I have new photos coming sometime in the next week - including shots of my finished magnetic Land Raider to Land Raider Crusader conversion.
In the interim I thought that I would share a fun piece of news: I just submit a request for consideration to White Dwarf. I have a couple of article ideas that I'm hoping they'll review. I went through the submission guidelines and hope for some feedback if nothing else.
Would be fun. Here's hoping.
Labels: News
I posted a new freehand tutorial,
Ultramarines 2nd Company icon on a cape, on the Relic forums as part of the freehand banner contest.
Labels: News, Technique, Tip, Tutorial
The archives are up and running finally.
That's them on the right.
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Scorched Archive is a new 40k resource created by Andy Pearson. He has some good ideas and really wants to create an article based community for hobbyists to share tips, techniques and thoughts with the hobby community.
I was invited to participate and will be double posting my tip/technique articles there -- but have moved the army blog, chronicling my (attempt to) return to the gaming table, over to the SA web site.
The first post is up now and provides some background on the project.
Hobbyists: keep your eyes on this Web site; good things will come of it.
Labels: Army Blog, Misc., News
I thought that I had already posted this but a search of the posts didn't bring anything up, so....
I have entered my first painting competition. The competition is for single infantry miniatures on a 20-40mm base. Entrants are divided in to two levels -- and I have been placed (so far) in the higher tier.
I had originally entered my magnetic Black Templar commander -- but just posted a request to change models. I'm not all that pleased with my progress on the BT model whereas last night I did my best work to date... on
Kharn the Betrayer. I am very inspired by the work I've done so far and really want to get this model finished.
Of course the entire thing is a bit humbling when I see the list of names in the higher tier. I will be competing directly with some of the folks whose work freqently leaves my eyes wide with wonder. On the plus side being grouped with these folks is enough to make me walk away happy with the whole experience -- even if my odds for actually winning are rather low.
I hope to be able to do a bit more work on Kharn tonight and will post a photo as soon as I can.
I will also have commission photos to post later this week -- and added a couple of links to the gallery today.
I am also working on getting the archives up and correcting the display issues on label and archive pages.
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I have officially decided to enter the Games Day competition... in 2008. I have my project identified and I hope to start working on it in ernest sometime in April.
There will be conversion work, custom sculpting and, of course, crazy, crazy painting.
I haven't even started and I'm already overwhelmed.
Labels: Games Day, News
After such a long break from painting (probably close to 14 years) it has been a lot of fun getting back in to this. That I was able to find a great client not long after getting back in to the hobby has only made it better. Especially when that client turns out to be one hell of a guy and says things like:
As an artist and a businessman, MisterJustin is a complete professional. His constant goal is to satisfy his customer to the fullest and he does so by his extraordinary talent, patience, and a vision to understand what the desires of his customer really are. I invest too much time and money into this hobby to have something done without real effort. After having him paint some of my pieces, I'll never look elsewhere. His level of quality and care is unrivaled.—Bill N.
Good thing I've been drinking, otherwise I'd blush!
Labels: Commission, News, Testemonial
After much hemming and hawing I have finally decided to move all painting and related content from my personal blog and give it a new home here.
This means that my portfolio site has come down, obviously. I will work to get some of those resources back online over the coming days. If anyone out there on the Intarweb is actually said resources a gentle nudge would certainly speed me up.
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