Eldar Titan Progress shots

As I recently posted. I've got on my painting table at the moment one big sucker of a model. The Forge World Reaver Titan. Spent a bit of time over the past few days doing some airbrushing all over the model and am about to settle in to paint the seemingly endless number of gems all over the model....

So while I go do that feel free to enjoy some of these pictures...

As always if you like what you see...LEAVE A COMMENT!!! If there is anything you want to know or if you'd like to see me paint something or do a tutorial then leave a comment.

Fancy Colours...

If you've ever painted your models with an airbrush then you will know how easy it is to achieve fantastic blending and shading on your miniatures...here is one such example...

If you have any questions about how to do something similar be sure to pop a comment in the comment box.

How to fill gaps on a miniature

Quite often in the miniature world we find that as we pull our miniatures out of the packet/box and start putting them together there are glaringly obvious gaps where two pieces are meant to meet. So what do we do?

GAP FILL!!!!!

Most gamers who have been around for awhile know about gap filling. And I know as a commission painter that especially on metal miniatures I find myself doing this a lot. So here is a simple 3 step guide to plugging the gap and making sure that (as best as possible) it doesn't show up once it's painted.

I've chosen this great example of a Privateer Press 'Raptor Cavalry' Model to demonstrate how this is done.

This is a picture of the assembled model...notice the huge gap between the neck and the body...no amount of pushing it together was going to close this gap. So I got out my modeling putty and mixed up a small ball to gap fill this and 5 other models.

Rolling out the putty into a snake like shape gently press it into the gap. Remember you don't need to fill the entire gap. Just enough so from the outside it looks good. So that's what I've done here...just enough to cover the visible gap...

Finally I've taken a sculpting tool and created a similar texture to that of the surrounding fur. While obvious here in this photo you see when its painted that it hides the gap quite well.

So there you go! Quick and easy providing a great result. If you have any questions leave them in the comment box below

Reminiscing

As I've just finished painting one of my many planned entries for Auscon next year. It led me to reminisce about some of the fantastic miniatures that were entered in the Wizards of Oz competition this year. I took some photo's on my iPhone just to give you a taste of what was there...

Hope you enjoyed having a look at these...if you're able be sure to get there for next year. Its a great weekend of gaming and all round gaming fun.


www.auscongames.com.au

Why use a Miniature Painting Service

Sometimes people don't understand why they or anyone else would want to have someone paint for them. To help explain some of the reasons I've got three quick points below that pretty much sum up why people use services like Ministry of Paint to get there mini's on the table.

1. Time- Are you finding that you don't have the time to paint your army? Painting an entire army can be time consuming and not everyone has that time. But we do. We'd love to paint for you so you can field a beautifully painted army on the table top.


2. Convenience- You don't have to worry about setting up or cleaning up. No fuss we do all the leg work for you! You just place your order and we get to work. You can send us the models OR we can order them for you. Whatever works for you works for us.


3. Quality - Sometimes you don't have the time or ability to develop your painting skills to the level you want. But we do! So if you want a great looking army and you want it FAST! then get into contact with us!

Leave a comment or email direct: min.of.paint@gmail.com

Big Sucker...

Every once and a while I get a really cool commission to paint. Something that I have never painted before and often something that can be quite daunting to tackle. This is one of those commissions...while thoroughly excited to be painting it...the sheer size of it is amazing...

Here it is...I just finished assembling it and put it beside one of the new Games Workshop Manticores for size comparison.

It's fantastically huge right?


Leave me a comment letting me know if you've painted something this large before...or how you'd do it if you did.

Dystopian Wars

Spartan Games has been recently releasing a whole slew of games...(well in my mind anyways) One of these games is quickly growing in popularity. It's name is Dystopian Wars and I recently had the pleasure of painting up one of the freshly released box sets from the 'Covenant of Antarctica' faction. This is how they turned out after a few hours on the bench...

I was particularly impressed with the level of detail that is on these models. Being sculpted using digital technology has certainly made these miniatures stand outs for sure. If I wasn't so busy I'd probably want to pick up this game for myself...just for the miniatures...