Hey all,

It's that time of year again. I have been painting full time officially for five years last April, so this will be my 5th one of these reviews in some form or another. Although I am the one painting all these models, even I am surprised when the main army images are all laid out, both in the quantity and varying styles that have rolled through my hands.

So sit back and enjoy. Nothing to read or think too hard about here, just a lot of pictures! As usual for even more images, check the website or blog.


















































































































































































Until next year!

Dear sweet jesus, You are an amazing man/Group
Exhalted +1

Well thanks!

And its just me. A lot of people assume I am a couple or more people, but I am too particular with how I do things, I'd end up wringing someone's neck.

Speechless, breathtaking, inspiring.

Care to share your secret on the yellow marines ?

Jaw dropping excellence at the sheer number of things painted!

Really like those White/Purple Inquisition. Know where I can find more pics of those? i especially love those non gw models I spot (one of which I can remember being a warmachine mage hunter assassin)

Well, that's about 10000% more than I've ever done, and it's painted about 500% better to boot

You have some great painting skills!

I'm floored by this. Are these all the armies you have done over the last 5 years? I'd be lucky to have done one of the smaller forces pictured in a year or so. Let alone all these in only 5 times that.

Utterly stunning work. Bravo, exalted.

 Snrub wrote:
I'm floored by this. Are these all the armies you have done over the last 5 years? I'd be lucky to have done one of the smaller forces pictured in a year or so. Let alone all these in only 5 times that.

Utterly stunning work. Bravo, exalted.

No just 2012. January to December of last year.

And thanks for the kind words to you and those above you. Glad you all like the armies.

The amount of high quality work you have here is almost unbelievable. Can't wait to see what you post next!

That Thousand Sons army is off the chart. Big fan of your work and didn't even realise it was you that did the Munchy Gutsmen, which is just genius. Dunno how I missed that Slaanesh army either. Stunning work, cheers for sharing.

Well, holy crap that's a lot of painted minis. Very nice display design, there.

Awsome, awsome and cool too.

Thanks for posting, its what this hobby is about ( for me anyway), sharing your work to inspire 95% of the rest of us.

Keep it up.

Mother of god.... thats amazing

 GMMStudios wrote:
No just 2012. January to December of last year.

And thanks for the kind words to you and those above you. Glad you all like the armies.

ALL IN ONE YEAR?

Wow.


Actually you know what, its makes sense now. I remember commenting on the purple and silver Grey Knights. And i followed the 5 Titan blog with great interest. I also remeber seeing the Chaotic Blood Angels. Seriously though all these armies in one year is an impressive feat. Especially to such a high standard.

I think I have been stalking the photos of that blood angel army at least once a month since you first posted it, and I'm still finding new stuff in it that impresses me, and then you go and post this lot! How the hell am I supposed to find the to slobber over all of those!

Any chance you could share some wisdom on how you got the colour on chitin on the green and grey Nids?

Oh wow, truly amazing! You've been keeping VERY busy by the looks of it! Inspiring work

You should work for Playboy touching up bodies. Nice work Sir

The amount of quality work you manage to pull out is obscene... It would take most people a year just to put out of the boxes the models you managed to paint beautifully. Wish you health and more great results for 2013

I had seen all of these individual armies and been floored, but I had not realized that you did all of them. I can't wait to see what you do in 2013.

Still can't believe how managed you get to paint each year and to such an incredible standard. I wish I could see you paint a full army like this just to pick your technique since this is truly amazing

Holy Gristle army is easily the most creative, beautiful, and amusing army I have ever seen in Warhammer or otherwise. And I've seen many over the years.
Bravo, sir!

One years work for one person.....

Speechless.

The Munchy Gutsman and BA/chaos armies are still my top 2 of 2012, possibly of ever. I have to go back and look at their thread every so often to show other people, or just refresh my admiration levels.

The sheer volume of productivity and completion that comes from your studio in a single year is more than 20-30....maybe even 50 other players will accomplish in a lifetime! Just incredible, I dont know where you find the time to do this, but im assuming you have painted so many armies by now it must be like clockwork for you. the colors, the effects you use....all of it is spot on. Your thousand sons army still remains the best, most creative/personalized army ive seen this yr. That army in just phoenomenal! I look foward to your productions in the 2013 year; your work is a big influence and inspiration for people on this site to continue painting and persevere through their own miniature projects.

Jaw. Dropping.

You win the internet for a month.

Wow you guys are making me blush!

 Element206 wrote:
I dont know where you find the time to do this, but im assuming you have painted so many armies by now it must be like clockwork for you.

This.

