posted by Raffaele "Picster" Picca


Hey everyone,

again, it's time for some work in progress updates as we recently had a nice painting night!

At the moment I am working on several projects at a time...

First is the Barbarian Dude for the Legio Pictorum contest. I really had a very hard time on the start of this figure, I even thought about quitting... but:

“If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit. Never quit!”
― Michael Jordan

So I started almost completely over with the skin of the dude. Here is what I got so far:

Still some stuff to do... but slowly I am moving toward the end.

Another project that I just started recently is a Red Box Games figure. I wanted to try out some non metallic metal... and somehow it turned into a project that will demand some more work, especially the base.
On the first three photos you can see the actual progress... still pretty early, only a quick sketch of the skin, the metal and cloak is somehow a bit further in the progress. This figure was mainly started for training. NMM and freehand training is my focus as I didn't do a lot of it recently.

The base was very much fun so far. You can see a work in progress of the construction on the last photo. The wooden construction is almost done at this point and I can continue with the landscape.


The last project I want to show today is a bust that is really sitting in my cabinet for quite a while now! It was the first project where I stripped color and finally it's coming closer and closer to an end.
I can't explain why, but somehow I really paint a lot of NMM lately. maybe it's the control that I like so much about it... or the effect... but anyway. This bust was really demanding so far.

That's almost everything I'm working on at the moment... except the stuff that I don't want to show like new Forged Monkey sculpts, hehe :D

I hope you like the progress so far!
Raffa

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

Thanks to Engineer Jeff. 
He did a review on our Artbook that arrives worldwide these days at our campaign backers!

I missed the campaign, but I want one of these books?
We got asked a lot lately from people who weren't aware of the Indigogo campaign, where they can get one of these books. First bad news: Campaign exclusive was the Documentary book, the stickers and the bookmark. Good news: You can get the Figure Art book at retailers in the future. We are in the middle of planning and preparing this. Right now there is only one retailer who got a low number left, check Frank-Miniatures.

As soon we are able the Figure-Art Artbooks will be on Sale. Be aware that we only have a limited number left so make sure you don't miss this news. Keep your eyes open!

Right now we are pretty busy with a lot of organising stuff that we weren't able during finishing the books, so everything might take a while. We ask for your patience. We also plan to write some final thoughts of ours about the campaign in the near future.

Thanks for everybody who helped making this rise!
We hope you like your books?

Best Wishes
Roman & Raffa

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



Hello!
I got not much to tell as these days are filled with regeneration from our book campaign and and three painting classes every two weeks. Madness, but I love to see the students eyes grow on every class!!

Right now we are preparing the MV booth at Games Day Germany 2013 and I can tell there will be many of us there! Hope to see you soon in August!

Lister:
This is the last call for your free Games Day ticket - would be great if you just could say "Hi, I don't need it anymore/ or I want it badly!" or something like that - helps me organising that stuff. Tomorrow I will give it away randomly to one of the other people who commented for it.

What's on my workbench?
One Painting class demonette, which is mostly finished. Maybe I finish her up, maybe not. I have learnt from last years painting class to not start big personal projects on a class as afterwards I am always getting sad of not finding the time to finish them properly. So the decision was made, I paint the workshop figure again and believe me I know those ladies by heart :D

One student of last weekend's class in Erlangen (Review will follow soon!) did the class a second time and he brought the old HeroQuest evil sorcerer as his weekend figure. We both were joking around that he looks so much like Skeletor from He-Man and guess what he painted? I asked him if he would do an exchange figure with me. I asked for the HeroQuest Barbarian, which arrived yesterday. I did spent one hour so far on him but I think he will be super-epic-cool in the end ... but I just realised I did not made any photos yet :/

I did made photos of another project of mine.
I can't tell you much right now, only that it is really getting huge and epic.



So far from the Kong's table ... read you in the future!
Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



Well,
next time the barkeeper should hand out some beer to a traveling barbarian ...

Figure is a limited Heresy model,
sculpted by Kevin James White (Hasslefree), as far as I know.

...inspired by old comics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrud_the_Barbarian

Starting the project during private coaching as an example and enjoyed finishing it.
Hope you like it! If you want to read an article on how to make blood splatters, click here!

posted by roman, jarhead, kong


Hey,
once every month, I clean up my inspirational links I have saved for you - our jungle visitors - this time it is a lot. I hope you find your right inspiration in here ...

MINIATURE PAINTING RELATED LINKS
Step by Step - Kirpal
Great Links for sculptors via Romain's blog 
Mountrouge Figure Show 2013 - photo gallery
Painting Guide by Scale75
Volomir's blog - the brushstroke
Duke of Bavaria 2013 - video from dieVincis
Cursed Monkeys - NMM video tutorial
Cursed Monkeys - video report on AMT Torrent 2013
Dre4mit Miniatures - painting thoughts on Sgt. Connor
Chest of Colours - Thoughts on Slayer Sword Winners 2012
Pepa Saavedra - Step by Step
Great Wedding Cake Batman figures
L'atelier de slave of paint - socket tutorial
John Harrison speaks of Contrast in this great article
Step by Step - starter corregidor
Julien Casses - Elvish base tutorial

DRAWING & PAINTING 
& SCULPTING & PHOTOGRAPY
How to draw girl's faces
Masters of the Universe Artworks
Colour Scheme Designer
Fly around Carly
Tips for How to Shoot in Manual Mode
Pierre-Jean-Chabert
Dynamic Poses


INTERESTING BLOGS & WEBPAGES
Jean-Baptiste Monge 
Plastic Life
Daily Life: May 2013
I love chocolate!

