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Really great that we all get some insight into your workflow=) your patience must only be exceeded by your precision

It´s okay I guess.

Soooo interesting what a difference the basecoat makes. You can sort of tell this has a different approach to your usual work. This feels much darker and toned down. Real cool.

Not saying which I...

Can't believe I missed the fact that you´ve got a thread here!

That´s one of the most awesome sculpts I´ve ever painted, I was really happy about it. And now you come here, making me consider...

I usually don´t go overboard with praise, but my god that lunar wolf is one of the most beautiful space marines I´ve ever seen. Especially the black on the shoulderpad and the gun are absolutely...

Well done fellas. I´m keeping my door locked in case border control comes a knockin.

Must say, however, that the "remain" campaign did an absolutely dreadful job. Really. Corbyn felt like he...

alex, your painting has really improved=)
the contrast on the skin of the AoS-demon is really sweet

I kinda like the bones demon. It feels a bit understated (which is good) and has a cool pose....

Thanks for the tips John. the idea with a small animal in the middle is great. perhaps i should sculpt like a raven flying away or something?

I have a flag in the works, "the cock in the sky" with...

Finally got some mojo back for working on my magnum opus, the village diorama. The undead part of this snowy empire is still very much a work in progress. I will probs remove the ghosts and insert a...

you stole that skull from me! it´s from the gw plastic giant=)

I am not a dog person. Allergic and afraid of them.

But i can see your point. That is really sweet and heart warming.

Glad to be part of a "happy and kind" forum:P

Sigmarine no.2 on the way, thinking this will turn into a 3 or 5-man unit=) having a lot of fun converting them!
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Well. Sort of would be a silly competition. I wouldn't take the contest seriously if the judges were unable to judge several types of music. Unless it was clearly stated that it was a heavy metal...

I´m not even gonna bother getting irritated. Given up on GW competitions all together. (BTW, they aren't painting competitions any more, they are "who can paint the minis as boring as they look on...

Lol! Missed a lot of these comments. DR, you could say... WASTED talent;) Everyone looks like Lindsay when you really zoom though?

The shield maiden is finally finished! Gogo vote peeps!

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ah, allways kinda wanted to paint this one=) off to a good start!

Thanks for the comments guys! I´m real happy with the eyes ten, although they are much easier to do in this scale! I would say painting just gets more fun as the scale goes up!

Zab, the correct...

Afraid it isn't zab. Her purpose will be somewhat darker i believe:P
Getting close to completion with this project anyways. Just a few more teasers!

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thinking about freckles again, what...

Ok, so no-one dared a guess toward the character. Gonna give y'all another sneak peak anyways, as you commented so nicely;)

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More coming in a bit!

Another "historic" bust coming along nicely. As for the tattoos on boudicca, I could´t care less about historical accuracy, just aiming to paint something cool:P Don´t paint for competitions, just...

Wow! this is surely turning out great. where are these zombies from?

should work now, i think the pics were just activated=) thanks for the nice comment!

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Votey linkeys up! Help me reach new heights of super stardom painting recognition!

I have a hat. And that is some of the most beautiful painting I´ve seen in a good while.

looks great=) not a fan of the minis really, but your paintjob makes them a bit better!

Peeps! you´re all too sweet. Thanks for all the nice comments=)

10 ball: the bend is indeed annoying. Tried to fix it, but the resin is resi(n)stant. Indeed i took a lot of notice when reading...

I loved Kanyes bohemian rhapsody. Then again, in music controversy breeds evolution. So I´m happy others hate it.

Finally got around to painting Boudicca from Origen Art, one of my all time favorite pieces. Hopefully i can get around to painting a similar bust again, had an absolute blast, and am really happy...

Meh. The hate i see for this is ridiculous. The minis are cool, they are reinvesting into fantasy, fantasy needed a flagship mini type (like the space marines for 40k), and even better, the prices!
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Imagine 50 shades of grey, but with Michael Bay directing. And the Stephen King version of the shining. All in one.

HAVE FUN WITH THE NIGHTMARES

i really like some of these models. especially some of the sigmarites, actually!

just make sure it isn't a carrie type prom... tell your girlfriends bullying isn't ok!