I have done it so much now there is none of that frustration, mulling about, anxiety, just 100% enjoyment,

I suppose it's like working on a car, or anything like that. It is pretty knuckle-destroying sort of frustrating for a new person, but for someone who does it all the time as a professional there are no surprises, can just enjoy it.

Wow man, just wow. Amazing armies, really inspiring stuff.

You're an inspiration to the hobby. You make me want to keep striving for improvement in painting. Here's to a good 2013 for your studio.

Utterly Utterly mind blowing. The quantity and quality of models is incredible.

Can't wait to see more from you in 2013

exalted. beautiful work.

watched your blood angel project, as well as the 5 titans, the purple GK

just amazing stuff.



+1 to you winning the internets for a month.

When do you find time to sleep? How on earth could you paint all that in a year!?! Amazing work. You are my new idol

[Latin]Vidi, Veni[/Latin]

the grey knight army looks amazing. as does the plauge imperial guard.

They are all amazing though

I Almost can't believe the quality of these armies, i was oo-ing and awe-ing through out this whole page. WOW! i don't believe i could pick a favorite out of all of these, because they are all astounding!

Just incredible body of work. I particularly liked the nurgle guard you posted recently, but with that first 15000pt blood angel army which i first seen around september, you probably single handedly inspired me to build an army again and get back playing 40k for the first time since 2nd edition. I've pinched a few of your ideas, I hope you don't mind too much. A real inspiration, so thanks. Looking forward to a productive 2013... for both of us.

Truely inspirational stuff! The traitor guard look awesome

Your stuff is consistently brilliant, it's quite depressing how someone like yourself is painting dozens of basic troop models that are far better painted than my painstakingly painted character models, lol!

I've seen most of these on here before but must have missed the Thousand Sons. I absolutely love the sand effect on the vehicles, consider it copied! (Probably badly.)

Holy s**t batman....... that is absolutely awesome. I wish i had a fraction of your skill, let alone being ableto do it it that timescale!!

Oustanding.

OMG, I don't know what to say. Great job is not even enough.

 HumanSupreme wrote:


Oustanding.

First post of the century.

Eldercaveman wrote:

 HumanSupreme wrote:


Oustanding.

First post of the century.

First post evah. I've been needing to register an account on here for a while, but this thread finally pushed me to do it.

Just echoing what everyone else has said... fantastic job. I hope your back/posture hasn't suffered from all that painting! And there certainly is a lot of it (and all of it is simply amazing).

 HumanSupreme wrote:

Eldercaveman wrote:

 HumanSupreme wrote:


Oustanding.

First post of the century.

First post evah. I've been needing to register an account on here for a while, but this thread finally pushed me to do it.

Wow! Well thanks and I am glad to have inspired!

This is the thing I look forward to the most at the start of a new year. Honestly, words cannot describe the amount of respect I have for you and your work.

Each army is an absolute masterpiece, and they're all equally amazing (although the Munchy Gutsmen hold a special place in my heart).

Don't ever stop doing this.

This boggles my mind knowing that one guy painted ten times more miniatures in a year than I have my entire life.

Your work is awe inspiring -

1k sons are still my favorite! I really like your style.

ohmygodsandonthetanksTHATISSOAWSOME!!!

ohmygodwingsonthetitanTHATISSOAWSOME!!!

Absolutely stunning. I'm just wondering, if you painted all these within 365 days ( a year ) doesn't that make like an average of atleast 2-3 miniatures per day the whole year even if you painted every day? Depending how many miniatures there are ofcourse with all those armies, but there's like tanks and everything. Routine must be pretty solid.

By Odin! Well done, extremely nice work you do, do you take on commissions from customers in other Nations?

 Trondheim wrote:
By Odin! Well done, extremely nice work you do, do you take on commissions from customers in other Nations?

Thanks, and 90% of my work is done for people outside the US. I have had customers in every continent, and in every country your average person could name off hand.

 GMMStudios wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
By Odin! Well done, extremely nice work you do, do you take on commissions from customers in other Nations?

Thanks, and 90% of my work is done for people outside the US. I have had customers in every continent, and in every country your average person could name off hand.

People in Antarctica are ordering armies from you!? That's awesome

I finally had a chance to see some of your work in person rather than on the internet and I have to say, while the pictures are a great quality nothing compares to seeing the work in person.

Haha, you caught me! No penguins are not playing 40k

That's just insane! I spend 4-10 hours per fig, while with that many figs you probably spend like 4-10 working days per army! I've about 15k points worth o' stuff to assemble and paint, and I'll be lucky if I'm finished by the year 40 000. But it's good to see someone can do such feats in a short order of time, and to such level of quality as well.

 GMMStudios wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
By Odin! Well done, extremely nice work you do, do you take on commissions from customers in other Nations?

