An idea for a paint rack

I was playing around with Google Sketch-up and got the idea to try to model a paint-rack/station.

I think it turned out fairly well, or at least it's a good place to start. The idea is that paint goes on the shelves (it will hold both GW as well as Vallejo and similar sized paint pots) while brushes and modellinge tools etc. goes in the rack on the side. The tray at the bottom is for the various odd size stuff that seems to accumulate on my desk.


Will this work?... I think so.

Another ship ready

Well finally I got around to taking a picture of the 2nd ship I've painted for Dreadfleed. This time it's Grimnir's Thunder.

More or less a simple model to paint, or a limited palette at least since there are details aplenty to feast your brush on ;)

I've painted the hull with a base of Vallejo Gunmetal and the gold parts with a mix of shining gold and charred earth (this really enhances the ability of the gold to cover the underlying paint). The machinery was painted with GW tin bitz and the balloon on the dirigbles with wolf grey.  A quick wash with devlan mud and some highlights and drybrushing and that was it.

And the result, well judge for yourself.

The Shadewraith

Finally finished the first ship for Dreadfleet, the Shadewraith, painted as follows:

1. Basecoated with Vallejo Wolf Grey
2. A liberal wash of GW Thraka Green
3. Drybrush of Vallejo Wolf Grey
4. Seaweed painted with Vallejo Scorched Earth and a wash of GW Badab Black
5. Random spalshes of a watered down mix consisting of Thraka Green, Goblin Green, Sun Yellow. 

And here are the pics.

This was actually a nice and quite fast model to paint so for now I don't feel intimidated by taking on more of these ships, although I do realise that the level of detail is vastly increased when we get to ships like Heldenhammer etc.

Anyways, next up on the workbench is Grimnir's Thunder!

New minis and some painting

Today is a day with several posts as several things are going on that should be mentioned.

After my initial post about the Panzer IV it's time to show off some new minis from Uncle Mike and Strange Aeons.

These little cuties came in the post recently and I'm desperately trying to find the time to do some more painting, however at the moment time is a limited resource :) Anyways, here are the minis.

from left to right these are: Maniac Santa (X-mas limited edition miniature), zombie priest, zombie, zombie bride, another zombie (reminds me of the boomers from L4D2) and in front a zombie dog. So as you can see a lot of zombie goodness.

Another thing I want to show today is some things I just painted up. At the time the pics were taken a liberal amount of devlan mud had been applied to the pieces, so when that dries up they'll recieve a final highlight of some golden nuance.

As the more observant probably have noticed the pieces are from GW's Dreadfleet. And yes, the truth cannot be hidden, at times I'm still a GW fanboy, although I try to limit that to these limited run board games such as Dreadfleet and of course Space Hulk when that was re-released a few years back.