Hobby Block (Like writers block but cooler)

I have not done any painting for about 2 weeks... Its driving me crazy. But I just cant bring myself to sit down at my painting table and put brush to plastic.

I have been looking at various other blogs to try and get some inspiration, I came across a post from a painter about hobby block. I believe that I am a terminal sufferer of hobby block. I always have grandios ideas about painting/converting/modelling. I spend massive amounts of money buying Warhammer minis (last count was $6500 this year) I have 6 different FULL armies. The smallest is 2000 pt, the largest (My empire army) is 6500 points. All unpainted of course.

This has resulted in me sitting in the loungeroom for the past few weeks slowly rocking back and forth and muttering to myself about the dangers of getting too stuck into GW and painting.

Therefore, in an effort to break the block, I am going to start painting every day! I am going to post something on here every day! Taking inspiration from my mother (of all people) who has her own blog and has done a "Day XXX of a year in my life" type thing, I am going to start a "Day XXX of a year of painting" I want to see if it inspires me to finish all the projects that I am working on, or to at least learn new things.

I am going to start this process on the 01st of November.

Stay tuned.

WIP Lizardmen Carnosaur

Some shots of the Carnosaur work in progress.

I am experimenting with some layering with watered down colour. I have done the first layer of wash on the painted area so far. Going to do some layering on the scales tonight. Ill post some shots tomorrow. :)

Thoughts?

Target Identified Season 1.1: Supporter Edition First Impressions

Well... It finally arrived. you may remember a few weeks back I mentioned a DVD tutorial pack that I ordered from Germany. Well, it arrived today! :)

You may also remember me mentioning that calling this a simple DVD Tutorial pack is a gross understatement. The company that develops this pack, www.paintingbuddha.com, are a group of passionate hobbyists, who are one of the few groups I have seen who still understand what it means to paint miniatures as a hobby. When I first started in this hobby back in 1994, collecting Warhammer 40K and painting as best I could, there were a few companies around. The biggest being Games workshop. Who happily shared a lot of painting tips, articles, information and other assorted bits and pieces that inspired me to dive into the hobby.

However, nowadays they have become a money hungry company who are more worried about protecting their intellectual property than supporting the hobby. After researching the painting buddha quite extensively through various blogs and youtube channels, I was really surprised to see a business within this community who are more about the hobby than the $$$. They actually donate 16% of the proceeds of this DVD pack to charity. which is quite awesome. anyway, enough about the company.

The DVD pack is awesome. it comes with a Painting Buddha T Shirt, and some PB stickers.

A personal letter from the creators. As well as a certificate of authenticity, which is numbered. Mine is S156.

For a relatively small box, there is a massive amount of awesome inside. We will start with the DVDs. I have only just opened the box so haven't had a look at these properly. But I will post a review of the contents once I have a look.

 

The concept of this is pretty cool. The pack includes 2 miniatures, and the artists on the Tutorials take you through a step by step painting guide using a couple of different techniques. The artists are golden demon winning painters and I look forward to seeing what they have to say.

The Miniatures...

 

They are resin cast. First impressions are good. I cant see any casting defects and they look very well detailed. Should be fun to paint.

5 collector buttons and a magnet...

 All up it cost 101euro. Which worked out to $151 AUD. It did take 3 weeks to arrive. but I think it was very much worth it. I guess first impressions are good. Will wait till the weekend to have a look at the DVDs. But Ill post a review once I do.

Started on the carnosaur

I started working on the Carnosaur Body last night. Ive decided on a red scale for the carnosaur. Going to be red/orange/yellow dinosaur and then ill paint the rider in Green for the contrast. Should look good. The work I have done so far has come out really well. Ill take some photos over the next few days and post them up here.

Stay tuned.

Lizardmen are interesting...

I finished assembling the Carnosaur over the weekend and started basecoating the detailed areas of the mini. Specifically all the ropes and bindings hanging off him. I havent really decided on a colour scheme for the actual dinosaur yet.

I am waiting on the delivery of my Bastiladon that I ordered with the Carnosaur but was delayed due to stock levels. So once I receive it I can seriously look at colour schemes. i also have a Stegadon that I will put together soon and I think will look at designing a colour scheme that will work across all three of these big Dinosaur type miniatures.

Ill post some pics over the weekend of the work so far. :)

The new improved workspace

I spent this morning going through my collection of GW minis and working out what to work on first.

This is about 2 thirds of the collection, My tendency over the last year of starting work on a mini and then stopping and starting something else has resulted in a lot of partially painted minis, some on sprues, lots and lots of loose bitz and pieces. So once I had finished sorting all of this out, I had a look at my painting table...

