The Prophet

WIP

This wonderful little guy was given to me as a birthday present from Raffaele of "Forged Monkey". Thank you Raffa ;) !

I wanted a desolate setting to contrast with the very serene look of the miniature. However I could not have the "desolation" overpower this figure, which is quite small as these things go... So I settled for a broken column, scattered parchments and dirt to create this feeling of a wrecked Scriptorium. Obviously there is still a bit of work to go...

I hope to be able to show you this little guy finished in the near future!

Also I will write a tutorial on papers, parchments and other bureaucratic equipment that can be used or created to embellish your future bases and dioramas... ("No rest for the wicked" as Gran always says...)


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Shadowblade (WIP)

A few hours today spent working on my piece for a local competition. "Shadowblade", as he is apparently known, is one of GWs' latest plastic kits. When I started painting years ago I loathed plastic, really, I wouldn't touch plastic models. I found the details were poorly rendered and the material itself quite uninviting. All has changed thank Heavens! This kit is a real joy: no excessive details, practically no mould lines, a near perfect fit between the pieces and his pose is the final nail in the coffin of financially preserving self-restraint.

I chose to paint the model already on his customised base as a whole. All except for the head as the access to the facial features is quite complicated if the head is assembled prior to painting. I will write a proper tutorial about the painting of this piece when it is finished. For now I will say that the plan is to keep too a very restricted selection of colours. I am also trying a new NMM (Non Mettalic Metals) recipe on this guy so I am very excited to see how it will turn out!

ready for priming

primed and zenithal lighting source is "mapped out"

a few views after the first base layers are applied

 Stay tuned for updates!
(I have just lost his head somewhere... B*****r!...)

The finished piece HERE!

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the Tiny People scramble onto the Web!

Okay: he's all alone... But there are many coming soon!
"Kobalt" (Rackham)

Welcome all!

After years of passionate painting, and sharing that passion as much as is physically possible, I have made the jump to share my follies and frenzies with the widest of publics: the World! (At least those bits of it that has access to a computer...)

Here you will find Work In Progress (WIP) updates, finished pieces, tutorials and the occasional good deal... I have enjoyed painting and sculpting for the best part of the last twenty years and one of my greatest of pleasures is to share what little I know with those who want to improve themselves - many skilled painters have been kind in that respect to me, so I see this as a way of giving back some of what I was fortunate to benefit from.

Why a blog and not a website? Well for two main reasons: the first is that I paint and sculpt mainly as a hobby and very rarely use it to generate any income that could pay for a website; secondly I have a computer litteracy close to nil so I need to keep it as simple as possible and get quickly back to things I understand better (like paints, brushes, weird putties and bottles of mixtures that would scare most sorcerers...)

I hope you find something to your liking here, or at least of some use...
I must now return to those Tiny People waiting on my desk!

All the best,
Thomas

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