Status Update: Summer is here

Just a quick post to say that summer has finally come to the northern parts of Europe. For all of you who live here you know roughly what this post will be about but for the rest of you:

We now have months to be outside before grim winter and darkness returns! ;-)

Hence i will spend more time away from the brushes causing the posts to be more scarce so don´t panic if the blog is left unnatended for a week or more.

I will update as soon as I have time but any hobby time will be focused on painting rather than blogging...

Enjoy the summer everyone!

WIP: Golbin wolf chariot 2

It´s been a bad week for painting, switching jobs and some vacation has put a hinder for any big progress. But thank good there has been a lot of basecoating to do...

I have also started on a orc boy tutorial for how the way that I completed the orc mob, so more to come.

But first: Goblin speed freakz!

WIP: Goblin wolf chariots

Right... right back into it! Now onto some fast cavalry for the greenskin mini army. Two goblin chariots laying around just waiting to get painted...

Status Update: Modular moving tray

Having finished the orc mob I wanted to create a proper moving tray for the unit. It is a quite expensive option but the modular moving tray´s from GW is something that was missing back in the day.

 These being made of resin you can "cutom fit" them to your unit as well as paint them up in your scheme of course...

Check it out!

Showcase: Orc warrior mob

Finally finished! No posts for one and a half weeks in a big push to finish the orc mob and now its done.

I am really proud over the results and the fact that it is actually the first complete regiment I have painted (!)

Keep on reading if you want to see more details...

WIP: Skink runners

After finishing the Saurus warrior whilst making a push on finishing the Orc mob, production went up. So i decided to keep a little side project once the paint on the orcs dry. Both to have something else to do to work on except for full on greenskins, but also to learn how to eb a bit more efficint.

Next on the list are two Skink (which I for some reason keep on reffering to as runners, dunno why).

Check them out below!

WIP: Orc mob, making progress

I needed to make a push and so I did! In just a few days, almost all colors are in place so now only highlighting remains for the most part. Check it out!

  

Showcase: Saurus warrior

My inspirational side project got finished quickly, the first of many. In fact, i apparently had a complete full army of 2000 point laying around! Got effectively finished whilst waiting for the Orc boyz to dry in between different paints.

Check out the results below after the jump!

WIP: Orc mob, making a push!

The orc mob has been moving along extremely slowly, there is not a good explanation for it other than laziness. So i decided a couple of days ago to make a push in completing it.

The good news is that since I did decide to shape up a lot of progress has been made. In this post you can see the progress

WIP: Reptile attack!

Batch painting is clearly not my strong suit...

I have been batteling the Orc regiment for almost two months now in total and the progress is sloooow...

In order to have spark some inspiration i decided to try my best for speed painting a ton of Lizardmen laying around here is the first pictures of the work in progress...

News: Upcoming blog sections

In abscense of a more graphic post here is a short note on what I am plannign for the blog in a near furture.

A new section I would like to call Hobby clininc...

Status update: Preparing for war!

After being back in the hobby for a couple of months I fell that there is somehting missing.

The actual gaming! :-)

Thats why I have decided to put together a small 750 point Orcs & Goblins (OnG) army...

WIP: Space Wolves biker

To have something to take my mind of green skin whilst trying to finish the orc mob, I decided to try out two different ways to paint Space Marine armour.

Since I am a collector of Space Wolves, its their armour to be specific.

One of the miniatures in the my test is a attack biker and I figured I would show off the progress so far...

WIP: Orc mob progress

Slowly my mob of Ocs boryz are coming along, not much painting was done last week and when in action it went really slow...

Some progress was made however, have a look on whats happened...

Tutorial: Highlighting black, quick & effective

Welcome to my first try at writing a tutorial, this specific one on how to achieve a good looking highlight of black (well at least in my opinion ;-) when painting tabletop standard. It is especially effective when speed painting, like in my case an mob of Orcs with worn down black leather clothes...

Status Update: A lot going on

Long time since the last update.... good and bad news.

Bad news: No blog updates
Good news: A lot of painting and modeling has been going on

Nothing finished so far but still set on getting that orc mob finished, also to keep my own skin and blood from turning green in the process i have thrown a couple of other things into the mix.....

Showcase: Orc regiment contd.

Easter and all, family dinners and other social activities aside I still managed to complete the next set of Orcs for the regiment that is currently in progress.

Status update: Best thing since sliced bread!

This will probably not come as a surprise for a lot of you veteran painters out there. But it was really an eye opener for me. Hopefully a couple of beginners read this and don't have to wait some twenty three years before finding it out ;-)

Its paint thinner!

Showcase: Space Wolves Long Fang

After the debacle that was the Space Wolves Cyclone terminator (that actually ended up in the bin), I shaped up and started the first of five from a Long Fang space marine pack. Below you can witness the finished result.

 Click to see more.....

WIP: Orc regiment 1st part

The first pictures from the progress of the Orc regiment I assembled a while ago. After having base coated all twenty, then starting out with batches of four. I have got as far as highlighting the black clothes, painting armor and metal and come halway through finishing the orc skin!