I just ordered one of my dream minis, boudica from origen. http://www.origenart.es/index.php/tienda/miniaturas/boudica-detail

Also wish i could get my hands on a copy of the beautiful hush by...

Heh. I´m rubbish at photos. But my brother is a photographer and editor for some of the main tv-channels in Sweden (SVT, TV4). He took pics of my minis once. And I must say i wasn't too pleased... In...

Un reve, je pense. Tous les different langues sont un cauchemar pour le pauvre Skels.

Mon français et un cauchemar aussi, je peur.

Yeah agree nels0n. guess it´s up to writing contracts with the arena and booking etc. don´t see why GW feels the need to be so secretive though. being up front and stating that there will be a golden...

thanks for the ideas guys=) i think i´l have to redo the water with 2p resin. too many bubbles=( the cart is a great idea. not gonna enter this into a gw event, so i´m rather free to use any models...

Of course it makes sense! It makes sense for them to not have a golden demon as well. But that is not the point. The point is that they are giving up on display painting, both through devaluating the...

Oh, that´s not war I´m saying. Still envy the skills of EM members, and when they´re allowed to spend time, they do incredibly neat stuff. But as DR says, they seem to have a different time setting...

Most of us have been for years. Skelettets keeps calling me a fan boy, but fact is that their products, their events and their hobby attention has taken a horrid turn. White dwarf has turned to a...

raw speculation here. but my guess is that they´re taking steps toward moving the demons away from games day (WF) and toward a cheap and cheerful GD event at warhammer world. wouldn't mind that at...

Great work all y'all. For a first shot at a base that is pretty great evl. And I´m very excited to see where the sculpting is going on dennis's piece. Although i would probably have the right leg of...

This is silly as hell and I won't be entering any of these competitions. The whole thing that made GD good was that it drew people from all over to a huge event. This feels like it will be a local...

more progress. kind of puzzled as for what to do with the other side of the canal. maybe a slightly higher bank with some rubble and corpses, with stormvermin running over them. really liked nakatans...

Can't say i´m a fan of your choice of minis as of late;) But the painting is not poor at all! Great improvement in free hands swell on the elf!

I fully agree with the choice of flag for this mini! The swedish flag has a horrid combination of colors:P The infinity range is pretty cool actually.

Great job mega=) not a huge fan of this mini though. don't know why, usually like infamy minis and the whole gritty steam punk thing...

Will be interesting to see what you do with all the metals=)

Oh shut it you. I´d rather drink my coffee with tar than enter this in the fang;)

Been a while since i posted again:P lost my login, and realized it was an opportunity to stay off the internet for a while;)

Anyways, the dio is coming along. Got a little music box and fluttering...

argh i can't wait to see how this turns out. looking to steal some awesome ideas!!

liking this project=) the base looks great, but the grey stone looks a little flat at some points, like behind the nurgling. could perhaps profit from a shade or two?

great job on this, not a huge fan of the sculpt tho. but that cloak is awesomely painted! you´re getting even better with the freehands=)

avelorn, is that a masters thesis or a phd? if it´s a...

For once, Dragonsreach and i agree about a british comedian. Brand was real funny with noel fielding in quiz of the year. But his political statements are absolutely horrid. Contemptful, populistic...

yeah i had to skels. there are just zoo many nice bits in the set, love it! noticed the thing on his shoulder. about paint days, i´m free from school after next thursday! so pretty much any time=)
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yeah sure skels=) planning to use my sculpted nurgle monster, two or three blight kings and an archaic converted into an empire general!

first mini done for it, love these minis.

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wow, really like that mini. don't hink i´ll join right now tho, too much in the pipeline

that seems like a pretty awesome mini for the scale. would´ve guessed 75mm considering the detail level. great job painting it aswell=)

cheers everyone else for the comments by the way. i´m looking forward to getting work done on this=)

only to cover stuff up demi;) nah, i rarely use them, but in this case i´m going for a specific effect, with a meadow style grass floor, and a bunch of grit. the ground is also already covered in...

fantastic!

