Parcel Full of 15mm Goodness

When I order stuff, I try to arrange it that the items arrive just after I return from my 3 week rotation of work, or order it so it arrives while I am at work and is home for  when i return.

Sadly, due to some delays in the post, the night before I leave for work, I get a parcel filled with 15mm Khurasan GOTA miniatures!

Now, for the next 3 weeks I am going to be torturing myself, thinking about how I am going to paint these!

Look at these bad boys!

Painting Progress: Lens Flares and Highlights

So, the other day I was trying to figure out and find a good "how to" paint lenses video and I was having trouble trying to find a simple one, along with the style that I like.

I found this video, and I really liked it. Figured I share it with you all, as it really helped me, and its the simple, basic style that I like and I think it works.

Here are some of my tests to see what it would look using the same technique from above.

Now, I would like to show you some of my progress with my highlights of my urban combat vehicles.

The Bat, by Matchbox.

Federal Combat Suits by Khurasan

And lastly, Hybrid Wheel/Gev APC by Khurasan

Time to break out the Highlight Brush!

After the last few touchups on the camo its time to be moving on to the mid stage of my painting bonanza!

No idea on how I am going to paint the two trucks in the background yet tho!

If all goes well i hope to have the majority of my detail work done before I go away for 3 weeks for work in a few days.

  

Making Progress: Vehicle Painting.

In a few short hours I was able to paint all the vehicles with their primary camo. I also messed around with my Forrest Camo and then tried to weather it..

I may have wrecked them.. :(  I think I am going to have to re do them. They looked great before I tried it... disappointing. Oh well, thats how we learn..

All is left to do is a few touch ups, tires, weapons and the lenses/glass.

Speaking of which, can anyone link below a simple easy tutorial for doing lens/glass flare?  I want to have red and/blue lenses and I can not seem to get it right and I cant seem to find a good tutorial online for doing lenses on 15mm scale minis.

Space Demons, Urban Camo Troops and a Quick Paint Tip.

Hi again,

Today, I made a little more progress with my Khurasan Space Demons.

Previously, I had them and they still looked almost black, and I am trying to make them look different then the traditional "Alien" and after some thought decided to go back to the drawing board.

Old paint scheme (Base colors)

So I restarted again, and I decided to fall back to my WH40K Days, and decided to make them look like their name sake... Demons.

So I re painted them all with a light red coat, and then gave them a heavy dark red wash (Home made recipe)  and I then went with metallic highlights. I used a silver/chrome color to paint the teeth, claws and the tail blade. I found the silver made it catch the light a little better while on the table, and for me, its about making your minis stand out on the table, and not blend in.

So now, they look more like actual demons.

Much happier with the new look. 

I also decided to paint the camo color that I used on my tanks on to some older minis I had from when I first started buying 15mm. These are the special forces minis from "Rebel Minis" which I really like, but never got around to actually paint. I need to get a good Mat Clear Coat for them.

 And last of all, while I was messing around I found some more old "Rebel Minis" SAS troopers. Again, back when I first started to paint these things and I decided to go for a yellow "Tyvek Suit" look so I painted them all a stained mustard color and I messed them up so bad, I threw them in the box where I did not look at them again till today. (3+ years later)

Old Gross Yellow..

I was so utterly pissed off with having to look at the yellow, I decided to play around and fire on some blue wash see if I could get them to turn a nice color for the table. I was really impressed with how "Olive Green" they turned out, and they all had decent shading automatically done from the wash, I manged to stumble on a very easy way to paint figures in army green fatigues.

Blue wash added in heaps!

Instant Olive Green with natural shading

Only thing left to do is add highlights!

Step 0: Prime everything white
Step 1: Paint everything yellow.
Step 2: Wash everything with a blue wash
Step 3: Let dry and paint what ever details you want. I plan on using a light green to paint the ridges of the clothing.
Step 4: Play them on the table!

I have a pile of federal troops left to paint from Khurasan, and I am going to do this method and hopefully Ill have almost everything I need at least table top ready!

15mm Aliens. .... Err Space Demons

Finally got around to start the 15mm Space Demons line from Khurasan Miniatures.

I wanted something a little different then the black aliens that we have come to love. So instead I wanted to give them a red sinue look.

The base color is a red/brown spray (Brick from Krylon) then with a light to medium gun metal drybrush. Then a medium black wash over all.

As for the base... not sure what i am going to aim for yet.

Do not have the details yet. But this is the main colors I am going to go with.

Urban Combat: The City

I am a big fan of urban combat. When I was into 40K, I could not play enough City Fight games..

Since then, I have been progressing more and more with 15mm and 6mm games and I have been wanting to make a urban map for some time. Yesterday, saying to myself that I want to play some games, decided it was time to start with my city project that I said I was gonna start 2 years ago. Also, when I was on my 5 week voyage across the Atlantic, I was having so much fun making the city terrain out of parts from work, it got me kinda pumped to actually start my table.

The day is finally here...

First of all, a quick tip, when you deal with foam core board, if you go to Wall Mart or some other chain store you are gonna pay an arm and a leg for supplies. I recommend going to a Dollarama (dollar store) and get supplies there. I got 8 sheets of foam core, 2 fold-able project foam core boards, and several small gift boxes (buildings), and some tools for less then 25 bucks.. Yes, its lower quality, its very soft, and it scratches easy, but its so darn easy to work with. So, take it from me, cheap foam core.. the cheaper the better!

Stage 1:

I cut out 8 (10.5 inch) square blocks and glued them to the project board. I chose to go on an angle, as I think game tables look a little better when everything is not perpendicular.

Stage 2:

Then I trimmed off the over hanging pieces and used them to fill in some of the larger empty spots on the table. I also sliced the white sections  along the fold lines of the project board so I can "fold" up the base for storage. Doing it this way also allows me to change the size of the base.. I can have a small game on a 24 x 36 inch table, or a  36 x 36 inch table, or lastly a 36 x 48 inch table.

White squares cut along the fold lines of the board.

Stage 3:

Then I started to mess around with my buildings and see how many different ways I could lay out the buildings..

Stage 4:

After playing with this, I decided to base coat everything with spray paint. I was having so much fun I forgot to take pictures of the progress. But I panted everything black first, and then I painted the squares grey. But these are just base coats. Over time, I plan on adding lots of little details (side walks, highway lines, bill boards, removable lamp posts and textures . But till then, I have a functional table that I can use now when I play.

The darker buildings are going to be burnt out ruins, hence why they are charred black.

Well, that's it for now. Maybe over the next week I will be able to get a game or two in and see how it works.

Thanks for reading!

Warmachine.... Doom Reaving

My last post had me saying I have not had the time to do any painting, well I finally managed to get some time to allow me to pull out the paint and start working on a few things.

I have finally got to start working on my Butcher List for Warmachine.. 

Here are a few shots on the progress..  Figured you would like to see them.

I still got some work to do on the swords.. and a few small details to paint, like the straps on his arm (see below pic) also a few more highlights, and I also need to do the base. But they are table top worthy, which means I can use them the next time I play. I just hate doing skin tones... and I still have Fenris left to paint as well, and he has a horse!

If any of you have any advice on skin tones, please let me know. I hate doing skin tones like the ones below so advice or critiques are very much welcomed.  

I also give you a little update on my 2013 project. I added a few shots of my new Game Craft Minis buildings and my city table. Need to come up with a good way to make roads and of course I need to paint the buildings.