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.

Whew, took longer than I expected, but I wanted to make sure I did this guy justice - it's such a sweet, sweet model!

Hard to photograph, it's cooler in person

A few new auctions start tonight at 8:15 PST: some Chaos Marines (Death Guard) I probably won't finish. NEARLY done my Screaming Bell. Can't wait to post pics.

Hi folks,

I say "first" because I'm planning to do two. Admittedly, I followed the GW article a fair bit on this one, especially the banner design (I suck at doing banners!). I still love how it turned out

Hey guys,

So I'm having a "I probably won't finish these" sale on Ebay. You can view my auctions (they start at 8:30 PST today) via the link on the left. So far I have listed a bunch of Space Wolf stuff and a couple of Cygnar Jacks (mostly done).

Other things Ill be selling include Cryx army, Isengard War of the Ring army and some not-quite-done Plague Marine models.

I'm still painting Skaven - I have about 80 clanrat models done (mix of slaves and clanrats) and a doomwheel nearly done.  I can't wait to get that Screaming Bell on Saturday. I have even more of these guys in progress as well.

Hey guys - very excited today to grab all the new Skaven stuff. I picked up the book (lots of fluff, looks like a good read), Clanrats, Stormvermin, Doomwheel, Queek.

Now. I had sworn off Fantasy after the Lizardmen...and the Vampire Counts. Basically big armies I bought and didn't paint. We'll see if this goes any better

So November is looking to be rat month for me - these new Skaven have captured my imagination (I used to have a Skaven army, YEARS ago).  I really love the new models but in the mean time (ie until Saturday's release) I picked up a box of 20 plague monks. Here they are mostly finished (need grass, dull coat and other finishing touches). These are painted rank-and-file standard. I cannot WAIT to paint the screaming bell!