Painting Competition, final post

FOURTH PLACE!!!

There it is. The suspense is ended.

All I can say is that was quite a ride. It was so much fun. The crunch of trying to finish the model in time while dealing with a brand new adopted baby, and two other kids, the new techniques I "learned" on the model, the waiting for the judging, it was all super cool.

Thanks Jawa for the great time. I can't wait for the next competition.

Competition Update

I made the top 4!

I am way excited. I really was just hoping for top 10, then I made that and felt like top 5 would just be icing on the cake.

So here it is, the final waiting bit. I'm dying of anticipation here. I am refreshing his blog every 30 minutes or so, knowing for a fact that the update of the next two finalists won't be until tomorrow. I just can't help myself.

Wish me luck. I just want top 2 now, but I am not counting on that. A box of terminators would go a long way in my house right now.

Just sayin' Jawa ;)

Painting Competition Update

Well well well . . . Jawa has posted concerning the painting competition. He put up the models that did not place, and some of them were pretty good. I kept expecting to find my measely terminator in the line-up as I scrolled down.

But good news, I cracked the top ten! Or due to Jawa's counting error, the top eleven. That is great news to me. It is really validating to know that my painting isn't the total suck. I felt like I went out on a limb to put my painting skill, or lack thereof, out there for the whole 40K blogosphere. Granted I have this blog, but people have to find me here, and I get nowhere near the traffic that Jawa does. So thanks for the thumbs up Jawa, and let's see the rest of the winners!

I did get my attack bike done this last weekend. Painted more table-top quality than any kind of show piece. I like how it turned out though, and it makes me want to get some more bikers into my army. I did magnetize the sidecar so I can pull it off easily in case I ever want to do normal bikers. And it makes transport easier.

I also started working more on my rhinos, trying to get them painted up. Painting tanks is just a whole other can of worms for me. It takes my painting errors and magnifies them by about 5 times it seems. The little things I don't like seem to stand out when on such a big model. But on a better note, I did start some of the freehand work on my Death Company rhino. And it is hard, much harder than I thought it would be. I got some rough outlines and some details in, but the real small details are going to be hard to put in there. I can shade scuplted things, but forcing the lighting perspective on flat tank panels will be difficult.

Anyways, just a little update, and I will get some pictures of the models to show. Since I'm pretty sure that is the only draw to this blog, besides my witty commentary of course ;) And I also have a batrep I need to write up, maybe I'll get that done this week, and maybe not with the impending move through 3 states, uggghhh.

Painting Competition Update and other thoughts

Let the judging begin!

So the entries are in and the judging has started according to Jawa

I'm all kinds of nervous for the results, although the first model he put up as a "taste of things to come" has me feeling a bit deflated about my own painting skill. Oh well, I did the best I could I think, so its all up to Jawa at this point.

On a side note, reading his latest post about his Blood Angels army got me all excited about my own BA's. The furioso dreads, Baal pred's, they all are so fun, and unique. They were my first 40k army, and I love the uniqueness about them, while still being marines. Contrary to how most people think, I enjoy the marines. I have always tended to gravitate towards the "good" armies, WoW, LotR ttg, and others.

I was into my Tau most recently, modeling and painting them up, but now I want to get back into the men in red. I have some tanks to do, LR, Baal pred, rhinos, and some free hand work that Jawa inspired me to do on my DC rhino.

I'll never have an all painted army I think, between work, school, wife, kids, other armies, other hobbies, I just don't have the time. Call me ADD, but I can't seem to stay on just one hobby at a time, much to my wife's enjoyment ;)

That's all for now, stay tuned to see how I did with my model.

I'm excited

Painting Competition is done!

So I finished up my terminator.

Mixed feelings about it. I went futher as a painter than I ever have I think. I tried some new techniquest that went pretty well for the first time, and really tried to improve myself. But, the model did not turn out as I wanted it to. I had big hopes for this model, a big vision for where I wanted it to go. Suffice it to say, I dream better than I paint ;) I just couldn't pull of a few tricks I had up my sleeve, and that was discouraging. I also procrastinated a bit too much. I was up late last night finishing up some details and taking pics. Oh, well, such is married life with 3 wonderful kids and an even better wife (she actually encourages me to paint and be the best I can).

I don't think I will win, I hope that I can at least place top ten, but neither may happen. There are of course too many great painters out there. I am not at their level, but maybe someday I will be. Moral of the story should be that I learned something new, and grew as a painter. I should be content with that.

So thanks Jawaballs, for the fun competition. I really enjoyed it, and am looking forward to future competitions!

And here are the final images. Comments welcome as always.

Painting Competition, Update

I took some pictures last night of my terminator for the painting competition. He still needs some work of course, but he is coming along pretty well I think. I have been trying some new techniques on him, like wet blending, and it has turned out better than I had expected. So here he is.







My real concern here however is the hammer that I converted. It didn't quite work out like I wanted it to, but I still kinda like it. I really need some comments/criticism on how I could make it better, whether painting tips or molding/converting tips. I went with the purple because of Jawa's joke about using pinks or purples on the model in his original post, hopefully the humor won't be lost. Granted my green-stuff work is pretty poor, but please let me know what you all think.





I wanted to do another wash in purple, then some extreme white highlights. Then maybe some type of lighting effects on the BA insignia. Be harsh if you want to, I would really like to know what you think.

Thanks!

Painting Competition

So over at Jawaballs blog, (http://warhammer40kbloodangels.blogspot.com/) which I highly recommend btw, there is a painting competition going on. And yours truly threw his hat into the ring!

I scouted out the competition a bit, and it is stiff. I think I can place top ten, but I don't think I have a chance to win it all. But who knows, stranger things have happened I suppose.

I only have one picture taken of the guy so far, and he is only primed and washed. But I thought I'd post anyways, because I got some decent pictures of my Mephiston WIP. So here they are, enjoy! Comments and criticisms are welcome!