Let's Play Catchup! Part 2!

 Since the last post ran long, I guess I'm writing about early 2022 to about a month ago.

Let's Play Catch-Up

 It's been a few years and we've had a global pandemic in-between.  So let's catch up.

Painter's Log 2019-11-23

Sometimes you just need a new project to jump-start the creative flow.

Painter's Log 2019-11-16

Oh the joy of burning yourself out.

Raising the Legion: Week 3

I figure 'Raising the Legion' would be a better title for the series because it has become readily apparent that 12,000 points was only the starting point.

Competing in the Everchosen

So this Everchosen thing...

Raising the Legion: Week 2

Honestly all I really did was paint this week.  There isn't much to show for that and the miniatures aren't completed yet.

Raising the Legion: Week 1

A summary of the week.

Painter's Log 20190626

Okay so I'm a bit of a Star Trek nerd if you hadn't guess with the quasi-stardate format of the post title.  I used to summarize what kind of work I'd gotten done on my models on Mondays.  But given it's just me blogging, I don't really want to overload days with regular posts.  As it has been awhile, let's play catchup.  More after the jump.

Citadel Contrast Paints: Preliminary Thoughts

I have been asked constantly over the last weekend if I'd tried the new Contrast paints that Games Workshop has just released.  Truth is, I am not working on a project that uses them extensively at this time.  But I did do a few things with them.

A Shady Experiment in Blending

I've been watching various YouTube painters tinker with the forthcoming Citadel Contrast paints, and it's been Pete the Wargamer that I've paid particular attention to since his experiments with the Contrast paints are along the lines of what I'm interested in doing.  He mentions how he used the Contrast paints for a wet-blending method on a particularly nice example of a Nurgle-y vehicle.  It's because the Contrast paints take a good while to dry that this is possible.

Yesterday I'm sitting around trying to figure out how to get a whitish tabard to look nice and suddenly it hit me.  Shades and washes take forever to dry just like the Contrast paints, so what on earth is stopping me from doing a little blending while the shade/wash is drying?  I have to be honest; if I hadn't seen Pete the Wargamer do this with Contrast paints I would never have thought of doing this.  It seems to work pretty nicely as long as I haven't utterly slathered the shade over what I'm going to be blending onto.  I'll need to practice and tighten up the technique, but the 'prototype' results look decent.

Miniature Monday 6/26/2017

Well, I said I'd get back to the Space Sharks when 8th Edition hit the streets and I kept that promise.

Miniature Monday 6/12/2017

A bit of a short post this week.  I finished the Spirit of Durthu model I've had lying around since November 2015.  This is the model that made me want to collect more tree people.

Miniature Monday 5/8/2017

Well I've got some fresh models to show off this week.

Miniature Monday 4/24/2017

Another week, another batch of miniatures!  Good thing about the Carcharodons is that I can almost build them as fast as I can paint them.

A Week in Miniatures: May 16 to May 23

Not too much to report here...

A Week in Miniatures: May 2 to May 15, 2016

More accurately two weeks in miniatures seeing as how I forgot to write an entry last week.  Not that it was too eventful.

The Lessons of Bob Ross

Twitch has a weekly stream of the Joy of Painting with Bob Ross on Mondays, following a very successful marathon that aired all of the Joy of Painting back to back to celebrate the opening of Twitch's art channel.  I'd like to talk a bit about Bob Ross since I spent a bit of my formative years watching him on the local PBS channel.

Paint Guide: My Stormcast Eternals

I'll bet some people out there in the wilds of the Internet are wondering about how I painted my Stormcast Eternals.  Well, here you go.  I must warn you that my specific paints for these guys has changed over time, so there are weird variations in the colors of the models if you look closely.

A Beginner's Guide to Painting Miniatures

So... there's a lot of how-to guides on how to paint miniatures.  What harm could one more do?  Doesn't everybody who paints miniatures eventually write one of these?