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Just sharing new better photos of my Janissa with a better camera ( Nikon D7000 )







I just finished my first ever Trollbloods unit! I present to you my Trollbloods Fennblades Unit!

It took me a while to finish painting these 10 models as I experimented all sorts of painting techniques while I was painting them. My first time to attempt wet blending on the orange skirts, may first time attempting NMM on the yellow bronze parts of the swords and my first time to use both Vallejo Game Color and Vallejo Inks.

The experience was well worth it but the outcome was not something to write home about.

Pretty happy with the look of the models in person but the photos exaggerated my errors and painting imperfections. I think I could do better on my Trollkin Runebearer and my Dire Troll Blitzer as I could apply everything I learned with these models. I think I could paint faster too as I just did not know what to do or how to paint my first few Trollbloods models.

Anyways these models were painted with all Vallejo paints... Model Color, Game color and Inks. Now here are the photos guys, hope you like them.

MORE Photos in my website as usual - http://www.dc23mecharts.com/2012/04/trollbloods-fennblades-version-dc23.html













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I just finished my Trollbloods Trollkin Runebearer and I am pretty happy with the outcome. I actually thought that this was going to be a boring project as the pewter model lacks the over the top details of my previous Trollblood models. What it lacks in details it overcame with it's impressive and intimidating pose though.

I had a bit of hard time differentiating the different " browns " in the model. I made the main cloththe darkest, painted the leather parts redder, painted the scottish cloth more orange than usual and painted the highlights in different colors... ending, they all look the same! lol

I think I am getting the hang of painting minis now. I am still working on my high contrast painting and trying to get used to the idea that almost all the details needs highlights. Totally different than scale modeling where subtlety and realism ( usually just base color, washes and drybrushing ) is the norm.

Anyways... this is my fav of my painted models so far ( although I will say that again in my next ) and will be painting more in the following days. The photos are big for their own good... hope you enjoy them...

MORE in my blog as usual - http://www.dc23mecharts.com/2012/04/trollbloods-trollkin-runebearer-by-dc23.html









This was sort of an experiment as I wanted to give my eventual Khador army a different color scheme other than the standard red. I love the original scheme but wanted to give my Khadors a more military feel to them. Thus I opted to add military ( olive ) green to my Sorscha.

Sorscha will be my basis for all the scheme of my Khador models. Still a lot of reds but with a touch of olive green. Sorscha was speed painted a bit and I finished painting her for around 3 hours. Fun figure to paint except for the face as the left arm is getting in the way of painting the eyes. I managed though and I am pretty happy with the outcome.

Also all my Khador models will be on top of snow themed bases. Green, red and snow makes for a Christmas themed looking Khador army ( lol ). Anyways here are a few more photos... also do rate my photos at my gallery at paintedHOBBIES.com. Here is the link guys...

Sorscha - Khador Warcaster painted by DC23








I just finished painting my first ever Hordes Warbeast! This is the Trollbloods classic ( metal ) 30mm Dire Troll Mauler which is about an inch and one half tall. I had fun painting this one even though it took me a while to like the contrast I did on the blue skin.

I could have done a better job on the prep work before painting but I am happy with the outcome. I should have added more detail painting on the red spike hair but was excited to take photos of it already.

I painted this solely with various Vallejo paints. Primed it with Vallejo grey primer, base coated with Vallejo Model Air and painted with Vallejo Game Color and Vallejo Model Color. Even the Inks and Washes are all Vallejos.

Nothing special with this Dire Troll Mauler as I just painted it with the standard PP studio colors and the base is very simple as I find the model very heavy and cumbersome already.

painted HOBBIES.com gallery

Wow, loving the models. Warmachine/Hordes models are pretty sweet.

@ reps0l, Thank you sir! appreciate it.

Excellent work on the trolls. Love how you did the stones/skin in darker blue.

And I would love to see that blitzer finished (that is probably one of my favourite troll models)

@ Adary, Oh I like them darker...Thank you sir! Hope to start working on the Blitzer again.

MAN!

Not familiar with this wargame but those look awesome.

I am going to research this game, your painting of them makes me want to try my hand at it.

This looks superb, excellent!

@ FatBoy, Thank you sir! appreciate it! I am sure you'll like the other minis from Warmachine / Hordes.

DC23 wrote:@ Adary, Oh I like them darker...Thank you sir! Hope to start working on the Blitzer again.

This color scheme of yours gave me an idea to do my Cygnar way darker blue than studio scheme

Loving the Blue Troll Moses. Your army looks nice. I like the plaid scheme you have going on your trolls. The Sorcha looks good as well.

@ adary, Glad I got you inspired sir! Thanks! btw, just added you to my blog roll.

@ Astroman, Thank you sir! appreciate it very much.

I just finished my first ever Warmachine Warjack. It took me a while as I wanted to give my Khador army a custom color scheme. My primary army is the Hordes Trollbloods that I paint in its original colors, so I thought of giving my Khador army a custom scheme as I am not so attached with the Khador fluff as much as the Trollbloods fluff.

I was leaning on giving it a nice military green color scheme with red shoulder armors. However I saw a few people have done that already. The default everything red color scheme is nice... but I thought Khador being a popular faction will have numerous players with red Khadoran army.

I do not want to steer away from the original Khador color scheme so much, so I thought of giving my army a uniform Winterguard color scheme. Light grey blue with some red armor highlights would blend well with any Winterguard unit and should look good in the battlefield.

I am pretty happy with the outcome of my first ever Warjack. Although I feel I had some bad choice of weathering colors with this one. I am also unhappy with the bronze colored parts as they look so flat eventhough I gave them some washes and gold highlights. I should exaggerate the gold highlights next time as they are not too visible in the photos.

No plans of doing NMM painting on these plastic Warjacks ( maybe with metal ones ) as it would slow down my painting even more. I will stick on this color scheme for a while and see if it looks good on my Man-O-War Shocktroopers unit.

I also customized the gun of my Destroyer as I find the stock gun a bit too short ( see photo below )... Anyways here are some photos of my first ever Khador Warjack...

MORE PHOTOS here - http://www.dc23hobbies.com/2012/05/custom-khador-destroyer-warjack-by-dc23.html

Nice work I like the Destroyer a lot great weathering .

@ AlfonsoTheTraitor, Thank you sir! appreciate the comment.

I have not updated any of my 3 galleries here in my website as I have not been really happy with my miniature painting so far. I have finished a handful of miniature models but have yet to really like any of them. I have been painting miniatures since February this year and I think I only like what I just finished yesterday.

I just painted a Games Workshop, Lord of the Rings pewter miniature model of Sam and Frodo in Orc Armour. I must say that this should be my most fav of my painted mini models so far.

Although I was working on putting vibrant colors to my models to make them pop! I realized that I like models with limited palette and with diffused tones. However this style might not work with table top minis for gaming, so I think I should grab a few more models intended for vignettes and are just for display.

Nothing much to say with this Frodo and Sam in Orc Armour diorama project as it was just a one day quick build. Super fun relax build that yielded pretty good results. Painted with Vallejo model and game colors and washed a lot with Smokey Ink and black game color ink. My photography is crap as always and this piece looks a little better in person ( just a little ).

Anyways here are a ton of photos of my recent work so far...

Great pictures. I especially like the colour choices for your warjack. I'm going to have to paint one of these myself soon!

Nice.

Looks like a Horde of blue Jay Leno's.

(for those not in the states. Leno is a late night tv host with a huge chin).