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Gnome Assassin
Struggles with painting a flesh toneI’ve been working on a new project, the Gnome Assassin from Miniature Madness sculpted by Leonardo Escovar "Poisonauta". This characterful bust was an online...
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Aeldari Voidscarred Corsair, Part Four
Painting and repainting the Shade Runner With forty six years of mini painting experience I should know better than to rush a paint job in order to meet a deadline! After all, my No.1 personal painting...
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Finishing Akito seven years after I started her!
Ever since Salute in April life has been incredibly busy! Once I recovered from the inevitable post event cold there have been many trips, weekends away and even our first holiday abroad since 2019....
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Unfinished business!
Horticulus Slimux – Part 6I suspect that every miniature painter has a few unfinished projects that sit neglected on their desk or in a cabinet. It’s a frustrating situation but one that’s all too easy...
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Aeldari Voidscarred Corsair, Part Three
Painting a Gyrinx. The decision to paint a Gyrinx alongside one of my Corsairs was one of the earliest I made for this project. The very first Corsair I started working on was the Way Seeker and I...
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Aeldari Voidscarred Corsair, Part Two
Painting the Felarch As the first model of this project, the Felarch sets the overall colour palette and character for the rest of the models in the Corsair unit. This turned out to be problematic as...
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Aeldari Voidscarred Corsairs. Part 1.
Picking a new project. I decided on my current mini painting project quite some time ago. The release of the ‘new’ Aeldari models had me hooked from the moment I saw them; and lets be honest, when it...
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So where have I been and what have I been up to?
Following The UK Golden Demon in 2022 I dived straight into my next project a unit of Voidscarred Corsairs. I was on a roll coming up with an overall approach to the unit and devising a colour palette....
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Project P30 - Part 16b
The End is Nigh - Part 2. With the exception of the base (and that’s a whole new chapter) the remaining work on my Tank is a matter of finishing things off. Some parts need to be painted from scratch...
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Project P30 - Part 16a
The End is Nigh!It will come as a great surprise to anyone if I state that a lot has happened since I last posted regularly on this blog! Not least the long anticipated return of Golden Demon UK at...
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Project P30 - Part 15.
It's done!!!It’s been an intense few months of preparation and painting but I’ve finished my Daemon Engine in time for Golden Demon UK 2022, which is now upon us! I’m very proud of how this project...
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Project P30 - Part 14.
So just when I though I’d be getting back into the swing of things, with a regular painting schedule, life had other ideas! We’d been planning some long-overdue house renovations (by long I mean 20...
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Project P30 - Part 13.
Ding Dong! I’m back! Not that I’ve been away as such but I decided to take a bit of a break from painting my Daemon Engine. Things had gone very well, and I’d made excellent progress, but I felt that I...
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Project P30 - Part 12
It’s time for a long overdue update! An interruption in my posting usually means that, for one reason or another, I’ve not been painting but that’s not the case this time! I’ve been happily painting...
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Project P30 - Part 11
Skulls, Nurglings, Tentacles and a spot of bother with my microbeads! Since I started painting my Daemon Engine at the beginning of February, I’ve made very good progress because I’ve managed to paint...
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Project P30 - Part 10
Painting skin tones in three (painfully complicated) steps! Over the last few weeks I’ve established a good routine where I’m able to paint for a few hours every day and it feels like I’m making...
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Project P30 - Part 9. Metallics, molars and monster skin.
I’ve made a good start at establishing the flesh tones on my Demon Engine but, before I get too far into the project, I want to turn my attention to the metalics. The contrast between flesh and metal...
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Project P30 - Part 8. Lets get the painting started!
I wondered if I’d ever get to this stage but, at long last, I’m painting my Demon Tank! However, before the ‘fun’ could start, there was one last little bit of preparation to be done. I had to wash the...
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Project P30 - Part 7
So here we are in 2021 and let’s all hope it’s a better year than 2020! For the last few months I’ve been very quiet with regards to painting sculpting and being online because I simply wasn’t ‘in the...
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Project P30 - Part 6. Back to business.
It’s been just over a year since I last posted anything about my Nurgle Tank Project. I had, of course, no idea of just how turbulent and troubled that year was going to be and all my, and everybody...
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