Painting DreadBall's Slippery Joe

"Paint it suave" came the instruction from Mantic games. "I do everything suave." I thought to myself, twirling my paintbrush with the sophistication you'd expect from a gentleman such as myself.

 

Slippery Joe's the Goblin MVP from DreadBall Season 1, and it fell to me to bring this Naismith sculpt to life. The brief was "suave" - how to execute this? Joe's defining feature - a fake moustache - is the key. This is a goblin aping an evil vaudevillian, so I should paint his DreadBall armour in a classy fashion - a mock dinner suit, like those comedy shirts you get.  

 My first attempt was a black suit with a white v-shape on the chest. I base-coated the model to see if it would work. Answer was no - the complexity of the model's chest meant the shape was lost. I added a red cummerbund to help break it up - but it wasn't obvious what was going on. 

 

But take off the black jacket revealing the white shirt, and paint part of the DreadBall armour detail like a pinned rose and it comes together. Brief of "suave" executed.

 

We're going to be painting quite a lot of DreadBall for private clients at Golem Painting Studio. Get in touch if you fancy commissioning me to produce an exact copy of the MVP, or any of the of the DreadBall.

Chris "Curis" Webb

Hi everybody! Just finished painting my Night Bringer for our 'Tale of X gamers' studio challenge. Loved painting this model, wanted to paint it for years, so I used the studio challenge as an excuse to paint it. So, here it is!

Hope you enjoyed looking as much as I enjoyed painting it. And a CoolMiniOrNot link if your the voting type

[url]http://www.coolminiornot.com/317086[/url] 

Grey Knights

We at Golem have been busy painting lots of Grey Knights! 

Bellow is a picture of just some of the Grey Knights we have been working on. A strike force painted by Martin Hall led by Kaldor Draigo, who was painted by Thomas Moore.

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More Grey Knights coming soon!

Furnace Valley Squats

We've thrown down the gauntlet at Golem to build armies for 40K6 at a rate of 250 points a month.  Curis's picked Squats - particularly apt as they're name-checked in the new 40K6 rulebook.

First up is the Furnace Valley Brotherhood Command Squad.  Brotherhood Lords are in charge of their Stronghold at a tactical level, leading the Warrior Squads in the thick of the fighting.  They're one step below Warlords who I'll model later in the project with ornate carapace armour.   On the left is Commissar Gustav (kindly donated by Luke), who is acting in an advisory rather than disciplinary capacity.  This Mark Copplestone classic is the only non-Perry miniature so far.  The Powerfist and Power Sword is quite overkill, but the model's too damn awesome to kit out otherwise.

Left to right: Commissar Gustav, Trooper Stoner (Bolter), Medic Faunts, Warmaster Curiz, Trooper Sterling (Stronghold Standard) and Trooper Gast (Battlesynth).

The first Warrior Squad is composed entirely of Perry-sculpted Squats.  Curis picked all the models with photochromatic visors as the translucent red looks gives the squad a visual kick, and also satisifes his pedantic side where in Rogue Trader squads were either entirely with or entirely without the eye protection.

Curis'd have liked to've avoided using the metal/plastic hybrid Squats in this squad (and make squads of entirely hybrids later) - but the Plasma Gunner is festooned with Heavy Bolter pouches and Curis has no oldskool Heavy Bolters from White Dwarf 97.  He'll split the squad up later - and might even split off the Squats with AK47s from the Lasguns.

Here's the whole 250 points altogether.  It's a nice nucleus to grow the army around.

Nurgle Ogres

These guys got Thomas Moore a finalist pin at UK GD 2012 which he is very happy with!

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CMON Link: http://www.coolminiornot.com/315838

Khorne Juggernaut Lord

Today we present to you a Khorne Juggernaut Lord,

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This guy was painted by Thomas Moore

Empire State Troops

We've been working on a couple of units of Empire state troops at the Studio recently.  We couldn't resist photographing them on the Studio's terrain (modelled by Mark Elsdon of Warpath scenery fame).

We have a regiment of Nuln Handgunners painted by Chris Webb.  These are based on the Forge World Ironsides Conversion set, and feature a subtle wood effect on the handguns themself.

 

Secondly a regiment of Averland Halberdiers painted by Thomas Moore.  Thom did the banner freehand like some sort of acrylic sorcerer.  Talented fella.  They also use Forge World pieces from Manann's Blades conversion set, mixed with some classic metal Empire command figures.

Here's Gary Connell holding up the sky for out photos, like the mighty Atlas he is.