Mr Bad Axe by JoeK Minis completed!

The companion piece to "Mr Good Axe" is a rather sinister barbarian aptly named "Mr Bad Axe". I really wanted to play with saturation and contrast on this piece, and work in some of the new techniques I have been learning over the recent months. The armour is painted in metallic paints with a high contrast, pushing black paint directly into the recesses, and anywhere I wanted shadows. Regarding the positioning of the dark and light I have really tried to work in the same methodology as used in NMM, and although the photos are typically harsh on metallics, I feel that I managed to pull it off to some extent!

Mr Good Axe by JoeK miniatures complete!

I was recently commissioned by JoeK Minis to paint up their two new barbarians (sculpted by Matt Gubser) and I finally handed them over to Joe on Saturday. It is always a warm and fuzzy feeling being able to hand over pieces like this personally - and it is probably fair to say that he was pretty pleased with the results! This first one had a passing similarity to one warp spasming barbarian of 2000AD fame... I decided to paint him to emphasise that 'family resemblance'... black hair, yellow tartan and red warpaint...

Big 'shout out' to Toosh for her always excellent snowy bases - they really tied the two barbarians together - thank you!!

What else I have been working on - Barbarian

I've also been working on something else a bit more in my comfort zone (who's yawning at the back?!). This is one of two barbarians I am painting for JoeK Minis. The photos aren't great - I need to work on the white balance on my camera again for the blue-white background (I think I might have accidentally left it set for the black background).

I have been really trying to push the contrast in my metallics and in the photo below I have taken the colour from Leadbelcher (the new boltgun metal) down to black and I will bring it right up to a bright Vallejo Model Air silver who's name escapes me.