Heh. No posting here for about 3 months, shame on me=(

Well, so I started working on a BIG project, probably my biggest one yet. Hope it won't get the best of me.
It will involve some sculpted...

i would never be able to resist the temptation of painting the silhouette of a shark in the water:P
that is a top quality base to, really. the color of the water is absolutely ace!

First off. I´m not trying to bash the slayer sword winning piece. It looks technically great and a nice piece worthy of a gold. What I said was not aimed at the work of the painter, but at the...

from what i´ve heard, gw did a good job. save for the judging. that slayer sword piece doesn't look too special. but then again, could be worse. glad to hear it´s all shaping up. and besides,...

a colleague phd student has the habit of wearing socks and flip flops to work. possibly a correlation between odd foot wear and higher education?

Asides from vegetarians who don't eat fish, I guess. Can't say how many times I´ve come across the following from asian restaurants: "Noo, there´s no fish in this, you´ll be fine. Just oyster sauce...

westwood is arsum innit. love how his father was a bishop. 56 years old and a grime dj by night...

on the theme of geezers being posh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLg2I9zgCi4 (skip to around...

up for voting now=)

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i don't know what kind of competition they're expecting tho, sending out info just two months in advance. can't say i expect any of the "elite" are being given time to prepare.

cheers for the comments guys. zab, shame i never paint the same mini twice;) yeah i thought so too ten, but skels told me to keep the wolf as is. it´s one of the parts i´m not so sure about.

masterminis released a pic of the tickets. seem like it will be in coventry. massive improvement over birmingham-_-

at least it´s during the pl season, so we´ll all be all be able to catch a...

took some half decent pics of horus. hope it´s enough to satisfy the voters=)
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i know the pics are big, but what the hell, i don't mind, think they give you a...

this is pretty damn good=)

wow ten, impressive swedish skills! i´ll be damned if that wasn't even google translate;)

i can see it on my computer but not my phone as well. may be picture size?

it is lame.

your worst fear may also come true, he may become a moped crazed "popular kid" who despises us geeky older people and just wants to be like everyone else. hughhh.... sorry for putting that picture in...

Nah skels, i´m with you here. not a fan at all. generally buff minis like him are not my cup of tea tho.
Paintjob looks great tho, great contrast on the leg=)

true that skels. truer words have seldom been spoken...
i´m thinking about making the backpack a sort of focal point. maybe some osl? a bit tricky this, i tend to paint very dark when i use tmm, and...

thanks zab=)

forgot to say to those who didn't know btw, i won best overall in the fang "nordic championship" with my Horus. oh so very happy about that!

that said, the new gw webpage is just horrible. and i don't like the new gw at all. less hobby, more playthings. on the other hand, it all leaves me hopeful that forge world will get a bigger role...

sorry for this. but shares don't reflect the actual profits or capital of the company. they´re just speculative bets from the share holders. which is why the stock of a company like gw could go down...

changed the cloak to something more fitting color-wize. think it worked out pretty well=)

also, would love some comments on the colorscheme, y'all think the contrasts work out?

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USA! USA! i like that eagle.

i´m sorry to say i wasn't happy with the colors, just to strong in comparison to the toned down mortarion. i will repaint the whole thing. rather don't want it to go to waste tho. so if anyone has a...

finally, done!
probably never trying something like this again.
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we shall see. what worries me most is all the different colors. as mortar ion himself is dark dull and dirty, i fear it will look like he´s wearing some sort of firework display or spilled his makeup...

i see some people painting that mini atm, and i really like it=) not really my style with the big baddie muscle monsters, i´m afraid. but this is cool!

I may finally have bit off more than i can chew. I bought the forge world Mortarion model and decided to have some fun with the cloak. Don't know if that was the right decision... I may just kill...

i agree with you about the plinths skels. few things annoy me like a awesomely painted piece with a distracting base. i prefer them square with a black or toned down uniform red color. as long as the...

