Overloaded with projects.

I've been really busy for the past few weeks! I've got commission work to do, luckily one of my clients dropped a full army project or I don't think I will have time to even blog.

These are the Daemonettes for his Chaos Daemons army. I'm making it a dual 40k and Fantasy army. Obviously they are not done yet.

I'm also working on my Chaos Renegade Militia. Finally got some tanks up.

I've also started work on some of my Dark Elf characters. Really love these Avatars of War miniatures.

This is the sorceress from Avatars of War.

This is also another commission work from another client, luckily I don't have to paint his entire Dark Elf army, or I will have 2 Dark Elf armies to paint. I'm almost done with this Supreme Sorceress.

Don't forget, I also have to paint the terrain for the shop. I'm really churning out a lot of time to make sure the terrain for the shop is looking good. Especially when I have to make sure I have enough terrain for more than 4 tables, because players want to switch out terrain every once in a while.

Hope I can rush these things up as fast as possible!

A little bit of painting tips...

This is just too awesome, so I had to make a second post for today...

Today I received this box from one of my buddies. Ivan. Basically he clips off everything from the sprue and puts them in boxes with compartments.

I really wanna get one of these boxes for my bits and do the same. The reason why he passed it to me is because I could make some Chaos Space Marines for myself, and pay him for whatever I used. I need 10 CSM! Since he's not using them, I'll make use of most of it and pay him so he can buy more of the things he wants... Now you guys know how I get my stuff cheap! I don't have that much cash too ya know...

Moral of this story here, get a box like that, saves you the time of rummaging through your bits box looking for a particular part. Not to mention, easy transportation too!

And... Today, on my painting table, I started off by spraying an Obliterator, a Chaos Terminator and another Chaos Space Marine to paint. So the progress is actually very good right now. I just gave the Chaos Terminator and Chaos Space Marine a wash mix of green and blue.

Here's the painting tip I would like to share. How to let your minis dry fast. What I do is, I put them beside my laptop fan. The heat generated from the laptop will dry the miniatures fast. This is how I make them dry without resorting to waiting too long, or to use a hair dryer (I don't even have one).

The warm air being pushed out from the laptop fan is just perfect, I don't have to worry about my minis flying away or the washes being blown away. So it just makes the paint evaporate faster.

Oh, and those Bloodletters belong to my roommate, he's building his Khorne Daemon army now...

One question for my fellow readers. How big is a Legion of Chaos Space Marines?

We all know that a Chapter would consist of 6 Tactical Squads, 2 Assault Squads, bla bla bla. But I wanna know how big is a Chaos Legion. Please leave a comment to let me know, thanks!!

"Back to my painting spree!"

Random Painting 1 - Bloodletter of Khorne

Well, I think it would be fun for me to start a random painting series of what I paint. Since I've been painting frequently, I end up painting models that are not intended to be in my army...

First off, this is a Bloodletter of Khorne, the model belongs to my roommate, and it was painted by me just to give him a benchmark for him to paint his Bloodletters...

Here's the breakdown on what paint was used:

Basecoat:

White Spray

Body:

1. Vermin Brown on the white base coat.
2. Scab Red, leave the horns, claws and tongue Vermin Brown
   
3. Blood Red dry brush all over model, leave some Scab Red just to add some shadowing.
4. Baal Red wash on the red parts of the model.
5. Blood Red dry brush again just to deepen the shadowing.
6. Finally Golden Yellow dry brush to make the model have an orange feel...

Horns, claws, teeth and eyes:

1. Give them a wash of Devlan Mud to darken the claw contact point to the skin
2. Komando Khaki
3. Bleached Bone is used to enhance and brighten up the claws.

Tongue:

1. Leviathan Purple wash
2. Followed with watered down Lich Purple
3. Asurmen Blue wash was given to make the tongue more... How do you say this... More like a Bloodletter tongue, yeah, that should be it. :)

The sword was just a progressive highlighting of reds and yellows, you should experiment with the colours as I'm not that good at blending yet...

The terrain on the base is just simple, glue some GW sand all over the base and paint it all black (please do this after the glue dries), then dry brush with Fortress Grey.

I have a habit of painting the rim of the base, so I gave this model a Tin Bitz rim.

Any questions, feel free to ask, I'll be glad to answer them...

"I've got lots more randomly painted miniatures, I'll make more tutorials on them too..."