I\'m not sure if this is orthodox, but im looking for help and input.
I still do not have a camera, and am trying to find a suitable one through airmiles, listed on the \"looking for a new camera\" thread.
I\'m entering my first paint contest, and the first one hosted in my city for at least 5 years.
The project i\'d like to post here is a Melkhior on winged nightmare, the first one of these guys on the site as well!

I have very few concepts so far, but some inspiration. This is my Mount entry. I will also enter a mounted lahmian vampire, one on foot, on queen Neferate, and a 40k Terminator.
So far I have come up with a few ideas on Melkhior. But first is a link describing him, and the equipment he carries, which I would like to work on and bring out the wickedness of.
http://uk.games-workshop.com/vampirecounts/special-characters/4/
I am a beginer-intermediate painter, who for the most part finds himself painting good gameing quality miniatures, but I have produced a few interesting/attractive miniatures. I can paint with at least minor skill, patience, and I follow a good game plan producing solid results, as far as I can tell

. I know of few other mount entries, I can expect a dark elf on a cold one mount with bright colours, maybe a Chaos Dwarf mount of some sort, and a Wood Elf Wind Rider. I will be entering \"the dark one\" entry.
I hope to produce free hand swirls covering the inside of his cloak, which can be done with little skill, and some patience. If someone has a link, it would be helpful, because I am a little confused about swirlies. I am at loss on his sword, I wish I had an inspiration for a black sword. His skin tone will be a vague/soft green with SW. I am almost certain for the base I will be using is from the
Hot Lava Bases article as a guid, but i want to use errie/powerful greens instead, but am unsure of the exact colors yet. I think the only red I want on the model will be a reddened area around his mouth. Thankyou N.S.A
I have no concept or idea of how I should do the winged nightmare (there are a few others on the site), the clothing, or the detailed and large ring of the cloak. Help and input is really appreciated. I will assemble & basecoat the tommorow, but I dont plan to start the magority of the work until mid next week. I have until the first sunday in April to finish him, but I also must work on the chaos terminator, and would like to finish him after Melkhior.
I have time off until the after the competition, and besides finishing other entries, little else planned. I am going to put alot of time and he will be my best work so far. I plan to put a picture of him finished after the contest. Here is a picture of GW\'s Melkhior on Winged nightmare, and one from the net
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bicoun/HFR/Melkhior2.jpg