September Goal - end status

Well, September has been and gone and I almost finished my planned models:

The Night Goblin below was created as a warm-up for the Chaos Champion of Tzeentch.

So far both projects has been really fun, and I look forward to getting into the final work on the Chaos Dude. A really cool model btw. I quite enjoy painting him. As you can see I have been working with a palette of yellow and blue with bright green for spot colour. So something without red og orange for a change...

More picture of the Night oblin on www.jrn-works.dk in the gallery section...

Summer models - a Scion and a Techmarine

While I am working away to meet the September goals, I am just posting this quick image to show what I did during the Summer. Two models. A Scion and and old Techmarine. Not much, but they were fun to paint. Of course they want to hang out with the Skull Collector (painted in early 2012), so it got into the picture as well.

 Somehow I seem to have a thing about orange at the moment. I believe there will be more of that to come...

September Goal

After a posting-wise slow and empty Summer I will try and gather some impact and momentum.
These two models are my goals for September. Anything else will be a bonus.

During the Summer I did paint a few models but I was unsure whether to share or save for a future publication. Thinking back I believe the way to go about creating "exclusive content" for any future booklets or similar will be to take a few extra shots in the process, but I also want to publish the stuff I have painted when I finish it. I don't want to save finished models for the future. So unless it is a secret competition project my goal will be to produce and share when the model is done. Then there might be some additional stuff to show in some special form in the future, but since the sharing is a driving factor- a way to keep momentum - then sharing will be part of the regular hobby stuff.

Late 80s Nurgle Champion

Latest model painted up. A great model, about 25 years old! A Classic Champion of Nurgle:

Painted purely for fun, quickly, and using my new lamp. I want to push myself to try and paint a bit more bright. Stronger colours pop easier - both in the cabinets and on the gaming board...

Among other I used that new GW technical colour, NIHILAKH OXIDE, and also made good use of the bottle of Reaper Master Series Moth Green that I got from good friend Todd Swanson ( http://www.crookedeye.net/ ) in the mail a few years ago. Such a fantastic bright green colour.

Cropped photo - a merchant

Just took a quick picture of this guy the other day. Painted most of him over winther, but I actually still need to give him a base. Thus - for photography - I chose a scenic setting and cropped the image rather than showing the full (unfinished) figure on traditional white or blue/white backdrop. But somehow I actually quite like these cropped images - you kind of get a little closer to the character, than on the classic studio-images.

Booklet feedback wanted

With only a few POST-CENTAUR PAINTING-booklets left I am quite pleased about the venture. I have already recieved several comments and bits of feedback but I thought it would be nice to have a post reserved for feedback.

Overall, the feedback I have got so far has been quite positive and encouraging.

However, these are some of the wishes:

• Closer looks at the miniatures. So bigger detail-shots.
• More text as an improvement was also mentioned. I wonder if I could have taken the type-size down by one or two to make room for a few sentences more?
• More sketches if possible.
• WIP-images has also been asked for.
• Also, the spiral binding does take it a bit from a ”proper” book.

Lots of great feedback. Thanks a lot.

Of course I can only show sketches for a project if I actually made the drawings. As mentioned in the booklet I consider sketches a kind of visual notes. For me it is a combination of trying out a composition and planning what bits to use. Sometimes I do a sketch, at other times I just go directly into the conversion.

More text (and space for it) would be great in some places. For some of the models I could easily har used more space, but for one or two I felt like I could not add more using ”mere” words. Instead I left it to a short presentation and let the miniature speak by itself. But if more text is requested overall, then it is something to shoot for in the future.

The spiral-binding was a tricky one since the small format makes it hard to glue properly. The risk was that the pages might get loose and fall out if glued. However, a plus for the spiral-binding solution is that you never have to bend the paper to show a page-spread properly. I have actually come to like the spiral-binding very much, although I had my doubts about it at first.

So far it has actually been a lot of different things that people point out as their favorite bit. Some people like the my Mordheim gaming miniatures, some like the inquisitor characters, others comment on the overall stylistic journey.

But anyway, any comments on other issues or just a repetition of some of the pointers above will be greatly appreciated. Feedback is crucial - certainly if I am to look into doing a second booklet. Of course, you cannot make everyone happy and the topic or theme of a publication will always create some limitation. But that is part of the game!

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For those who did not see the POST-CENTAUR PAINTING release post back in April, the booklet can be purchased through Runic Miniatures at the following stand-alone site, 

http://www.runicminiatures.dk/books/home.php

Happy Painting!

Mordheim captain and a bowman

Converted these guys last week and painted them in a 2-hours-frenzy last night

 

Most work went onto the leader. I am quite pleased with the combination of both getting the colours in the right places and the rough and textures look. Great - and quickly painted - gaming models I suppose. Next game with my Reiklanders is tomorrow evening!

Picking up the Wood Elves

With the release of the new army book for Wood Elves I have dusted off my small army and painted a group of 8 archers. I actually had them lying in a box all primed black and waiting for paint. 4 sessions of 1½ hours. Approximately. 4 evenings anyway. I started the army back in 2003 (!) and with no plastic archers available I used metal High Elves Shadow Warriors for my Glade Guard. Here they are:

Also, I have found this special mini in one of my old boxes:

Painted back in 1992 I think, he was part of Scarloc's Wood Elves Archers which I bought about a year into the hobby. So long ago. I remember repainting these models a few times as my techniques evolved. Now - again - he is to be cleaned up, repainted and join my army...

I guess I ought to show the army at some point also. I'll try to remember.