WarhammerFest: Part V - A few hobby paint recipes

In the last of my WarhammerFest pictures, here are some helpful pictures of various paint recipes the hobby teams had done to help you understand how they got some effects.

As I've been being slack with the blog while going to and recovering from Empire LRP, hopefully some of you will find this useful.

WarhammerFest: Part IV - PaintySim's Golden Demon Photos

My wife, PaintySim has long been better at painting than me - and it seems she's much better than photography, too! Here's the photos she took at WarhammerFest this year, mostly of Golden Demon entries.

OK, this is the one photo not
from Golden Demon!
It's a Kharadron Overlords diorama
Made by GW staff...

WarhammerFest: Part III - Golden Demon Photos

I didn't manage to get a huge number of photos of the Golden Demon entries. The cabinets get very crowded for the short period of time everything is visible.

Still, you get to see stuff like this amazing kit bash. Even I have trouble picking out where all of these parts come from.

The Age of Sigmar single figure category had a lot of excellent figures in, and this is where I got most of my photos.

I found the two DarkOath Chieftans kind of fascinating, as you got to see the differences two excellent painters took on the same figure.

Not the most detailed painting on a figure, but noted as a Blood Bowl Apothecary conversion using the new Changeling model.

The other reason I don't bother with too many photos, because the lighting isn't ideal for photography - and all the really good stuff gets photographed by Games Workshop with excellent photography lighting and much better cameras than I own...

I felt I had to get a photo of the Fimir in the cabinet for the old school shout out.

Again, it doesn't come out brilliantly, but the hand painted detail on the banner is amazing.

This kit bash is my personal favourite - the shoulder piece with the laurel wreath and the yellow and black checks are painted gloss. This is because painted armour plates would be glossed to protect the design.

The kitbash, as well, is amazing. The ruff, the head working with the Stormcast body, and the slashed sleeve (which is actually a slashed sleeve over the undershirt).

Another old school shout out with the new take on Slambo. This is excellently painted on a relatively simple figure.

One of the new categories was where everyone was told to paint an Eldar Farseer with no modification. One entrant had taken that very literally, and painted everything on the sprue. If you look closely,  there's a lot of amazing freehand detail, and sections of the sprue are detailed with runes or other effects.

I think this will be one of the photos I use to show people that miniature painting can be art.

WarhammerFest 2017: Part II - Staff Hobby

 

One of the great things about the Saturday of WarhammerFest is that you get to see lots of awesome hobby from the GW staff. Because they may as well do something with the Golden Demon cabinets...

It's also much more civilised to look at these awesome, achievable armies in a lot less of a crowded press than it is the Golden Demon entries. Of course, I'm a moron and forgot to do this until late on the Saturday - here you can even see Chris Peach (of Warhammer TV appearances and hobby fame) putting away his combined Order forces in the background.

This Tzeentch force jumped out at me from the cabinet.

I failed to get the name of the painter, but you can see the awesome bright colours of the force, which is nice and different to what you often see.

There were also a few Gathering Storm dioramas done by the staff in one of the cabinets that were available on both days. This is another bunch of work by Chris Peach, ruined by my awful photography.

I believe Borja is one of the Forge World painters.

 I don't know the person who created this one...

... or, in fact, this one. But they're pretty awesome, aren't they?