First Works under new Label

Hello,

after a very long Time full of planning and preperations now the Time has come.....

WikingPaintworks now becomes an "official" Paintstudio! So are some profound Changes associated, like renaming, reorganisation, create new  Web presences and Stuff like that....

As long my new Website is under construction, my new Facebooksite serves as a Presentation Area for allready finnished Commissions.

My new Facebooksite

"WikingPaintworks" now is changing to "Guerilla Paintstudio"

More Infos will follow in the next few Days.....


Please feel free to visit/ like and share  my new Facebookpresence and stay tuned for News (and there will be maaaany of them! ^^)

A few Thoughts about "Meta-Painting"...

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What's going on today? 
We gotta break away 
We got a problem and 
I think it's going to make us go down


Well, these little Songpassage from Korn is just what i actually have in Mind when i look arround (Hobbybased).
When you search the Web for Videotutorials, "How to"-Articles and Stuff like that you´ll be overloaded with tons of Pics, Videos, Articles etc. Sure, this is awesome, there´s quite no aspect of painting you wouldn´t find. But on the other side we have to take a closer look. 

Through the past years, the Paintingscene made several "evolutional" steps. (Just remember the introducing of smooth Paintingstyles and NMM when Rackham started to promote theyr "Confrontation"-Minis) A few Years later the SENMM appeared massively... etc...etc...

Well, even this kind of Evolution is great BUT: Things are going to take the wrong Way!

There´s a massive Bandwith of real great Artists in the Scene.... for Example the Guys from Massive Voodoo, Chest of Colours etc... also there are many "solo" Artists like Lester Bursley, Laszlo Jakusovszky (just to name two Names...)

These Artists try to share theyr knowledge with all the interested Painters worldwide. But there are also many many selfcalled "Pro Painters" in the web (mostly in Forums or on theyr Blogs, Videos etc) who are taking all this teqniques to let them appear like "the holy Grail" in Painting. Everyone has to Paint miniature X with Colours Y and ONLY with Techniques they explain (mostly bad) in the Web.

Also it seems that everybody is thinking that Technique XY is the only Way to paint. Inexperienced Painters use the Blogs, Videos etc as a kind of "Bible". They all copy what they see and read... and finally they all create clone Armys! They all look the same. ...same Colours..... same Highlights.... same Techniques..... This is what i call "Meta-Painting"

And it is far from everything..... since about 2 Years a new Plague in underway.... Airbrushing! 

Well, i´m a Hobbyist as well, i even use Airbrush, but:

How often you look for an Videotutorial and what you find is a Video named "How to paint XY" and what you see is: airbrush, airbrush, airbrush..... 

Please come on! Airbrushing is practical and is simplyfying Painting, but it´s not PAINTING! You don´t even will print a Miniture by using a Rapidprototyper or Laser and wil call that "SCULPTING a Miniature".

In the most Videos the only thing you´ll see which you can take as a Part of "Painting" is the applying of Washes, Inks etc with a Brush! Rest is sprayed.... Another negative Aspect: now it´s much easyer to create clone Armys! Look arround: Necron Armys: Airbrushed.... Greyknight Armys: Airbrushed and so on.... 

Would be nice if these Videos, Tut´s etc will divided in "Painting XY" and "Airbrushing XY" 

Why? Well because inexperienced Painters will allways try to do what they see.... so Minis will be airbrushed and the remaining Techniques will be real prostyled things like SENMM, Hyperreal blendings, Daylight flourescending Colours and Stuff like that.... So they will never learn about painting an Miniature from beginnig to the end with Brushes and/or simple techniques..they will never learn how to blend colours without an Airbrush  (or even just the "Standards" in Painting...)

would be nice to get more back to basics!

Angels Sanguine- Scriptor

Hello,

after a longer Time without any update or News, here´s something brandnew:

Yesterday i finished the Scriptor for my Angels Sanguine SM Chapter. It´s the real awesome looking Scriptor out of the "Dark Vengeance"-Box.

I only had to add a Jump Pack out of my Sparebox to let him "fit" in my Army. I did´nt cut away the Dark Angel Insignia on his Chest because this could be also a generic Icon used by several Chapters. (and i was too lazy for that too ^^)

To let him look like an Scriptor for the Angels Sanguine i only had to paint his Chorrock in Red/Black. These Colours were painted like i allways do when i paint my Angels... (see the other Articles for that)

The Blue Armour was created by mixing the good old GW Regal Blue 1:1 with Alaitoc Blue. After that i washed the Model with Drakenhof Nightshade and then i started to work the Surfaces out with the basic Mix. Last Step was to apply an very soft Highlight by using Hoeth Blue on the Edges.

