Step By Step Article: How to speed paint Dire Avengers

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Kyles Cryx Models, An Ork, and a funny thing about white balance

Funny thing about digital cameras. They normally have a setting for white balance. White balance is the process of removing unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo. So monkeyed with the white balance on my camera. I set my normal blue background, with my lights set, and set the white balance. The two pictures of the warjacks are taken with the white balance set with the blue background. When the blue background is removed, the sepia tone background shows up. This should actually be white. The picture of the ork is with the white balance set to the white background of my diffuser box.

I have also gotten smart and MARKED MY LIGHTS! Before I had 10-15 minutes of adjustment to the placement of the lights to get it all right. Now, I just have to get the marks on the lamps to line up, and place the top lamp on the "hook" fromthe end of my shelf bracket. That gets the lights back to where they should be. Next thing to do is replace the "daylight blue" incandescent bulbs with "daylight blue" flourescents so that all three of my lights are the same type. This affects the lighting on the pictures too.

Enough jabbering - here are the pics

Bane Thrall
Bile Thrall
Nightmare
DeathJack
My New Ork Nob

New Model Pictures

One of Kyle's Bile Thralls. 10 models - 4 hours total paint time

Flames of War American Rifle Team - Total paint time, about 10 minutes.

Major Katherine Laddermore Mounted

Major Katherine Laddermore on Foot

General Adept Sebastian Nemo

Squire
All 4 Cygnar models took just under 4 hours to paint!

Shane's Cygnar Models, All Done in 4 hours!

So I decided to carry through with the momentum last night and get Shane's Cygnar stuff painted. From Prime to Matte Varnish, I have a total of 4 hours into all models combined. I used the bulk paint method even though they were all different models. Now if I can remember how I based them I would be super happy as I can drop them off to Shane tonight whilst gaming!

Woot, Flames of War US Armored Rifle Company Painted in 1 day

Okay, so I have never been a fan of 15mm gaming miniatures, but let me tell you, I liked painting these.

I painted a US Army Armored Rifle Company Starter Army (about 400 points) in just over 8 hours!

A detailed list of what was painted:
4 Carbine teams
7 Bazooka teams
1 Jeep
9 M3 half-tracks
8 Rifle teams
2 M3 37mm guns with crew
2 M2 60mm mortar teams
4 M1919 LMG teams

Of course, these were for Ebay, since I never really got into playing much, and my current life leaves much to the imagination when it comes to gaming. But nice to get a chance to paint a bunch of different stuff for a change. And I finally found a use for Devlan Mud :)