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Orc complete as promised. Hurray for being able to meet deadlines!



Yeah, this is speed-painting for me: 2 nights of labor This model really grew on me: I enjoyed painting him, he has an obscene amount of details but funny enough the axe is far too flat. It's just a piece of metal with no details. I decided to try and create some runes of some sort to spice it up a bit, all jagged and sharp looking, ya know, Orcs!

(My original plan was to paint the Horde symbol but after a few attempts, gak, change of plans!)

Troll is currently WIP. This guy is being much easier and faster but I'm done for today: It's Ar Tonelico time!

Haven't heard of that one, but there are plenty of JRPGs that have slipped through my grasp over the years.

Orc is kicking ass there TDL! I think the face looks just fine after you got your hands on it. I like the extra effort you put in, it shows! The troll is blocked in with good base colors for a troll, making me nostalgic! Can't wait to see more but I can understand the video game break, think I may go have one myself

Ar Tonelico is being one of a kind game. In the game's universe, Songs are very important and powerful, they are "Magic", hence the Soundtrack of the 3 games is magical. Eck, the "main objective" of the 2nd game is discovering the Song of Metafalica, a Song that allows you to create new land. A new continent, really

And thanks for the compliment I'm glad I'm able to provoke a nostalgia attack because the same happened to me

You can provoke all the nostalgia you want, as long as one doesn't dwell on it or try to recapture lost glories, it can be healthy

As long as it doesn't get me to play wow again, meh time sink

Game sounds neat, may have to add it to my backlog, but its a pretty long list

Oh, I know the feeling Unfortunately (or thankfully) it all went downhill for me since WotLK. Burning Crusade was a spectacular expansion and had lots of fun with friends. WotLK was so, meh.

Good to know there are other people with gigantic backlogs. Me, I blame Steam Sales. Every time there's a sale, my wallet gets raped. I have a huge backlog here and lots of older games I wish to play. And loving to paint minis isn't helping either

By the way, here's one of my favorite musics from Ar Tonelico. A shorter version is used for the game openings. I think all 3 of them have an almost exact version of this song. Suffice to say, I may boot the game over 100 times until I see the end, 95% of those times I'm going to watch the opening.




Progress: Troll shaded, gonna work on some highlights and I'm done for today. Hopefully tomorrow I finish him

Steam sales kill me too. I was good this year, I only got two games, and I'm something like 70-80% done with the second one

Still have a couple dozen laying around from last year though!

That song is pretty, and interesting. It isn't quite my style but it makes the game sound pretty interesting.

*whip crack* now get to work on those highlights

^^ Paint.NET is a great free proigram. give it a try. Also looking good tdl!

Lovely colour scheme on the Infinity mini, and the WoW stuff looks great as well!

Nice work on the WoW minis, you researched your brief and picked great colour choices, a skill not praised enough IMO! That Infinity mini is rather cool too, if I didn't have so much on at the moment, I wouldn't mind getting into Infinity. Ace and original choice for your necron's scheme too, great work, will be following your progress

@Largeblastmarker Thank you! Always nice to see you dropping by!

@Pacific Thank you! Glad you enjoyed my crazy colors for a Ninja, I really wanted something a wee bit different

@BlessMyBeard (ah! awesome name!) Ah, thank you! I did try to make it as WoW as possible. Thanks to my many hours of gaming in Azeroth and the character cards, I had a good base to decided my colours . Thanks for all compliments, and like I said at GrimDork's blog, I too want to see your commission!

I want to thanks everyone who ever "lurked" here or replied. It really helps to keep our motivation going when we see other people enjoying it as always C&C is welcome!

Moving on, about my Wow "commission": Concerning the lack of updates, as I posted in GrimDork's blog (shameless advertising! ), life threw me one heck of a curveball and I spent around 30-ish hours of the weekend in work-mode and as you can guess, this event shot down my painting deadlines with extreme prejudice. I said to my friend (the client) I would have the Tauren finished by... today.... and "today" ended 2 hours ago. Thankfully he worked at the same place I currently work, so I'm sure he'll understand, but still, it got me a bit bummed I didn't manage to keep with my promise.