Painting the Powerweapon was quite easy.... i started with GW Sotek Green, followed by blendings with Temple Guard Blue. The final Highlights were added with a mix of White and Temple Guard Blue.  

So.... here he is.... 

Hope he will bring psionic punishement upon the foes of the Emperor! ^^

painting my Waaaghblades (W.I.P.)

Hello everybody,

do you remember my Waaaghblades (converted Necron Tombblades)... If not, no matter...here´s the Article

Today i started to paint the first of them. Only some easy and very soft blendings on the Red, because i will rework the whole surfaces by adding sketches and some dirt.

Colours used so far:

Citadel Mephiston Red
Citadel Evil Sunz Scarlet
Reaper Shadowed Steel (lightened up a little bit with Vallejo Model Air "Steel")
Wash (Metal Parts).: 50/50 Mix GW Badab Black and GW Devlan Mud
Wash (Red Parts): Army Painter soft Tone Wash


more to come, so stay tuned
(and feel free to leave a comment ;) )

Sometimes painting is real Joy!

It was great pleasure to build and paint this Model.... why? It was a Birthday Present for a very good Friend.

The Model is painted in the Colours of my Friend´s custom made Space Marine Chapter. (Medium Blue works well with Blue/Grey-ish tones! ^^)

Hope, he will have lots of Fun with this little Beauty! 

I´m really really sorry but i had to remove the Pictures because of  Trademark Law Issues.... but stay tuned, they will be reposted soon! ^^

Tutorial: Angels Sanguine with the new Citadel Colours (Part 1)

Hello Folks and Fellows....

I received some Mails from Painters and Gamers who wanted to know how i did my Angels Sanguine. There are several Tutorials about painting this Chapter in the Web, but all were made while the old Colours were present. So i decided to create a "How to..." Article by using the new Citadel Range.
Today i show you Part 1 of this Tutorial in which i´ll show you how to apply the Red tones.

Colours you will need:

Mephiston Red (Base)
Carroburg Crimson (Shade)
Evil Sunz Scarlet (Layer)
Wild Rider Red (Layer)
Bloodletter (Glaze

optional: Yriel Yellow (Layer)


Step One:
After i primed the Model in white, i applied a Coat of Mephiston Red to the left half of the Miniature. Don´t care if you paint more than accurate and exactly "the half" Miniature, this can be corrected later! After that i covered the whole red Areas with Carroburg Crimson....

Step Two:

When the Shade was dried, i painted all the Armourparts with Evil Sunz Scarlet. I took care to leave some of the darker underground visible in the deep Areas and between Armourplates etc...

Step Three:

Next Step was to highlight the Edges and raised Areas with thin Lines of Wild Rider Red. While you paint this, allways keep in Mind that this Colour appears quite bright while you apply it, but it will darken while drying so the result after all is much less bright!

Step Four:

To refresh the used Colours and also to blend them softly, the painted Parts were glazed with Bloodletter. 

Step Five (optinal! - not required)

If you want, you can refresh some of the Highlights by mixing Wild Rider Red 1:1 with Yriel Yellow. Just highlight the highest Areas and Edges but don´t cover the whole Layer of Wild Rider Red. Apply this Mix by using the side of the Brush rather than the Tip. 

End of Part One...... tomorrow i´ll show you how i paint the black Half and the Armourdetails.

I hope you´ll find this usefull....

so far...Greetings,

Wiking

Winterdressed Marder II

Hello Folks and Followers...

Today i want to share with you some Pictures of my first Marder II in "Winterdress".

This is one of the excellent Kits from MK72, a real pleasure to build! Very accurate and very detailled. In my oppinion, this is the best Marder II Model availiable. 

To let this little beauty fit to my winterdressed Forces i applied a faded and used white coat. I just drybrushed the Parts of the Model with an Medium and small sized Brusch up and down. First with Vallejo "Offwhite" and Finally with pure "White". Some scratches and streaks of oil and soot were applied later to create a used look.

I´m still undecided in which way i´ll finish the Tracks and the lower Body of the Marder. I´m pending between "wet" Muddy look by using pigmented acrylic paste followed by some gloss Varnish or "Dry" Mud Look by using several Pigments...  

I´m open for every Idea, so if you want... just drop me a Line! ^^

Coming soon.....

New reinforcements for my "Wiking" are on the Way!... Stay tuned ^^

Gabriel Seth --> Sanguinius Priest Conversion W.I.P.

Yesterday i started a little Conversion. I found the Body of Gabriel Seth (Chaptermaster of the Flesh Tearers) in my Sparebox. At the same Time some Parts of an Space Marine Apothecary and a Powerfist  fell into my Hands.... so i started to convert the Mini into an Sanguinian Priest for my Angels Sanguine.

