Games Day 2011 random pics

Hey guys here are some random pics i took at games day sorry there are not anymore miniature photos i was in too much shock from winning gold vehicle. Also most of the photos were not good from my camera.(click to enlarge)

                                 My brothers blood angels tank

my brother (Lee left) and me fat boy black dagger on the right.

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yay i win Gold 40k vehicle : )

A good day today, i won gold at the golden demons for my dreadnought im very happy : )

(its still not sunk in yet.) i also made the finals with my duel entry and open category.
My brother also made the final of 40k vehicle with his blood angels land raider but no demon for him sadly.
 man its been a very long day and im very tierd so here at last are the pics of my winning dreadnought.

Off we go

Everything is packed ready for games day im leaving at 7 in the morning for the drive up to Birmingham hopefully will have some better luck this year but u will have to watch this space and see. Im entering 40k vehicle ,duel and open category with a single mini so will be interesting to see what happens there. see you there guys and good luck with your entrys.
Here is a little peak at my entrys although the photo is not good.
Report back tomorrow.

peace.

2 Days

1. Two days to go until games day and golden demon, everything is ready to go. so good luck to you if you are entering this year. see you there.

2. I will have photos of the day plus i will put my entrys up so you can check em out. boooooo!

3.My brother is also entering this year with a nice blood angels land raider that is heavily converted so will post some pics of that too.

Also i had some sad news this week an old friend from back in college days passed away he was way to young too die very sad news.  He was a good guy and also a very good graffitti painter so R.I.P TAKS the world is a good man down.

Relax

Hello guys, Firstly sorry things have been a bit slak here on the blog like i said before i have been working on my golden demon entrys for this year and pushing my painting as hard as i can to get my 4 entrys done in time. There is less than 4 weeks left and im glad to now be finished in time so i can now relax and get back to some fun painting. Ive had a blast working on my entrys and have learned alot ,had to strip one mini of paint and start over that set me back a week it just happens like that sometimes.
My entry for duel category is just finished tonight its based on the Battle for Macragge and im very pleased with it. I will have pics of all the stuff up the day after golden demon plus some other photos of the day and hopefully some pics of the winners just for intrest.

Here is a w.i.p pic of a nurgle chaos Knight that ive just started on allthough he now has a differnt base from the pic, i will be working on him in the next few weeks up to gd just for fun.

keep painting people more soon.

Improvements

Hello hello. still working on golden demon stuff, so ok not much to see on the blog at the mo but after gd there will be some real nice minis on here for you guys to check out. Ive been working real hard this year so hope i will do better than last year and all the problems with the judges and stuff.
Anyway ive made a few improvements to my terminator chaplain as the judges look at minis from the back in the cabnets ive added a few more details to the back of the chaplain to hopefully catch there eyes as it was quite plane before. plus i added an eagle head thing instead of that spindaly tree that was there before. Hope you think it looks ok?
 more soon. keep painting

Set up.

Hey guys just thought that i should show you my set up and they way i work dont know why but maybe you might be interested.  I have a small home so have no space for a full time set up.  Ive had to be very organized, i keep all my stuff in boxes and i mean everything wich can be a real pain sometimes. It can take 10 minutes to get everything set up and ready to start painting.

I use a fold away picnic table to do my paintng as it can be set up in seconds and i sit on the sofa to paint so lots of back ache for me. Everything is stored away in cupboard after and out of the way of babies hands.

 All my paints have trays that they are stored in that slide into a specialy made box,  also my brushes tools glues weatering powder and stuff fit into to it aswell.  i keep all my spare miniature parts and new minis in a tool box that most of the time lives in the cupboard, also there is other stuff in there like primer /paint stripper and scenery stuff for bases and all that. Plus i got two crates of old minis and my armys from my gaming days that live in the garage over the road.

