ART BREAK: Inktober Fail

I thought I would paint a mini bust for Inktober using artist's inks. Kind of like i did with the secret weapon washes...

WIP: Wishing You A White (Scars) Christmas!

Best part of our art: The reset button. I love the smell of Simple Green in the morning!

WIP: Pearl Coat Fail - AGAIN!!! Grrrrrr.

It all seemed like a good idea...

WIP: White Scars Details

 After laying down the pearl coat and decals I started to block in the details like the joints, pounches and purity seals using my wet palette...

WIP White Scars Decals

Just a quick one. These are going to painted over with more pearl colors, but will provide a nice guide for me...

Next Post: More progress on this White Scars test piece.

Thanks for looking and remember, you can't spell paint without a little pain :)

WIP: White Scars Primaris Pearl Coat

Well it turns out you can't really make pearl paints into a glaze so preshading doesn't work too well, but...

On Display: Ahsoka Tano Disney Infinity Repaint

DON'T CALL ME THAT! I HATE IT WHEN YOU CALL ME THAT!!!

Call to Action: Buy Some Models, Help My Friend Pay For Chemo

The title says it all, but I'll elaborate...

My friend has terminal brain cancer. Same kind as The Tragically Hip lead singer. He's got a best before date. Could be 1 to 3 years. He's fighting like hell, but chemo is expensive. Even in Canada a lot of medical care is not covered. We started a fundraiser for him here:

https://www.generosity.com/medical-fundraising/peer-englehardt-medical-expense-fundraising

The union we work for will match any money we raise up to $5, 000. I would like to ask for your help, but you don't know him and we can't always just throw money at every cause we see. 

So what am I suggesting?  Here's what I will do...

Buy any of my minis for sale here:

https://almostperftec.blogspot.ca/p/blog-page.html

From now until the new year, for every model you buy from me, I will donate every penny to help my friend pay for his cancer treatment AND match that donation from my own wallet! You get some nicely painted minis and my friend gets a few more moments with his family to leave them with memories instead of a crap ton of debt. If you've been watching and waiting to buy my minis now is a great time to help out!

Cheers,

Neil "Zab" Szabo

WIP: Primaris Preshading

Primed and colors sketched in with airbrush. Then I strengthen them with the wet palette...

WIP: Ahsoka OSL & Shadow

Now I want to protect the sabers and her beautiful eyes. This is a scary process because I am covering a lot of my previous work with thin layers of OSL and shading. Thin paint, low PSI and many layers so I don't obscure all my hard work - just most of it on the shadowed side o_O

WIP: Ahsoka Sabers & Base

Preshades and glazes for the base - nothing fancy - it will be covered by the OSL and shadow. Again, yay wet palette you made that easy!

Call to action: Want To Win A Reaver Titan?! AND help a little baby's family with their cancer battle?

Of course you do.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1675113089174625&id=152294311456518&notif_t=photo_comment&notif_id=1508868308816360&ref=m_notif
You could win the Reaver Titan pictured above.

Every single ticket helps.

Re-post, tweet and all that social stuff too please ;)

Zab

WIP: Ahsoka "Hair" & Veins

Well at least the wet palette made the "not hair" go a bit faster!

WIP: Ahsoka Face & Texture Sketching

So this will be fast because these details take forever to do o_O Her pretty face above. Some wear and tear on her armour below...

WIP: Ahsoka Tano More Color Sketching

Color for clothes, light saber handles, etc above. Pics of more sketching below...

WIP: Ahsoka Tano Disney Infinity

Ahsoka and her display base. I may enter her into the MV contest, but the pressure of it almost made me quit before I started o_O  Not sure contests are the right motivation for me :(

ON DISPLAY: Dark Vengeance LE Starter Set

OOOooohhh pretty ruuules!

WIP: Blurry Marines

Oh god, yep WIP cam is dead. I think I have to start using my iPhone now. That is a slippery slope that leads to social media and the death of the blog though...

WIP: Blog 5 Year Anniversary, Batch Painting Done & MV Contest Entry

FINALLY! Done.

WIP: More Batch Painting

Red is done.

WIP: Batch PAINting Ahead

Oh hell... Well, let's get this done. Basecoats above.

On Display: Plasma Weapon Marine

Some pretty pics of this one...

WIP: Plasma Marine OSL & Fire

Alright now that he is based we can start the effects...

WIP: Plasma Marine Armour & Robes

Plasma gun first pass, then onto the armour...

WIP: Plasma Weapon Marine

Base coat above and shading below...

WIP: Plasma weapon base

 Super quick post. Base is burned and stained...

WIP: Plasma Weapons - Totally Worth It. The prep.

He's gonna be all burned and crap with little flames on his robes and banner...

WIP: The Agent of Chaos' First Diorama

So the little one had a school project and need to repaint a few cats to make them look like young lions. I primed them but she took over after that I just handled the hair dryer to speed things up for her!

WIP: Gouache on minis? Yeah, not so much.

Lets try out some stuff on these disposable minis...

WIP: Hobby Tray

 Time to have some fun! Made a Mechanicus themed hobby tray...

On Display: Loka

This one took a long time, but it was a lot of fun...

WIP: Loka Kings - Red & Blue

This marks the end of these WIPs.

WIP: Loka Kings - Green & Yellow

Last 4 pieces!

WIP: Loka Queens - Red & Blue

Bat and naga ladies this time o_O

WIP: Loka Queens - Yellow & Green

Ladies and colors above, pictures below...

WIP: Loka Blue & Red Rooks

Still keeping it simple :)

These two are my favs so far :)

!!!!DON'T FORGET ABOUT THESE RAFFLES- ON UNTIL MAY 14th!!!!

Don;t just say things like "I won't be at CMON Expo" or "There's not much of a chance"

• The winner does NOT need to be present at any event. The NOCF will ship ANYWHERE in the world with a valid mailing address. 

• We only have 500 tickets each for these raffles, meaning that the purchase of one tickets means you have a 1 in 500 chance of winning. Buy 5 tickets and that chance goes to 1 in 100. Pretty swiftly everyone with a few tickets is in with a really good chance.

The most important thing, however, is not the chance to win beautifully painted models or a wonderfully valuable collection of cards. It is that this money raised goes to helping one of the greatest humanitarian efforts of all time, Doctors Without Borders.

So please, get in on 'em!

Dark Age Raffle direct link: http://novaopenfoundation.org/archives/8258

Wrath of Kings Raffle direct link: http://novaopenfoundation.org/archives/8397

Star Wars: Destiny Raffle direct link: http://novaopenfoundation.org/archives/8486

Next Post: The Queens!

Thanks for having a look, comment below and remember; you can't spell paint without a little pain :)

WIP: Loka Green & Yellow Rooks

Four Colors, two minis, 90 minutes!

WIP: Loka Red & Blue Knights and Bishops

Once again, very simple. Just five colors!

WIP: Loka Green & Yellow Knights and Bishops

Colors above. Paint jobs below...

Art Break: OMG!

Original line art by Lutherniel on Deviant Art.

On Display: WoK Wolves

These were done for the NOCF raffle. Let's look at some more pics...

WIP: WoK Wolves Bases

A simple and straightforward post! Base colors above, the rest of the process below...

WIP: WoK Wolves Fur

Okay, above is the color palette for the male & female wolf's fur and below is the process...

WoK Wolves: Gold

Another short one this week o_O  Colors above to get golds below!

WoK Wolves: Metal Armour

There was a lot of back and forth with these colors, but the metals look great! Let's take a look...

WoK Wolves: Teeth and Claws

A very short one this week. The colors above to do the claws and teeth below :)