 

A bit of mess... So I decided to organise the painting space and start working on my first mini.

 

Ive decided to start on the Lizardmen collection first. First off the bat is the Carnosaur. The order that I put in the other day is for the Lizardman battalion, some saurus on Cold ones and a few other lizardman additions, so because this collection will be in one piece I thought I would start here first.

The carnosaur is assembled. Now about to start on the rider and his saddle and whatnot. Then undercoat and paint...

 

The Planning Weekend Planning...

This weekend I am going to go through the hundreds of boxes of miniatures that I have at home and come up with some sort of plan for the painting procedure.

At the moment I have:

• The Empire Collection:
• Karl Franz on Deathclaw,
• Captain of the Empire
• Battle Wizards,
• Celestial Hurricanum,
• 36 Reiksguard Knights
• 20 Swordsman,
• 30 Handgunners,
• 20 Pistoliers/Outriders,
• 40 Militia,
• 40 Flagellants
• 20 State Troopers
• 1 Steam Tank,
• 2 Cannons
• Master Engineer
• Witch Hunter
• Warrior Priest,
• Helstrom Rocket Battery
• 12 Demigryph Knights,
• 20 Archers,
• Orcs & Goblins Collection
• 2x Arachnarok Spiders
• Wurrzag Da Great Green Prophet,
• Savage Orc Shaman,
• 10 Savage orc Boar Boys
• 40 Savage Orcs
• 20 Orc Warriors
• 10 Goblin Spider Riders,
• Mangler Squigs
• Warhammer Giant,
• Savage Orc Big Boss
• Orc Shaman,
• Goblin Shaman,
• various other green skin abominations,
• Ogre Kingdoms Collection
• 2 x Stonetusk/Thunderhorn
• 2 x Iron Blaster/Scraplauncher
• 12 Ogres
• 8 Ironguts
• 4 Leadbelchers,
• Golgfag Manaeater
• Gorger
• High Elves
• The Contents of the Island of Blood Box
• High Elf Lord on Dragon
• Skaven
• The Contents of the Island of Blood Box
• Contents of the Battalion Box
• Doomwheel
• Screaming Bell
• Lizardmen
• Contents of the Battalion Box
• Stegadon,
• Carnosaur
• Bastiladon
• 8 x Saurus on Cold Ones
• Saurus Old Blood
• Skink Priest
• Beastmen
• Contents of the Battalion Box
• 20 Ungor
• 20 Gor
• 20 Bestigor
• Cygor/Ghorgon
• Great Bray Shaman

All of these are unpainted, most are still in boxes, shrink wrapped. This has all been purchased in the last 6 months. So this weekend I need to prioritise armies and work out a painting order for ALL OF THIS! I am trying very hard to resist the urge to buy more minis until this is all painted, but That isnt going too well so far, with another order submitted last night.

I got an email from the guys at painting buddha 2 days ago to say that my DVD pack was packed and would be posted yesterday, So Im waiting in anticipation for it to be delivered.

Ok, That should do me tonight. I might post on the weekend with some photos of the work I have ahead of me just to give the idea of the scale of the painting hole that I find myself in.

Hobby/Subject Matter Decisions Abound

I have spent the last few months in a bit of a haze with regards to my hobby interests and recently had a look at the spreadsheet that I use to keep track of the $$ that I spend on miniatures...

I was a little shocked that after spending a little over $4000 on miniatures in the last 6 months, I have acheived very little in the way of completed, display worthy, painted minis.

This will change. I am going to change this blog from a completed works of Triggazart to a blog of miniature awesomeness.

I decided yesterday after a few weeks of research that if I want to improve my painting to a point where I can happily share photos and experiences, I need to learn from the best. So I spent some extra cash and ordered the "Target Identified - Season 1.1 - Supporter Edition" Painting tutorial DVD pack from a great little miniature painting venture out of Germany, called Painting Buddha. Now to call this a simple painting tutorial may be a massive understatement and after reading many reviews, I can only say that I am very excited to see what this little beauty holds.

I am committing myself to improve my painting skills to a point where I will be happy to post a slather of pictures on here. After being back in the hobby for three years and spending god knows how much money on the little plastic crack that is GW miniatures, I really need to commit to it otherwise there is really no point. So stay tuned and I will be updating this blog more often with tales of painting magic and frustration.

Must resist the urge to buy more miniatures.

A few finished miniatures, Out of thousands of partially or unfinished miniatures