Grim's IMC Prize Support

The IMC has come and gone…
As prize support for the IMC I put a few weeks of nightly paint sessions into these guys and they were finished just in the nick of time.  I finished these three at 2:30AM Sept 14th, giving me just enough time to sleep for approx 4 hours, and spend the entire day at the Intermountain Cup.  I had a good time at the cup, and was glad that we were able to provide some prize support for this enormous event.
Here is a pic: I hope that the person who won these in the raffle enjoys them.


Thanks for Watching!
-Grim

Grims Mini Swap WIP

So I have been spending a whole lot of time playing Warmahordes and doing modifications or conversions on my Trollbloods army.  So my painting time has suffered a bit.  However I did get a bit of time this last little bit to work on this little dude for Scotty.  A classic Warrior of the Abyss from the Mid Nor of Confrontation.

These Rackham figures are so freaking great!  The detail and character in everyone of their miniatures is so awesome! They are my goto cure for painters block, because they are so damn fun to paint!

Here are a couple of WIPs. 

Scotty has a rockin' Purple and dead flesh Mid Nor crew.  So I decided I'd do my own little spin on his color scheme.  Hopefully I can do his crew justice.

Short and sweet this time folks.  Any questions or comments, advice, criticism, cookie recipies...
Please throw them in the comments.

Thanks for watching!!

-Grim

Borka Conversion!

Well, looks like someone in the Garage has been a slacker.... Yeah... it was this dude!

DOH!!

I apologize for the long delay... I could fill you with all of my excuses... but instead I'll just get right into my latest project:

So, when I first saw this picture of Borka I knew that was a caster I would have to play some time.

His sculpt was released, and while the sculpt itself is a pretty darn cool sculpt, I really wanted to recreate this epic "Im gonna knock your head outta the park like Babe Ruth" pose.

And so the idea festered, and finally I jumped and decided to give it a go...



I began by purchasing both a Borka model, and a Metal Troll Axer.

I started by clipping Resounder (Borka's Beatstick) from his right hand. Followed up by clipping the axer's axe from his hands as well.  A bit of pinning and some sore fingers later I ended up with this:

Then I grabbed a hobby saw and proceeded to cut Borka in half at the waist. Followed up by gluing Borka's head to the Axers Torso, and attaching Resounder to the Axer torso as well.   Here is the result:

I then grabbed the bottom half of Borka, used the beefy pin from the P3 pinning kit and connected the Axer torso to Borka's feet.  Grabbed a 1:1 mix of yellow milliput and super sculpey firm and began some putty work.  Result to that point looked like this:

(I had left over pieces and extra putty... and because I have a hard time wasting stuff... Borka's personal Axer Brik was born as well.)

After getting to this point I scupted a tartan out of Green stuff and threw him up on a big ol Chunk of bark.  Think Im going to add some fur around his neck before I call him competely finished.  Here he is as of today:

And there ya have it!  A relatively simple Borka conversion that is completely tournament legal and captures some of the Awesomeness that is in the brilliant concept art by Andrea Uderzo.

Please feel free to drop and questions, comments, crits, etc, below.

Thanks for watching!!

-Grim

IMC, a long day

The InterMountain Cup event was spectacular and a very long day. Two of our painters participated in the tournament, one making the trip from Maryland. And at one point we had all of our painters of the prizes under one roof for about 5 minutes. During the course of the day I took photos and videos to capture all of the fun and after long hours of editing the video is complete.

Winner of the painting competition picking out his prize.

Final round top table player.

Group photo of all the competitors, host, and volunteers.

And here are the Geek Garage painted prizes for giveaway.

A BIG Thanks to the IMC

Well the IMC is done and over with.  We here at the Garage want to shout out a big THANK YOU to the IMC organizers, all of the players, and the Gamers Asylum for running such a top notch event.

I personally had a lot of fun during this whole event.  Really can't say enough about how well everything was run.  I have been to a few tournaments in my day, and I have to say that for a tourney that touted 46 players this thing ran without a hitch!

We here at the Garage were glad to see our paint work was appreciated and were happy to see the smiles on the winners faces as they accepted their prizes.

Going forward we are very excited to continue our relationship with the IMC and are happy to continue to provide only the COOLEST of paint jobs as prize support for such an awesome event.

I snapped a whole load of pics I have included a good portion of them below.

Thanks again to all involved with the IMC and here's to many more!!

More Pics after the break...

Thanks for watching!!!

-Grim

Grims IMC WIP 2

Alright everyone here is a quick little WIP of my progress thus far my my Drow....errrrrr Nyss Hunters.  :)

  

More pics when you click :)




Essentially I have brought the highlights up on the armor, started by adding just a straight Vallejo Model Color English Uniform to all of the leather areas.  Then I began adding P3 Menoth White Highlight to the English Uniform more and more with each layer.  After three layers this is what I came up with.  Also began bringing the highlights up on the purple as well.  Did this by adding P3 Menoth White Highlight to the basecoat of GW Foundation Hormagaunt Purple.

I then added the metallics and got the hair finalized.  With the metallics I began by basecoating all of the areas with a Rackham Polished Silver, after basecoating, I washed the swords with GW Asurmen Blue Wash, I added a GW Nuln Oil wash to the hilts and handles of the swords.  I then washed the metallic portion of the bows with GW Gryponne Sepia... decided I didn't like it and followed that wash with a GW Nuln Oil wash as well.  The hair was base coated with a Delta Ceramcoat Quaker Grey and washed with GW Nuln Oil. After the wash on the hair dried I reapplied the base coat.  Here are the results:

Sorry for the pics... I have had one heck of a time getting a good group shot of these guys.  When I finish I will try to get a really nice set up so that the pics are more crisp.  But for now this is all I have.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for watching!!!

