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@bunnygurl: Many thanks.

@Sageheart: Cheers. Thanks for the suggestion about the beards as well. I added some highlighting and washes to them so they get a bit more definition and contrast. Hope you like them better now.




Rejoice, masses, for the unforseen has happened - I finished the Nightbringer:










Hope you like it. :-)


....aaand the Dwarfs for that video cast show are finished as well:











Next up:
.) The final chapter in the Saga of Squirrel-paints-Wolves
.) More Chaos Blood Bowl!
.) Discworld Miniatures!
.) Harlequins!
.) Death Korps of Krieg!
.) Empire Army!


...and some bigger things I'm currently in talks over.

See you soon!

The beards are a lot better now. I really like them.
love the nightbringer, only thing I would do differently (if i could paint as well as you!! ) would be too have the scarabs on the ground have red eyes instead of blue eyes so it goes with the robe. But that could be just me.

Looking forward to seeing you paint Harlequins and Empire models! What colors will you be using? Are these all commissions?

Sigur your work is just amazing!! I love your style of blending and true metalic painting style! You make me want to go out and buy some SW now, that is just inspiring on how you paint! Can't wait to see more.

How did you get that seam on the Nightbringer's back to come together so cleanlike?

@Sageheart: Thanks for the compliment and the suggestion. Originally, I had painted the Scarabs' "eyes" red but once I changed the blade's colour to blue, I absolutely wanted another thing to be blue as well to balance the miniature again a little. Otherwise, the scythe's blade would stick out too much. That would be okay on other miniatures, but the Nightbringer is very unbalanced as he is (huge scythe on one side, nothing on the other and slightly bending towards the scythe side). I think it works better that way and helps making a difference between the red of the robe and the scarabs. 95% of everything presented in this painting log is commission work or done with somewhat of a connection to Battle Brush Studios (like promo pieces and so on). Keep the input coming, I appreciate that.

@GreyDeathOne: Cheers. Especially of the SW, you WILL see much more very soon.

@btemple0: part Airbrush, part very, very careful blending with the highlights.





Good news, I finished the Space Wolves today, wrapped them up and will ship them tomorrow!




Just kidding, I'll take some army shots tomorrow.


The Magabotato guys got the Dwarfs by now and like them a lot. (yay!) I'll let you know once the episode in which they're featured goes online.

And I'm on to new projects. First, a figure for pen&paper roleplaying for one of the kindest people in the universe:



He converted the mini and asked me to paint it for him because he just started a fire wizard in WHFRP (I think). Almost done. I'm never too sure about painting flames. What do you think?


Here's the other thing I've been starting with:




Hope you like the stuff for now, see you later!



P.S.: By the way, make sure you visit my Twitter account and/or my Facebook site (yes, I webbed myself up to the 2.0 and am a genuine facebookster and twit now or whatever you call it) for that extra-valuable super exclusive content!

I am so envious of the guy who gets to open those Space Wolves! Can't wait for the pics.

@Manchu: Cheers.

As promised - Army pictures of the Space Wolves!



(in the background: The hinder of the World Wolf)




(from the point of view of Grubgob Bom'ead, Fighta Bomma ace)






Sadly, I can only show you with the infantry all embarked because they all left for the client's place two months ago.

Individual picture of the finished stuff are to follow later!

SW Army looks amazing! Great group shots. I look forward to your new project, as well. That orangutan looks awesome in his scholarly ways.

@Moltar: Thanks muchly, Sir.



First, there's an update on the Discworld minis:


Still a little WIP but getting there.


So here's the finishing individual shots. You've seen some of those already but these are bigger pictures with last minute changes, finished basing and such stuff.



























....and thus ends the Saga of Sigur painting the Big Space Wolves Army.


Buh-bye, pals.


Thanks for your replies and feedback throughout this project. That's mainly what keeps me going.

Next up: Harlequins and lots of other stuffs!

Your customer is going to have a lot of pressure to play well now that he has such a perfect looking army!

i love your painting style in particular the space wolves who look loads better in a darker shade of grey than is typically used.

Kinda sad to see the last of the Space Wolves go, but I'm sure we'll get something awesome in their place.

Could you give me the recipe for the gold on the Wolves? I love its not-in-your-faceness.

Gosh I really like your style of painting. You did a great job with these so kudos to you good sir.

@Manchu: I am without doubt that this customer knows how to play. Thanks for the compliment.

@shingouki: Cheers. I'd almost gone for the regular scheme but then I decided to do something different.

@TiB: It's very basic: Tin Bitz, Shining Gold, maybe burnished gold, maybe some washes (both depending on how large the piece of gold is), highlights with chainmail or mithril. It's pretty simple to pull off and looks great most of the time. You can have a look at my Step-by-Step painting guides (see the big link in my signature. I posted them there and they should also be in the tutorials section here on Dakka). You can get more in depth information there.

@Empchild: Thank you.


Without much further ado, let's proceed. There's more than enough to paint.

Update!


Hope you like them so far and that I can finish them tomorrow.

