Wip painting commission. Grots's tanks. Wraoummm!

First step before metals and weathering. I love this commission, orkish stuff are always fun to paint. Next update sunday if everything is ok.

The client wanted something near colors of the Ukrainian army but in a stupid "grots" way.

The workshop is ready since yesterday!

An entire day to set up the workshop!!! But I am really happy. I need some drawers but I like my new painting cave! I started my first order, some grots tanks for the guy from Gaming Mayhem. I leave you with some pictures. Some news soon!!!

Back from purgatory. Big studio update.

Oh man ! It was so long... My moving to Texas is over. So now I mean two big stuff are on their way, the first one is that I will be able to paint every day and play games and the very big news is that my painting commissions activity can go forward.

Yes ! This is the big news of 2016. I am stil a graphic designer and a photographer but I reopen my painting studio full time as a job. It's a big step in my life and a bit scary but I am so happy catching this goal after many years. I bought a lot of material and equipment and the other big news is that I have now a real studio. A place for me dedicated to the gods of metal, minis and paints. By Crom! I am so happy even if my new life is disturbing. I can't wait to wake up in the morning at 6.00 to do painting, graphic design and photography every day.

The commissions page of this blog is uploaded and I will certainly work in a dedicated website for my painting studio during the year.

Now the bad news... When I rented the house, the studio in my garden was in bad condition and mouldy. But I have a good landlord and the repairs are on their way. Next week I could put my stuff and begin to work.

I have many things to be shared with you about games like Frostgrave and minis. While waiting for, I have a picture to share with you. The inside of the studio! The roof and walls outside are repaired, when the inside will be ended, I will share some pictures of the cave with full equipment.

See you guys! I wish you a year quiet, rich in new experiences and full of colors. And don't forget to contact me for a quote if you have some minis unpainted!!!

Frostgrave, cards and Printer Studio

Ok ! I did it ! I bought in july a brand new game. This game is really cool, I love it. It's the mighty Frostgrave ! What a good game ! I will certainly write about it on this blog if few weeks. But today the subject is different. Frostgrave is a game where magic and spells are masters and it's really easier to use cards rather than looking all the time in a book. 

I found really nice cards on Lead Adventure, designed by a very nice person, I saved a lot of time, thank you dude ! You saved my ass, as a graphic designer, I hate using computers after a day's work.

For the first time I used Printer Studio and I want to talk about them. At the beginning I thought that I will have a nice digital print on heavy paper, period. No... their cards are amazing guys ! A really good professional finish ! And for this price ? Waaou. Follow the link to discover their services. Perfect cards !

Warcolours by Poison

He guys ! New paints  are on the market !!! Warcolours by poison are acrylics with liquid pigments like Formula 3 by Privateer Press. So you have no separation between pigments and binder. I really like Vallejo products for a while. But now I think I will maybe have some changes in my choices, because Warcolours are really, really great ! I tried only 3 colors and the result is pretty good. The dilution is perfect, with a little bit of thinner, paints are ok for airbrush. I think the dilution of those paints is between Vallejo Game Colors and Air Colors by the same brand. Washing is easy and very good, highlights, etc. They are perfectly smooth and mat.

I have only three "negative" points. The sticker / label on the bottle is not very visible, the names of paints are with no weird names, just : red 1, red 2, etc. And maybe the tones are a little too close.

So, It's a surprise but I think that Warcolours's paints are maybe the best paints I ever had in my hands. And I have a last surprise for you the price !!! 1,60 euros for a bottle of 15 ml (1,70 $). Poison is a new brand from Cyprus and their products are very super very great !!!!

Happiness is right there : http://www.warcolours.com/

Necromunda ganges, the Redeemers

Even if i don't have my studio and my paints (I am moving to Austin Texas from France).  I can't stop !! It's not easy, because I like to have my "cave" when I am in front of my minis. But it is a good exercice to be a nomad with very few bottles of paint...

Necromunda !!! Maybe the best game in the 40k univers. So many possibilities and fun ! The background for this game is gorgeous and the rules are still super great !

