Jonagon's Paintin' Projects 2013 Edition

[Jonagon]

Well guys, I spent the last year painting a lot, some of my stuff can be seen here:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/Jonagon

I started working on some big projects for Salute painting competition, but as usual got well bogged down in a big sculpting/modelling project. They always take ages and get me down. This is where I got to:



So I ended up 'taking a break' from painting/modelling for a little while. Had been working on a NMM High elf before that:



Anyway, after about a month off, I'm now rediscovering the fire a bit. Think I'm going to move a little bit back towards army painting a little and start a new Grey Knights project. I've been writing a little bit of background for them lately. But before that I'm planning to enter a painting competition at my local store in a couple of weeks, I can do prep and conversions before hand, but all the painting has to be done in 5.5 hrs in the store on the day.

So I'm going to look at a Farseer for that first, then move onto the GK project. That's the plan, am pretty keen to start already, but am 200 miles from all hobby materials for another few days yet. Here's to 2013, though work is probably going to keep me busier than ever; Let's hope it's a good year. :)

This blog I can hopefully use to keep track of my painting in 2013.

[Angelus Mortifer]

Nice shading and NMM on the elf 

[CraigM]

Ooh shiny, not seen that High Elf before. The sword and mail look ace.

When is that painting thing? In Maidstone?

[Jonagon]

Yeah Maidstone, but not really sure if it's going ahead at the moment.

Anyway Happy 2013!

I've come up with some new years hobby resolutions now:

- Update blog/forum logs weekly (will try and get into a habit of doing it on Fridays)
- Sell off my Space Marine army (by March)
- Sell off my Skorne Army (by March)
- Don't buy any more minis for painting only (I have enough to last a good year already!)
- Enter Salute painting comp in April
- Enter GD in September
- Army project at rate of 1 unit per month and play casual games with it, 15 games in the year. (not sure yet if this will be Grey Knights or Cygnar)

Since I've been back from holidays I've been getting on with my little elf a bit, a few people asked about the sword, so I tried to get some closeups of that.

Still got a bunch of tidying up to do and a few details to do:





I started working on a quick base too, the planking is made of coffee stirers. Only problem is as much water effect as I put onto it, it seems to keep

dissapearing! I have a theory it's soaking into the wood, but I don't really know, I suppose I'll give it some more and see what happens!




PS: If anyone wants to buy any Space Marines or Skorne models, give me a shout! The marines are all painted like this:


Most of the Skorne are painted like this:

[Jonagon]

I finished my elf last night, first mini of 2013!





In the end the water effects look ok, but not perfect, something to think about for the future. I do like the planking though, made of coffee stirrers, so I'll have to remember that for another time.

Cool mini or not voting link, if you have the time! :)


Next I think I'm going to be doing a grey knight colour test. I'm hoping to take part in slow grow campaign using grey knights soon so have been thinking about what I'm going to do.

As far as painting goes I'm fairly sure I want to use SENMM, I've been experimenting with it a little, as below. I'll probably do a fair amount of gold on some of them too to pick out the more senior models. However, this is a lot of work, so I'll time myself during the test model and see how it goes!

I'm still thinking about basing and so on, I have 1 GK model which is a golden demon project which is currently on hold:

Not sure whether to continue down this route for the basing (ruined mechanicus planet)

Or go with some sweet lava basing which would allow me to justify warmer highlights in the painting. I painted this a few months back pretty quickly and kinda liked having warm highlights tie into the lava, so that's tempting and then I can leave the GD project to come back to in the future:


Anyone got any thoughts?

[Tom Hale]

errrr amazing? 

[Jonagon]

Ta very much! :)

[Dave]

Hi, also know your stuff from over on painted dragon. Your current stuff looks amazing, seeing those older armies it gives me hope that I can step up my painting too one day.

[Jonagon]

Hey guys, Have been pretty distracted lately. But update time!

Have been working on the grey knight a bit, this is a test model for a potential small force, but I've lost focus a bit, this is where I've got to:



I was also inspired by a blog entry about doing "spot the difference" on your miniatures. I still need to take better pictures so I can do it properly ,but I painted this, intending to copy the GW paint job as closely as possible, then intending to do a back to back and figure out what I'm doing different and need to improve on. So there's that:




Better pictures coming soon when the weather gets better!

The painting competition got cancelled, so that didn't happen and am still mincing about with respect to what to paint for Salute.