TheCorax
New member
Hello there everyone and welcome in my little corner of the awesome CMON forums!!
This is officially also my first post on the forums as I have been a lurker up until now but seeing all the amazing pieces of art that fly by here all the time has inspired me to jump in the deep end, and make a thread of my own.
My hopes are to learn from all the amazing artists on here to hopefully progess nicely along the track of the miniature painter and to hopefully turn out some pieces I can look at and be proud of
A little bit about myself for those interested in that kind of jibberish :
I'm a 29yr old consultant in psychology working in a general hospital with some history in miniature gaming who recently picked up the hobby again after about an 8 year lapse (djeez time flies fast...).
Around the age of 15 a buddy introduced me to Warhammer Fantasy and right up until the age of 21, I was pretty franticly into it... I painted up several nicely sized armies, toured the tournament scene with a group of buddies and fiddled around with some other games systems on the side.
However, then life happened and suddenly for several years there was no time for painting or mini gaming. The usual stuff, like college, finding a job, finding a gf, buying a house, renovating a house (well, most of that is done anyway) etc...
However, a couple months back now, me and some friends had a weekend where we decided we would start a new D&D campaign and when I arrived, a couple of buddies were busy painting up their minis... I had a mini which didn't have paint on it, so I sat down, borrowed some paint and a brush and started painting up my Dwarven Paladin for the campaign we would start that same night.
And it felt great!
One thing led to another and I went looking for what was left of WHFB, found that it had died a miserable death but luckily found Kings of War, Mantic's large scale fantasy battle game system. Got a couple buddies (the d&d posse) stoked and we all started working on new armies, getting some games in along the way. I always loved playing Ogres in WHFB and KoW had Ogres as well and pretty nice models for them, so my first project was clear: paint up a new Ogre army.
However, there was one thing from my previous hobby carreer that I didn't want to do anymore, which was speedpainting. Back then I needed to speedpaint to get stuff done for tournaments, demo games etc etc and that was something I just didn't want to do anymore. I wanted the painting to by as relaxing as the gaming as, in the end, usually more time is spend behind the desk then at the gaming table (or at least, that's what fits easiest into adult life). So, from that point on I decided I was gonna paint every model to high standards (my high standards ofc). So, my days of drybrushing and inking were over, time to put on the big boy painting shorts.
So, onwards to the project then, well here it is:
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The Mantic Ogre Army Mega Deal for a whopping 40 Ogres, 3 chariots and 20 goblins.
Before this arrived I painted up 8 GW Ogre Bulls, a converted BSB and 2 giants I had laying around from way back when to fool around with colorschemes, tones etc...
However, painting all these in a row would probably leave me a bit burnt out at doing the same colours over and over again for that many models would bore anyway and I wanted to keep the painting fresh and happy. So I decided that for every unit I finished, I could take time to paint up a model that would get a spot in my display cabinet.
Here's a couple snaps of what I have painted up atm:
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After those I needed smth different to work on and painted up an old Cynwal Elf model I had laying around, trying out NMM for the first time in 8 years!
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Most recent work (finished them yesterday) are these 2 Ogre Shooters:
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Little disclaimer: I know I take crap pictures I'm gonna read up in the photography section about how to improve this but for now I'm kinda stuck on taking pictures with my damn phone...
Secondary disclaimer: even though I said I would try to paint up everything to my highest possible standard, the Ogres will still be gaming figures so I'm not going completely all-out them as that would be a bit overkill imo (Currently allready spending between 9 to 12 hrs on each Ogre, I'm not the fastest painter around )
Any c&c is very welcome, I'll apologise in advance for noobish questions I might flap out and I'm hoping I'll be able to update this thread about once a week with that weeks projects crossing the workbench...
I also picked up somewhere that it was common courtesy to show how that workbench looks so here we go:
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Well, this starting post became slightly longer than I had intended it to be, but now that alot of the talking is out of the way, room for (hopefully many) updates and interesting discussions opens up...
Friendly greetings and happy paintslapping,
Corax.
