Rhino Beetle Official colours

Some months ago the Rhino beetle was released by Mortal Arrow Miniatures and I never posted here the official paint job done by Daniel Rodriguez from Field Factory. 

Again another wonderful brush work with some really darkish colours. Quite a scary beetle, loved it.

Spaceship deck bases

First batch of bases ready to take some minis.
I got carried away with the volumes but I have not painted in a long time so I took the time to enjoy and get back into it.

Picked some warm colours so that they have a good contrast with the grey blue miniatures I have in mind. Feels good to paint some things again!

Hell Slug official colours

Always a pleasure to see your sculpts painted by talented painters.

This miniature sculpted for Mortal Arrow miniatures just got the official paintjob done by Field Factory.

Again I do love te colours choices used on the Hell Slug.

Giant Red Pedipalp

Mortal Arrow miniatures posted another official paintjob on their site.
Again another outstanding brush work by Field Factory.

Official colour for 2nd Snail of War

The paintjobs keep on coming.

Another Snail done for Mortal Arrow miniatures and painted by Field Factory miniatures studio.

Quite a realistic approach to this Snail

Giant false scorpion in full colours.

Another official paintjob done by Field Factory miniatures for Mortal Arrow range.

I sculptted this last year and its great to see talented painters work on it.

Cheers

Oficial paintjob Snails of War

Last years snail sculpt for Mortal Arrow Miniatures just got some paintbrush action by the talented studio Field Factory Miniature Painter.

Check their facebook page here.

https://www.facebook.com/fieldfactory/

Here's the pictures.

Love the greens tints.

Gigantic Slug official release

Hi bug lovers.

Just wanted to share the official release of the Gigantic slug from Otherworld miniatures.
As always the paint jobs on the minis are brilliant. Loving it.

Another finished project and hopefully now people can grab some for themselves and paint the way they like it.

The Tau Invasion

Great month for Tau fans with lots of new goodies! From huge kits loaded with options to wonderful terrain, there is something for everyone really. I have always been an enthusiast of the faction specially the Kroot since they do remind me of the Predator, like Nids do with Aliens. Not sure when Kroot will be updated but in the meanwhile Im having a great time with a small force of Tau.

I must say that I prefer infantry models rather than vehicles or big suits so I started just painting some colours into my man sized Tau, so far just reds. I want the colours to pop so its going to be nothing realistic or discreet, just plain in your face bubblegum red. Heres a wip.

Cheers

Master Yoda completed it is.

This project goes back a few years ago when I did a little base for my 15mm  master Yoda. Today after many days sitting on a dark box its finally painted and finished.

It was very enjoyable to paint this miniature and since its a small scale its quite challenging to capture all the details.

Master Yoda 

Scale picture.

League of Legends PORO

Hello folks.

Past weekend I had an extra holiday on monday so this was the perfect opportunity to flesh out another sculpt. I work for a big company with lots of people and one of the things I enjoy doing is that every birthday of any of my colleagues I draw them a doodle on their cards, its fun and a good way to make work a bit less stressful. This time around it was the Birthday of a good friend who is totally crazy about a videogame called League of Legends. He does talk allot about this game and one of his favorite creatures there is a chibi cute thing called PORO. Its like a strange anime snow yak cub that has a huge tongue. He also grows considerably each cookie he has in game. Cool stuff!

So yeah! I had 3 days to come up with more than a doodle for his Bday so I decided to sculpt and paint this Poro. It was going to be very hard to pull of this in such short time frame since sculpting does take time and curing alone is around 4 hours between stages.

Saturday and Sunday I managed to sculpt the little fella in greenstuff and even had the time to do a base in Milliput.

PORO

On monday I painted it, so I managed to get this project concluded on time.

Job done and its also a subject I do not usually sculpt so quite happy to do something a bit different.

My friend was happy so all was just perfect.

2013 Kick off

2012 is gone and it was a crazy year in all aspects of my life, 90% of my hobby and life goals were achieved. This year I hope to have a much less chaotic life and relax a bit for a change.