No reason to feel old Dig. The fella died (relatively) young, as the best ones often do. Comic genius, loved both black adder and the young ones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3HvchF49AM

Bloodfather, entering an official GW competition gives them full rights to pictures of the minis. It´s in the terms and conditions of the competition rules. Considering pr and picture rights is the...

depends on your ambitions and skill level. the way to go is always different, depending on who´s painting=) personally i would never dry brush, but i only paint for display or competition reasons....

LeGarette Blount? Damn steelworking traitor.

sure, sounds great=) maybe mid day sunday?

looking great! i would probe have done the mountains a bit steeper, but that´s a matter of preference i guess=) really like the colors.

yeah... but skels has so many, why can't i have some?=(

i´d´be happy to let you rummage through my cabinet, trying to get rid of all my stuff anyways=)

ofc he´s not finn^^ i´d love trying necromunda some time, can you play with "regular" space marines?

Cheers for the pics. posted them on gw stockholms webpage, hope you don't mind.

A bit disappointed today, as i realized there was no trophy. didn't even get a paper diploma for the overall prize....

Cheers for the praise all y'all! i really wasn't expecting to win anything, so this was a huge surprise=) Seems like it was pretty good competition swell, love Roglands sorcerer.

Good job with...

i´m here! good luck mate. good luck to everyone, unless you´re team is playing my team, so to say.

look at my location;) i´m just teasing kretcher

dear me, this is great! can't believe no-one posted here yet. really nice convos=)

stop talking bloody swedish. i don't understand anything.

"You´re messing up my hair." -Buddha, 614ad.
"Here, have some chocolate." -Sir Alan Sugar, 1996.
"A record? Good lord, man, have you...

As i understood, they´ll be taking the three best in each category up by car=) Cheers Kretcher, would you be a sweetie and live tweet as well?;)

Cheers guys. and i agree with ritual for the most part. but sometimes it´s just nice to do something that isn't for a competition and therefore doesn't have to be perfect=)

Btw, i beat Stefan at...

Just got some time off from school. and with all the entries done for fang, i decided to paint something small just for fun. Did this in about 5 hours, so no wips i´m afraid. what do y'all think?=)...

wait. swedish vegans? that doesn't work out in my head. we all kill bears with our hands and eat them raw. i sentence you fake swedes to death by snu snu!

for phone pics, it´s really important to have a plain background, to avoid bad focus. try a white paper behind, and no hands in the pic. hold your phone steady towards the table and make sure that it...

i really like this. t´s kind of odd seeing such a dark and evil character get painted in such a clean scheme tho. not sure what to think;)

edit: you can never defeat the polar bears. our moose...

the fact that it´s slimmer and aimed straight back actually makes him look meaner. i wouldn't mess around with it too much.

wow! super duper results. i´ll probs be trying that out=)

looks great mate. i would´ve painted the rock before doing the water tho. just to know how the colors work together and so on=)

cheers everyone! i hope so to kretcher=)

the norm for some of us i´m afraid=( as long as the work is your passion it tends to work out tip you drop tho;)

pfft. i´ve got a future. flippin burgers in a town near you any moment!

One last pic before the fang!

no time to put them up for voting atm i´m afraid, so this will have to do for now;)
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i could actually join in for this. wouldn't mind a mini with big surfaces and few details after horus and everything. any idea when the competition will be over?=)

that is indeed pretty! very precise.

shame fang isn't like a week later. i´d go up for a beer or two and a competition=) besides, don't get why ur such a sad do over this. the base is looking great to me. and the rat aint bad either.

says the geek winning the fang every year. at least i have a life eh?;)

as far as i understood they will go up in a car and bring all the winners yes. rather hopeless to go up with just one mini:P

as i understood it´s the winners in every category that are going to stockholm. so i´m sure stefan will be going, even if someone else (yay) wins overall!

this is horrible, just horrible. stop painting and give me the minis. i´ll fix them up.

