Painting Bingo

I'm not sure created this but I thought this is a fun way to set your painting targets.  Painting Bingo, cross off the boxes you have met.  I hoping to achieve some of these.

£5 Wargamer Challenge!

I thought I'll brush up (no pun) my painting experience by part-taking in the £5 Wargamer Challenge! that's on Facebook.  The challenge entails you to purchase a miniature for £5 or under (excluding postage) paint it up and sell it on eBay again with a starting price of 99p. The participant with the highest winning bid will win a gift from the the group and bragging rights!

It's seems like a fun project but also get me to start painting again having been sidetracked by work.

This is the second challenge this group have set with the current theme being 'Mayday' or 'For the Emperor', or on both if you like! 

I'd purchased the Dark Angel Librarian model from the Dark Vengeance set since there were a lot of cheap auctions of this model going.  I managed to win this at 99p though delivery cost was £2.  The model is with me now and I've already base coated part of the armor, though it shows I need a lot of painting time to even get it to table top standard.  Well post more progress soon!

If you want to join this challenge please head to the following link: https://www.facebook.com/events/235847326607244/.

Salute 2014

Today I went to my first major miniature show in the UK with a few local people including Jodell (thanks for the drive). The event was held at the ExCel London,brilliantly organised by The South London Warlords.  The event was amazing with majority of your typical traders and gaming company there, except for GW.  There was a lot of gaming tables, though I didn't get a chance to play since there were so much to see.  Also Salute gave out goodie bags which contained a WWII figure and a dice, which was pretty nice.

I have to say at one point I was overwhelmed with the amount of miniatures available to purchase.  I did spend quite a bit and majority of my cash went to Mierce Miniatures on Angrislaug, Draiggoch of Eryri and Druc Meat-Hulk.  If I had cash to splash I definitely would have purchased a lot more, but I now have a collection of grey plastic/resin models that require painting. 

It was fun to see the different games that genres that was on display. One particular game that caught my eyes was Freebooter which is a fantasy/pirate skirmish game, the characters were nicely designed would have like to had the chance to play.  I came across SphereWars which had some excellent fantasy elements to it.  I would have like to purchase these starter sets if I was minted. 

I was surprised by the turnout of people, I didn't know there was so many people into tabletop gaming, which is good since it shows that consoles having dominated recreational gaming.  I did see a few people that I follow on Youtube, though I didn't greet them since it's awkwardness you get when you know the person and they don't really know you, maybe next year I try harder to say 'Hi'.

There was also your typical painting competition with different entry categories.  As always some amazing work and conversions.  It was inspirational looking at the pieces on display. 

Overall I really enjoyed the show and was proper geeked out.  I will definitely be go again next year and be prepared and have a mindset what I want to buy and to do.  It was overwhelming since the amount of stalls available to browse.  

You can check out my random photos here.

My Wood Effect Guide on Skaven Doom Wheel

Recently someone asked me how I painted my Doom Wheel so I thought I'll post my stages here.

The following shows how I went about it. As I'd mentioned, I only got back into painting after near 20 years absent and was testing different colours and practicing dry brushing and highlighting.  A lot of trial and errors were involved so you learn different techniques.  The effect I got looks ok. 

1. Base paint with P3's Umbral Umber (if you using GW paint anything that's dark brown).

2. Wash with Shadow Black Ink or equivalent.

3. I then mix Umbral Umber with P3's Beast Hide to and drybrushed for a base highlight. (I should make note of ratio!)

4. Drybrushed a smaller highlight of just Beast Hide on top.

5. Mix Beast Hide and small amount of white for gentle drybrush on some edges for the worn out look.

6. Using Tamiya weathering I appled the middle shade of Light Sand for some moss effect.

7. They I apply matt varnish.

Hope this helps.

 

Flashback Youth

Found this set of models which I must have painted when I was 12 or 13 years old, that's nearly 20 years ago. Not sure what models they are.   You can see the youthful anarchic I had with the writing on the blade (how rude).  At least the painting kept me out of trouble. 

These were when the models were still metal and gave some weight.