Tuesday 30 September 2014
The return.....
Wednesday 23 April 2014
Improvements and reflection
It's been a long time but I've never left and I have plenty to show. Some completed work and some work in progress....
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Golden Demon 2013
It was an unusual year for i.d this year. We made the event and had a good look at some of the stands...
Some of the new Dark Elf stuff looks pretty interesting. A lot of potential in some of the new kits that could see some pretty impressive conversion or scratch built pieces in the right hands...
Most of all, the interesting pieces for me were the Forgeworld stands new Horus Heresy pieces.
Alas we failed to get a good look at this years entries as the new setup was a little bit hectic and due to unforeseen circumstances, we didn't enter. So a quiet year but hopefully will make for a more successful year next time as we both have grand ideas for 2014...watch this space
In the mean time, congrats to all this years winners and to David Soper on the Sword!
Keep the paint flying...
Danny Vasquez
Thursday 12 September 2013
Nearly that time...
I'm done....for now. Golden Demon fast approaches. The dread is complete but I will most likely tweak up to the weekend of the event. In the mean time...a sneaky look...
Keep the paint flying
Danny Vasquez
Thursday 5 September 2013
Life and its little obstacles...
It's been a while but life certainly does get in the way of a good painting session. But I still beaver away in my 'fortress of solitude'.....
Golden Demon approaches quickly but I do have two entries I am extremely pleased with in all the years I have been painting. Hopefully I can hit my target of at least one finalist....
Be seeing you guys there...
Thursday 11 July 2013
Finally finished and photographed....
Has been a long time in the coming but finally I've hit coolminiornot with new post.
Full set of pictures of the Avalonian Bust...
Full set of pictures of the Avalonian Bust...
click to enlarge.
coolmini link Avalonian
Cheers for looking ijee.Dave..
Sunday 21 April 2013
How to..... Make your own bricks..
Recently I needed some bricks for a commission base.
Being a bit impatient and wanting to just crack on decided to make my own..
First off figured out rough size to fit the models scale and found use for the
bag of air dry clay,that has been hanging around for ages.
Chopped off chunk of clay and rolled it out, keeping the level even.
The clay used is 'DAS PRONTO' rolled on grease proof paper and left to dry.
( Tried little test cut while clay was still wet but distorted the shape)
Being a bit impatient and wanting to just crack on decided to make my own..
First off figured out rough size to fit the models scale and found use for the
bag of air dry clay,that has been hanging around for ages.
Chopped off chunk of clay and rolled it out, keeping the level even.
( Tried little test cut while clay was still wet but distorted the shape)
Started lining out the bricks..
Ready to cut out
First cut into lengths
Eventually end up with pile of bricks.
These bricks worked out well for the style of base. But for any future tries will
experiment with different clays etc. The Das pronto clay once dried is fairly
grainy and does break up easily, cool for ruined building but not that neat.
Next is putting them all together........
Hope this is of some use..
Cheers for reading and checking out the blog. ijee.Dave.
Thursday 14 March 2013
Silence... Good or Bad ??
.SILENCE.
This can usually mean one of two things in the world of painting,
a/ Nothing going on, No inspiration, No motivation, Nothing Zipp Nada.
b/ A brush bashing Bonanza of inspirational painting, just paint, paint and bit more paint.
Luckly this time the answer was b/....
It seems like only yesterday I posted about GD success, When has actually been months.
So what has been going on in the i.d bunker? Where to start ?
After GD I took little break from painting, hung out, tinkered with few ideas in my head for
future projects, cleaned and sprayed few new miniatures ready to jump on when the
motivation struck.
Deciding before I start anything new that my W.I.P shelf was looking bit full,I should
finish off a started project first.
This being Rackham Clone. Needing base bulding/painting before final pass with
Clone safely attached.
Few teasers w.i.p |
Timed perfectly with the return of FIGONE producers of some of my favourite minis.
From the first time saw the Avalonian Bust knew had to paint one, Really enjoy painting faces
adding character/life.... Seems like good challenge...
As for the bust, Great quality, easy to prepare and true joy to paint. Could paint dozen more
all different and still be smiling..
w.i.p
adding character/life.... Seems like good challenge...
As for the bust, Great quality, easy to prepare and true joy to paint. Could paint dozen more
all different and still be smiling..
From this I bounced about doing some on Clone base some on the Bust,
Around about now Christmas was looming so gift painting was on the cards.
This time for my better half, A miniature she loved and classic Smog1888.
Alice..
w.i.p |
w.i.p |
Soon found myself a bit swamped in w.i.p's miniatures that just needed few touches to finish.
But before all that some how another mini got added to the list.
Bael...
A salvaged Rackham mini in need of serious t.l.c.
Old paint from previous owner stripped off.
Rebuilt with new arm positions,weapons fixed from breaking off,
Shorter ponytail as broken and missing section.
Green stuffed all missing and damaged areas.(mainly arms)
Before the fun bit the painting could even start, but worth it is great Sculpt.
Result after first sitting.
Bulk of him basecoated (above) using three colour wet blend tech.
Smoothing out and adding tones.
Bad picture :(
But adding lights and contrast.
With the initial idea of clearing my w.i.p shelf having been totally blown out the water,
I did continue working on all projects, bit on this bit on that. Until finally I did finish
a piece.
Prosper, Avalonian Bust.
Figone.
A few more projects are now done and awaiting photo's asap. And this guy above
will be on coolminiornot soon..
Cheers for reading.. any comments welcome..
ijee.Dave..
Thursday 7 February 2013
New year...new ideas
It's been a long break from painting from me but I'm coming back with a new perspective on painting and I think it shows...
I with many view finecast in a very negative light but while working on this I have come to realise it has a lot of positives over lead. The key is the sculpt has to be pretty darn spot on....in this case it was. But I digress....
Here is a sneak peek at my current project....still a lot to do but it's close
Take it easy and keep the paint flying :oD
DannyVasquez
I with many view finecast in a very negative light but while working on this I have come to realise it has a lot of positives over lead. The key is the sculpt has to be pretty darn spot on....in this case it was. But I digress....
Here is a sneak peek at my current project....still a lot to do but it's close
Take it easy and keep the paint flying :oD
DannyVasquez
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Guard v's Guard 'Details' now on cmon
Sorted out the detail pictures and posted on coolminiornot.
Follow link below to voting page.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/318706
Any comments and votes would be great..
& Cmon forum post http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?51560-Guard-v-s-Guard-GDUK-12-Gold-Duel&p=676023#post676023
Cheers People... ijee.Dave.
Follow link below to voting page.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/318706
Any comments and votes would be great..
Details |
Cheers People... ijee.Dave.
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