Review: Colour Shaper.

For my recent Witch hunter display model I wanted to do some quite extensive (for me anyway) greenstuff work on cloaks and flesh.  Now I'm no expert at all but I find trying to get smooth shapes into greenstuff really hard with the standard GW sculpting tool, so I had a look around to see if I could find anything better to work with.  A number of people recommended one of these.  They're called colour shapers and they are just like a paintbrush except the tip is solid silicone. They come in a variety of sizes, shapes and grades of stiffness.  I purchased a small round tipped one (like the middle one above) in a firmish grade (grey I think) to do the smooth cloak folds.

Showcase: Witch hunter.

These are the pictures of my Witch hunter model that I am entering into the next round of my local GW monthly painting competition. Loads more pictures and details after the jump....

WIP: Base for witch hunter.

I've gone all out on the base for the witch hunter model. I got hold of a nice block of wood and used some left over varnish to make it look all posh.  Up close after the break...

WIP: Kneeling prisoner.

To up the ante with my next painting competition entry I decided to try and make a mini-diorama.  I wanted to show him judging an heretic as his pose lends itself to this kind of setting.  To the end I needed a kneeling prisoner, however GW don't make a kneeling figure to the best of my knowledge.  The best I could find was the empire flagellant in stocks.

2012 Review

It was only eight months ago that I started this blog and the new year seemed a perfect time to review what has happened and thank everybody who has commented.

In May I started to paint miniatures again after a break of over ten years, so here's a quick look back at the progress I've made since then.

This was the first test model I did for my Astral Knights chapter, not a bad paint job for a first attempt.