Archive for January, 2012

Undercoating a miniature in black
Painting Tutorials

Tues’s Tutes – Paint Preparation

on 27/01/2012 at 11:23 am × 0 comments

Once you have cleaned your miniature from mold lines and any imperfections, it is time to assemble, patch any holes and then undercoat it.

Dreadfleet Skull Island
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Dreadfleet – Island Updates

on 22/01/2012 at 7:54 am × 0 comments

I’ve just finished painting all the islands and wrecks in the game. The most fun was the volcano. I tried several different styles to paint the lava and in particular, the volcano hole. In the end I decided against painting the lava crusts and made it appear very hot with […]

Painting Dreadfleet Wrecks and Islands Step 8
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Dreadfleet – Islands and Wrecks

on 22/01/2012 at 7:46 am × 1 comment

Now that we know how to paint water and have already painted the ghost ship, we can paint most of the scenery using these lessons. All that remains is how to paint rocks. I painted all the scenery like an assembly line, painting all the water on all the scenery […]

Dreadfleet Shadewraith
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Dreadfleet – Shadewraith

on 18/01/2012 at 7:08 am × 1 comment

The ghost ship Shadewraith now sails the deadly seas. I painted the ship in two levels of quality. initially I thought it would be a fast ship to paint and thus painted it using washes. After it was dry I looked over the ship and found that there were so many […]

Dreadfleet water for ship base
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Dreadfleet – Water Painting Update

on 17/01/2012 at 8:02 am × 0 comments

Well I went ahead and painted all the water for any piece that had water on it. Its most rewarding seeing them all starting to come together. Also a quick tip, if you want to mimick the photos in the rule book where there are green patches on the ocean […]

Tues’s Tutes – Cleaning
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Tues’s Tutes – Cleaning

on 17/01/2012 at 2:44 am × 0 comments

Introduction to Tuesday’s Tutorials Each Tuesday I intend to present a step into painting a miniature to at least ‘Hero‘ level. To demonstrate this I will be using a Games Workshop Elf miniature for the Warhammer Quest board game which I have been commissioned to paint. Prior to digging into the […]

Dreadfleet – Painting Water
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Dreadfleet – Painting Water

on 16/01/2012 at 2:05 pm × 3 comments

I have begun work on the Games Workshop release of Dreadfleet. I intend to start on the ships before moving to the great scenery and sea monsters. With so many pieces to paint, in can get sometimes rather overwhelming. In such cases I like to start with something that I […]

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Welcome to the site

on 08/01/2012 at 1:52 pm × 0 comments

Hi everyone, welcome to the new site. Unfortunately some of the older blog postings and imagery has been lost in the upgrade. At some point i’m hoping to have them back up if possible. In the mean time, the site is nearing full completion. I’m hoping to have all the […]