MUSIC
Game of Thrones - Cello Cover
The Pharcyde - Drop
KRS-One - Wannabe MCs
Green Street - Daydreams
Liam Bailey - It's not the same
Vintage Trouble - Nobody told me
Biting Elbows - bad motherfu$§%
Rics Rumble - I'm Broke



RANDOM INSPIRATION
Michael Jordan says it right!
The 50 most perfectly timed photos, ever!
Star Wars Lego Diorama
Kitten meets Hedgehog
Cosplay Geek x Girls
High Speed photos with colour, made from music
Michael Jordan, inspirational video!
Booty Store!
Coffee Art
Lego Alien Facehugger
Topless protestor got balls!
Samuel L. Jackson Monologue
Mad Max Game?
Game of Thrones - Red Wedding Reactions

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



We told you about our actual and unusual contest we have running:
Read the rules and what it is all about here!

This posting is part three of the quest, more will follow ...
Every post consists of two photos from strange angles ... enjoy and draw yourself to your Jungle Surprise box - one hint/tip: first you should try to sketch the whole room to place objects later on ... let's see what you can do with those two photos of today:

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



Hey!
It is about time again ...
Painting Jam time - check this link for more FAQs. 
Let's get it on ...

_____________________________________________________________________

Tac asks via mail:



My answer: 

Unfortanetly we did not do a swamp base tutorial on our own so far :/
 But future might change that :)

If you like the figure placed in the water I recommand to you the beveled bases from Secret Weapons, with those bases you can easily create the theme you like. Also the water thing might work more easier. For creating the waves I recommand this article to you: click! (sorry only german)

When painting swamp I would first google the topic itself, to see which colours, vegetations and athmosphere is transported in the following pictures. With that in mind you can analyse which direction your bases can go.

I hope my thoughts can help you!

_____________________________________________________________________

Ivo asks via mail:

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

... some beats from Bamberg, Germany :)

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



We told you about our actual and unusual contest we have running.
Read the rules and what it is all about here!

This posting is part two of the quest, more will follow ...
Every post consists of two photos from strange angles ... enjoy and draw yourself to your Jungle Surprise box - one hint/tip: first you should try to sketch the whole room to place objects later on ... let's see what you can do with those two photos of today:

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



This reminder should remind Lister to answer the jungle call as he has one the ticket for Games Day Germany 2013. If he is not responding in the next week, I will draw another winner :/

...

Hello beautiful people,

many of you took part in our little competition to win a free Games Day Ticket for the german Games Day, in August in Cologne. Your task was to tell us why you urgently want to win it and we decided to give it to the best answer. You can see the competition and the answers here.

Thanks to everyone who took part - we really enjoyed reading your thoughts and ideas and plans. Sadly we were not able to choose a winner as your answers were all so good. We did not expect such enourmous and emotional answers at all. We decided to take everyone from the comments and use random.org to give away the ticket. And ...

 THE WINNER IS:

Lister

Please write an email to jarhead---at---massivevoodoo---dot---com with the title "free Games Day ticket" and hand me over your postal adress.

So far,
we still hope that we will see many of you there in Cologne!
MV

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

Hello colourful people,

this is definatly a Necron with a story.
I name him RXU-721 and here is his story:

Peter once had this Necron sprue and he was so nice and gave one to me and to Raffa.
After half a year, last week exactly I was searching for a very figure I could do very quick to enjoy some fast pace painting moments. I choose that Necron and after preparing the legs, the weapon and the head I realised that the two body parts I took from Peter were back torso pieces ... FAIL!

Peter was so gentle to give me another front piece and I was happy like a little boy, prepared the parts and started glueing the figure. Then I realized that I lost one arm somewhere and while Peter was visiting he did not bring the whole sprue, only the torso piece. Searching for a lot of minutes did not bring me the arm so I decided to just leave it gone ... but then I thought that weapon is pretty heavy and the poor robotnecron-Arm could not handle it anymore - I also failed on the gaming base so I used a base which I did during a painting class, it was already painted so all was set ... So this is the story of RXD-721. A story full of fails by me but with a happy ending ... I call that happy creating without too much worries :D




Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman

Posted by "Bene (Benji)"

Hey everyone!

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet,
Make you want to move your dancing feet!
And it's time to get out your t-shirts again!

We want to help you to get a new, cool shirt for your collection... and so you can get free shipping in our  
Massive Voodoo Wear shop only today! And yes, it's free shipping to every location!




















Just enter the coupon code "tday2013" as a coupon in your shopping cart and while you are there, check out our new shirts for this summer!






You can choose your own favorite shirt color...  
now what are you waiting for? Go for it!

Best wishes,
Raffa

posted by Raffaele "Picster" Picca


Hey everyone,

another small work in progress post of this month...

I did some sculpting the last days, but did forget to take a photo of it ... so there is only one photo of a figure that I started yesterday. I wanted to try out some NMM in a different way that I usually paint it (if you can call this sporadic use of NMM "usually").

Without much words... let's get to the point ;)


I'm quite happy with the result so far. It's not very clean, but the metallic effect starts to work :)

Have a nice evening!
Raffa