Anyway, here's the fully painted Troll Rogue! I decided I wanted to highlight black with something other than gray. Thanks to Kris from MiniWarGaming I discovered how beautiful the "Incubi Darkness" together with Sotek Green is. I think I exaggerated a bit down there, but in "real life" it isn't such a shocking contrast as you see in the pic! The green glaze is to add an extra touch to the blades by simulating poison


And finally, here's the Tauren Hunter WIP:


That's all folks! Now I gotta go because I wake up in 5 hours for more work I should have gone straight to bed but I really wanted to post an update.

A vision of troll loveliness! I think your friend can surely accept a little delay for the obvious increase in quality over the initial request.

Bummer about the worktastrophie, got a mini one myself. Definitely puts your schedule off!

You've just got a wee lil tauren and you're in the clear. Are these lovingly painted minis going to get some basing or was that not part of the commission?

Good luck at work, working tired sucks!

These are the first 4 of 12 Once the Tauren is finished I'll probably have a small break to start painting an Ork Big Mek for a friend.

Curses, I don't know when I'll be able to continue with my own But no worries, I love painting, even if they aren't mine.

My friend didn't ask for bases, so I'll just fix them by painting black. If he regrets his decision I'll be happy to later on base them properly.

I truly hope today is a bit more "normal" and I'll be able to continue with the Tauren, lack of sleep be damned

Ahh yes reading back I see 'first 4' there's proof of my poor retention! In any case, good luck getting back on track!

Some good looking stuff, TDL.

So, very small update! After finally sleeping a very decent amount of hours and having a gaming day, I managed to finish the Tauren Hunter. After taking this picture I noticed the small black dots on his hoof. This has been corrected and varnish has been applied to all 4 miniatures:


All together now:


Not my best photography work but I admit I was completely fed up with the Tauren. It was a very frustrating miniature to paint and yet I can't explain why it was so tough to paint it.

So, what did I learn?


So, for my next work I'm going to paint an Ork Big Mek for a friend, BUT, this is going to suffer a small delay. This is why:


It's time for my Guardians of the Covenant to get some reinforcements! I'm going to assemble the bikes and the leftover Tactical Space Marines and Librarian from my Dark Vengeance! I'm going to a "Combat Patrol" tournament this next saturday and I feel it's the perfect opportunity to try out my GotC for the first time.

(And I'm seriously considering jumping on the bandwagon with the new C:SM release. Everything looks AMAZING).

So, that's all folks! Thanks for looking and until next time!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
It's time for my Guardians of the Covenant to get some reinforcements! I'm going to assemble the bikes and the leftover Tactical Space Marines and Librarian from my Dark Vengeance! I'm going to a "Combat Patrol" tournament this next saturday and I feel it's the perfect opportunity to try out my GotC for the first time.

Ooooh... Space Marines in dresses... on BIKES!

Wow Minis look great! Keep it up!

Ooooh, painting space marines AND getting to play with them? Sounds fun Looking forward to seeing some more painting!

If LSS become DTs for scouts I could see myself modifying my existing speeders into them and trying to run like I was dark eldar, other than that I'll just stick with m shiny new DA codex, on the rare occasion that I even remember I have space marines

Yeah space marines WOOOOOO! (tip for those pesky bone colored termies; rakarth flesh basecoat(or dheneb stone if you are on old paintline) ushabti bone drybrush, and finaly BUTTloads of agrax earthshade shade) If you want a pict- capture of how i did mine Ill post it on my blog

Hey everyone, just a very quick update. Last night and today were very relaxing Saw the entire Avatar: The Legend of Korra and started watching Batman Beyond at the same time as I clipped. cleaned and assembled my GotC force. It's done, and even though I'm not taking with me tomorrow the bikes, terminators and company master, I decided to also take care of them.

So. here's my "strike force"


I'm taking 25 Tactical Marines (with plenty of cool stuff) and as the HQ, a Librarian (Mastery Level 1) equipped with the Lion's Roar weapon. 500 points, the tournament's point value.