-Grim

Miniatures Showcase

Here is a showcase of the recently painted commission pieces for our local Pressganger. These were painted by Grimwolf and Scottykhan of Geek Garage. Miniatures featured are from the game Warmachine and faction is Khador.

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Grim's IMC Prize Support

Alright folks in case you didn't hear, we here at Geek Garage are currently sponsoring the Inter-Mountain Cup, IMC, this is a Warmachine/Hordes tournament, this year it happens to be a Warmachine Weekend Qualifying tournament as well.

We as a crew here at the Garage decided to offer up some support for our local press gangers.  So we did what we love best... Painted some figs.  We will be using these painted figs as prize support during the tournament, some will be raffled end of the later rounds of the tourney and others will be given away to best painted army, and best painted battle group.

All in all this should be a whole lot of fun.  We hope to have a long and fun partnership with the IMC.

Now with that said here is my entry:

Click the link for some progress shots... these guys are clearly still WIP... click the link drop a comment, question, critique, anything really.



Here they are assembled (PAIN IN THE A--! Anyone who has assembled these can most likely relate) and primed.

I recently acquired an airbrush... so I decided to throw down an english uniform progression on these guys for their armor. Threw some VMC English uniform in my airbrush and laid down a base coat, then I just bit by bit added Menoth white higlight... three layers later here's the result:

Then I washed the models with the new GW wash Seraphim Sepia... think this may have lost a bunch of the highlight... Im most likely going to have to go back and bring some highlights up on the leather armor.

Was really having some issues trying to figure out how to paint these sweet little elves, different from the norm, but still cool as ice!  I had a few theories, asked ol' Scotty what he thought about it... He confirmed that painting them up as Drizzts kin (Drow from WotC), and if you don't know who Im talking about... go to the bookstore and look up R.A. Salvatore and buy the Legend of Drizzt volume 1... pretty sure you won't regret it.  Anywho... here is the shot with the skin tone base coated with VMC German Grey:

 

Decided on purple for the cloaks... Used the old GW Foundation Hormagaunt purple as a base... then washed with GW wash Druchii Nightshade.  Added one highlight of GW Foundation Hormagaunt purple.

As of now I have finished the highlighting on the skin, added a Delta Ceramcoat Ocean Reef Blue to the VMC German Grey for the first highlight, then added a little P3 Menoth White Highlight to that for the final highlight... here is the final shot for now:

More to come so stay tuned!

Thanks for watching!

-Grim

Dust!!

Well a few of us here have had our eyes on Dust for quite while now.  We dove in and purchased a First Edition Dust Tactics starter box.  They have been sitting on my shelf of mini's for quite awhile now.

With the release of Dust Warfare not too long ago, are interest was piqued just a bit... then it fell away again.

Then one day not too long ago my buddy scotty decided to throw some paint on one of his American Walkers From that point on I decided I oughta give it a go as well.

I decided that this game due to its bendy plastic figures would be my mindless painting army.  Essentially I would paint the troops up really quickly using basecoats, shades, and one highlight to finish up.

With the walkers I would begin practicing with my newly acquired airbrush, and try some different weathering techniques.

The whole goal of this project... Get stuff painted quickly!

So here are a few pics:

More pics when ya click!

Walker number 2:

Kommandotrup (this was the first unit I painted tried to paint without priming... BAD IDEA, although Dust claims they are pre-primed minis... PRIME THEM or else you'll be glopping thick nasty paint all over your figs)

Battlegrenadiers: Busted these guys out during one of our GG paint nights...  Really quick and easy.  I remembered to prime these guys :)

The last unit I busted out was the Recon Grenadiers think I finally have the process down, I busted these guys out in just over an hour.

Still have the basing to finish.  Also have a unit of Lasgrenadiers, and the Hero chick from the starter box.

Should be having a quick playtest this friday.  Pretty stoked for that.

Stay tuned.

Thanks for watching,

-Grim

An Apology and Some WIPs

Alright, the Holidays have come and gone, and it has been nearly a month since I have posted anything up here on the GG...

I have to apologize... I always seem to think that during the holidays I will have more time for hobbies, yet every year it seems I have a whole lot less free time than I imagined.  So again, I am sorry for my slacking.

Now, here are a few WIPs I have been working on over the holidays.

First Up....

Tir Na Bor Standard Bearer:












Now, I know you want to see what else Im working on right? :) :P
Click it!! Come on!  Please? Click it!!

The next guy I have been working on is another one of my favorites from Rackham...

Magnus the Mystical:

Ill show you this guy from the very beginning.  Cleaned up and primed white.

Added some basecoats... You may have noticed something is missing...

I dare you to comment and point it out.  I double dog dare you!!

At this point I couldn't figure out what to do with his gloves.  I chatted with my buddy Scotty and he suggested doing some crazy red and blue transitions.

This is how it turned out...
Thoughts? Comments?...
Verbal Abuse?

I decided to move the transitions over to his sword as well.  Like this Mystical magician was doing some crazy magic voodoo on his sword.

Not sure if the effect came out exactly as I had pictured... but I think I like it.



















I did a little bit of work on his face at this point.  I love for the face of all my little Dwarves to be the focal point of the mini.  I worried that the sword may draw too much away form the face.

Here are the quick first few steps done on his face.
















And the finished face shown below.  I took the picture so as to ensure you all saw how grumpy and mean this old dwarf is!  The lesson of the day:

DONT MESS WITH MAGNUS!

I have yet to finish this guy.  When I finish him I will be sure to throw up a pic so you all can tell me what you think.

Thanks for Watching!!

-Grim