Pinselwut, miniature painting by Solmar

Hey there ladies and gentlemen, dear painters!

Today i want to show you my second knight on 90% Stage wit the finished Banner. I hope you like him.. 3 to go, champion next.

Also, as i´m plannig to get my fingers onto an airbrush (just can´t afford one at the moment), a friend was so kind to lend me a system to do some learning and testing. So the bases of my new Chaos army were good test objects. :) Tried some overall lighting and glowing runes effect. :)

Not bad for the first try and i like them for my gaming army.

Hey there ladies and gentlemen, dear painters!

I have nearly finished my first rider, he is right now at a 90% stage. I have one or two further ideas, but before going on with him, i will bring the other four riders to the same stage.

I want to have these guys finished for the duke of bavaria (wich is in 6 weeks, so i better get my butt to the painting table). ;)

They will look great as a unit :) I hope you like him!

Due to some renovation work in our living room i have not much time to post here.

To the end of the week there will be updates here ;)

Happy painting!

Hey there ladies and gentlemen, dear painters!

I just wanted to tell you about some plan-changing on my rider´s progress.

The idea was to paint all bones of all horses right now, then doing all armor parts then.. and so on. But i have decided that i will paint one rider complete in order to estimate the overall appearance of the models.

So i will complete the musician first. And then copy his scheme and color tweaks to the other 4 riders.  So maybe we will see a complete rider in the near future. Also i get away from the demotivating "assembly line work".

So stay tuned and thank especially you, Ben, for motivating words! :)

Hey there ladies and gentlemen, dear painters!

Finally i´m coming back to you guys with some progress on my Black Knights. I had a heavy struggle with the bone color. Some colors looked good on the legs, some looked good on the head. But nothing was convincing on both parts under consideration of cenithal light.

This is my final solution. Now it´s time to paint the other 4 rider´s bones. :)

Hey there ladies and gentlemen, dear painters!

Long time no see. I worked some time on a comission work for a friend´s friend. He was given this converted demon prince as a gift and now wanted to have it painted. This "mini" is for gaming purposes.

It is a converted white-metal classic demon price of chaos. It has a birdlike head, huuuuuuge wings (if you ask: from some kind of fancy kids-toy-dragon) and an axe with (sigh) yes, an terribly crooked axe pole (i could not correct it, don´t ask ;)).

It was fun to paint (still with no airbrush). I hope you like it!

Another topic are my black knight for this year´s golden demon (which is uncertain in germany). I will not stop to paint these guys, so don´t worry. I will not give up and post some progress soon. :)

Cheers, Solmar

Hey there ladies and gentlemen, dear painters!

Due to an illness i had not much time to post here. But today (beside that i´m fine again) i can tell you that all the rider´s clothes are done! Holy crap, that where so many dots.. i finally did some estimation and on all riders together it were around 250.000 dots. I was really near to a tendonitis, really crazy doing stippling clothe structure to a whole unit of Horse riders with lots of clothes. ;)

But now i am facing a new problem and this problem has the name: Bones! No, i dont mean Emily Deschanel, i mean the horses bones. You know, they have got a LOT of them. ;) And i had no good paint receipe that looked good. Today i had an idea, what i liked, i will post some pics if the final result looks good. :)

And finally i will show you some upcoming projects:

First is Theoden, King of Rohan by GW:

I always wanted to paint this guy, one week ago i got the white metal Theoden off ebay. I love the sculpt but holy cow, this guy is small :) I have a really cool idea about painting the tree. Stay tuned.


And second my duel "ambush".

It is not built finished yet, i am still looking for a good victim. I think in the end it will become a space marine, but there are a lot decisions to mage in terms of pose, weaponry etc.

That´s it for now. Cheers! Solmar