Amsterdam blues

Soooo....back from Amsterdam, the 2nd edition of the "lage landen painting competition" has come and gone. And I'm fairly pleased with the results. The competition was way tougher and that's a good thing. It felt less like giving a beating to a kid :-P
Ok, that sounded a bit to arrogant perhaps, but the difference in quality of the topcontenders was day and night compared to last year.
And still, on 4 entries: 40k single, fantasy single, LotR and 40K squad, I managed to score 3 times.
My single Fantasy(Krell) managed to finish third.

My Uruk-hai that I painted for golden demon germany 2011 managed a second place

And my Ravenwing command squad won me the gold in category 40k Squad.

As of last night I'm also mentioned on the "what's new today" post on the GW website.
So nothing to complain about :-D
However, the most fun of all this competing and travelling to Amsterdam is the growing number of acquaintances and friends in the "Inner circles" of good painters in Belgium and the Netherlands.
In the long run that is what it's all about. Walking towards the "stage" is fun, receiving the recognition and a thropy is bliss. But beign among people who share the same passion, who talk the same "slang" and influence each other to greater creative heights is the greatest kick you can get from it.

Later when sitting at home, toiling on another stress project(1500Pts of dark eldar, almost from scratch in 3 months for throne of skulls), I actually miss the vibe.
I can't wait to start some projects. As I won't be able to attend GD germany, I might try for Paris.
We'll see. Time will tell.
And now back to commoragh :-D

I'm done with boobies........nah, just kidding

Hi all,
here's the culmination of another fun round of mini-exchange:
Painted this mini for my buddy "Dims"
Not to many words as I'm currently finding a new job and I'm gradually growing tired of "showing off" myself time after time. Let the pictures speak for themselves....comments ARE welcome!

1 down, lots to go

Happy new year!!!

That was that, now on to business ;-)
Thanks to my Winged brush partner, I have these lovely pictures to show to you.
What happend was that we accepted a commision for a space marine army. But he hates to paint big things (really? but he won some competiotions with big things....yeah really!) So I took a shot at the armoured arsenal.
You can find more pictures on the winged brush website(click the banner you dummie! ;-)) and dim's blog. But here are the "panzers":

So how's that for the start of a new year?

There's a lot in the planning, so let's hope that I get it done & photographed!

I'd like to show you a whole lot of iron warriors in a couple of weeks. Furthermore there should be a finished version of army brat for a mini-exchange in about the same timespan. I'd also love to get the "evil" fleet of dreadfleet done by then.

A little further in the year I'll need to finish some stuff for the painting competition der lage landen=> I won single mini 40k last year with the death korps commisar=> high expectations :-D

But that's all in the future....I'll keep you posted!

Busy!!!!

It has been a while....that's for sure.
But that doesn't mean that I've been sitting still. Au contraire...
Since the last post Winged brush picked up the pace. We received a good amount of request and some of these became orders. The original idea for this commision painting initiative was to paint single models to a very high standard. That way we were going to  push our own skills and provide our services. However, we've been mostly painting armies.....But that pushes our skills in an other direction. I can say for sure that once in painting mode(and especially batch paintingmode) I'm painting way quicker and way more efficient than say 3 months ago.
However, on other fields: work, refurbishment of the house and planning of a wedding I've also been craking on. Funny how time flies when you're busy. And sometimes moments like these, sitting down and thinking about what's happend during all these months is quite amazing: " Did I do all of that in such a short span of time".
But hell, no only talking and whinning on this blog:
Here are some pictures of 600Pts of iron warriors that I painted in about 2weeks. The basing has been done by the owner, the pictures too:

Both razorbacks are almost finished as we speak.
Further I've almost completed the "evil" fleet of dreadfleet and I started again on my Dark Eldar...So keep an eye open for upcoming updates :-D

Overdue!!!

Finally!....
It sure has been a while but you'll understand why in a minute.
Since last post I've been painting a lot( GD UK, Iron warrior army for a friend, first Commision for Winged brush co) and a lot has happened. I turned 30, I proposed to my girlfriend, I've started to refurbish the last bedroom in my house.
Ok I know lame excuses :-D But most of all I'm done with posting shitty pictures of beautiful paint job.
Very modest I know ;-) But the fact of the matter is that no paintjob was flattered by my photographic skills/efforts, be it demon quality or just above tabletop.

So I hope to kick off this new "era"(melodramatic me is grinning his *ss off)
A possible future collaboration with a friend who also is a photograph(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wendy-Marien-Photography/159210994153620) and some nice pictures thanks to Pascal http://dimsgalleries.blogspot.com.
enjoy, comment and good riddance!

Old attempt at a golden demon( and second model in my tru-scale loyalist-turning traiter mid-heresy project)

Old attempt at golden demon(earned me a finalist pin in 2008 UK)

First commision job for a webstore


Important final words: All your Commision questions: wingedbrushco@hotmail.com

Almost Games day Germany!!!

Goodmoring all,

after quite a long silence I'm back with a new post. Frankly I was getting tired of putting myself to shame with shabby pictures. And altough I'm not quite over the moon with the following pictures either, I believe they are quite an improvement. Using a real camera instead of my phone, some double lighting and suppressing the flash are a good start. I'll be using a background, a custom picture box (shamelessly stolen idea from Massive voodoo=> see trough garbage bin) and perhaps a quick auto color balancing in photoshop in the future. So further improvement is on the way!
.....and there was much rejoicing :-D.
Anyway back to business and eyecandy. I hope you like the flavour!

Okay, I'm trying to paint some of the lovely "iron" armour Iron warriors=> pre-heresy, loyal iron warriors as kind of a commision  job for a friend of mine. This is a test model. And if he approves, ther will be many models like this to go :-/

As you might notice the basing isn't painted. But that's something he wanted to do for himself. Let's hope to see some pictures in the future where he finished the basing. I really finishes a model in my opinion.
Just to give a bit of  a teaser at the end....I'm participating in golden demon this weekend. And here's a small picture of a model from the 40k squad.
As allways comments are welcome!

I love the smell of bacon in the moring!!! It smells like...Victory!

What a way to kick off a new post! Anybody seen apocalypse now?

Anyway...
After a very good painting session @ Dims place(http://dimsgalleries.blogspot.com/) I started pimping a lot of my blend-works on my Golden deamon entry- the little green men in the picture ;-)-.
The painting session was very helpful and again illustrates why anybody needs a painting buddy with at least an equal level of skills(preferably more ;-)).  We started off with a good idea=> 5 Dark angels as squad instead of 10. Looks way better on the display plate and more paint time for every marine.
Then I got smacked in the face :-P No really, he was right...my blends were way to rough, some of the freehands were crooked=> result: a lot of  re-iterartion of the green tough guys :-D
I re-started blending on friday night and after some frustrating tries, I came to a result I can live with.

Let's fast forward to yesterday evening, because in between came some frustrating evenings away from the paint station. I've been expanding my possibilities in the hobby-room....but I really should have been painting like a mad man.

Okay...the results before yesterday evening.
Yesterday I finally got around to some painting. I re-did the blends on my first marine again! And as I need to get to some serious results, the plan is to work my magic tonight. Hence the breakfast table with my paintstuff allready in position.
Keep your thumbs up, unless you plan to compete in the 40k squad category in Colonge ;-)

If all goes well I'll be taking some close ups this weekend. I hope to finally show off some details of the enties in progress