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Grats on the first place, you did a fantastic job on the whole warband, espeically the Her-itek. I love the use of the infinity model there. It is such a different silhouette to the rest of the warband and draws the eye right away.

The painting on her is top notch. The choice of colours just makes the model pop.

Oh no the dreaded page roll over....

Ccongrats for the best in show, they really are a wicked loo re war band.

EDC

Well done mate! Great result on your always amazing painting, is always a pleasure to see your work and use it for inspiration

cheers, guys
it's always a pleasure when ideas work out...


some of you may have seen this guy already, but for those that haven't, this is Borka Kegslayer, Vengeance of the Rimeshaws, from Privateer Press's Hordes game...
he was my contribution to the Clash for a Cure charity auction this year, an event that raises money for the American Cancer Society...
i had wanted to paint this guy since he was teased in 2014, but never had a chance...
when i was asked which model i would like to paint this year, there was never any question, it had to be the big guy on the bear!!!

i wanted to try and get the feel of the cold northern climes that Borka's Trolls live in, so i went with a blue undertone to everything...
i left out all of the golds of the studio scheme, except for a single gold tooth to put my stamp on the paint job, and shaded everything with blue and purple...







thanks for looking...
i hope you like him...

cheers
jah

I hadn't seen him before and he's really cool! (no pun intended) I like the way you kept him with cool undertones throughout the whole model it gives that snow bound look even if he wasn't riding a giant Polar Bear ;-)

Looking great as always Jah.

Great skin tone and blood effect.

Until the last picture, I was going to ask if it was Borka or the bear that got the gold tooth...

Nice job. also congrats on first place.

cheers, guys...
Borka was a lot of fun to paint

@Desubot: Borka, Astorath, and the Megaboss all won, too...
it was a good day at the con

what could this be???
a bigass axe, and some very green skin...

i tried my hand at painting over un-primed plastic, ala David Soper...
since i paint with very thick paint, and very opaque layers, the bare plastic takes paint just fine...
i think it would be a bit delicate for gaming purposes, but those minis should be varnished to hell and back anyway...
it is a fun experiment, but i doubt that i will be abandoning my black primer any time soon...

this mini is an experiment in using very fine dots to highlight, rather than my usual edge highlights...
it is also a chance to work on very dark green skin, using more olive drab and purple, rather than the usual bright green that GW Orcs are normally painted with...
P3 Traitor Green, Ordic Olive, and Thrall Flesh, shaded with Citadel Druchi Violet, make a great skin tone on this guy...







thanks for looking...
i hope you like it...

cheers
jah

hey Dakka...


carrying on, here is the model that those wicked claws from yesterday belong to...

the first two stages of painting the skin are a solid coat of P3 Thornwood Green, followed by a layer of P3 Traitor Green...
you can see the Thornwood Green on the face, and the rest has had the Traitor Green layer... to get to the final stage, like the hands i showed yesterday, everything gets a heavy wash of Citadel Druchii Violet, a broad highlight of P3 Thrall Flesh, another Violet wash, and then a fine highlight of Thrall Flesh again, using fine dots...

the red can be seen in all of its stages here...
P3 Sanguine Base is the base coat color...
this is shaded with P3 Coal Black, and then layered up with a 1-1 mix of Sanguine Base and P3 Khador Red Base...
i wanted to keep a fairly "oxblood" tone to the armor, so i didn't go any brighter than that with my red mix...
the highlight dots are pure P3 Underbelly Blue...
to tie all of the layers together, make a richer looking red, and tone down the highlight a bit, i gave the armor plates a few layers of a glaze with pure P3 Red Ink...
normally, a glaze will be one drop of ink to ten drops of water, but i wanted the tint to be quite strong, so i didn't thin my ink at all this time...
keeping it to three layers, rather than the ten or fifteen i would do with a very thin glaze, gave me the effect I was after...




thank for looking...
i hope you like him...

cheers
jah

Your Orc appears to have exploded a bit there, jah - I take it there are some bit around the chest being left off to make the painting easier?

Nice tone to the red, and to the skin you showed yesterday.

