yes, Yes, and YES!

yes: I've always thought I played and painted but here for the last several years I've only painted.  Maybe there's truth in trying to do the best and not just finish models for the games I've never played.  Here's  a little bit more information from painters who've gone an extra mile in speaking to this anomaly.  Over Open Sights says it better than my words.



Yes: James Wappel does it again with a beautiful model.  It is just so brutally gorey.  Who could want more from a Chaos Mutant



YES!:  I've been in love with Chris Fitzpatrick since he created most of the models for GW Dark Elves.  Thankfully and unthankfully he left the GW team and built his own empire called Crocodile Games.  Take the time to look at his awesome models and I'm thankful his Kickstarter worked for the next editions to his growing model line.

Learn, Spray, Love

Since I've been going along this whole three word title, see below for what it all means.

Learn:  Never knew that Ragnar was who he was.  Should have done more investigation besides just watching the series.  Read some more at Little Lead Heroes.

Spray:  Really loved relearning this basic technique from Faeit 212.

Love:  I've always held a special place for ACW and Baron's Blog definitely is just another great discussion of wonderful miniatures and a cool game.

Shut the Front Door! Kroaked

James did it again here!

OOOs, AAAHs, and UMMs

The OOOs come from Khurasan Miniatures seen here. These dudes look cruel but at only 15mm it's a tough buy for me.  Still love their weapons!


The AAAHs come from The Dark Templar working on painting Roman Armor here.


The UMMs come from GW's plan to make something between dumb and dumber here.  I still think that terminators were the next biggest thing after dreads.  What happened?



Painting Barbarian Skin here at Camelson Art.

Interesting posts across the forums I watch

The biggest was a wonderful post on painting wolves.  Something I might need if I'm to join the ranks of Space Wolves in a few years.James Wappel on Wolves
Little Lead Heroes had a few great pictures on the battles from Historicon 2013.  Very interesting stuff.

The next is a pretty interesting read from Massive Voodoo about an older gentlemen with a penchant for using new mediums.

Blood Dragon Vampire Count

Wee! Once you get going you can't stop. Enjoyed finishing this model today. Even though I'm not 100% enjoying the gold NMM but he's good enough to bloody someone on the tabletop. I'll just need to finish grassing and clear coat him just like the other. The count(pun intended) is two and I've got nine more to go.  I almost forgot to post the guy who actually has the NMM turn out a lot better than mine: NMM gold tutorial .

VC Strigoi Vampire Test Model

I'm a big fan of how the shadow gray, snot green, and dead flesh came out with the highlight to the bleached bone. The eyes and face I wanted to focus on with the red/orange.

I'm happy knowing the models in the background will receive the same treatment. Their armor will look similar to the Grave Guard with a few golden highlights or filigrees.