Thanks, and 90% of my work is done for people outside the US. I have had customers in every continent, and in every country your average person could name off hand.

Well good to know, I might contact you in the future then.

Truly awe-inspiring work man!

Rr....Gr....... Huh......?


I need to paint.

Well there's only one thing to say really. . . . . ban him! He's making us all look bad!

I hate how everyone throws out the word 'epic" these days but damn this is "epic!" I don't know how you didn't get bored painting all these troops.

Consistency. check.
Clean edge highlighing. check.
Good colour composition. check.
Subtle touches that make each army unique while still sticking to appropriate "fluff". check.
Awesome website which holds even more pictures. check.

You sir, are a true inspiration and something that I, as a hobbyist, can only aspire to become.

Thank you very much for the kick in the pants.

These pics are amazing. I must say sir, you're work is very impressive!
I think my most loved pic has got to the your Thousand Sons army. The dusty sand covered concept gives the army a great depth and character. I also love the Valk Copter conversion. So simple, and yet it works so well. Congratulations on a great year - here's to this year being even better!

Absolutely incredible work. You are such an inspiration to myself and dozens of members on Dakka Dakka alone, never mind all those that log onto your website every month. I feel privaliged that would share such amazing work with us here on Dakka.

Thank you and here's to a productive 2013, cannot wait for your upcoming work!

Just out of interest, do you paint just for yourself? Or are you fed up by the end of the week?

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:
Absolutely incredible work. You are such an inspiration to myself and dozens of members on Dakka Dakka alone, never mind all those that log onto your website every month. I feel privaliged that would share such amazing work with us here on Dakka.

Thank you and here's to a productive 2013, cannot wait for your upcoming work!

Just out of interest, do you paint just for yourself? Or are you fed up by the end of the week?

Thanks!

Yes I take a month or so and do my Adepticon army every year, and I do piddle around on my own stuff during the rest of year. But really my itch to create is scratched by commissions so I just don't often feel the need unless there is an army I really want to play. I currently have at least a dozen armies as well, so I have plenty to play with.

And no I never get sick of it, in fact if I go more than a couple days without painting I get mild withdrawals!

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
Well, that's about 10000% more than I've ever done, and it's painted about 500% better to boot

Yep. I can scarcely comprehend producing that quality or that quantity, let alone both. Even the presentation is mind-blowing, both in terms of photography and the background terrain (even discounting the dedicated display boards). It must take ages to set up for a photo session.

Your work is disgustingly pretty. I don't even know where to start. The Alligator people look amazing, the subtle grey carapaces on the Tyranids looks oddly appealing, and the dust-covered Thousand Sons vehicles look fantastic. I didn't managed to take everything in all on one go, but overall you are a massive inspiration, and I'm intending to crank out my Ork army pretty quickly, You've proved it can be done without sacrificing quality.

 oadie wrote:
It must take ages to set up for a photo session.

It does take a bit, but I do have a routine, and really thats half the fun so I dont notice so much.

And thanks for the compliments.

Those armies are stunning. inspiring stuff! thanks

Not sure who is crazier, you or the client! Awesome work dude, hope 2013 is even better

Everything looks really great. I am jealous of your painting time. How do you do it? Do you you just paint? I mean do you have a day job or anything or is painting your full time job? If so you must never actually work because that is too badass to be "work" lol. BTW I love the sandy Thousand sons and that display board with the hatchet and the wood. WTF your killing me here. great stuff. My lips are gonna be chapped from all of this butt kissing so i better go.








Great job!

Looks like witchcraft to me, the paint has clearly been enchanted to jump straight out of the pots and create the most stupefyingly magnificent armies imaginable.

Absolutely brilliant, not sure anything in my stack of 25 years of White Dwarf matches, well, any of your armies. Beyond superb somewhere.

How is this even humanly possible? How many hours a day do you spend painting? I am seriously asking.

Such a great collection of inspiring endeavours.

MY fave piece is the display board with the hatchet stuck in it, increadibly eye catching and really mood evoking for the army displayed.

TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!!!

I love the necrons man! Insane, hypothetically, what would that necron army run someone to have painted like that?

*clicking website to view more pics* hah

 Xenocidal Maniac wrote:
How is this even humanly possible? How many hours a day do you spend painting? I am seriously asking.

Not as many as you think. When you have painted as much as I have, most of the time saved is just not having to think about it. As I posted before it is like being a mechanic. A shade tree mechanic is going to spend 2 hours on 1 rusted bolt and be cursing and swearing, whereas a full time mechanic that enjoys it has done so many cars he can do the whole job in the same amount of time and half asleep.