Och skälet att jag pluggar är för att jag blir så jeflamycketsmartareänermedjobb;)

damn it. you just had to take that damn glass thing this year aswell, didn't you?

absolutely beautiful.

that skin is awesome! the legs look really realistic. i´m liking this=)

looking great andy, that book is wowzah. now if i just didn't have to bend my head every time i looked through your thread;)

windsor and newton series 7. only way to go.i would say a size 1 and 2. maybe a 0 if you like tiddly free hands and eyes.

gw and their paints... with is a lugganath?! i can tell what kind of color blazing is, but lugganath tells me nothing... what´s your next project?=)

and the years of practice to achieve that level of steady hand-syndrome, color sense, personal style and planning ability=) having seen stefan paint a few times, i can still never tell what paint...

oh too bad your porter couldn't make it! (wow am i glad to be off).

the "old" GW color astronomical grey or any other pale bluish grey. tends to give a more ambient and saturated flow than mixing with white. also great for bringing out realistic tones=)

demihumans pictures in combination with the study-style room you did a while ago gave me an idea. how about a freud-looking miniature stepping into a salvador dali-style landscape? trying to...

that stone effect is pure awesome!

This. a topic should be started where people show examples of their work they feel was inspired by work or other parts of their life. mini painting made real personal.

Societal psychology graduate student. Hopefully going to be phd student by this time next year. My work has mostly focused on how attitudes and values effect consumption.

I´m not at all surprised...

LOVE the freehand.

yeah indeed skels. loads of them out there. but it´s really well made^^

thanks for the links guys!

cheers zab! that´s more or less what i was going for. saturated colours with loads of cracks and imperfections.

cheers for your comments guys=) i´ll probably have something historical in my pipeline soon ozy=)

maybe that awesome napoleon bust i´ve seen people do. bit big tho. any other tips for nice...

my ipad must be the most boring ever. ping pong (document handling service), google docs, the cloud and spotify. in other words, no fun, just school. spotify is a great app tho, so are all the...

COOL! i like this fella and i also like what you´ve done to him=) just one thing, he seems to blend in almost too well with the bg. maybe push the colors of the background into something warmer?...

would love some comments and critics=)

this is my first attempt at a historical mini, real pleasure painting this one. i know my style of painting doesn't really lend itself well to historical...

forgot to post this around here. i really should be better at posting wip-photos in this thread, not just the finished products^^
*fishing for comments*

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that base is ACE! i would love to do something like it again, wanna go back to my old fun-with-water-bases-me:)

this is coming out great. will the pumpkin and mushie minis also be 75mm?

there are things i really like about this, and things i dislike. she´s a cool girl and the sculpt looks like it´s of a great quality. however, the whole flashing of boobs is too much. same thing goes...

i don't know who likes the warhammer visions. great to be rid of all the commercials, but really. it´s´something like 150 pages with battle shots of half assed tyranid minis. and no text whatsoever!...

yellow pages! he´s the phone book mage. able to tell you the adress, number and middle names of anyone in the realm!

drybrushing is great for scenery and bases. it can give a chaotic and random impression. rarely use it for minis tho. like more control than db gives.

usually that fella skelettets. believe it or not, he´s a really good singer.

when i paint on my own, i like classical musik or movie scores, nothing that needs too much attention.

buuuuuuuuuuuuaeeeehhhhh. the old man is evil to me.

this is all very interesting. and i won't judge it until i see the outcome. but some of these news/rumours could turn out to be very good. (especially concerning fw and fine cast.)

here´s for...

i liked pretty much everything about hobbit2. the first one though, i had several problems with.
the scenes with smaug were indeed drawn out and got a bit dull.

other than this, my only problem...

i really like the way this is going=)

nice to hear you settled in with a way of painting that you like. maybe i´ll get there some day too!

i´ve got a week off soon! let´s try to get some painting in there?=)
hows ur time looking between 13th and 20th of jan?

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Happy christmas!

nu talkar vi! lots better=) hoping to see a really nice base for this fella!

what is photoshop?=)

i havnt dared comment this yet:P i´m not so sure about the long fingers on the right hand. to me, they´re just to straight! look less like weapons, more like a pen knife;) like where this is going...

