New Start, New Goals

Hello Mini Junkies,

It's been a really long time since I have written anything on this blog. In honesty the demands of my job have meant that keeping up with regular posts was never going to work out. But things have changed and I really would like to give blogging about the hobby that I love and quite frankly keeps me sane (well close enough to sane as I'm willing to get). 

I have been painting minis (solely Games Workshop miniatures thus far) for a while now, but probably like most of you, I have a massive pile of unopened boxes or part started projects that have not been finished for reasons rangeing from got distracted by something new and amazing being released to "crap! I forgot I even had those!". I can quite confidently say that do have a 'plastic crack addiction', and probably always will. 

So my goal is to work my way through my pile of old projects as well as some more recent ones too. My 40th birthday has just gone and I was give pretty much a whole Deathwatch army from my brother plus I treated my self to a few bits too which has added greatly to my to do pile. But this goal is not just to paint everything, I have decided that I'm going to start entering competitions as well, I think the best way any of us can push the limits of our skills is by competing with other painters and getting feedback on your work from judges and piers. Just knowing that my work is going to be judged will focus me into doing the best I can.

My top competition goals are to enter:

1. A Golden Deamon 

2. Armies on Parade

3. My local GW Store comps 

4. 'Ead Banger. This is run by a Facebook group called 'Eavier Metal.I am part of a number of Facebook groups but this one is the most inspirational group of the lot. There are some amazing painters in this group and you always get great feedback on your work. So if you haven't already go join this group.

(5. I am also going to see if I can get some of my work in White dwarf.)

Will I win anything? Maybe, but probably not. Will I be a better painter for having tried? I should think so.

As mentioned already I have a lot of Deathwatch minis to paint ( 2 kill teams, a Corvus Blackstar, a Watch Master and a Librarian) so this will form the biggest project of anything I do (lots of blogs too I hope). This will also be my entry for Armies on Parade next year. I have been looking online at this years entries and WOW! there are some amazing pieces, a lot to live up to. Having said that I'm really looking forward to getting stated on this, but I must say that I can tell how long I have been obsessing over what load outs to give all these minis. What chapters to use, how will have what weapon, what formations will I use, how much kit bashing/converting will I do and so on and so on!

But first I have this little chappie to finish off.

Not much left to do on this Nurgle Deamon Prince now, just the metallics and scenery details. Really enjoyed painting this mini so far, loads of details and techniques needed to get it to this stage.

'Till next time, May the painting gods be with you, always.

Old Mini Junky

TUTORIAL: How I Paint Nurglings

Hey Folks, OMJ here.

As I mentioned in my last post, I wanted to show you how I painted my Nurgling for my Nurgle Chaos Lord display base. These are fun little models to paint and take no time at all, think maybe a hour to a hour and a half. I used GW paints for the whole process.

Step One: Basecoat.

I used Rakarth Flesh thined down 1:1 with Lahmian Medium (In fact I thinned all paints and washes used in this process with medium). It took at least three thin coats to get a nice flat surface before moving on to the next stage.

Now you can used any colur you want for the basecoat, depending on what colour you want your Nurglings to be. I didn't want to go green as my Chaos Lord is green so I went for a pasty looking colour instead. For the other Nurgling on the display i will be using Deamonette Hide as i want a more purple figure to contrast with this one and the green of the Lord.

Step Two: Washes

For this I used Ogryn Flesh from the GW old range, but your could also use Reikland Fleshshade. this was painted thinly over the entire model then left to dry. Actually I have pinched my girlfriends old hair dryer and use that to speed up the drying process. Once dry I reapplied the wash to the deepest recesses to further darken them. Did this one more after drying.

Step Three: Highlight.

With Pallid Wych Flesh I hit all the parts the light would hit (light source being from above) and left the shade to the undersides and recesses.

If you are using a different basecoat then you will need to use a complementing highlight colour too, I will be using Slaanesh Grey on the other Nurgling.

Step Four: Bruising

I want my Nurglings to look like they a all bruised and decaying, so to do this I first used thinned down Druchii Violet. I hit all the folds and deep recesses. As this is thinned down a had to do several applications to get the colour I wanted. Then I did the same with some Carroburg Crimson, this time I focused on the open sore, the boils and the deep recesses.

Step Five: Horn & Mouth.

For the mouth I hit it with some Agrax Earthshade, made sure it was nice and dark the let it dry. Once dry I painted the teeth with Screaming Skull.

For the Horn, I applied some Seraphim Sepia to the top three quarters in two or three layers, once dry I hit the top third with Agrax Earthshade. I also applied a little Earthshade around the base of the horn to shoe where it meets the skin.

Step Six: Tongue.

I basecoated the tongue in Pink Horror, then gave it a wash with Carroburg Crimson, then highlighted with Emperor's Children.

Step Seven: Finishing Touches.

The last bits were the boils, open wound, slime and eyes.

For the boils I based then in Zemesi Desert and highlighted them with Golden Yellow (from the old range). For the open wound I used a little Blood for the Blood God and for the slime I used Nurgle's Rot. The eyes were done by first using some Agrax Earthshade to dark the sockets, the used a tiny bit of Golden Yellow to bring out the eyes.

Done! Here is a quick pic of him on his mound.

Hope you like.....


Until next time.


Old Mini Junky

Getting back my Mojo.....

Hey folks

Its OMJ here, trying to get more blogs done without big time gaps.

Late last year I was having a real hard time getting any painting done and when I did, I wasn't happy with my results. I had lost my painting Mojo!

Now I think I'm getting it back. been having a go at some NMM (that's Non Metallic Metal if you didn't know) and have finished another project.

But it was this Nurgle Chaos lord that really helped me get out of my funk.

 

 

 

I finished him in January but have not got round to basing him. I wanted to do a display base and started work on it a month or so ago but didn't get too far.

 

But today I have done a little more. I have added a couple of Nurglings and got the whole thing primed (I used Halford Grey Primer) and got the banner done and the Nurgling sitting on the mound.

Really happy with my progress on this so far and looking forward to getting it finished. I will have a tutorial soon on how I painted my Nurgling and will do a step by step on the rest of the base too. Just not sure when.

Hope you like.....

Until next time.

Old Mini Junky