Halo Ground Command - Covenant Forces III

Elite and Zealot. Should look for a better way to paint energy swords next time...

Burgundian Horsemen

Finito. Looking at the last pic I just noticed that I forgot to sculpt the back of the saddle for the converted plastic knight...well next time.

Pantheon of Chaos - Kickstarter

Beeing a fan of old school fantasy minis, esp. everything from the Realms of Chaos, i could not restrain myself from pledging on the Pantheon of Chaos kickstarter campaign:

Pantheon of Chaos

Now, these beautiful figures have been delivered yesterday. As you can see, I went only for a few of the available minis, mostly for the Chaos Champions. Very characterful sculpts.

Some of those are available here:

http://knightmareminiatures.com/

Note the size difference between the Champions and the Troopers/Warriors.

and your obligatory comparison photo - from left to right: PoC, GW, PoC, GW, PoC

Samurai Drum - An experiment in painting lacquered armour

Coming from a WWII painting background I am used to varnish all my figures / models as matt as possible. With regard to samurai armour I was always a bit unsatisfied with the result, it just didnt appear lacquered anymore after the matt varnish treatment, the shine was missing. So I thought about the possible ways and came up with the following three ways:

1. Painting the lacquer effect
Definitely the most difficult method, applying NMM techniques and actually painting all the light reflexes a lacquered armour may have. Most time consuming process and the worst: One small mistake may ruin the whole painting. So I decided that this is not my favourite method :-)

2. Using gloss varnish
Quite simply its about varnishing only the armour parts with gloss varnish whereas all other parts (clothing, skin etc.) remains matt. You achieve quite a contrast - but does it look real? Not sure yet, looks a bit too "wet" for me. I used that method on the 2 guys in black armour.

2. Using gloss medium for the edges
Thats basically the way I paint armour in general, using metal paints on matt varnished metals to get the look of metal reflections. Just a bit modified: Mixing the armour highlight colour with Vallejo gloss medium and applying it on the raised surfaces like edges after having applied a coat of matt varnish before. I used that method on the guy in brown armour.

Pls. let me know what do you think which painting style fits samurai armour best - maybe you know a different way?

Halo Ground Command - Covenant Forces II

Hunters, this time on Spartan bases. I used Scale Color metallics for the first time, they have some nice old school coloured metal paints in their alchemy range, like this emerald green silver.

WIP: Burgundian Horsemen

Perry minis.

Orcs XIX

Yet more Orcs and Warg cavalry.