You can also ride, pet, talk to, and cuddle real horsies. I love all animals that are really nervous!

the responses from friends are soooo diverse. people do often look at me funny when they find out, i tell them to have a look if they want to. some people see the creativity, some people remember...

the sculptor is indeed a pro. those minis look really nicely sculpted, and if i hadn't just spent all my money on statistics books i would have considered sponsoring your kickstarter=)

However!...

cheers yall=) yeah i really need to grab a decent camera and some photoshopping skills. the shoulder pads are part of the shirt, which i wanted bright and similar to the skin tho, so that´s not...

i hate that kit:P sure looks like it will come together nice though=) more cogs!

hang on. i thought it was N (number of participants in the sample), e (error or variance of the residuals), r (correlation of the variables or Rsquare, the explained variance of the independent...

Hello everyone!

I haven't submitted anything in a while, but couldn't hold myself with this one=)
Really fallen in love with the 75mm scale, as you can do so much with faces and the big...

cheers guys=) yeah will be fun with an all dayer again!

from 9.5 to 8.8 in two votes, snipey snipey anyone?;)

kitty up for voting!

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manged to get the size down, but have some problems with too strong lights, that´s why i had to used the toned down, horrible...

yay! i always wanted to do something like a cozy room diorama, i´m certain you´re the one to give some nice inspiration=)

i think you should make a diorama, wouldnt that be fun? i know your patience isnt the best, but you could paint different types of minis, that should keep you from getting bored! plus, the bigger the...

these minis are really cool, all of them=)

hey! you look just like me during exam week zab=)

tend to thind shorter and thicker bristles are more controlled and easier to handle. that mini´s looking cool, even though i think the white on the base is a bit tricky, i tend to like minis that use...

skel. i´ll come with you to crystal brush if you manage to move it around a bit so that we can have a nice visit to soldier field. i cant think of any fun sports on in april. by the way. got an exam...

you may now call me a pretentious twat. but i think it was suitable. that was chesterton by the way.

It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or China as a flash of rice-fields. But Arabia is not a whirl of sand and China is not a...

screw naked stuff=) (pun only a little bit intended). i would really like to see you try a female face however.

really like this piece, some nice colours going on in it! that brown metal is also...

i like those grot tanks=) whats gonna happen with the top?=)

i would mix tamiya smoke with a black colour. or even easier, black and water effects or 'artcoat.

thanks everyone=) marjedi, the sculpt is excellent, no mold lines at all, but you should expect to do a bit of resulpting between the big bits like the skirt and the body. i´m in love with the scale...

damn the pics turned out big. that sucks.

and thanks milosh=) i really liked the base of your version!

loved painting this mini, cant wait to do something similar again=)

Heya!

wow, been a while since i posted. Havnt been painting much anyways. But i got a treat for ya!
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congrats to sprocket for the slayer sword=)

really happy to hear this=) that contemptor really deserved to put some more metal in your cabinet man.

i would say the grass turfs could be toned down a bit. they pop a bit too much, making them look plastic. otherwise, really, really awesome!

nice work=) nothing like a bit of refurnishing at home! is that an fireplace by the way? soo want one.

just so we dont get things confused. i still really like the banner of the bishop... so yeah... some empty displays here aswell... yeah...

Pfft. I´m a bit disappointed by your approach to the bishop tbh. The mini is awesome, don't get me wrong. But I can see how you were limited by some really boring "rules". Screw the rules! Your style...

whoa! these sculpts are really cool=) making me wanna give it a go again. get so bored with it really quick tho=(

watch a movie, eat some fruit, grab a book, fall in love with rachel riley. then give it another try=)
mini painting is supposed to be fun. if it isnt, take a break.

mini painting is also alot...

sorry ten, but that head is too big, and you forgot the impossibly large weapons.

hihi, they look like walls with mittens. gw gone wild! couldnt they´ve just done another really biig thing? happy i´m not a sm-guy.

by the way. i really do like that booring red pattern. may steal some element of it for my last mini=)

shoes really going to be red? looks like santa:D

having that many paints is ridiculous. 25-50 is ok. 100+ would just be confusing=) better to mix, that way you learn colour theory better.

other than this. avoid drybrushing, washing. dooing...

i have that witch from kabuki aswell. have to say i disliked both the sculpt and the cast. bleh.