To start I open a new section on this blog with my latest paintings, I usually sculpt much more than I paint but both are equally satisfying.

Just look up on the top menu and now you can find Gallery of colours section.

As for sculpting I'm currently sculpting 4 monsters, more news in due time.

Take care.

PS- Almost forgot to mention but my goal to sculpt 100 pieces in 2012 was conquered with 130ish sculpts total. Wow! Busy year.

The "Houston, we have a problem" diorama is finished

Aliens movies are a major reference for me and my hobby, I always find something to inspire my Sci Fi settings and miniatures in those movies and THE master H. R. Giger works always guide my imaginary into a world of delight.

Going back to when Kane got a facehugger kiss on the first Aliens movie it was one of the most memorable moments for me, so I tried to make this diorama a couple minutes prior to the facehugger attack when they discover the Aliens eggs.

The miniature is from Ground Zero Games and its 15mm, so its my first try on making dioramas in these small scales... I also took the chance to try to paint something a bit different with some drastic lightning effects hoping to catch the darkish feeling of the movie and that tense scene.

Diorama scale picture next to a 28mm

I really enjoyed working on one of my favorite themes and in 15mm, the biggest drawback for me when doing dioramas in 28mm's is that they really take a lot of space in storing and after you do 2 or 3 you start to be a bit stressed about the room in your display... in 15mm there's no such problems as such I now want to create LOTS of little 15mm dioramas :)
For now I hope Frothers community enjoys this one.

40Korvos Tournament, Sculpting Workshop, Painting Contest, 40K

Last weekend I attended my last hobby event in Portugal, this time it was a event for 40k Players and I had the pleasure to organize a Sculpting Workshop and a small miniature painting contest, I leave you with the photos.

The place

The awesome tables and painted 40K armies

The painting contest and some entries

The Sculpting Workshop

A very enjoyable weekend with friends, to all of them thank you for attending and sharing your miniatures I hope one day when I come back in holidays to find all of you sculpting and painting like mad people :D

Painting Chewk, the color guide

After much thinking I finally painted the Chewk like some kind of prawn man and here are the results. I opted for saturated colors since I believe they work best for such smallish scales, making good contrasts.

Never painted a 10mm before and its hilarious to be honest, specially if you paint it like a normal 28mm.

Scale picture ( GZG 15mm, Khurasan Chewk 10mm and GW heroic 28mm)

Chewk Color Guide


Games Workshop white primer.

• Clothes
• VMC 70960 Violet
• VMC 70810 Royal Purple
• VMC 70811 Blue Violet
• 50% VMC 70811 Blue Violet + 50% VGC 34 Bone White
• VGC 34 Bone White
• CItadel Wash Leviathan Purple
• VMC 70915 Deep Yellow ( stripes on sleeves and freehand on back)

• Belt
• VMC 70940 Saddle Brown
• 50% VMC 70940 Saddle Brown + 50% VGC 34 Bone White
• VGC 34 Bone White
• Citadel Wash Devlan Mud

• Skin
• VMC 70956 Clear Orange
• VMC 70851 Bright Orange
• VMC 70911 Light Orange
• 50% VMC 70911 Light Orange + 50% VMC 70915 Deep Yellow
• VMC 70915 Deep Yellow
• VMC 918 Ivory ( eyes )
• Formula P3 Coal Black ( eyes)

• Weapon
• Formula P3 Coal Black 
• VMC 70903 Intermediate Blue
• VMC 990 Light Grey

• Base
• VMC 873 US Field Drab
• VMC 70939 Smoke (wash)
• VMC 873 US Field Drab
• MIG P234 Rubble Dust
• MIG P026 Concrete
• Army Painter Battle Fields Swamp Tuft 6mm
• GF9 GFS017 Meadow Blend

VMC- Vallejo Model Color , VGC- Vallejo game color

So thats about it, these are the colors for the little 10mm prawns the Chewk and I have something like 25 of them to paint.  :)