My first gangers salute you !

Painting Wargaming Figures by javier Gomez review

Few month ago I bought this book on Pen & Sword's website. It was a souscription, so when I received it, I had totally forgotten the book! So good surprise in the mail box!

I bought the book because the Perry's brothers were enthousiastic about it. It's a good book even if I am a little disappointed because I did not learn much. It's a book for beginners.

Let's talk about the book itself. 218 pages printed on a very helpful size for readers. The print is ok, full of pictures. The graphic design is fine. But as a graphic designer I would have used a different font. The Gillsans font if fine but I think the size of the font is too big, it is annoying during the reading. The book is in six parts. A preface, an introduction and three big parts : basics, colors, themes, other scales. Last point about the book... the book was printed in India. It's a shame. You have so many good many printers int the UK. India ? Really ? Shame on you.

First of all, you need to know that the book is for beginners and only for wargaming figures for massive battles such as historical big battles, Warhammer ancient or Fantasy battle, big tables. The main idea is to learn how you need to paint your figures to have a nice look on a big table with massive armies. So you will learn only basic highlights, shades, etc. Javier Gomez also talk about paints, material, bases, all around 28, 10 and 6 mm figures. The part around the skin, shields ans some other tricks are really cool.

So if you are a beginner or if you have to paint between 100 and 300 figures by spending least possible time, this book is for you. You will lear a lot to have a well painted army with a very cool general impact. If you like to read books around the hobby just for the pleasure this book is great for that. But if you are a little bit maniac like me, you must find another references. But the technique in this book is really coo to have a beautiful army on the table. The book is really cool too is you like oldschool technique and bored by complicated techniques for art shows.

I prepared a video on my You Tube channel, so you can have a taste of the book.

You can buy the book on the Pen & Sword website.

Alkemy gaming table in action & minis

Gaming table for alkemy

It's been a while I did'nt post anything, because I am in a big transition in my life. Big moving.

Let's talk about my last work about gaming table. My gaming club asked me to make demos about the game Alkemy. But we don"t have any table in 24 x 24". So because I am a very nice person, I decided to make it. But with some restrictions. A budget of 15 euros/dollars. It's not a tutorial, just some photos about steps. 

I hope that I will be able to do some commissions for "small" terrains or skirmish gaming table and vehicules when I will in Austin in few month after my moving. The only thing I can be sure is that I am working on weekend/workshops around "how to paint vehicules for wargames" and stuff like that.

Figopedia, light and color by Jérémie Bonamant Teboul

I received the last book of Jérémie Bonamant Teboul friday and I read the book saturday afternoon, from the start to the end. So yes I liked this book !

Let’s talk about the autor. Jérémie is a painter for 20 years. I know him since 2007 I think, at this time I worked for Kraken Editions as graphic designer for the rules book of Alkemy. After that I worked with Jérémie on different projects for his DVD or Figone, he was also my guest for a convention near Bordeaux in France. We also work on two books about painting armies and painting gaming tables and stuff.  What can I say about him ? Maybe that is one of the most enthousiastic, generous and postive person I have ever met in my life. A world full of little jéremies will be a better world for sure, or a pure nightmare...eh eh!

You will be able to see the contents of the book with photos in this article. The book is all about light and color. This subject is really hard to explain and sometimes difficult to understand. But the approach of Jérémie is pretty good and understandable. I like is emotional approach. The book is not thick as an encyclopedia but you will find a lot of stuff inside and a lot of tips, a lot! If you want to be a better painter, if you want to understand more lights and colors, you need this book. Even if you are a wargamer and if you don’t want to be “very” good painter, this book is useful. The proportions between text and pictures is perfect and everything is understandable. So I recomende the book at 100 %.

About he book itself, the choice for the paper is perfect, really smooth, good thickness, the softcover is plastified, the book is stiched ! The print is perfect and the colors are gorgeous. It would simply be necessary to revise the method of dispatch maybe...

Now I’m waiting fo the next volume !