So, main body of the last one packmaster is more or less finished, i might add another highlight to the faces of the tiny winy mice the crawl on his body, was just about when the little monster woke up again, my son Gabriel (8 months) has a very effective anti-hobby sensor built in his body. gah! ;) their faces are so small and not super casted, but i try to make them look decent.

these pictures make the piece little justice, but better than the last ones at least...

just the whip some brushwork on the base left. yay!

As mentioned in my last post I ve started to shading the beasts head. I ve deceided to part thje mini in several areas so I don`t have to paint everything at once just to recognize later, that I ve missed to paint a detail here and there.

But where you ll find shadow you re also able to find some light! So I ve worked out the highlights in the color of the absecoat again. Suprise! Now it looks like a mini. Still not finished the highlighting process, there are also some colored washes missing. But those will follow when I ve finished first highlights to get backl the shape of his head.

Good morning world!

I am not heading to just share all my successful painting with you, so here`s soemthing that went wrong. *sigh* There are always things which doesn`t look like you ve imagined first. I guess everyone knows this kind of problem. First we`re trying to correct little mistakes, but what are u doing if it`s totally different to what you was aiming for? Right, you ll add a new basecoat and start over again! That`s what I ve done recently, and even the 2nd try misslucked somehow. But I ll try to correct it to not add a 3rd basecoat. I m afraid of losing details.

Mixed together a basecoat for my 1st ogryn chaos beast. As you can see on the following picture it s a very bright purple. I was wondering. Just mixed some VMC Scarlet red with VMC Ghost grey. I thought it gives me a lightly warm, bright grey. But... pruple? Anyway, used this mixture to see what ui can get out of it. Here`s the result:

We proudly present you our new design. As this is a new blog there are several things we have to do before it`s close to perfect... or at least looking like we imagine. On the right site you`ll find some blogs we could recommend due to the great inspirational pictures, tutorials and stories you could read there.

Let me tell you a few words about me and my way back to miniature painting. We (my family) are living in germany, close to Hamburg. A beautiful city at all, full of life, high society, poor people and everything between those. I was painting minis and playing warhammer more then 10 years ago. Just for fun, you know? I was wondering how people could paint like seen in the White Dwarf, always tried to give my best. But hey, I was mainly playing with those minis until... yes, until I ve lost interest in it. So I ve stopped playing (and painting) minis, sold all my stuff and did other things. I think it is 2 or 3 years now that I am lurking at the cmon forum and gallery. Just some clicks each day. Slowly I ve started to lurk in the forums too, read many many tutorials and threads on how to do this and that. Hell, there is no way out of this hobby! Bought full equipment in April 2010 and started to pain minis again. Only painting. I am aiming for high showcase-quality, a long and stony road. But each mini I am painting will get me a little bit closer to it. If you re reading this and the following posts feel free to leave any comments about my work. Any advice is appreciated!

And here we go on with my current project. Just painted the mouth and applied a basecoat to the skin after taking the photos.

Worked a bit on my project again. Progress is slow... but steady!

Corrected all moldlines I ve not seen or prepared carefully enough and primed the minis black. After this I ve added a white fog over them to be sure that colors are easier to apply.

I am aiming for simple bases without much assecories to pull the full attention to the minis. Dried wasteland is the goal. First step here was some cork glued on the bases. I ll add some Crackle Medium as soon as I ve got my order. will take about 10-14 days. So I am not able to do any more work on the bases.

Cleaned my workstation yesterday. so I am able to concentrate on paitning the minis.



Stay tuned, because the egg hat is everywhere!

A quick few on my preparation of my project for the Golden Demon 2011.

After I ve realised that my first thought of entering with a heavy convertet GW Giant wouldn`t be finished in time I was looking for some other stuff. There was my order at Forgeworld which I was waiting for. It`s the Ogryn Beast Handler. I wasn`t able to find any painted version of it, so here`s the promotional picture:

So far,
Arne

Here`s my latest piece I ve recently finished:

It`s the "Little Princess" from Runic Miniatures.

I ve got this Mini from some kind of Mini-Exchange in our german forum. This mini is destined to be painted for my girlfriend. A promise I ve made a long time ago!

So I had to think about things far away from blood, monsters and any other cruel things. The opposite of it is... yes, peace, what else? I ve used pastel-colours all over get a smooth optic. The theme for base is something, my girlfriend loves. Candies...! So I ve tried to made some sugarcanes out of greenstuff to glue them on the base. Frist I was thinking of using those to hang in the tree like fruits, but the samples I ve made for were way tooo big for it. Also it was looking more funny thens erious. So I ve cut the top of those to use the canes for a little fence with little pearls. You know those wristbands made of sugar? Tasty!

The tree was made out of wire covered with greenstuff and milliput. For the elafs I ve used a product named "Eichenlaub" from mininatur. It`s a flocked mat with realistic leafs that has to be cut into pieces to simply glue it on. Very easy - and as you can see: Very realistic too.

I hope you ll like it. Would lvoe to get some comments to work on my paintingskills. You re also invited to vote for it in the big gallery.