Here the Result so far, only the Details of the Paintjob have to be done.....

As you can see the conversions are very easy. Only swapping some Parts and adding some Partshere and there... (the Icon on the Backpack for Example) . Easy but effective....

Winds of Change, new Tasks and lots of Work!

Hi all,

Long Time no see, but i´m allright and was veeery busy!
First i had to take care for my new Job (You can´t live and earn lots of Money only by painting Minis here in Germany.... Taxes, Taxes.... oh i forgot: Taxes! ^^) So it is a good Choice to have a Job for half a Day, so you allways will earn "safe" Money and you have enough Time to finish Comissions etc....

The second Change is that i am no longer Painter for my own! Now i´m Part of the Phantasos Spiele Paintingservice!

http://www.phantasos-spiele.de

From now on, you will see lots of my works here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/phantasosspiele  (Youtube Channel)

http://phantasosspiele.wordpress.com/  (Wordpress Blog)

But of course first Adress for new Stuff is here! ^^

Well, the first comission for Phantasos is done. Had to paint about 1300 Points of Orks for Warhammer 40K. It was a quite easy and funny Job, because i love Orks! (Proud owner of 3400 Points ^^) 

Here the Video of the finished Job:

You can see some Pictures here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/phantasosspiele/sets/72157628096404718/ 

Skaven for Sale!

Today i offer 2 of my painted works from the GW Skaven Range....

For further Infos, Prices etc, just send me an Mail:

warscore@web.de

(last link wasn´t working...)

New Equipment

It´s time for some new Equipment, so i purchased complete New Airbrush Equipment.

Finetune Excalibur III

I purchased this Spraygun because it´s one of the best in the medium Price sector. Iwata Guns are much more exquisit but even more expensive! I don´t have enough Money to spend it into an Iwata so i choosed this small Baby! ^^ 

It comes with an 0,2 mm nozzle, so i will be able to create even fine Camopatterns on 20mm Scalemodells.

Some Irish Guards....

Today only a few Pictures of some Irish Guards Vehicles i did some Time ago....

Have a nice Weekend!!!

1/72 Panzerjäger 1 Ausf. B...... nearly finished

As i posted yesterday, my actual Task is an Italerie (Ex Esci) Kit of the Panzerjäger 1 Ausf. B in 1/72 scale.

Now he is nearly finished.

I added some Stowage out of Resin, 3 Miniatures from SHQ and some Trackparts i found in my Bitsbox.

I replaced the towing Cable from the Kit by the Trackparts because 1: i don´t like the "static" look of the Cable, and 2: i love additional Tracklinks on the Front of those Vehicles! ^^

Colours and Pigments are (as allways) from Vallejo. 

No i will do the last "finishing Touches" ..... some Paint here and there, Flock and Grass for the Base and of course the Decals.....

On the Bench....... Panzerjäger I Ausf. B

At the Moment i´m very busy to finish all my German Early War Vehicles. Built some of the in the last Days.
Today my Task is the Panzerjäger 1 Ausf. B from Italerie (Ex- Esci Kit)

Added some Welding Lines and some simple Rivets but i don´t want to place all the missing Lines etc. Just the few on the static Turret.

The inside of this Model is modified too, but this will be visible when the Model is finished. I had to cut out some parts to give more space for the 3 Crewmen.

The Crewmen are from SHQ and the additional Stowage is made of Resin. 

The Model is glued and assembled so far, so now i can start to paint it.....

Greetz Wiking

Inspiration Modellbau - a short Review....

Tom, the Organisator of our small "1/72 Hobby" Area in Mainz

Back from Mainz and again full of Ideas for upcomig Projects etc. It was a great Weekend with tons of Hobbystuff arround and lots of interesting People to meet. Most of the Time i stayed at my Table, showing how i paint Miniatures and Modells for Wargaming, so i only have a few Pictures.

My Friend Michel showing some of his "Secrets" ^^

Another Friend, Sven working on his awesome "Vorpostenboot" (will be shown  in one of the next Posts)

Well ,for me the Painting Competition was a Lesson in Devotion (the awarded Entrys were really impressive and awesome!

So i left Mainz without an Award but with new Contacts and lots of Ideas and much more Inspirations for coming Miniatures and Dioramas! 

Greetz Flo aka Wiking

Hurry up! "Inspiration Modellbau" in mainz is near......

Long Time no news...... it´s because i´m working on my Stuff for the Model Expo in Mainz at the following Weekend.
Still very much to do..... and even my Entrys for the Painting Competition there are still unfinished....
I have to hurry ^^

Here only a small snippet..... and this isn´t the whole Lot......

Greetz Wiking