KOTA Mini Painting

First half of the Imperial Fists block completed!

So, in short, the quality of these guys is Champion (that is, my level 2, or 1 above tabletop)

Worked on the face and the shoulder pad, added some green stuff lumps for pimples/boils to make him look sickly. I can’t wait to add the slime

This isn’t my usual thing, but I had a little hiatus in the current Imperial Fists commission I’m currently sloggin my way through (albeit, between 1 and 3 am…) and decided to do a quick concept foundation for my next commission, which includes Lord Spinetain (WHFB) which was requested to be painted *especially* nasty-looking. Let me know what you guys think of it so far. I’ll end up modeling some oozing slime from his blade and pus-like drool from his mouth.

So, at the moment, I’m working things out with a tabletop gaming convention in New York to appear as a special guest and provide some painting demos and tutorials for the attendees. I’ll keep you posted as things move forward; the convention is in October and will be held at Rochester Institute of Technology.

After running through the last half of my glue bottle, I’ve finished the 10 TH/SS Terminators and the 2 Land Raider Crusaders. Here’s the pics, pretty standard. Painting to come soon when I’ve received sample models from Mark so I can match everything up *just right*

well, now that the comp is underway and I’m handily in the lead, here’s the photo of my mini:

He was a rush job, taking me only about 7 hours to paint, but he was fun and was perfect for this sort of small, monthly painting competition. Stay tuned for next month, where it will be a bracket style comp. where only one winner is possible! (I’ll be facing off against one or two Golden Demon entrants/honorable mentions, so stay tuned)

My now well-established commissioner, Mark O., has given me a good chunk of work on his Imperial Fists army. I’m now (after getting back from spring break) to paint 2 Land Raider Crusaders and 10 TH/SS Terminators to my Champion quality. Here are some of the terminators:

The competition I’m gearing up for now is my first Painting Deathmatch hosted by http://www.miniwargaming.com/

For the sake of secrecy, I can’t post the model I’m painting openly, so please accept my apologies in what will be a delayed piece of eye candy for you all.

A brief description of Painting Deathmatch:

every month, mini wargaming members randomly chose one ore more models to paint and are then either randomly assigned or have previously established challenges against other painters on the site and then the winner is chosen by vote on the site by all other members.

it’s a great idea in my opinion, and something I am going to look forward to every month

Hey all,

right now I’m working on a librarian I hope to enter into a future Golden Demon. I’m not entirely sold on the paint scheme at the moment, but I’ll figure things out as I go. Here he stands after about 26 hours of blending and glazing: