Retro Terminator

Found this very old Terminator from around 1980 and as I'm putting together a chaos army for 40k I thought I'd paint him up as an ancient character.

Sorcerer

Finished this fella.  Got a bit ahead of myself and decided to try for highlighting. I think it came out ok, and once again I learnt loads. I'm rather proud that my first attempt at wet blending on the sword came out ok too.

 

 

 

 

The D&D gang

 

A couple pics of the D&D characters in our group :-)
I'm very happy to have painted them, and more so that the owners are happy.
Just one last Gnome to paint and the gangs all done.....

Until more characters get added...  

:-/

Demon Prince

Finished my HQ. A Demon Prince of no specific Chaos God, despite the 6th ed codex now saying we HAVE to be aligned to one.
I'm very happy with him :-)

The Process...

I modified the sword, as the original looked a bit...naff....

Details, base, washes, all done :-)

 

Laele - Gold Elf

This has been my first Commission of sorts, but I couldn't charge a mate, so he said he do something for me instead. Could be a new bike, or car, maybe that gun I wanted, I'm not fussy, as long as there's chocolate in the deal. :-)

This is the companion D&D character to Tul'Aris I did a while back.
I'm really pleased with the result, and the green robe/dress should really compliment the other figure when they are used together.
Sorry about the quality of a lot of the images, I tend to take snap shots as I go along on my camera phone, and its not that great.
 

Dog

Got a piccy now of the dog I did a while ago (thanks for the pic Dave!).
The figure is a 'Blink Dog' that comes from D&D I think, but the dog character it was to represent is a Rottweiler, so as he had a good solid build, I painted him up as a rotty, and I think he came out ok :-)

Time and Balance

Ive been thinking about my painting.  I used to take ages over it and agonise over every brush stroke, and that made it take sooooo long that I got fed up with it.  I lost patience.

I learnt recently that I get the same results (not great ones I admit) if I just 'get the hell on with it' and 'apply brush to model' with less worry. This meant I've actually been finishing models, and that's a GREAT feeling and spurs you on to the next.

The problem now, is I'm worrying that I'm going too fast and not doing a very good job at all.
There's clearly a balance between speed and quality, and I've no idea if I'm striking that balance when I take into account my own (very amateur) skill level.
Then again maybe I'm just worrying unnecessarily, my painting is tolerable for tabletop, and I should just get on with it.

:-)

40k Chaos

Finally got the chaos troops put together. Taking a while to get it all done, but its on its way.
Will have a big undercoating session soon, when I got plenty to do, and its dry outside.

UPDATE
Got them done at last. Took a concerted effort to find the time, but they're done and look good.

Now onto the deamon Prince and some Obliteraters :-)

Chaos Lord 40k

Made a start on him.  Glued up, and drilled / magnetised all arms for full choices.
Now primed up.

UPDATE

Finally got him done !
I know I often say 'Finally!'  in a lot of posts, but I feel as though it takes me ages to get anything done.
Ive magnetised him so I can use a selection of weapons at any time.
I like GW, but at their prices I'm not buying one for each load out !

Smoke Markers

I made myself some destroyed tank markers, as per a video I found on you tube. I'm rather pleased with them, and look forward to seeing my enemies vehicles smoking under their flames :-)

I plan to use them as markers for grenades in other games too.
Very cool idea and a great effect, easily made on the cheap.