This is officially also my first post on the forums as I have been a lurker up until now but seeing all the amazing pieces of art that fly by here all the time has inspired me to jump in the deep end, and make a thread of my own.
My hopes are to learn from all the amazing artists on here to hopefully progess nicely along the track of the miniature painter and to hopefully turn out some pieces I can look at and be proud of
A little bit about myself for those interested in that kind of jibberish
:I'm a 29yr old consultant in psychology working in a general hospital with some history in miniature gaming who recently picked up the hobby again after about an 8 year lapse (djeez time flies fast...).
Around the age of 15 a buddy introduced me to Warhammer Fantasy and right up until the age of 21, I was pretty franticly into it... I painted up several nicely sized armies, toured the tournament scene with a group of buddies and fiddled around with some other games systems on the side.
However, then life happened and suddenly for several years there was no time for painting or mini gaming. The usual stuff, like college, finding a job, finding a gf, buying a house, renovating a house (well, most of that is done anyway) etc...
However, a couple months back now, me and some friends had a weekend where we decided we would start a new D&D campaign and when I arrived, a couple of buddies were busy painting up their minis... I had a mini which didn't have paint on it, so I sat down, borrowed some paint and a brush and started painting up my Dwarven Paladin for the campaign we would start that same night.
And it felt great!
One thing led to another and I went looking for what was left of WHFB, found that it had died a miserable death but luckily found Kings of War, Mantic's large scale fantasy battle game system. Got a couple buddies (the d&d posse) stoked and we all started working on new armies, getting some games in along the way. I always loved playing Ogres in WHFB and KoW had Ogres as well and pretty nice models for them, so my first project was clear: paint up a new Ogre army.
However, there was one thing from my previous hobby carreer that I didn't want to do anymore, which was speedpainting. Back then I needed to speedpaint to get stuff done for tournaments, demo games etc etc and that was something I just didn't want to do anymore. I wanted the painting to by as relaxing as the gaming as, in the end, usually more time is spend behind the desk then at the gaming table (or at least, that's what fits easiest into adult life). So, from that point on I decided I was gonna paint every model to high standards (my high standards ofc). So, my days of drybrushing and inking were over, time to put on the big boy painting shorts.
So, onwards to the project then, well here it is:
View attachment 48462
The Mantic Ogre Army Mega Deal for a whopping 40 Ogres, 3 chariots and 20 goblins.
Before this arrived I painted up 8 GW Ogre Bulls, a converted BSB and 2 giants I had laying around from way back when to fool around with colorschemes, tones etc...
However, painting all these in a row would probably leave me a bit burnt out at doing the same colours over and over again for that many models would bore anyway and I wanted to keep the painting fresh and happy. So I decided that for every unit I finished, I could take time to paint up a model that would get a spot in my display cabinet.
Here's a couple snaps of what I have painted up atm:
View attachment 48463View attachment 48465
View attachment 48464View attachment 48466
After those I needed smth different to work on and painted up an old Cynwal Elf model I had laying around, trying out NMM for the first time in 8 years!
View attachment 48467 View attachment 48468View attachment 48469View attachment 48470
Most recent work (finished them yesterday) are these 2 Ogre Shooters:
View attachment 48471View attachment 48472
Little disclaimer: I know I take crap pictures
I'm gonna read up in the photography section about how to improve this but for now I'm kinda stuck on taking pictures with my damn phone...Secondary disclaimer: even though I said I would try to paint up everything to my highest possible standard, the Ogres will still be gaming figures so I'm not going completely all-out them as that would be a bit overkill imo (Currently allready spending between 9 to 12 hrs on each Ogre, I'm not the fastest painter around
)Any c&c is very welcome, I'll apologise in advance for noobish questions I might flap out and I'm hoping I'll be able to update this thread about once a week with that weeks projects crossing the workbench...
I also picked up somewhere that it was common courtesy to show how that workbench looks so here we go:
View attachment 48473
Well, this starting post became slightly longer than I had intended it to be, but now that alot of the talking is out of the way, room for (hopefully many) updates and interesting discussions opens up...
Friendly greetings and happy paintslapping,
Corax.