@Dysartes: cheers, mate, and you are exactly right


the first few shots of the Megaboss where missing some very crucial elements, namely his entire back and front plates, and two kickass skulls...
with the skintones painted, i could glue the rest of the pieces on without having to worry about leaving myself any really hard to reach spots...

before i glued the plates on, i base coated the inside of the big skull, the underside of the back plate, and the inside of the face plate...
the rest was carefully painted after the glue had completely dried...

as you can see, the Bloodletter skull, and the skull necklace have not been base coated in these shots...
it has been an interesting experiment to paint each separate component to completion in this way...
normally a mini is sprayed with black primer, and then i lay down all the base coats, to see if i like the scheme. this time, i just winged it even more than i usually do, and i had to be way more tidy laying down my colors than i ever have been...
i am usually a very sloppy painter for the first few layers, so it was good to be forced to exercise a bit more control for a change...





thanks for looking...
i hope you like him...

cheers
jah

Tidy stuff Jah. Any peeks st what you're working on these days?

Looking good Jah! I really can relate to your painting as I see a lot of similarities (except for the much higher level you do!) which is good for me, i'm a messy painter until nearly the end of a model and I love watching it come together so knowing i'm not the only one gives me hope I can step up to do work like you can produce. That Orruk is a great model and huge with heaps of space to fill with detailed painting, you're smashing it out of the park so far! I like where the armour is going and the purple shades to the skin i'll steal :-)

@Januine: i don't have any pics of what is currently on the table...
there is three Kingdom Death ladies, a Tech-Priest Dominus, and a cool old Rackham Confrontation Dwarf w/ jet pack and a cool cigar all in various states of WIP, though

@nerdfest09: cheers, mate...
i'm sure i steal as much from your work, as you do from mine


here is the recent Age of Sigmar Orruk Megaboss, in all his glory...
this is one of my favorite miniatures in the entire new AoS range, and was one of those rare models that i had to crack open, and get started with, as soon as i brought it home, and damn the consequences...
Brian Nelson did a hell of a job on this sculpt!!!

i'm not sure if the pointillism experiment was a success, or not...
that is up to the viewer, but it was a lot of fun to go crazy with the tiny dots, and i will definitely be trying a lot more textural ideas on future paint jobs...

the rock that he is standing on was an experiment in a loose painting style, with a lot of washes...
i started over a base coat of P3 Greatcoat Grey, a layer of Trollblood Highlight, and then spotty washes of P3 Green Ink, and an all over wash of Citadel Druchii Violet, and then finished off with some spots of P3 Rhulic Gold just for the hell of it...
unfortunately, the photos didn't really capture the gold flecks, but it is cool to see them catch someone's eye when they are looking at the mini, because it is so unexpected...








thanks for looking...
i hope you like him...

cheers
jah

Nice work, Jah. Like the colouration of the larger skull in particular.

The pointillism is good for indicating a rough surface, and would work well with other rough surface painting techniques (that's for smooth model surfaces, not on actual rough surfaces); Tyranid chitin comes to mind, as well as cloth items.

That Megaboss is a thing of beauty, jah-joshua

Epic paint job.

That Ork is super cool, really digging the skin tone you've used and the way you've managed to achieve a lot of depth on colours despite using a relatively constrained spectrum of colours (browns, reds, etc)

EDC

holy cow that is an amazing ork warboss!

cheers, dudes...
i have been having a lot of fun experimenting with painting on different textures lately...
right now i am playing with a snakeskin pattern on the coat of my Skarre bust from PP...
the larger surfaces really. like on this big guy, really need something a little extra...


here is a quick step-by-step of the Magaboss' base...

i had this Epicast base laying around for ten years, waiting for the right model to put on it...
i thought about using it for a Khorne Jugger or something like that, but in the end, there where just too many skulls, even for me...
i finally hit on the idea to just sculpt some rock over most of the base, as a good practice exercise...

i started with the base that comes with the model, since it is slightly bigger, and glued the skull base on top of it...
the crosshatch lines ensure a better grip for the glue...
i'm not a fan of stuff hanging over the edge of the base, so all those skulls had to go...
after a bit of work with the hacksaw, I had a beveled edge that needed some putty to fill in the rough spots...
i used Green Stuff to build up the edges, and pressed a bunch of it over the bones that I wanted to cover...
then it was just a simple matter of shaping it into some rough rock shapes, with some grooves for texture, and some elevation for fun shapes...
the paint would do the rest...







