Massive Changes on MASSIVE VOODOO

by Roman aka jar

Hi there,

how to start?

Do you remember the fun you had with a good friend when you were 12 years or so. Always making dumb things, playing sheriff and gangster, batman and robin or just He-Man or Skeletor? When you do will understand this change Massive Voodoo has gone through with this posting. It's just about a deep friendship, but i will explain everything slowly and easy to catch i hope.

This Massive Voodoo can't be done without his name being mentioned, after all i have asked him to join Massive Voodoo because every dark Sith has his master, his way more darker commander, his Sith lord, who is there always, kicking your butt, making coffee late at night while you do too at the same moment, your laughing pinky when you feel like brain, next moment the roles are changed and so on... a true friend i have made, that's all i mean and i meet a lot of great persons, therefore i have to say thanks to the Love of the Hobby, also made a couple of intresting and inspiring friendships but none has been as this full Ying-Yang thing i will explain following up... that isn't meant personally to anyone who knows me that i did choose him for this idea in my head, really, if you get me wrong here i excuse myself for this misinterpretation i have to be blaimed for...


As i have been to Graz/Austria early this year to hold a workshop in miniature painting - my first one - i have met hthis shy guy from Austria. Nothing more to say than thank you for accepting me like the weirdo thunderbirdie i am and i am enjoying every moment of our friendship, the good and the bad ones...

Sure, he is also painting miniatures and hell yeah i think he does it damm good. I think i have been able to show him what happy painting means and as he really is an very accourate and slow painter, who isn't spamming in forums and elsewhere like i do, we really could be the total opposite of ourselfs and that might be the reason why this friendship is growing so special...

Last time we tried to paint together has been a spontanous weekend where he has visited me for the fun of painting and it didn't work out in the end to paint together. As these moments took place more often in the past, we decided to use MASSIVE VOODOO for our personal obsession playground.

This won't change very much i guess - Robert is very shy in writing something, so maybe he will never talk in here or i have to show his finished miniatures or tell you his thoughts or whatever - i just don't know what this change will do but i am looking forward in a bright future of MASSIVE VOODOO with his dark Sith powers on my side and his "turnaroundicheckyouwithmynose - Painting Style" for maximum accuration in every single detail - i really love his work, don't get me wrong... but he also is good in html and such strange internet stuff i will never get in my brain, so we also be a perfect match at this i think and thank. And as i know he is too shy to post his last minature on its own i will do so, here it is - an Eldar Ranger from Games Workshops Fanatic Inquisitor Range, 54 mm - sweet jar i like that one he has done, even if he is shy:








So far... nothing more to say at the moment. Some changes may appear over the next few days but we try to keep them secret and hidden for your eyes so everything will be over as soon you'll be reading this... moving my hand like a jedi before in front of your face... over and out!



Gn8 and happy and so...
Regards
Roman

Saturday Playlistadding 1 - Music which inspires me

by Roman aka jar

Aloa,

as music is mostly the source of all inspiration, the harbour of our souls within, a deep lake between the mountains, music is very important to anyone who lives, more or less for the individuals but mostly a part of any creative vibration one can have in their hearts...

As i am really inspired these days and mostly all time by some music source - one totally different to the other - i have chosen to share my inspiration music with you in a little playlist over at youtube.com. So it is getting bigger with the time and maybe some may want to join my music  inspiration - if this is a stupid idea just let me know, but i guess ain't nobody will be hurt by this late night thought of mine - here we go the first 5 on this Saturday (next Saturday will be off, because there will be a painters meeting on the weekend, but i will do it before the weekend maybe) - My actual 5 most inspiring songs while painting miniatures:

Tan Dun - Gone with the leaves - OST Hero 

Tan Dun - Spirit Fight - OST Hero




When my time comes, music is one of the things I will miss.

Enjoy the holiday with enough time for some good music... and keep on happy painting all around!

Regards
Roman

PS: ährm yeah:
MAssIVeVooDOO Playlist

Step by Step Tutorial - Eldar

by Roman aka jar

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

Finally,

a moment of concentration, some strong will and a hard morning coffee with the thickness of yoghurt bring me back to the Eldar, which i will write the Article for now. I hope it won't be to chaotic and i am sorry for my english and some maybe not very good photos - i'll try my best to fix it somehow... I have done some better Step by Steps in the past and will do in the future - this is just an impression on how i work, what i think, what i do and not a totally fixed Step by Step Tutorial like you find somewhere else. My main problem is that i am painting a lot from the heart, from my emotions, music and feelings bring to me so it ain't easy to describe that in complete.

