka, Khador Destroyer, Extreme Carnivian etc...)
Judging will start on July 1st where the top 5 Unit's will be selected by the admins. The Best of Show award will be voted by everyone in the group out of the top five. There will be two categories entrants will be eligible for, Masters and Mercenaries. **You may only enter Masters if you have previously entered our painting contests and have placed within the top 5 previously.** Judges reserve the right to move your entry into Masters category if we feel your painting is of high enough level.
Entries will be judged July 3rd at a time yet to be determined by the admin staff.

Join our Warmachine / Hordes Painting group page at Facebook and join the fun! Link below...

Warmachine/Hordes Painting

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Warmachine Hordes Weekend Photo Dump 051815

I was not too productive last weekend as me and my son played a lot of games. We just got the Warmachine PRIME MKII Rule Book ( at long last ) and enjoyed playing the games with an almost complete rule ( my son hates the terrain rules as he plays Khador ). We had to swap armies a couple of times ( Cryx vs Khador ) as he loves my stealth models.

Me and my son also got a few additional units and models for our Cryx and Khador army. I got a Necrotech and a unit of Scrap Thralls and my son got a unit of sexy Kayazy Elminators and a unit of Doomreavers. Obviously we only play assassination games, thus my son requests for assassination models. My son is also requesting for a full unit of Assault Kommandos to counter my Bile Tralls.

I did manage to squeeze time to work with the new models and some commissioned works.

As I am painting a ton of models ( commissioned works and personal army ), I thought I just mix some seldom used old Vallejo paints for the base color of the ground work. Vallejo says that all their paints can be mixed together so I gave it a try.

I used a Panzer Aces color mixed with a Game color Extra Opaque paint, thinned with Vallejo Airbrush Thinner. As expected if you know your medium well enough and is well accustomed to thinning Vallejo acrylics for airbrush use, it will work mighty fine! And it did! Great stuff as I saved my precious Vallejo Game Airs for painting the base color of the ground work of all the bases of the models in the photos below.

I was also able to do a bit of work on my Extreme Warp Wolf commissioned work and pretty happy with the dry-brushing results so far. A ton more updates and surprise Gunpla posts coming soon! Thanks as always for dropping by! Just enjoy the hobby! :)

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Helga the Conqueror Minion Warlock - Commissioned Work

I finished this cool little Helga the Conqueror model at the same time as the Alexia Ciannor and the risen models. Both are primed, hand painted, and varnished with Vallejo acrylics. Nothing to write home about, but I do love the model so much. This is what is so fun about commissioned works, you get to paint and work on models you are not aware of or models that you never plan ( or need to ) buy for yourself.

I feel I painted this a bit darker than usual. The excess washes was the result of painting it at the same time as the risen models which I intended to look dirty. The washes diffused the effect of the highlights in the photos but the model looks a tad better in person. Besides, my painting are friggin zoomed in in these photos ( lol ).

I hope you like my pig ( my client's pig ). Will have more models painted next weekend! Thanks as always for dropping by! Until next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby! :)

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Alexia Ciannor and the Risen Mercernary Unit - Commissioned Work

 I just finished these Alexia Ciannor and the risen Mercenary Unit. These are commissioned works as usual with the website version as my guide for the colors. I tried to give the models a dirtier look with washes and they came out fairly okay. Here is the link to the Alexia Ciannor and the risen at Privateer Press website.

As it is obvious by now, I am not a fan of cork as basing material. I love how other painters make them look so nice and good, but I feel they are not strong enough after extensive game play. Cork base work should be awesome for display pieces definitely, but I am really afraid to use them for models for gaming.

Anyways the concept of the base and the whole unit is to try to make them look like they just came out of the ground. So I glued large pebbles around the models to make them look like so. The ground work are just aquarium sand glued and painted. Nothing special but I think I like the result. I could have painted more highlights on the models but spending even an hour per model is too much for a 24 piece unit!

All the models are darker and dirtier as usual as I painted numerous layers of washes over the models to make them look they came out of the ground. Fairly happy with the rusted looking metallics and very happy with the look of the bases.

I hope my client likes his Alexia and the risen as he gets them today! A ton more models to paint next weekend! Thanks as always for dropping by, Until next post guys! :)

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