Painting your heroes and center pieces

With life advancing ever onward, I've decided to start selling my skills for money.  I could use a second job after my day job and practicing painting at the same time is always a bonus.  It's been a little while since I've done anything for anyone else besides myself which was a much needed break but I'm leaning towards the conclusion that I get more done when I'm painting for someone else under a loose time line.

What will I paint?  Not armies thats for sure.  I will paint single models, large models, heroes, monsters, small groups of models but NOT an entire army unless I'm going to be compensated handsomely.  I don't mind working a few hours a day for what usually works out to be >$10/hour on a model I ENJOY painting but completing an entire ARMY at that rate is just not in my interests.  Like I say, there are always exceptions so it never hurts to ask just don't expect a cheap price because armies are TONS of work and hours.

Contact Info: anichol88@hotmail.com  please label the subject as PAINTING or COMMISSION, thanks!

Here is something I've completed for a client.  It's a Forgeworld Minotaurs Chaplain (Enoki I believe?).  This guy has sadly made me excited to paint space marines.. a really unwanted distraction at the moment!   For how horrible GW is at making a balanced game system for competitive play they certainly do make some cool models.

I particularly enjoyed painting the black power armor on this guy.  I'm not often happy with highlighting black but I think I've found just the right amount of blending required to make it look well shaded but still black, not turquoise or grey.   Lots of bone details all over this model were fun to work on as well, specifically the bone handle of the crozius as well as his helmet and ribcage.  Overall I'm pretty excited about how he turned out.  I hope you like him.

A long break from the blog

***Disclaimer: my copy+paste function was acting up and I realize some words aren't aligned correctly but I'm far too lazy to re-write the whole article so.. fml***

It's been a while hasn't it?  I haven't been posting projects on here so often lately due to multiple reasons (lack of time with a kid, not wanting to show off models I plan to use in competitions, no good photos etc) but have found without posting stuff I don't motivate myself enough.

Here is something I've finished recently: Tiberion.  I had this guy assembled and base coated for a long time but only got around to completing him now.  This is the first Skorne model I've painted since last year I believe and I've made an adjustment to my NMM gold recipe.

I found my original gold color was too dark for my liking and a little complicated to achieve - using paints from multiple different manufacturers.  I wanted to find something brighter colors and ideally colors from one company (I find the same brand paints mix together easier than trying to mix different brands and this is probably due to the colors sharing the same ingredients?).  I went with my favorite, P3, and I'm really liking it.

I start off with a base of 50:50 Bloodstone and Rucksack Tan.  I'll then have my 2nd layer be pure Rucksack Tan.  I'll now go back a couple stages (something I'm really starting to get into after attending Meg Maple's master class) with pure Sanguine Base as a shade.  The red shade makes a great, dark but still warm contrast with the pale sand color I finish off with.  After playing with the shade color for a while I'll start highlighting again with 50:50 Rucksack Tan and Moldy Ochre.  I'll then do a layer of pure Moldy Ochre.  Finally I'll finish off with an extreme highlight of 50:50 Moldy Ochre and Menoth White Highlight.  I found one of my favorite things with this recipe to be the huge contrast between the dark red/purple shade and the bright off-white highlight.

I also finished Tyrant Xerxis using the same variance in gold as Tiberion.  I'll definitely be sticking with this one from now on. 

I will also be making a blog post announcement shortly that will rock you to your core!! Not really.. I doubt it will change much at all but desperate times call for desperate measures!  Stay tuned...