Picked this guy up at West Ed today and had to assemble/paint him before my trip this week (and DAMN I wish I was gonna be home to do the Kans too!). What an awesome model - tons of poseability and cutomizability. I went for 4 CCWs. I'm also super pleased with this yellow - it's the shade I've been trying to achieve for a long time (not too dark/ochre, not too bright and sunny). It also takes the weathering beautifully.

I was super pumped for the new Dredd kit coming out today (and the Kans) - and of course the Edmonton GW's didn't get their shipments! (held up in customs). I'm traveling for work Mon-Thurs, so it will be a while now before I can lay some paint on them.

So in the meantime I painted up this Bad Moons Trukk. I've always liked the Bad Moons colorscheme but found it hard to find a yellow I was happy with (always seemed too bright or too dark). I like this one which I based off of Keith Robertson's scheme from White Dwarf (he's on the Eavy Metal team). I'm really happy with how this Trukk turned out.

My Tyranids took a pounding in our campaign this week from a friend's Imperial Guard army. I need to post a shot of my army but I also think I may have to add another Trygon

Yeesh. I've been off work for two weeks (going back tomorrow) and I think I visited my local GW almost every day of that period to buy stuff lol   Lately I seem to want to paint nearly every army you can think of. I mean, today I get a little email from GW about some Orc and Goblin stuff coming out in May - so I go and buy Fanatics and Night Goblins. WTF? What is WRONG with me? Oh and of course I'm buying the new Deff Dread and Kans on Saturday.

So ..... I can't really keep all this stuff.  I may have to pick a couple of armies to keep (Tyranids, Skaven) and sell some other stuff like my Imperial Guard and the Beastmen I'm doing so far....

Tonight I'm auctioning off a small Isengard Force for War of the Ring.

 

I also wanted to show some shots of my Skaven army in progress (Im sure I have the ranks all messed up) and the Beastmen Gors in proper ranks of 5

 

Finished the Plague Furnace - I now have a pretty healthy sized Skaven army painted!  Also finished another unit of Gors, which are obviously a bit less impressive than the Furnace

Gors

Doombull

Converted Cygor (I sculpted the eye over a Chaos giant face and added some horns)

Hey guys, wanted to post a photo of the Minotaur unit I did. These guys won the local GW contest for a Doombull who I will also paint up (got him today). I actually like how these turned out so much I'm going to also do a command unit of them.

Hey guys,

Sorry for lack of updates, been a bit busy!  This week Mass Effect 2 shipped to stores worldwide. I'm the Senior Marketing Manager for the game, so needless to say it's been hectic lately.

And yet, I've managed to get about 1500-1750 points of Tyranids painted   You see some examples below but I hope to get some more done before posting more photos. That includes a Mawloc, Deathleaper, Gargoyles, Hive Guard...a bunch of stuff.

I entered the annual Warpstone contest at GW Kingsway today, I believe judging it tomorrow. Not many entries but some amazing stuff by Rick Taylor as always He does such amazing freehand on his entries!

Thought I'd post a picture of my workbench right now - as I paint, especially with armies, the paint bottles slowly but surely pile up all around my "elbow room". Normany I like to keep a nice clear area to keep organized. Yeah, that's not what we see here - "organized". I think I have too much paint. You cant even see another full rack of the stuff off to the right in this photo. May be time for a great paint purge but it's hard to throw away 50 bottles when you know you paid 4 bucks each for them!

Hey folks,

More bugs finished today and a bunch more are WIP.

I have a fast method for doing these guys with one exception: the highlites of the chitenous shells. Basically the edges of all the armor plates. THAT part has three issues:

1) taking too long to do (it's 2 layers and a highlite of the edge with white)

2) I'm not 100% sure about the look - might be TOO harsh in terms of contrast?

3) It's hard to paint lots of it because it's tiny strokes over and over again, which I'm finding hard on my hands. Yes that sounded awful.

One effect I do like, however, is the satin finish of the shells (not overly glossy but not matte either) which I am getting using Satin Varnish from Vallejo Model color line.  The effect is quite noticeable in the picture of the zoanthrope below (the tall floaty guy).

It's Christmas Eve - I hope everyone is able to spend Christmas with their loved ones, and wish you all a happy holiday and new year (which will hopefully be better than 2009, which was pretty awful all around I think).

I should just stop reading White Dwarf - it is HELL on my wallet. So now they got me all fired up about Tyranids, and I rushed out to grab and paint this fella. Hope you like him. I'm going for a more "au natural" vibe.

Hi folks,

My  Warmachine Cryx army will be on ebay tonight, starting at 8 pm PST.