Well theres a small insight into my painting set up. I find it intersting to see how other people work so hopefully some of you will find something intresting in this.
keep up the good work.

p.s just started my 4th golden demon entry for this year. plus i feel like painting something fast again was loads of fun last time so more of that soon.

Fun fun fun.

Hey guys just wanted to show you this space marine i just finished,
I painted him in about 6 hours so very fast for me. Just wanted to have some fun with painting him, not trying to be neat just slapping the colours down pretty fast. Not that my normal painting isnt fun but i normaly try to be very neat and take my time, much more serious fun if you know what i mean!

Also my computer and photo instaler stuff is playing up so im trying to get that sorted + the TV has gone bang so must get that fixed. AAAGGGHHHH!
Anyway i hope you like the marine.
choa 4 now. 

Atemis finished

The final pics of artemis had a blast with this one hope you like.
Up on coolminiornot soon so please vote. :)

Sheild

Just finished Artemis well pretty much. just a few touch ups here and there, ive been working on the sheild tonight i have painted it as a greek corinthian design from 650bc that i found on google. im very pleased with how this mini has turned out its a great mini from hasselfree, oh i also added some birch seed bits to the base for leaves.

and a birds eye view for some reason? just thought it looked cool.
Any how not sure what to paint next got loads of minis to work on but should prob do some more on the dreadnought and tie up loose ends on some other stuff. i will put the pics of artemis up on coolminiornot soon so please vote and give your opinion. Hope you likey cheers

More Artemis

A few more pics for you guys. There is still loads to do on this mini there are some areas that im not happy with and need more attention. some parts are patchy from thin paint and need working over more some just need to be tidyed up. Im pleased with it so far.
The sheild freehand is next got a few ideas and also have been looking at greek designs on google for ideas.  Any comments welcome on her as im not used to painting skin and would like some comments or crit.
cheers

Artemis

Started on Artemis last night, its fun to paint so much flesh insted of armor all the time. The dreadnought is almost finished now after 2 months painting and modeling so here are some wips of her for you.

And a close up of the face. still early stages yet. post more soon.
Chao 4 now.

Artemis W.I.P and blah blah...

Hello Hello
Im going to paint the 40mm Artemis mini by Hasselfree miniatures at the same time as working on the dreadnought to have a little break from all the hard serious work for golden demon. This will be my first non GW mini (shock horror) as its not easy to get hold of other manufacturs so easy here in the uk. most are over seas and you end up paying mega bucks for a single mini because of shipping costs and blah blah...
The dreadnought is going very well but im not going to post anymore pics of it until after games day because i dont want to give away what im doing!
keep painting people!

How for now.

slowly slowly

Hey people it seams like things are a bit slow here on the blog. It seams like i havent posted anything for ages but i have been busy painting. I have started work on my golden demon entrys for this year im going to do a dreadnought and somthing else that im going to keep under raps for now. It will be major hard work to pull off but will be dope when its finished.
So i have some tight sceduels to stick to with the painting and its hard when you have a 7 month old son to look after aswell plus being knackerd from work and not having the energy to paint.

Anyways the dreadnought is still in the early stages at the mo so not worth sticking any pics up. I have a ton of minis to get stuck into later in the year but those are out off my mind at the mo, i have to give my full focus to my golden demon painting or i will never be satisfied with the end results and would never enter the mini into competition. Im trying to make some waves this year and get some recognition for my work. I paint for me, to please myself, i dont  paint to sell my minis but it would be nice to get somthing for my hard work. Also to make some painting buddys to share thoughts and ideas with.
so more pics and minis to come soon.
keep painting people.  :)  

New links

Hey guys just added a new link to the links list. Its the blog of my very good friend andy who is a very fine artist. He has just started his blog so check it out if you wana see some cool paintings and also there is a pretty dark video that he had me take part in (Im the one in the stripe t-shirt) worth a look in.
also tom winstone's page on facebook some very nice minis here.
plus the blog of wil davies also a blog i often visit.

So lots of cool stuff to check out and inspire. now get painting.