First tests of my Badger Sotar airbrush

A dwarf bust made by a friend of mine:

The backdrop for my vampire:

A troll I am painting for a friend:

Hopefully more to come :D

The Emperors beard

A shoutout to a comic strip I have been following since the start on the danish miniature forum: powerfist.dk

It is of course the comic strip: The Emperors beard, I am talking about. The series have changed site, here is the new LINK

Here is the latest installment in the series:

Cheers

More boxart

I went on to do some more boxart. Its not totally done yet, still work in progress.

More to come

The Fang 2015

Last weekend I was in Copenhagen with a lot of friends. We all participated in the Games Workshop event The Fang arranged by Games Workshop stores in the skandinavian countries.

Here is the gallery of some of the models entered in the competition in Copenhagen: CLICK

I entered the monster category with my minotaur and won gold.

I also entered warhammer fantasy with my dwarf slayer from forgeworld but didnt place.:

I entered warhammer 40k with my hectore and didnt place.

 I entered open category with Archaon and didnt place. I am not sorry  Ididnt place because the level this year was absolutely relaly high in the categories I entered, except for the monster category where I won :D

I only got to take a single foto myself and that was just a picture of people looking at miniatures.

Next week the grand finale is in Stockholm where my cow will enter the skandinavian monster category and I am sure, not win anything. It doesnt matter, it was fun to be there and participate, hope to be back next year.

The overall winner was Kristian Simonsens nurgle lord.

Congratulations to Kristian.

Painting Crusade 2015

So, finally we reach this years Painting Crusade. If anyone who read this doesnt know that Painting Crusade is, its an even in Belgium for painters and sculpters. There is really nothing happening, other than what you arrange yourself, and this is a good thing. There is a large table where you are welcome sit down and paint or do whatever you like. Mostly people sit and paint or sculpt but its mainly its a wonderfull event where to do some networking and talk with fellowe artists. It doesnt cost anything to participate, however you can participate in their painting competition and if you choose to do so you need to pay a small fee and then you will also receive a special model which is specially sculpted for that particular event. The year after there will be a particular category only for the last years special edition model.

So, we are a group of danish people who have participated in this arrangement a few years now. Last year was my first time and this year I returned to this awesome event.

Here are a few pictures from the danish roadtrip.

First, a picture of my model travelbox, what did I bring to the competition.

During the weekend there I worked on some gold NMM.

There were some really awesome entries, there are some of Max's:

Much of the time goes with looking at models. Here we have the infamous Tue Kaae studying some entries.:

Kristian and Mikkel making ready for painting:

The danish team consisting of Kristian, Mikkel, Bo and Tue + Quentin and Julien,:

You can get a total list over the winners of all the categories of the painting competition HERE!

Also, the emperor graced us with one of his sons:

You can see all the pictures I took HERE!


In the end, I had an awesome weekend and I am planning to be back again next year.

Cheers.

First of 2015. Manu of the day: The Emperors Inquisition

This last weekend I participated in a workshop in Copenhagen. The idea was to create a competition level entry from start to finish during this 48hour workshop.  Here is my result.

On my part, this weekend was used mainly to try out some new effects. I was focussing on blending the colours of the cape more smoothly and on trying out this, for me, new way to paint metals.

Blending has been something I have been fighting with for a long time. Of course it can always get better, but its an area I see myself needing to improve and this weekend, in company with some of the best miniature painters of Denmark, gave me that oppertunity.

Metals have always been a place where I have struggled. I havnt really found a way for metals to be interesting and I have been admiring those that makes metals looks fascinating and interesting. So thats what I worked on. I didnt get to a point where I thought "ok now I got the hang of it" but I got a lot of input and practice, which was what I was aiming for. A great weekend I'll happely do again.

Getting ready for Painting Crusade 2015

So, got to do some work. Here is my plan for the next minies.

Monte san Savino part 2

During our stay in a small village not far from Monte san Savino, we whent for a walk to have a look at the local castle. We went up to the front door, and it appeared to be a hotel so we were let in and invited for a tour. An amazing omd castle had been turned info a hotel with modern rooms all over, but at the same time kept in the medieval style. It was Castella delle Serre we had been invited for a tour in, go HERE for their own website. Here are a few pictures I took.

We went on to drive to Monte and take a walk there before entering our miniatures.

While at the show, we ran into some very kind people. Andrea and Dino was there with their wide selection of plinths in almost all shapes and sizes. I couldnt help myself from buying a small selection.

In the picture can also be seen the single model I bought at the show, an awesome "Eternal Crusader" ;) Sculpted by Michael Kontraros, looking forward to paint it,

Also, a shoutout to Kyle and his blog mrleespaintingemporium.blogspot.dk for being a standup guy :D

Monte san Savino show 2014

This last weekend I attended the yearly Monte san Savino show. It was my first time at this show and my 3rd ever of its kind, previously shows being Gamesday Cologne 2013 and Painting Crusade this spring.

I didnt really know what to expect from the show. I was told a lot about how many people attended, but nothing about anything else really :) So we arrived thursday late evening at our hotel, 20 minutes drive from Monte and was ready for intensive nerding friday morning. Here are some of the pictures I took, click the LINK for more pictures.

Best of show:

If you have painted any of the miniatures I have taken pictures of and would like to have your name linked, just write me.

It was an amazing display of highend painting, converting and full-tilt sculpting. I entered the fantasy painting standard with a small group of my models. Unfortunately, 4 of the models were damaged in transit, most lightly caused by a baggage handler being a little too rough on my suitcase. What I learned was: always travel with your minis in you hand luggage.

We were 4 danish guys going; Kristian, Tue and Thomas. Kristian was the only one of us bringing home a medal, but we were all very happy to have joined the event and met a lot of kind fellow nerdie people. Amongst all the kind people, I ran into Kyle, Stefan and many others i'll link to later.

Till next time, Cheers.
 

Omw to Monte San Savino

And I am almost ready :D