Confederate – Buford Nash (Sidekick) – Painting Guide
I’ve used the artwork in the Concept Art book as my reference for painting Buford. In this artwork the predominant colour is brown so some strong contrasts and touch of metallic will be used to try and give things a bit of a pop whilst sticking with the overall scheme of the concept art. With that in mind the first step was to prime the model and I did this using Vallejo Black Surface Primer (74.602) for a first coat. I then went back over the model using Vallejo Grey Surface Primer (74.601) at about a forty five degree angle to start to build up some shadow and highlight.…
Wild West Exodus Mercenary – Jim Peterson – Painting Guide
Wild West Exodus Mercenary – Jim Peterson – Painting Guide
Weekly Waffle #48
For this week’s weekly waffle we have been planning and at the weekend a few of us came up with a plan for next year. Nothing special just a way to try and get a few more games in. So we’ve decided that January is going to be Wild West Exodus month, followed by Malifaux in February and then something new for March with Frost Grave. As a bit of inspiration we’ve set up a bit of challenge to have crews painted for everything and to make sure we don’t slack off there is forfeit for anyone who doesn’t have their models ready. But I’ll go into a bit more…
Picking a paint scheme
Picking a paint scheme
Infinity Hardcases, 2nd Irregular Frontiersmen Guild Painting Guide
So at the moment I don’t have an Ariadnan army for Infinity but that may change. In the mean time I just love the look of this model and had to have a go at painting it. I’ve taken inspiration from various sources on the net, both real world and from computer games and this is what I came up with. First things first was to clean up the model and put it together. There aren’t that many parts to this model, five in fact, and they all go together nicely. None of the fiddly bits that you can often find on Infinity models. I started off using the…
Alchemist’s Guild Painting Guide
I’ve got something a bit different for you here in the form of an Alchemist’s Guild Painting Guide. With these being such new models there aren’t any painted examples out there to get inspiration from. This is good in that anything that I do should be ok but bad in that I find deciding on a colour scheme one of the hardest things to do when starting a new project. Whilst there are no painted models out there, or none that I can find, there is quite a bit of artwork that shows the Alchemist’s Guild with a mainly green colour scheme to them. In particular the images on the…
Holding models whilst painting
When I started painting I didn’t really understand the need not be putting your fingers all over your freshly painted miniatures. It was all about getting things painted as fast as I could so I could use them. But when I started taking a bit more care with my painting I started to notice marks on the minis caused by the way I was handling them. And that was when I stared to look at different way to get around this issue. There are loads of different things you can use but this is what I find myself doing when holding models whilst painting. I get bags of corks ether…
Cleaning your brushes
cleaning your brushes
Dropper Pot Paint Labels
This is a solution to a problem of my own making. To save a bit of space I keep my Vallejo paints in an MDF rack stood on top of my desk. It’s a great way to store them and there are lots of companies out there making this type of rack so they are easy to find. But not all my paints are in a dropper pot. But I have found is that over time the label on the paint pot rubs off and the more you use a particular paint the quicker it rubs off. Not a problem in and of itself but it can be an issue…
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