The Eldar here is done from GW's parts i have found in a friend's box of parts and he was so nice to give them to me. I think - i am not sure - the legs are from an normal gardist because i had to cut off the torso and added the single torso i have found in the box, i guess Asuryans Hunters chief or so - still not sure as you can read. So everything i had found was glued together. Then i had a not so nice area where i had cut of the torso from the legs. I have used Green Stuff belts, which had been prepared before (other story, but BIG thanks to Picster for his support at this), to set some more dynamic influance on the model itself and also hiding the not so nice area :) - i am always painting my model on a cork or something from wood to have a better grip while painting, there will be also a tutorial someday about the basics thoughts and things i have seen, tried and allowed them to influance my "style" in the end... sure to come, urgs, back to the Eldar... (i did score out thoughts of mine in here which aren't really necessary for the Tutorial - weirdo style again)

1. Undercoating
Has been done with black primer, after dried, followed by white primer carefully from above to set the light overview for the following painting (i have used  here both from GW).

2. Basecoating
Painting so far has been mostly made on the armour. I have started here:


Basecolour on armour/trousers:
Hawk Tourquise + Bronzed Flesh + Bleached Bone

First Shadows (glazed twice):
Hawk Tourquis


Also i have started to paint some parts in total black again - will do this later one a bit more... weirdo working style as i told you:










3. Painting


Second Shadow on the armour (glazed twice):
Hawk Tourquise + Regal Blue

Third Shadow (glazed twice):
Hawk Tourquise + Regal Blue + Tip of Chaos Black


The browns are so far done by a wet in wet mix of Schorched Brown, Hawk Tourquise, Bestial Brown, Snakebite Leather... please excuse me and my camera here, the strong white parts come from the lightning and the non patience i have used while taking the photo...



 You see i am always working really dirty - some might say wild - in the beginning of a paintjob. I really like to let the colours choose their way so i am often without a direct plan to the end. I let the colour chose her way through the moments that happen. Further i went this way:


Fourth Shadow  (glaced twice):
Hawk Tourquise + Regal Blue + more than a tip of Chaos Black

First light (glaced twice):
Hawk Tourquise + a tip of Andrea's 2nd Light from the Skintone-set

Second light (glaced twice):
Hawk Tourquise + a tip of Andrea's 2nd Light + a tip of 1nd Light's skintone

Also i have began to make the base more rusty with pigments. I have used Sepia and Ironoxid pigments for that. Also i put some tiny places of tourquise pigments i got from pastellic chalk on it to repeat the colours of the Eldar in the end and bring base and miniature together.

Additonal to that i have startet to paint parts i want to be metallics in the end and started also the gems with chaos black. I take care to - better i try - to be patient here and try to make this step clean, instead i would have to correct later on. You see metallics have been planned but not done in the final model, haha. Weirdo!







More intense light:
Hawk Tourquise + a tip of Andrea's 2nd Light + a tip of 1nd Light's skintone (more of it)

Little white dots on the armour, don't know why the hell i did that, i work on them later on.

More intense final shadow (glaced twice):
Regal Blue + Chaos Black

Intensed light on the edges with pure white with a really small tip of hawk tourquise.
Started the OSL from the weapons with the airbrush (Bilious green).

Browns, did get more highlighting by:
using 2nd and 1st Light from Andrea's Skintone in the basic mix from above

Face mask:
basecolour with pure white with a really small tip of hawk tourquise, left eyes black, painted eyes basecolour white for orange glowing eyes in the end.




 

At this point everything still looks dirty, untidied and weirdo. I know put my patience on the detail work like bringing out soft highlights, fade to strong ones, gems, a bit of dirt and scratches, eyes and so on... so everywhere detail work began:

4. Detailwork

As i am not working with a full plan the end is most hard to describe for me, as mostly i am sitting with good music the last final hours on a model and forget all my world around - pure happy painting, i guess, but wihtout thinking at the Tutorial, damm, haha. I'll try to explain the steps i have gone through, please never hesitate to ask a question...

Painting all gems black, carefully to not damage the armour colour.
Using Regal blue + black for the lowest part  of the gems.
Brought in a bit ice blue in that mix to lighten it up in the middle area of the gem.
Set a strong white point at the place where the light source hits the gem (above mostly).
Then i have put the Gloss Varnish from Model Colour 510 on the gems (2x times, let them dry) 

I have soften the colour transitions in the armour by looking at it carefully where i find a place where to tones (bright and dark) are going to quick into eachother. That often makes not so nice areas. Sure my blendings are not perfect or godlike or something else a lot of great other painters around the world do, but i have taken my time here and did realize that time is needed... but time without passion is ... nah, no Hobby Talk here, haha.
I have went in the middle tone between those too hard transitions with trying to mix the tone in between, then put it there carefully without destroying the areas below. I will write an article sooner or later on how i work with colours and how i apply them for different use.

