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posted by roman, jarhead, kong



Again it is time for another Kong's WIP thoughts.
First of all I want to share some information for those of you who are not on facebook - I quote myself from there:

"Stickers for our Book Supporters arrived, we got plenty! Books are soon in re-read by a native speaker and after this is done they finally will go to be printed! Hooray! We have to apologize for the long waiting time and our delay, but we totally underestimated the work and the responsibility such a big project carries. We are on it and you will all be happy when the books arrive, we can promise you that. Thank you for your patience and your support!"
 

Next one up is a comission work I am starting these days. A Space Marine again. One where I am free to do what I like. Right now he looks like an Ultramarine from the color I choose. I already know the other main color of the armour parts and it is white, so it could really become an Ultramarine in the end. Will do a base step-by-step for him. Stay tuned!


Another piece I started is a gift to one of my buddies, Bene. We enjoy playing the computer game Battlefield 3 sometimes and together with Raffa and Peter we team up very well. So this is a little homage to BenjitheKing, my fellow warrior brother. Not totally done yet, as I plan to intense the OSL and contrasts. Figure is from Hasslefree and is meant to be painted that way as this looks pretty close to the BF3 theme. Thanks, Mr. White for such nice sculpts!


Well, yes - I did finish Wonderlands Projects bust of Seargent Corwinn lately. 
Stay tuned for a detailed posting about it in the upcoming days.

So far from my WIPs - meanwhile my Yu Jing army arrived. They are all silver still, but future might change this :)

Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman 

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Another MU rolling in (Miniatures Unpacked).
This time it is number 30. If you are interested in the earlier MUs go check them here.

This MU is about cool Photo backgrounds from Hangar 18 Miniatures.
Liliana, one of the owners of Hangar 18 Miniatures wrote me an email if I want to do a review of some of them. She also told me they are inspired from the photo backgrounds we offer in our article section. We are truely happy to inspire!

We usually go for black backgrounds lately but a change is always good.
So after I unpacked the parcel I found  six different textured backgrounds. They are not made from casual paper was the first thing I realized. They are pretty thick, matte and truely printed in high end quality.

I know... only five of them on the photo. One was already in use during taking the shots.

The textures are very cool. They look natural and with the different colors available you can really fit the background to your figure. We did not test the bright ones so far but the darker ones totally convinced us. They are easy to handle and easy to put in place, even in with our simple photo setup:


As said you have to try which one fits the figure best. I did a little test on one of my latest figures which is pretty warm in the overall look. I first tried the green background:


Due the color contrast from red to green the background gets too much attention in my eyes, while the green of the figure gets lost. I changed to background to a darker one and was more happy with the result:


What I can say about the photo backgrounds of Hangar 18 Miniatures is that they are really a high quality product and are not really expensive. I think they are awesome for every figure painter. They not only have those textured ones, you can find more simple ones at their shop too. It seems the crew behind Hangar 18 Miniatures is open for feedback as they now making larger backgrounds available too. Read their news. Pretty cool!


Get your own!
Highly recommanded by the jungle!
Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman

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posted by Peter aka Baphomet

Some inspirational stuff...


Have a nice weekend!

Regards
Peter

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Aloa brushfolks,

after the great response on the first class in Augsburg, Germany and the limited number of 14 places we are ready to announce a second class, held the weekend after the first one.

You can find all information around this class here!

Check the Painting Classes 2013 - Roadmap for further class information.

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Many figures in my WIP area are collecting dust.
Sometimes I finish one of them. Recently I did.

It is a very fragile figure and this cost me my main motivation during the progress. Those tiny arms fell off a hundred times and I wasn't able to pin them properly. I started the figure somewhere back in 2011 and I had to remove dust from it before finishing the paint. True story.

The base shows a demonic area where the sky is blazing in full red and tears of the devil floating to the ground. Hope you like her!



And additional another view - this time in my cabinet, photo done with lightning by the camera:



Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman