Casting a resin duplicate of a rare bit
Making a dead-simple one-sided mold of a rare bit and casting it in resin. Ever have one of those bits you wish …
This fucking dress
What painters can learn from a shitty cell-phone picture of a dress. Oh my god. This dress is breaking the internet. If …
Down to brass tacks
Imperial Knight Conversion: Pt. 30 — Weathering mostly finished, metal trim started. The time is coming. Soon I’ll be able to start final …
Paint Chips Ahoy!
Imperial Knight Conversion: Pt. 29 — Initial paint layers on armor plates. As soon as I decided on the name of this …
Bucket o’ rust
Imperial Knight Conversion: Pt. 28 — Rust and peeling paint underlayers. It’s on to the armor bits, now that the under chassis …
If you can’t take the heat…
Imperial Knight Conversion: Pt. 27 — Closeups of weapon detailing. Happy holidays, folks! I probably won’t be able to get any more …
Armed to the teeth
Imperial Knight Conversion: Pt. 26 — Weapon arms almost finished, sans details. My good lady is coming along, slowly but surely–advancing towards completion …
Now for something completely different
Imperial Knight Conversion: Pt. 25 — Paint “mapping” preparation. From my earliest conception of the Queen Bee, I knew I wanted an …
All about that base, ’bout that base. Just rubble.
Imperial Knight Conversion: Pt. 24 — Base painting and object-source lighting effects. I wanted to do the base to give me a little …
Tinting board game tokens
When I got my Space Hulk set, I was pretty excited for it on several levels. I’ve been getting more into board games …
Heat-stained brass technique
Imperial Knight Conversion: Pt. 19 — Annealed brass on engine exhausts. There was a lot of interest in the technique I used …
Weathering finished on the legs
Imperial Knight Conversion: Pt. 18 — Weathering powder and oil/grease. Big update coming. It’s been a while since I posted, but I’ve …
The Forge is coming together.
I recently moved to a house (from an apartment) and managed to convince Sam to let me have my own dedicated hobby …