Great stuff!

Any idea how many points you painted up in 2012?

I would be surprised if it were under 100,000 points. I never really thought about it, so I ran down the images and did a rough count. Smaller armies I estimated conservatively at 2000, anything Privateer as 1000, and with the Titans and recent two armies it should easily top 100,000+ if you put it all in army builder.

Great question, it made me think, as I never really thought to take a guess at it. Thanks

The accolades for all of your work have already been richly and justly provided by others. I would just like to say that out of all of this amazing work, the guy with the coconut halves from the "Munchy Gutsmen" really is delightful

So is this just a side job for you? How much time per day to you think you spend painting?

This thread makes me emotional, there is so much well done stuff here, every time I look I am still just completely mystified. Bravo Sir.

You've got some amazing paintjobs here, and nothing subpar to speak of. Every army is unique and beautiful, and that's a staggering amount of output for one year. I do have to say though, one particular army caught my eye:

The army is too small for me to really see, and I'm not really into the world of square bases and ranked formations, but the presentation on this army is excellent. I don't know if you were responsible for it, but that display board is fantastic.

I guess this is your job, but still dude, that is some prolific high grade painting right there.

My army has had 3 codexes and I STILL have more unpainted than painted models.

Top stuff, and here's looking to 2013!

Warhammer 40K porn right here.

Words can't describe the quality of all these armies. If i could paint one model to the quality of all of yours i'd be a happy man! Well done, hope to see some more examples of your work.

How many hours a day do you work out of curiosity? After three hours my back starts to hurt lol.

Paint-spiration. Wow.

 bbb wrote:
So is this just a side job for you? How much time per day to you think you spend painting?

No it has been my main job for 5 years, and probably 5-6 hours.

Incredible. I'm don't even know what else to say that hasn't been said, or could even do justice to what I have seen in this thread...

No just 2012. January to December of last year.

Stunning work GMMStudios, all the best for 2013!

 chrisyella wrote:

No just 2012. January to December of last year.

Stunning work GMMStudios, all the best for 2013!

Thank you and same to you!

Wow! colour me impressed.

Thats an astonishing body of work, i can get maybe 1 army like that out a year and even then its not as well painted.

Inspirational stuff sir

This is the thread to end all threads. I'm giving up.

I cannot express in words how inspirational and incredible this is. You achieve more in a year than most hobbyists do in their lives. Fantastic.

I'd definitely commission you (if I had money XD)

Holy crap! I never manage to paint a hundredth of the first pic in a year! To produce that much at that quality is truly amazing work.

Out of it all, I have to say this piece is my favorite purely because of the mood it portrays because of the display. Wonderful.

I am in awe to your painting prowess and dedication. Simply, I find it hard to paint up a single squad in a year. I could never imagine painting that much in a year.

Please, take some exhaled 1+ internet credibility, to boost your internet ego and hopefully the number of armies you are able to churn out this year.

The only thing I don't like about this thread, is that I can only Exalt it once

Awesome job, where do you find the time to paint all that?

 Viersche wrote:
Awesome job, where do you find the time to paint all that?

By having an Awesome job, like you said

Do you sleep??

WTF man, this is about the best painting seen yet, your lightning effects are absolutely stunning.

Pulling all that off in a year is truly awesome. Great job.

Good Afternoon,

I have to know, the armies listed are they ones that you painted for other people as commisions or are they your personal armies?

Thanks

Cpt. Rex

I'm absolutely blown away by this thread, the scale and quality is unlike almost anything else I've ever seen let alone the amazing variety of styles and models...

That said, what really makes it stand out is the photography, so nice to see stunning painting married to some top notch photos, no blurry phone pics anywhere to be seen, bliss! ;D

Excellent work. The paint job is stunning.

That really is incredible what you've done. Both the quality AND quantity! I think you deserve some kind of medal.

How do you stay motivated? Is it just a case of *really* liking painting, or is there some secret you can share?

You are inspiring, dedicated, gifted, hardworking simply amazing, i must say the layout with the axe was very nice, the black metal hangars and buckles was a brilliant touch, and you used the blood drips very particular and it showed, very nice touch, you have a wonderful eye for detail, i particularly like the sand bags you did on top of some of the imperial tanks. I also think the ogryn with the burlap sacs over their heads look with the gas hoses is just amazing, so creative.

Skarwael wrote:That really is incredible what you've done. Both the quality AND quantity! I think you deserve some kind of medal.

How do you stay motivated? Is it just a case of *really* liking painting, or is there some secret you can share?

Well thanks!

And yes, I just really love to paint. I get withdrawals if I don't do something with modelling and painting every day.

omg... Fantastic! :-o