Tonight I'll probably just keep watching Batman and cleaning up mold lines and other defects from my Tactical marines I have plenty from 2 boxes of AoBR.

And Largeblastmarker, I appreciate your tip. but my terminators are not going to be bone colored Since they'll belong to the GotC, they are going to be painted with metallic grey, black and red!

Man, those are lookin' sharp!!

Well, my Guardians of the Covenant fought and died bravely

First Round: Ouch, didn't even score, those cursed demons ate my patrol force for lunch.
Second Round: Silver Tide, I lost but my GotC fought 'till the end, the Librarian died surrounded by Necron corpses, like a true hero!
Third Round: Won this one, but nothing that cool happened, besides the plasma getting hot 4/6 times

It was fun, since I only used Necrons until today I'm really not used to armies with lots of customisation and different statistics inside a squad. It was good practice.

In conclusion, play time is over. I did promise I would paint my friend's Big Mek so that's what I'm gonna focus from now on until I receive more WoW miniatures.

Meh losing is fine as long as you had fun. I, too, must return to my work!

A big mek you say? Is it to be a known work color scheme or is it something else (or even better, at your discretion)?

It seems he want "Kult of Speed". Excellent, I do love painting Red

Oooh ooh, shiny! Will be impatiently awaiting some results

Progress is slowly being made! Slowly because I have been switching around colors so many freakin' times until I find that perfect balance that makes me say "I like it!"




Now, some explanations about what's going on:
- Since the "Kult of Speed" is a mix of Orks of all klans that decided to "GO FASTAH!!", this Big Mek is going to be originally from the Goffs Klan, hence the black plates of metal and dark pants. I'm going to add the usual checkered Goff pattern to the plates of metal.
- I find that I hate lots of darkish metal (Leadbelcher) together with red, that's why there's lots of other colored metals, I find they contrast better.
- The brown metal bits and orb are just the base for yellow. Those areas are screaming for a vibrant energy yellow.
- The violet colored shirt. Well, this is actually a client's request. My friend wanted his shirt to be violet / pink, so it's the only thing I can't mess around. I came up with a fluff reason to explain it : This Ork Big Mek was extremely superstitious and although he was Goff, he had a blue shirt because "Blu iz da lukiest colah." Once he joined the Kult of Speed, he dyed a lot of stuff red, including his shirt, but instead of turning red, it mixed with the blue, AND BAM, violet Ork. Now he's radiant his shirt his both Lucky AND FASTAH!

Do you have any advice about what ye see so far? I was planning to paint the Orbs a bring blue, but I think it will contrast too much, and not in a good way. I think I'm going to basecoat them brown and paint them yellow just like the other bits I was planning to, I think it will look better.

I will probably try to do some weathering for the first time, we'll see how that turns out.

Well, I'm done for today, tomorrow is another day for more Big Mek shenanigans!

It looks good blocked in so far. I think the blue would be fine, but yellow may work even better

God-Emprah help me, this miniature is brutal! BRUTAL! Here's the current status of the Big Mek:




This guy has so many different details, so much "stuff!" going on, it's being one heck of a job painting him!

Yesterday I did a quick count, I think I already used 23-24 different paints so far (And for those wondering: Yes, I painted every single individual wire. I'm that crazy when it comes to details)

The base coating process is nearly complete: There are some hidden details like his cog medallion and chain attached to his belt, or a "vent", or the gretchins but it's nearly done. Then it will be fun, fun highlighting time!

... I started painting this guy to take a short break from the Big Mek so I could restore a bit of my sanity. It felt good painting a relatively easy miniature with an easier paint scheme


That's all folks!

Orks believe that purple is a sneaky color, actually. for the little crevasses on the big mek, i think thinned washes will be your friend!

And I think you are right The gun has a lot of small crevasses I can't reach with my brushes, so that's what I'm most likely to do to add some color there.

The wires look great. Looks like something I would have just dry brushed and been done with, and I can appreciate how much nicer its gonna look. All of the extra colors popping out will make this mini shine when you're done.

I like the marine, black and silver are a good contrast and should look good on the table.

Keep it up!