Turelio's Hobby Hoard

Do you like aged, grizzled men in leather and fur? Then this post is for you!

OK, after posting nothing for the past few weeks, I've got a chance to take some photos of recent painted stuff, so that should be due in the next few posts. First up is the Helms Deep Eowyn I entered into Golden Demon last year. I was lucky enough to get a gold for her. I have the painting steps, but will put them up at an undetermined point in the future with the WIP photos I have. Meanwhile, enjoy the pictures. Also, if you want to vote on CMON, the link is here .

OK, these are the finished photos of the Eureka frog troops. I won't blab on with how I painted that; I'll leave it for the next post. But here are the photos! The base is a wood tray lasercut by Aetherworks which I added texture to and painted. Now, for the individual frogs... CMON Link: http://www.coolminiornot.com/283530

Again, this is another model that I finished ages ago, forgot to take photos of, and never posted. Big mess up on my part. Anyway, this is Sebastian the Morgue Assistant from Wyrd. He was one of the first models I purchased from Wyrd (back in the days before they game with cards), and I always wanted to paint him, but never seemed to have the time to do so. I finally started painting him at the beginning of the year, and had a few starts and stops on him, including repainting the base colour of the robe at one point near the beginning. Initially I had a morgue style base done up for him - tiny (a few mm each) tiles in alternating shades of green with a drain full of blood, and a few blood splatters. I was rather pleased with it until I finished the model. I noticed that the base was warped slightly after having being painted so long ago. When I tried to take Sebastian off the base to fix it, I ripped the insert out and damaged it! Trying to get him finished ASAP, I opted to use an Aeth...

Not only did I realise that I forgot to post photos of Seamus when he was finished, I realised that I forgot to take many photos of the WIP stages. So instead of doing a WIP post and a finished product post like I thought I would be able to do, I'm combining them into one post. First, the WIP shots I have: For someone with a 'press the pretty button' addiction, I took surprisingly phothttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifos (The same goes for Sebastian and the Copycat Killer as well). In the final photo, he was very near done. I just had to do the final oil washes to finish him off. The final photo: CMON Link I used and Aetherworks base insert matching the Copycat Killer on his base. The paint scheme I used (For Seamus and the Copycat Killer) was: Skin: Base - Dwarf Flesh Wash - Scab Red Wash - Bestial Brown and Chaos Black HL - Dwarf Flesh HL - Dwarf Flesh and Bleached Bone HL - Bleached Bone HL - Skull White Glaze - Red Gore Glaze - Dark Flesh Eyes: Base - Regal Blue and C...

OK, this guy has a bit of a story, and it goes like this: Andrew ( Numbat::In Miniature ) came round to do some painting one night, and asked if I was interested in painting up some bases he had. Because they were cobblestones, some kind of street dwellers seemed to fit right with them, but I had to find some first. Malifaux models seemed the way to go, in part because I have so many of them. After about an hour (I had no idea where to look first), I found Seamus and the Copycat Killer, and thought they would be good. I got them both cleaned up, and started painting them that night. The plan was to paint them both at once and have them ready at the same time. The next time Andrew asked if I had finished them (About a month later), I was able to say "I finished the bases!". My method of time management is questionable at best... A while later, I had Seamus done (I just realised I never posted pictures of him or the finished version of Sebastian! I will have to fix that shortly...

This was a quick one I painted up one night for a bit of a joke for one of the guys at work. There are a group of people planning for the zombie uprising (Most of this is done when we should be working), and after on conversation I thought it would be good fun to get some of these and paint one up as a joke. Originally I wanted to get the Mantic zombies, but not being in stock, on a bit of a deadline, and liking the look of the ghouls, I grabbed some of these. This was a really quick speed paint for me; about two hours with dry brushing nd washes coming into play a fair bit. The base was finished up shortly after, and as it was quick, there was nothing more complicated done beyond putting down sand and painting it.

OK, so this guy is not really an Archon as much as an Evil Space Elf Corsair. He is for the GW North Sydney painting contest. I'll be honest; I wasn't looking forward to painting the Archon model, as even though it is a nice sculpt, it just didn't appeal to me. I had some spare parts from some Dark Elf Corsair models, and they fit together with this model pretty well. I used some close combat weapons for the arms with the chainmail covered up to form sleeves on the top of the arms, and covered up the gap at the front of the helmet to get a plain helmeted head on it. The beacon thing on the base was made using one of the Dark Eldar tank weapons topped with a pistol part. I twisted together some copper wire to make some barbed wire-ish parts to go on the bottom of the beacon. I'm not too sure what I was thinking for a lot of this model. I think a lot of it was fairly random... I also did the blue armour with my airbrush. Because now I seem to look at every model and wonde...

These were some Tyranid Warriors I started to paint up when MOAB was on. I originally cleaned them up and bought them along so that I would have something to paint on the day. The problem was that I cleaned them up, undercoated them, and then spent the first day slowly painting the models. Due to my complete lack of motivation to get them painted, they were around for weeks before I actually finished painting them. If I had thought about it better (And I have many times since then), I could have used the airbrush to do the basecoat on the scales and then the blue skin, and it would have cut down the time by a large amount. Oh well, there are plenty of Tyranid models lying around to finish in the future...

OK, another backdated post... This is Teddy for my Malifaux Pandora crew. The base was done up with the same colours to match the rest of the crew, however the difference this time was that I airbrushed the colours on. Thanks to some masking tape and planning ahead, I got the colours down very quickly, and only needed to touch up two tiles. It saved a LOT of stress trying to do that many tiles by hand. There are WIP photos, however I might post them at a later time. Another thing I did with this model was managed to do the fur (apart from a few final highlights at the end) with the airbrush, which allowed me to speed the whole process up a great deal. A shot of him with Kade for size reference. And a self-promoting CMON link...

OK, I'm going through and adding backdated updates as I forgot to post them earlier, or didn't get a chance to post them when they should have been posted... This is the Goblin Jester I finished for the Lost Demon category for Golden Demon this year. I didn't place with him, but I was told that he came close, so I was pleased with that. I also got some great feedback about him from people on the day. And a CMON link as usual

I finished up the 10th Doctor / Dr. Hugh McCrimmon model over the past few days. Here are the finished pictures, and also, a CMON link: Vote!

Remember that airbrushing? It turned out I needed very little work (Even less than I expected) to finish off the Sorrows. The advantage here was that I got them done in time for the painting contest at MOAB, and got to enter them in the unit category (Even though they weren't a planned entry). So what do they look like now? Andrew Lum (Numbat - http://arrch.blogspot.com/) kindly took some photos: And the crew themselves: CMON Links are: http://coolminiornot.com/262039 and http://coolminiornot.com/262038 Next up for Malifaux, I have to finish of my Morgue Assistant who has been around here for a while. After that, I picked up Teddy and the Poltergeist at MOAB, so I guess they are the two that are going to be done after that...

Lots of updates tonight, and this is the first: The Jester is finished! My first GD entry of the year is done, and I've picked up already on a few things I did wrong in the process to correct for my next project. But here are some interim shots of him at the moment: