A productive day?

Well I've had a mildly productive day of painting, always seems like there's something else to do but I though I should just get down to it and start painting.

So I've been continuing painting my Ultramarine squad and after painting one marine to get a feel for the colour scheme I moved on to my captain. Originally he was intended for a blood angels squad but decided to change his allegiance somewhat.

It's a work in progress at the moment and I'm hoping to finish it off over the next couple of days.



Still work to do on the armour highlights and the powerfist



Did a bit of feathering on the plasma pistol, still needs work :)

Hopefully tomorrow I'll get a couple of hours in and finish this guy off soon as I've got a banner to paint for him too.

Whilst I was clicking away a few pictures I took the opportunity to take a few pictures of my workspace as I'm always interested how people work.

Looking quite tidy at the moment, usually a bit manic



A shot of my recently purchased Vallejo Game Colour range




A few of the brushes I mainly use including a couple of Kolinsky brushes




A recent addition, somewhere to finally put all my models

I've had a few recent additions to my workspace including my Vallejo Game Colour range which consists of 95 colours, inks, mediums and varnishes. I found the whole lot on an Ebay store called Drum and Flag. I hunted around a bit to get a good price for these paints and noticed that a lot of places sold the 72 core set for just shy of £100. For about £120 including postage I got a lot more inks and other bits and pieces. I'll do a post soon about what I got in the set.

After reading a few articles and watching a couple of painting videos last month I finally took the plunge and purchased a couple of Kolinsky brushes. I really wanted to up my game on the painting front and these brushes are a great choice.

When I first had a go at the brushes I've got to say I got a bit annoyed trying to use them. They are quite soft when compared to the bog standard brushes I was used to. After a bit of patience and thinning of my paints more than usual it really started paying off and I started to get some great results. 

I'm hoping to do some painting tutorials in the future giving examples of different levels to paint to. Previously I have always painted to get my models on the table as quickly as possible but now I'm enjoying taking my time to get better results.

Please leave a comment if you like what you see or have suggestions on painting techniques or anything about the hobby.

A few of my minatures

Over the years i've painted many minatures and haven't really ended up with any complete armies. So after buying the new edition of Warhammer and re-kindling my love for High Elves I set about painting the best army I could. I decided to follow the painting guide from the GW website and managed to turn out some good results.




Only three done so far!



Ok so High Elves are my army of choice for Warhammer Fantasty but for 40K i've settled for the obvious Space Marine army and after painting Blood Angels and Dark Angels I've settled for Ultrmarines as they have some fantastic  models in there line up. Ultramarines posts are to come but for now a few Orks that came with the boxed set.





 Over the next few weeks I will be converting and painting up my Ultramarines so we'll see what I can come up with.