Joy of Painting!

posted by Raffa, Picster, Capuchin,....

Hey everyone!

Yesterday i took photos of my two latest creations... i also noticed i didn't post the last minis before these two but before showing all of them i have to write down some thoughts.

The time around the duke of bavaria was just plain awesome, i have to thank all my friends again for visiting us here in the good ol' schellingstreet! It was a great time and a lot of joy seeing you all again.
But it was also very exhausting and slowly i'm regaining all my energies and started painting again.

I hope you all had a great time at the Schellingstreet and we'll see you again!

I'm getting more and more into oil color for the basic groundwork as it is much more fun and more intuitive than the typical acrylic workflow... acrylics will not be replaced for the final detail work but oil is juuuuuuuust sooooooo much fun :)

So, now for the figures i painted....

I start with the oldest ones....

Grey Knight Terminator

 I painted this one pretty quick as a color scheme test for my upcoming army... after all it will be another color scheme but he was lots of fun :)

Strength of Nature

 I had the centaur on my desk and in my display for quite a long time, it is a pretty unique mini regarding the pose and execution of the sculpt, it's a bit of a challenge to find a interesting and nice looking view of this mini... on the base i was going a bit wild but after all it turned out pretty cool in the end (at least i think so :D )

GNAWRRR!!

Here's my latest sculpt.... i hope you like it although it is a bit strange, maybe i'll get some resin copys :)

The Last Request

The other part of the long time "centuar vs. barbarian" project.. as i cancelled the duel and made two seperate projects out of it i wanted to try out some new stuff... the spider webs are a little secret that will be revealed soon :) :) It won the special category price in montrouge and the first place at the paint it! contest ... so i'm pretty proud of it! The mini was a gift from the very cool club AFM Montrouge and it is one of the coolest fantasy miniatures i've ever seen and painted, although a very hard challenge.... After all, i hope you like it!

 Order 7-12: Execute Survivors

I painted this one during the workshop in Dillingen-Saar as a small project to get my head free of my current project... Roman found one of the DUST! boxes and i just liked the miniatures so i started painting :) ... aaaand i wanted to create a snow base (i don't like snow on bases in general :D ).... what do you think? :)

Grot friends

 

Edit by Roman: Raffa did also finish these 6 Grots during the Jungle Work Camp to give them away to say thanks to everyone :)

Last but certainly not least comes this great figure from Pegaso

Nowhere to run to, baby!

Last but certainly not least comes this great figure from Pegaso...
This figure was a gift from my friends (especially Roman... THANKS MY MAN!) for my birthday last year and so i thought the time was right to paint him for the duke of bavaria where he won me a bronze in "Painting Master" :)
In the past i was doing Vietnam Reenactment and was really into the whole War story around nam so this theme really got me.... i hope i did justice to the figure by my paintjob.

I wanted to create a real "asshole" soldier.... i think i catched this expression pretty well with his face.
I hope you like it even if the chosen theme is not really beautiful.

I used lot of oil color techniques on this one and i really learned a lot from the wise words of Max the Maxican :)


Soooo, i hope you like the minis... i'm now getting back to my other projects, PEACE! :)
Raffa

Gladiator "Thraex" finished...

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

"The time has come - fight with honor and die the same!"

During all projects for the Duke of Bavaria i also did finish my first 90 mm Figure, a Gladiator "Thraex" by Pegaso.

It really took a while to paint this guy to finish and i am thankful to all my friends for their hints and tips they showed me during the paintwork. I did not really concentrate on the historical correctness of the chosen colours, indeed i did choose to use the colours i love from the series "Spartacus - Blood and Sand" or "Spartacus - Gods of the Arena", a series i really enjoyed watching.

I did use a lot of paint on him and learned so much about painting with Oil colours. Now it is about time to start writing the big oil article. When the model came to an end i did reposition it again at the base with a more dynamical pose, like jumping into the fight as there is no running or hiding place it is best to be the first. This guy is going through his most epic moment in his life and i've tried to catch it. I am very happy about winning a silver medal in historical master at this years Duke of Bavaria with my display.  If you want to know more about the Gladiator class "Thraex" please follow this link to Wikipedia. I hope you like him - let me know what you think. You can also find him at the big voting arena. I really have to admit that i love to paint on such large scaled miniatures, i can use a big brush and my eyes don't hurt of too small details - hehe, i am getting older maybe or maybe not :)

Gladiator Thraex

Pegaso, 90 mm

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This miniature is for Sale,
contact me via
jarhead---at---massivevoodoo---dot---com
 to get more information.

On Saturday morning, shorty before we travelled to Ingolstadt i was able to take some bad photos of the Arkvenger which i did finish on comission. There was way too much morning sun and the model did not fix into the light box and additional we were all very tired because of no sleep. So the photos are not the best. I will try to get some more final photos as there is still a Step by Step ahead of this model.

Some additional Work in Progress talk:

After my workbench is ready again after our Work Camp i already did start some new projects and start to finish old ones. Here are some Work in Progress photos of things out of the magic machine, still early Wip:

 I am slowly coming up to date with answering my emails - soon i'll be fully back on track, i ask a little more patience to those still waiting. The sea is calming finally and i am hurrying with my little canoe...

Read you soon i guess and keep on happy painting!
Best Regards
Roman

"The Rising" and "Custodia Mortis"

posted by Peter, Baphomet

Just wanted to show you my new miniatures :) I finished them during the MassiveVoodoo-Bootcamp at Raffa�s place the last two weeks. I entered them at the Duke of Bavaria-Contest and won Gold in Fantasy Standard Painting. I Hope you like them. I want to thank the whole monkey crew for the advises and support, but especially Roman and Raffa for their efforts and paintence ;)

The Rising:

Custodia Mortis:

Well, there have been two days without painting and I get crazy by this situation. So I will start a beautiful miniature made by JMD tonight. My next posting will be a "Minature unpacked" and some WiP-pictures ;)

Best wishes,
Peter