Rainy day painting with the kids

My four and five years old kids are always watching, when I´m painting minis at the day time... asking punch of questions about the games and minis.  Most of the time the question is "why can´t I paint"? Well... this time I couldn´t find a good reason why not ( Except I´m really busy with the Space Marine project...:) And actually, I just bought some extra brushes for the kids, if they would want to give it a try...

I looked up some old boxes of unpainted minis and found couple of 3rd edition WHFB miniatures. I gave my daughter (4years) a Skaven, and my son (5 years) a Dark Elf... that was missing part of his crossbow. I thought that these minis were good to start with, for they are simply sculpted and don´t have too many details in them. And hey... these are the minis I started the paintig with! :) I think they made a good job, and used the brush very carefully, not taking too much paint in it. They followed my instructions very well... that usually never happens!

Here are the masterpieces..!

Emperors Children WIP: Basing done

Two more pics, with the basing done. The colors look a bit better now :)

Space Marine Project: Emperors Children WIP

I had to take step back, and think again about the color theme. After looking at the first mini for a day, I discovered that I´m not happy with the first plan, and the paint job was not good... at all. I think I did too much surfing in the internet, looking for ideas and styles... and forgot to make my own ideas and  use the style I like to paint. I guess that was my mistake :(

Anyways... I got back looking at the Space Marine game pics again, and started to plan the colors. I got down to four colors... Warlock Purple, Burnished Gold, Boltgun Metal and Vallejo Squid Pink. All washes were done with Leviathan Purple and Devlan Mud. Finally I made the High Lights different mixes of the base colors... I give you more proper tutorial later :) Here´s one pic of the new Emperor´s Children paint job.

Basing is not finished, but otherwice this is ready. High lights jump out little bit because of the flash... I´ll try to take better pic next time... Bye now!

Space Marine Project: Colors for Emperor´s Children

Vacation started friday..! Hooray :) So now I´ve had time to plan some colors on the first group in the Space Marine project... the Emperor´s Children. I´ve been looking for some pics and fluff on the internet about anything related to the chapter... Some of the "old school" Post Heresy Noise Marines pics were just wonderful. They were brilliantly painted with flashy colors, just like they should, but for me... they looked too much like going to the Mardi Gras. They didn´t quite capture the feeling of the oncoming action spectacle. Well... I tried to find some color theme from the middle of these lovely festival marines, and the Emperor´s Children in the actual Space Marine game. And here´s what I have now...

So... the colors are flashy, but I try  to keep the palette very simple. I think this could work... If it doesn´t, at least, I did it my way :)  I´ll be back with some WIP-pics soon. Bye now!

Space Marine Project: First minis

Just a quick update posting. I decided to start the project with some Noise :) Noise Marines box was first one to open... The bitz and stuff was so cool, that I just had to start building Emperors Children group! Here´s one pic of the assembled marines...

I´m quite happy with the poses... I used all the metal parts and the "heavy noise" stuff, for they looked too cool to stay in the box... I´ll be back with some WIP-pics soon.