Tourist dude's hilarious. You're so talented. Love your work!

@bunnygurl: Thank you.


Ze miniatoores are feeneesh'd:










C&C are highly welcome as always.

Alright, let's wrap this Space Hulk thing up next!

Here's what's left to do:
.) Resculpt a little bit that snapped off
.) Finish painting Sergeant Gideon
.) Paint the bases.

First, I'll paint Gideon:



I'd say he's halfway done. If I'm really cool, I'll be able to finish him tomorrow. I'll let you know if I manage to be cool.



edit: Oh, the fire wizard also got a dungeoneerer's base:

I think you're cool no matter what. However it would be pretty freakin' sweet if you finished him.

Damn you, bunnygurl! Soley due to your comment I did not make my coolness depend on whether or not I finish this miniature yesterday so I didn't paint all that much at all!.



Okay, I did not manage to be cool, instead I spent most of the Sunday playing silly computer games and doing administrative stuff.


So here's just a silly old WIP shot of Gideon:


Oh, and remind me not to do these super-long pictures any more. Photobucket always shrinks them down a little. Anyhow, I'll try to get him finished asap, especially as I still have to finish these World Eaters and already got another new army project on the table (apart from several smaller things)....

Last two terminators finished but I totally forgot about that chalice they come with so I have to paint that. Gah.


...and here's the first WIP of the Blood Bowl big guys for the chaos team I recently painted:



These guys are not only awesome looking but also huge.
Hope you like them so far.

wow great stuff!

those chaos models are great! they do look huge. I've never seen those models before, great stuff, haha.

Amazing work Sigur, the luster, shine and depth you are getting on your metallics is fantastic, really a perfect mix. The color choices you are making on skin tones etc are also subtle and refined.

Keep it up! You are absolutely one of the most talented multi-model commision painters out there!

great work!

Where did you get those Dwarves from? They look awesome! So much better than anything from GW or Mantic.

@Sageheart: Thanks for commenting.

@MajorTom11: Many thanks for the compliment.

@IHEARTLARGEBLASTTEMPLATES: Cheers.

@Griever: Better than Mantic's? Yes, I agree. Better than GW's? Hmm, GW have a too large dwarves range to compare it like that. I love GW's older Dwarfs. Anyway, the guys I painted the Dwarfs for got them from Dwarf Tales. It's a polish company I think whose Dwarfs range pretty much is these 9 Dwarves I painted there. They also have their own skirmish system you can download for free on their website.


Alright, I planned to finish the big guys tonight and didn't quite make it due to that little two-headed bugger. So here's another WIP shot:





These minis really are nice. Only shame is that the casting on the small guy is a bit fuzzy.

Sigur wrote:Damn you, bunnygurl! Soley due to your comment I did not make my coolness depend on whether or not I finish this miniature yesterday so I didn't paint all that much at all!.

You're welcome. Anything else I can do for you?

Those Blood Bowlers are sweeeeeeet BTW.

@bunnygurl: Cheers.


This is my latest army commission - an Empire army from Averland (i.e. black-and-yellow guys who serve under a knifewielding nutcase).


Here's pictures of the first part of the army. The mainstray is yet to arrive.






And here's a picture of the testmini I did:


I don't paint these at top level of course. Hope you'll follow along as this army grows and help me with some feedback.


Apart from that, here's another little side project - six more characters from discworld:

That test mini turned out awesome. Averlanders tend to look great with their black and yellow scheme. I have no doubt you'll do them due justice.
Your blood bowlers look sweet too! I'm really diggin' the skin tones

Love the SW from whst i have seen

@Moltar: Glad you like everything so far. Thanks for commenting.

@Torin the Wayfarer: Cheers.



Okay, an update finally. I was pretty tied up with weekend stuff yesterday so didn't get much done then. Today I got more painting done.





To be honest, I never expected these state troops to have so many details on them. You absolutely don't seem them at first but these guys really have loads of of stuff on them. This slows down the progress immensely and they take longer than I planned.

This is the first time I work with the new State Troops. Here's a few observations:

.) Loads of details, as mentioned above. No head options. This is the main downer to me. Some of you may know that the Army I did in fall of 2010 was Space Wolves so maybe I'm a little spoilt in that regard though. As for the overall design, I see that they really wanted to go for a look that resembles late 30 years war soldiers. Some of them have no shoes, they have a very morbid touch and party are overloaded with (probably looted) stuff (knifes mostly). I'm okay with that but honestly, there is a serious lack of puffy arms and impressive trousers amongst their ranks. Not too fond of the new feather design they introduced with these minis. The faces range from okay to terrible. Kit options are very satisfying; everything's there.

.) The Volley Gun is a nice kit; nothing special. I liked the earlier designs better though.

.) The Outriders kit is very good. Head options, all weapon options there and some additional stuffs as well and the horses look very good. There was a positive surprise for me - eversince they were relased, I thought that the legs of the riders were molded onto the horses but they aren't. No idea how I made that up. So there's very nicely suited horses for 40k Roughriders.

So that's all the news for now. See you tomorrow (I think).