I brought the lights on the armour next to clear white by mixing in a tip of ice blue and skull white in the last mix of the armour. Always went back to get the thing done with the middle tones. As i can remember this took me most of the time on the model, puh!  I have also intensed the shadow parts with a mix of regal blue and chaos black. Same procedure with the middle tones.

The blade has been made with tiny white dots from the lower part and has been glazed with orange there afterwards, while the glazing in the upper part went with purple.

The black parts which have been supposed to be real metallics in the beginning of the paintjob have been made with chaos black and a tip of ice blue, slowly highlighted with bringing in more ice blue and a small tip of white in the end.

The eyes have been glazed with fiery orange, glazed, painted back white, glazed, painted back white, glazed... 



I am real sorry about my weird explanations of my detail work in the end. I know myself about that and i think the only thing which helps here will be some detailed tutorials on really small things. So please be patient with me and my ideas for MASSIVE VOODOO...

Hope this view on my thoughts through a full miniature helps or can maybe inspire - i am looking forward to feed this blog more with tutorials like this... maybe a bit more detailed :)


So far, keep on happy painting!
Regards
Roman

Imperial HQ on ebay - Medic and Standard Bearer

by Roman aka jar





I soon say good night to this nice day... but first a short information of the Imperial Guard Standard Bearer and Medic being up to ebay for the duration of 7 days...



Imperial Guard Medic



Hope they will find a new good home! I am still sorry, that the pictures are still not the best - i guess it will take a while until i can manage to get a better camera...

Happy bidding and thanks for your support!


Regards
Roman

Imperial Guard Medic finished

by Roman aka jar

Aloa,


another day of lots of painting time. Everything goes a bit forward... done has been a Imperial Guard medic from Games Workshop's 40k Cadian Command Sprue - nothing special, in the end for the gaming table...






I have also tried to take some better photos of the Standard Bearer, because they both will go up to ebay this weekend:



As this fight with that dumb camera goes on, i am trying to upload the standard bearer once more to CMON with better pictures, also the medic goes there - so feel invited - thanks in advance...

Standard Bearer:

Medic:
And another Klick!

So far from this painting table somewhere down there in Bavaria... stay tuned!

 Keep on happy painting!
I wish you a all a blessed weekend 
Regards
Roman

Imperial Standard Bearer Veteran finished

by Roman aka jar


Aloa,


surprisé, surprisé! No Eldar Tutorial yet ... the kisses of the muse drove me in other directions. In total different directions. I have picked up an old prepared model which was standing around in the cabinet basecoated for a while.

An imperial Standard Bearer Veteran i would call him. Done from GW's Warhammer 40k Cadian Command Sprue and one head from the Warhammer Fantasy Fanatic Box. Conversion nothing very seriously... started today with the colours on it and did it beside some other stuff. A few moments ago a tiny goblin hushed over my left shoulder and said finished for gaming purposes and so he is painted up for the gaming table, for sure as you can see the trail of speed in a lot of areas... but it was a lot of fun...blalala - here he is:







Hope you like him! If you got some spare time i would like to invite you over to CMON for a vote or a line dropped there - thanks in advance: http://www.coolminiornot.com/231927


Keep on happy painting!

Regards

Roman






Tutorial - Making easy tattered cloth...

by Roman aka jar

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

Aloa Brush friends,

produce herewith a - well - pretty simple and certainly unprofessional variant quickly and expeditiously a battered and tattered cloth ...

I do not know if it's good, I've just made it's just so, and found it quite funny, that is more of a fun little tutorial, which can serve as an inspiration ...

Material


- A small container for mixing
- Wood glue PVC
- Water
- Handkerchief
- Toothpicks
- Superglue

- Victims, so figure or something



Application


Step 1:  
Wood glue and water in a ratio of 1:2 W / L to touch, stir well ---> PVC-glue Water

Step 2:  
Cut the handkerchief in the pieces needed and insert in PVC Water ...


Step 3:
With a toothpick install as you wish  ... you see the importance of a toothpick to me now, haha.



Step 4:
Allow to dry ...

Step 5:
Soak in Super glue ... I know that should not be, I do it again and again and i must say i like the burning in my eyes...you will feel what i mean. Please notice: Imitation at your own risk.


 

Allow to dry ...

Step 6:  
Priming and paint like anything else...






I hope I was able to stimulate you to do some experiments:)

Regards
Roman