Look Who is a Pro-Painter Now

Stock photo from
Heresy Miniatures

Quick update time: I'm a pro-painter now :)

I was on facebook today and then I saw Heresy Miniatures' facebook page. I went on and I liked the page, since I own the Colossus figure from them and I'm using it as a K'daai Fireborn in my Chaos Dwarf army. Then I thought I should post the photo of the painted miniature there. Not an hour later, I received a notification that they liked it and would like to put the photo on the product's web page, it is second from the left under the description of the item with fiery paint job on it.

Time to go show off for me now. Oh, and also I need to update my eBay auctions as a pro-painter and inflate the prices. Because you know what, I'm a pro-painter now, hee-hee... :)

First Complete Regiment: K'daai Fireborns

Hunchback of
Hashut

Time passes so quickly fellas. I just noticed that it has been 3 weeks since my last update and I was like, wow... Now I won't claim that I am not a slacker; but this time my laziness was not the sole factor for the lack of updates. I spent more than half of the last 3 weeks out of town for business trips, so I am just glad that I managed to do this many.

While my work on the infantries goes on in the background, I decided to go on and finish the k'daai unit once and for all. There were still a couple of them left on my workbench, which made my k'daai regiment 6 strong. Just about the right size I believe...

Bragging Guy

These two miniatures are from two different manufacturers. The hunchback guy is Eastern Front Studios' Lava Elemental miniature from Dungeon Crawl line. The bragging guy is Colossus from Heresy Miniatures. Both are multi-part metal miniatures: Only fitting for a metal head like me, heh... There were minimal flash on them and the pieces fit together fairly well. As a result, it was not a big pain to put them together. Guess I was lucky this time...

The painting for these guys was fairly straightforward: Start with black undercoat, then wash with Blazing Orange first and then with Golden Yellow. Just make sure that, after washing, both of the colors show in the cracks. Then drybrush with a mixture of Chaos Black and Fortress Gray. After that, I just picked a few points which were the deepest parts as "really hot spots" on the minis. I needed to touch this spots with a mixture of yellow and white. That's pretty much it. The base though, I painted separately, following the method I explained in lava base tutorial.

Rock Smash Guy

When I used this painting method for the first time, I had used pure black as drybrush color, which made the miniatures look very dark and dirty. Hence, Mr. Lee offered me that lightening the drybrush color may do wonders there. Going from there, I adjusted my drybrush color and in the end, I was so happy with the results that I also repainted one of other k'daai models I painted before: The Rock Smash Guy.

So, that's my first complete regiment: Six fiery k'daais to fry the enemy alive. Enjoy...