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Eldar Farseer - GDUK 2014

I painted this bad boy for the UK Golden Demon at Warhammer Fest 2014. I wanted to paint a crisp, clean single miniature "straight out of the box" and really focus on the painting rather than converting something big and crazy. It was a lot of fun, and a bit tricky, painting to this level to such a tight deadline (I may have started a little later than I should have, haha) but at the end of the day I managed to finish it only hours before we left to fly over to England. Several of us were working on our separate entries for this years GD at the same time and many late nights were spent painting together that last week before the competition. We had a blast and really got in to a good groove at the end. I decided on a "simple" color scheme of black, white, gold, creme and a couple different reds with a nice teal/turquoise as a complimentary color. Clean and bold, not unlike the box-cover paintjob I think it works really well on this epic model.

I started this project off with the base, using a couple different plastic rock-bits with Eldar runes from the Farseer's original base and a couple pieces from the 60mm Eldar War Walker/Wraith Lord base that I glued straight on to the display base. I figured since I was entering the Open Competition I'd play around with the base a bit and skip the gaming-base part of it entirely.

  In the end my Farseer didn't go all the way unfortunately but I'm not too beat up about it. The level of competition this year was crazy-high, and I'm just happy it went as far as it did! I got the opportunity to have a great chatt with Darren Latham about my entry afterwards as well and got some great tips for next year! :)  It was a lot of fun pushing my painting further under pressure like this and I definitely think this is a new benchmark for me to beat in the future. Thanks for checking it out,

Patric 

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Work continues on the Ogryn for GD…

I wanted a more relaxed pose for this guy and decided to change the pose of the legs. I found the bits I wanted, figured out the angle to cut them in and filled the gaps with greenstuff to create the pose I was after. I wanted him standing with his left leg pointing forward carrying his weight as his right leg rests upon a (slightly higher) street curb. I posed the torso as if he’s turned around slightly to the left and added some folds to his tank-top to simulate they way it would stretch if it was tucked in to his pants.. and… yeah, that’s pretty much it! Keep checking back for more, I'm going to try and keep updates on this project fairly regular... next step is more work on the armor!

Max

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Now that we know GDUK is officially happening, and the new Warhammer Fest event is announced with tickets available online and everything... it’s high time to start this years entry!

Some of you might remember this post from last year... http://stockholmwarpaint.com/post/56450098877/ Well, that turned into this... http://stockholmwarpaint.com/post/66268463048/

So who knows what this will end up looking like! ;) Max

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Here's my Duel entry for Golden Demon UK 2013. If anyone's unsure, this is an Ulthwé Farseer squaring off against a Flesh Tearers Contemptor Dreadnought. 

I immediately thought of this idea when I saw the new plastic Farseer, which I really love for a number of reasons. The base in the kit gives the Farseer a slight forward lean, so by omitting the base the model is instead facing upwards. When I had that image in my mind the Dreadnought just seemed like a good fit, especially since the Forgeworld Contemptors are so poseable. 

I chose Ulthwé because I really like them, I think they're very representative of the Eldar ethos, their whole gloomy doomy attitude. I've also painted an army of them, so the colour scheme was familiar. The head comes from the Dark Eldar Wyches kit, other than that it's all straight out of the box. 

For the Dreadnought, I wanted a colour scheme that worked well with the dark, cold tones of the Ulthwé Farseer, as well as a suitably ferocious chapter of Space Marines to balance the good-bad ambiguity of the Eldar. The Flesh Tearers are certainly fighting for the Imperium, but I wouldn't exactly call this dude "good".

A big focus with this duel was to convey a sense of direction and movement, as the Farseer mind-pushes the Dreadnought off the cliff. The plastic Farseer already has great, flowing robes, and I used the braid to reinforce that.  For the Dreadnought, the challenge was to keep him looking heavy and not too flimsy, and I added a bunch of purity seals to again help give a sense of direction. 

