Space Marine Squad GD Finalist

Well to those of you that might vaguely care I have still kept myself painting ( hold the Phone! I've been painting a Tank) but no photos of that yet! When digging around some old miniatures I realised most of them never had decent photos taken. As I had nothing better to do with my time, I whipped out my shiny new camera and had a session of sorts!

Got some new photos of my Marine Squad on CMON:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/335738

GDUK 2011 Finalist " Fear Our Name For it is Vengeance "

 

Hello and welcome! As you probably already know another games day and golden demon competition has been and gone. Firstly, I must apologize for not posting in a while as any spare time I had I was working on my entry. 

In the end I only managed to finish one entry and received another finalist pin. My entry was also shown again on the games workshop website. I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't take my painting to the next level to get in the top three but I was still satisfied with the result and my finished piece. Once again the painting throughout the categories was top notch and congrats to everyone who won.

 

Thanks for Looking!

Games Day 2011

Hello and welcome! It's games day season with Spain and Chicago already and with Germany this weekend. It's beckoning on me that Games Day UK is fast approaching with less than 2 months to go and I haven't got my tickets yet. Anyway with this wake up call to get a move is was looking for some inspiration and found last weeks Golden Demon Chicago and Spain Gallery. I found what I was looking for some fantastic miniatures with plenty of inspiring thoughts. My favorites are the grey knights dreadknight which won gold in 40k large monster at Spain and the lovely grey knight squad which won gold in 40k squad at Chicago.
For those who haven't seen the photos yet I thought I'd share here make sure to check them out. Links below

Golden Demon Spain 2011 Photos

Golden Demon Chicago 2011 Photos

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(WIP) Mounted Empire General 4

     Hello and welcome! Some of you may have noticed I haven't updating my blog in a while this is due to my computer blanking out and only recently being able to get a new one.
    Anyway, I'm back now and with some pictures to show of my progress on the empire general. Still mainly basecoating each area and applying the first shades. Really Trying to get the color placement's right. But you can see the direction I am taking this piece in and I am quite pleased with the way it looks at the moment. Still lots and lots of painting to do on this. I'm looking forward and dreading painting a complex design on the large banner. I'll leave you with a couple more photos.

 

As always thanks for looking!

Some Stuff on My Workbench! Again

Hello and welcome! I'll admit I haven't been doing much hobbying at the moment. But, I've done a little on the Horse for my empire general I show last week. It's just mainly placing the colours at the moment, some areas have started to be highlighted and shaded like the reins near his face. Obviously a load of work to. More on that soon... I hope.

Also on my workbench I have assembled two marines which I plan to enter as part of a squad into Golden Demon. Not anything exciting to show and no major conversions for the squad. As the feedback from my squad entry from last year was it was to complicated and should be more simple and refined. So I am sticking with that simple idea of like a command squad just placed on simple plinth.

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Mounted Empire General WIP

Hello and welcome! I have made some more progress on my mounted empire general. As you can see from last time I've smooth the edges of the base and added some details to it as well as the grit. I have painted the base by drybrushing through the shades up to bleached bone. Then, I have started to add some grass tuffs and flowers. I still need to add lots more foliage like more of the above and leaves etc.

I have also made a start on the horse using my airbrush to give it a solid basecoat of codex grey, then applying a very subtle highlight of grey with a hint of white. From this base I will use my brush to add shade and details.
Beneath, I  have a shot of the plinth I plan to use at the moment.

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Mounted Empire General WIP

 

Hello and Welcome! I have made some more progress on my Empire General. I have bulked out the base with milliput, I still need to sand down the sides for a smooth flat finish. 

Next I will add some detail to the base like skulls etc then add sand and grit to texture it. 

I will being painting the horse in a light grey colour and using the traditional Red and white empire colours with the armour in steel.

                           I have made a Flag out of shim brass which I'm quite pleased with how it looks
                                       and all you have to do is some flexing around a brush. Easy !
                                     I used some steel rod to make a longer banner pole then used the
                                             Imperial Guard banner tassel to give a little detail to it. 

I'm planing to do a complex freehand banner design in red and white.

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WIP Wizard Duel Mock-up

Hello and Welcome! I have been doing a bit more work on a "Wizard duel" well a Wizard and a Daemonette but I didn't have another wizard. Oh well! So I have created a little mock-up of the scene, with a very rough layout just to give myself some ideas.

I imagine the Wizard channelling his energy and using it a blast sweeping the Daemonette off his feet and against the wall , This image was inspired through a scene from one of the Harry Potter Films not sure which one though. I'm sure someone does....

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Some Stuff on My Workbench!

Hello and welcome! I have some work in progress stuff to show you today. I have again been tinkering with ideas for some cool looking figures ad possible Golden Demon entries.

First off is a Empire Wizard which I have converted to be out stretched and more flowing. There is still alot of green stuff work to do including the smoothing of all the areas with a thin wash of milliput. I plan to use this Wizard in a duel scene, either with the obvious choice of opponent "another Wizard" or I was also thinking of using a Daemonette just because I have the parts for it.

Then I have a mounted Empire General which is just blu tacked just to give me some idea of assembly and composition. I plan to make a banner out of thin sheet brass, allowing me a nice clear canvas to do some freehand. I intend to make a built up elevated base to give the figure more height and more room to add features and details to the base. 

More Soon!

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Golden Demon Finalist "Swift Vengeance" Individual Photos

Hello, as promised I have Individual photos of each figure on my Golden Demon Finalist. They still aren't great photos, but there the best I can take. Also, I would appreciate if all could vote for this piece on cmon: HERE .

As always cheers for looking at my blog! More stuff coming soon!

Golden Demon Finalist Swift Vengeance More Photos

Hello and happy new year! I'm back and some people messaged me more photos of my Golden Finalist "Swift Vengeace" which I couldn't really take photos of well.  so here you go, I now have a seprate shot of a figure hopefully getting the rest done soon aswell and another full shot from a different angle. For the base I brought the plinth (wood frame) from a charity shop, then built the base from plasti card and foam to fit in the plinth. The pillars were cast using a mould and plaster.

I wanted this to be the focal point of my piece, so I converted the pegasus wings onto the body which gave it great size and extra presence as the wings almost curves round the base. then made the scratch bulit shield from plasticard with extra bits for detail. Also, the altar he is standing is entirely scratch built which again added to the height. all this made a very powerful looking figure which made a great focal point.

For all those who have messaged me and viewed my blog so far, Thanks. Until next time...

Start of a New blog! GD Finalist and more.

         This is my new blog about painting games workshop figures. I hope to share my work with you in order to improve my painting skills. But, first I'll tell you a little about myself my name is Dylan Thomas. I've been painting miniatures for 8 years, have had my miniatures displayed in the Citadel Miniatures Hall at Warhammer World, Nottingham and achieved a Golden Demon Finalist in UK2010.                                                           

       On this blog will feature finished work, work in progress shots, tutorials from various display pieces to my recently started Vostroyan army.  For now here are some photos of my Golden Demon Finalist Sanguinary Guard squad and part of my Soul Drinkers army in the Citadel Miniatures Hall Nov 09.

"Swift Vengeance" Golden Demon UK 2010 Finalist

Soul Drinkers Army being displayed in the Citadel Miniatures Hall Nov 2009