thanks for looking...
i hope it was helpful...

cheers
jah

hey Dakka...

well, it turns out that my step-by-step pics are a little blurry, so they are going to be a bit on the small side to save your eyes the pain of looking at the full-size horror...
luckily, it is a very short process...

i started, as usual, over a black base coat of P3 Primer...
the first layer is pure P3 Beaten Purple...
then i painted in the feather texture using a 3-1 mix of Beaten Purple and P3 Morrow White...
the lower half of each feather was painted with a 3-1 mix of P3 Arcane Blue and Morrow White...
the last step is to deepen the shadows, and outline each feather, with a very thin wash of P3 Thamar Black...

that's it...
quick and simple, but eye catching on the table top...







thanks for looking...
i hope it was helpful...

cheers
jah

Oooh Gorgeous!

Thanks man! Looks so striking and easy to replicate I'll have to have a go

cheers, dudes...
this should be a fun thing to try out again, when Demon Primarch Magnus comes out again at Christmas


here is a little something that I have been playing with in my spare moments..
it beats watching paint dry

this is the Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-Priest Dominus, sculpted by Jes Goodwin...
man, he has still got the magic touch!!!
i can see myself painting a few more versions of this guy, in different color schemes...










thanks for looking...
i hope you like him...

cheers
jah

Damn thats some real pretty stuff...
I really like the red on the orruk.

thanks, kakita...
i am having a lot of fun working on trying a different tone of read each time i use it on a mini...
so many variations to try...


next up in the commission queue, three lovely Kingdom Death ladies...

the Christmas gift-giving season is approaching fast...
i am stoked that my homeboy has commissioned these three minis as gifts for his girlfriend...
i don't think i would ever get a chance to paint them otherwise...
most people hire me to paint Space Marines, so a few pin-ups will be a great opportunity to switch up my style.

these are my first experience with KD minis...
the resin casts are alright...
not quite on par with limited edition Studio McVey resin casts, but are "good enough"...
the detail is certainly there, but there is quite a bit if clean-up needed, and a few warped parts to straighten out...

i've been enjoying painting the very detailed bases, so far...
now it's time to dive in, and clean all these mold lines off of the ladies themselves...




cheers
jah

Nice work on the Tech priest, really fantastic model and you've done a brilliant paintjob.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the Kingdom Death stuff, looks like it'll be a bit of a gear change.

EDC

Oh sweet. i heard about the concept for this commission if im sure which home boy you are talking about.

cant wait to see it pulled off.

That's a properly weathered tech priest! He's looking mighty inquisitive.Pretty interested with this next project.

cheers, dudes
glad you like the Tech-Priest...

@Desubot: yeah, these are for Angry Mike

this is the "proof of concept" for my next commission...
i started with the bases, because they are small, but still give an idea of the three seasons that i want to depict with the color schemes on the Kingdom Death Pin-Ups...

the Autumn base has small red-brown leaves, with mold spots on them...
this was a way to highlight the leaves without just going for a standard lighter tone of the base color, and also lend a "vibe" of the fallen leaves rotting, i hope...
the purple shade on the grey stones is a color that will be used throughout the project to unify the three models...
i was asked to give the Druidess that goes on this base olive green clothing, so i washed the sticks with P3 Ordic Olive to represent moss...

the Winter base, for the Grand Mother, was a bit of an experiment...
i cut the crystals out of some leftover plastic sprue pieces...
the paint job is a different take on the normal smooth transitions that everyone paints on their crystals...
i'm not sure if it works, but it was worth a try...
luckily, if the client doesn't like it, i can just paint over them...
the floor is rough, since it will be covered in snow...

the Spring base, for Apotheosis, was just a bit of fun...
the purple on the broad leaf plants ties in with the other two bases...
the grass is green
the vines were a nice chance to try out more of the "broken line" style of highlighting...






thanks for looking...
i hope you like them...

cheers
jah