I really enjoyed making this, duels are always great fun and I've already got some ideas for next year.

Comments or questions are always welcome, of course, and check back soon, we've got more entries from GD UK coming up!  

Martin

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THE GIANT SLAYER. I finally had time to post some decent pics of my 2013 Golden Demon entry.. hope you like 'em! I won silver in the Open Competition (something I'm super happy about) with this small diorama piece of a perturbed yet solemn Giant Slayer examining a nick in his axe moments after killing a Giant.

I imagine the giant was on his way back to his lair carrying a couple stolen casks of Bugman's XXXXXX through a mountain pass as the Slayer caught up with him. I tried to hint at the turmoil that must have taken place only moments before as they both fought for their lives by adding small signs of the struggle, like the smashed Bugman's cask, the small cuts, broken teeth, bleeding fingernail and skinned elbow of the Giant etc... I think that those details help to contrast the serene state of the actual diorama scene where the Slayer's already wiped his axe down with his handkerchief and thrown it on the ground to inspect the damage done to his axe. For some reason I've always really liked that particular slayer model. He's originally one of the crew members of Malakai Makaisson's Goblin-Hewer but I've always loved the pose and thought that he deserved a greater role than just some random crew member. And that's actually where the idea for the diorama was born! Apart from the nick in the axe the Slayer is totally unconverted straight out of the box. The recently deceased giant however was converted and painted to look like it had banded up with an Orc Tribe. (check out the WIP stages of the Giant here.) When painting the Giant I tried to keep the skin pale since he'd obviously had his throat slit and bled out. (I also wanted a light, pale color as a background for the blood to pop off of) Rakarth Flesh was the main ingredient here and I shaded the skin (and almost everything else in this diorama) by adding a small amount Dark Reaper to the base-coat and gradually glazing the areas that I wanted to be shaded. I spent some time researching the maps found in both the Dwarf and Empire Army Books. Taking in to account where Bugman's Brewery is found and where the closest Dwarven mountain strongholds are, I decided the general area where the Orc Warband that the Giant belonged too operates in. I then had a look through the Uniforms and Heraldry of the Empire book and painted a variation of an Averland banner design found in the book on the pants of the Giant since the Orc Clan would have fought Averland state troops far more regularly than soldiers from any other province (Wissenland probably would have worked geographically as well but the Averland color scheme fit better with the rest of the model).  The evil suns symbol was a lot of fun. It was painted freehand, something I've been wanting to try ever since the new Gorbad Ironclaw model was released with Neil Langdown's accompanying 'Eavy Metal article way back in in WD 332. Painting the Giant's pants to look like different types of cloth stitched together by freehand painting highlights to bring out the "weave of the fabric" was another new idea I'd been wanting to try. The freehand rune pattern on the Slayer's axe was painted to look like it had been engraved into the weapon. I'm not 100% sure but out of all the freehand work at least it felt like the Bugman's logo took the longest to get right with all those tiny X's that had to match each other in both size and angle.

All in all I'm pretty happy with how it all turned out! I started painting it just 2 weeks before GDUK13 and it took about 50hours to finish. Overall this year's Games Day and Golden Demon was a lot of fun, 7 of us flew over to the UK this year for GD and we had a blast! If you've got any comments or questions don't hesitate to post them! 

Thanks for taking the time to check this out, I'm working on some new pieces atm that I'm very happy with so hopefully I'll get some new stuff up here soon, so stay tuned! :) Also if you've got the time click here and go check it out and drop a vote over at CMoN :) Max

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We had a good time at GDUK this year! Sten and Max both went home with some trophies and the entire gang had a lot of finalist-medals spread amongst them... all in all, a great year!  Hopefully we'll get time over the next couple weeks to share with you some of our entries from this year... we all produced some pretty cool stuff! :)

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    Oh, and a special shout out to Rasmus Pultz for the (slightly edited) photos!