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A quick one as well: Games Day/Golden Demon was held two weeks ago, and I finally placed! Not only that, it was two gold! One for LOTR single and LOTR group. I'll do a bigger write up at some point in the future, and will also have some pictures of the entries soon (Hopefully). On top of that, I ended up getting a silver and two bronzes from the OzPainters Open held in Melbourne a few weeks previous to Demons, and the same weekend as Demons, I got a Large Model second place for Teddy at MOAB! So the past few weeks have turned out very well for painting comps.

OK, I realised a few weeks ago that I have a notebook (or three) that I am constantly writing my paint recipes in, but never doing anything further with them. The only time I do use them is to reference colours I used to reuse a combination, but I also run the risk of not being able to understand my handwriting after a few years. My resolution was to start typing them all up for future use. I also realised I could recycle them into blog posts to show how I did things. I figured that I would start with the Orc Warboss that was given out at Golden Demon in 2007, and I painted up for 2008. The model is a favourite of mine for several reasons: I'm a former Orc general, so this model had instant appeal to me. It was the first model I ever painted specifically aiming for it to be a display model. It's also currently my highest rated mini on CMON. So here we go, on with the painting: Snotling: Undercoat: White Eyes: Base – Mechrite Red and Blood Red (1:1) H – Mechrite Red/Blood Red/Su...

Just a quick post to say that there will be some updates later in the week. I've been busy with demon entries, but now they are finished, I will get some updates happening a bit more regularly.

OK, these are some photos of the base! At the moment, I need to add some water to the shallow at the foot of the base, however the rest of the work is done!

So, my Golden Demon projects have started (Although by the time this goes up, they will be well under way). The first plan is the Dark Elf Dreadlord. Below are some photos taken during the model being painted. The blue was airbrushed on the get a smooth a coat as possible to the armour so that I could work from there. I then started working on the head. The plan is to have the model quite dark, but the face pale so that it stands out and draws the eye. The colours were blocked in as I got some feedback that seemed to be under the impression that I was doing a monochrome model, which wasn't the plan. Once the main colours were in place, I started blocking in freehand and designs so that I could mess around in the area, without having to finish once area and then wreck it once I went over it to do the freehand. Up next, the base!

These are some quick photos I took of a bit more work I did on Hwesta during a painting night recently while my back was playing up (And I therefore had no interest in painting Golden Demon entries). While I was painting, these were being uploaded to my Twitter account , which is where I am able to post them straight from my painting table without starting a new blog post. The plan for her is to make the colours a bit more obvious, just so she stops getting targeted as a zombie accidentally again...

These are the steps I used for painting the frogs. As mentioned a few times previously, I did a large surface area on these with the airbrush to speed up the large areas that I had to paint, which could be covered and highlighted a lot quicker than with a brush. Back markings (Airbrushed): Base - Calthan Brown and Red Gore (1:1) H - Khemri Brown and small amount of Red Gore Some dots of latex masking fluid were put over the area to later create the dots on the back. Belly (Airbrushed): Base - Bestial Brown and Tausept Ochre (1:1) H - Kommando Khaki The belly was covered with a layer of masking fluid to block out the area I wanted left 'white'. Skin (Airbrushed): Base - Chaos Black, Warlock Purple, and Camo Green (1:1:1) H - Camo Green H - P3 Sulphuric Yellow with a small amount of Camo Green H (Brush) - P3 Sulphuric Yellow At this point, all the masking fluid was peeled off, leaving the previous two layers to show through. Eyes (Back to the paintbrush from here on in): Base - S...