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logg_frogg wrote:I have a few good friends in the multimedia/printing business. I can make some cost inquiries for you if you want. I may even be able to get it done for the price of the paper

Oh dude that would be awesome! I've had a look at sites like Moo but they are charging a fair bit for them and I can't really justify spending €25 + on 50 cards, as nice as they would be.

whalemusic360 wrote:Vistaprint is super cheap (at least over here) for cards, and rather customizable.
Glad you are both liking the models. If you wanted a personal set, I've seen them very cheap on the swap shop and other places. This set is not like space hulk where it is 3x the price it was originally. The game is pretty solid, if a bit limited, and the models are great. Good addition for people that like stand alone games.

I'll have a look at Vistaprint now and see what their prices are like, have not checked those yet

I've heard the game itself is actually great fun, I like the idea of GW games that don't end up requiring spending hundreds on additional models, hehe.

Edit: Ack, checked out Vistaprint and they don't do HD uploads, so Pete looks a bit crappy on the cards. This will not do

The problem being GW doesn't like the games that don't end up requiring spending hundreds on additional models

WhaleMusic, thanks for pointing towards Vistaprint actually

They had a bit of a problem taking regularly sized images without making them very low def, so I dregged up my old giant photo of Pete and that looked great minimised

Went for a really clean, simple little card that should make Pete catch the eye really well without the writing taking away from him, here we go



Got 250 of those, a bunch of really nice shipping lables also featuring the pink git, and shipping costs included it only came to €15 Thats really really awesome.

I was going to recommend Vistaprint, but it seems that you've already figured it out The card looks great, too.

Is this a good time to point out you missed the apostrophe, Ifalna? The heading should read "Ifalna's Miniatures"...

The business cards are looking excellent Iffy, Pete's going to become a star for sure.

Love the sea effect as well looks really real.

That Dread is jawdropping! The waters looking really good on the Dreadfleet stuff as well. Nice job on the business cards

Dysartes wrote:Is this a good time to point out you missed the apostrophe, Ifalna? The heading should read "Ifalna's Miniatures"...

No no, don't be silly, punctuation does not exist in my homeland. What is grammar?

I left out everything to keep it looking very minimalistic, hence no full stops either. It's not quite on par with the Paul ALLEN card, but I would rather not induce the wrath of a psycho either. Ya know?

Ifalna wrote:I left out everything to keep it looking very minimalistic, hence no full stops either.

Strange - I count four full stops on that card...

Awww cmon, the addresses can't count!

Dysartes why so mean? Why

Not mean, Ifalna - pedantic...

Im not going to lie.. but I think you picked the perfect spokes squig for your commissions.. just saying.. he's(she's?) awsome!

Dysartes wrote:Not mean, Ifalna - pedantic...

I will have to let you away with it then. This once.

Rogue Wolves wrote:Im not going to lie.. but I think you picked the perfect spokes squig for your commissions.. just saying.. he's(she's?) awsome!

You can't go wrong with Pete. I figured he was ridiculous looking enough to counterpoint using a very basic understated card (cause it was cheaper ohohoho)

More work on more tiny boats tonight Another huge shot. Could have actually started on the boats but I'm not really meant to be painting at all right now so I am being awfully bold already.



Seriously you can zoom so far in it is madness. Your eyes may get wet.

Count yourselves lucky, that card is in ENGLISH, as opposed to her actual accent...

It isn't often you see a boat that says...

*puts the full stop on business contacts*

Glad you got that sorted hopefully it works wonders for ya!


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Dysartes wrote:It isn't often you see a boat that says...

I suddenly want to wear parachute pants for some reason.....

Your Bjorn is breathtaking!

@Ifalna: I'm not sure what you meant by the water being primarily dark for the ships. There seems to be enough waves and wakes there. It wasn't noticeable with the small coin-sized base, but with the bigger ship bases, I can see how the gloss varnish catches the light, creating the illusion of water (albeit water frozen in time). And while pusing in looking at detail, I'm amazed at how detailed the ships really are. These really should look fantastic painted up.

Wow ! I only discovered this blog now, and it looks fantastic !

Your painting is clean, with lot of contrast and bright and vibrant colors. I particularly like that orc shaman with the wood mask and all that feathers (is that Wurzag ?). He looks wonderful, I need to put so much colors on an ork myself !

Keep going, for our eyes sake !

Briancj wrote:Count yourselves lucky, that card is in ENGLISH, as opposed to her actual accent...

How dare you m8 mi english is so good.

Dysartes wrote:It isn't often you see a boat that says...

Aww man.. can I not touch that boat anymore?

Cutthroatcure wrote:Your Bjorn is breathtaking!

Thanks dude Owner was super happy with him so I am too. God he was a real effort, learning as you go with a mini is pretty hard!

Dicrel Seijin wrote:@Ifalna: I'm not sure what you meant by the water being primarily dark for the ships. There seems to be enough waves and wakes there. It wasn't noticeable with the small coin-sized base, but with the bigger ship bases, I can see how the gloss varnish catches the light, creating the illusion of water (albeit water frozen in time). And while pusing in looking at detail, I'm amazed at how detailed the ships really are. These really should look fantastic painted up.

I think the bigger ones just look a bit darker cause they lack the white peaks right in the center like the wee one has. It's not a bad thing, they do all look like they are sailing the same water so it's working out well Gloss varnish is an amazing tool that I don't see used that often. Painting it inside mouths and on eyes can make such a difference to a model, and it only takes a second to do!

The ships are crazy detailed alright, the murals on the church are insane. Looking forward to detailing

Minus wrote:Wow ! I only discovered this blog now, and it looks fantastic !
Your painting is clean, with lot of contrast and bright and vibrant colors. I particularly like that orc shaman with the wood mask and all that feathers (is that Wurzag ?). He looks wonderful, I need to put so much colors on an ork myself !
Keep going, for our eyes sake !

Welcome aboard! Glad you have enjoyed it so far I do indeed love strong colours and contrasts, I always have the most fun when painting them

There is a loooottttt to come, wait and see!



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Ooooo I just found an old metal SM chaplain on a bike on my closet, going to paint him up to tabletop while watching movies tonight and then throw him on Ebay

Don't worry people who have sent me mini's, I'll be back doing proper painting tomorrow I allow myself to be silly on weekend.

Wow Iffy the water on those boat bases is amazing, when you zoom in you get the urge to dip your fingers in (or toes if your that way inclined).

GiraffeX wrote:Wow Iffy the water on those boat bases is amazing, when you zoom in you get the urge to dip your fingers in (or toes if your that way inclined).

Haha, cheers They look super wet irl because of the gloss effect, it works really well and is so easy to do, I swear!

Quick shot of mr marine after cleaning, priming, and the first airbrushing-



Have his metals down now and starting on shading/highlighting. He will look very different shortly.

Looking forward to the updates on this guy. Its been said before but the water effect looks great on those boats. Its like looking out to the North sea from my window.

I'm intrigued, Ifalna - why all the blue on a Chaplain?

Well Dysartes, I could probably make up a big long complicated and slightly believable reason for it, but in reality it is because



When I sit down to paint something for funsies I basically just grab whatever colours I want and go for it. I usually regret this later when someone points out to me that LOTD are not actually yellow, or that Orks are by nature green and not pink.

I'm going to have to start actually running things through you guys first before I start painting something for fun, but I'm enjoying this guy wayyyyy too much to stop now

This is his bro that was in the same box as him, has the exact same paint scheme as the guy I'm painting had before I started the repaint -



Brought to you by the same artist that painted this -


And here is where the chap is now



Moving onto his highlights.

Sounds like he was painted up as a White Scar, then.

Aye, usually, Chaplains have black armour, hence my intrigue.

Looking amazing Iffy!

So long as you put some black accents on him (like the right shoulderpad) you should get away with it.

Iffy you should strip the other biker down and repaint him the same colour (White Scars), would be fantastic to then have a before and after shot.

I remember when you first showed us the man of gold lol.

Chaplain is looking good if rather blue, I 'd go with a black right hand shoulder pad as Vit says above.

OK! His right or right when looking at him?

I take it you mean the blank shoulderpad?

Traditionally a chaplain wears entirely black armor only displaying chapter colours on the right shoulder pad such as this:



Librarians and apothecaries are traditionally coloured similarily with the main armour colours being blue and white respectively.

In more recent lore we have started to see these charcacters wearing compant colours with the right shoulder board displaying traditional armor colour.

Hope that helps a little.

more info on chaplains here:

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Chaplain


Regardless he is looking awesome so far! I'm stoked to see the final product!