Andreas 2.0's Legion of Everblight

I finally finished the battlebox for LOE, and I must admit, it was an uphill battle. Don't get me wrong, the miniatures are some of the better ones from Privateer Press, and there aren't that many of them, but the sheer amount of scales on these guys can be very intimidating and overwhelming work - I mean just look at them!

The big guy in particular is just a truckload of linework if you paint him like I do (which in retrospect wasn't the brightest idea). The funny thing about these guys however is that the yellow was a breeze to paint, and it actually came out pretty good with minimum effort. Just look at it! It's so warm and delicious. Needless to say, I am pretty happy with the result.

 

Next up I'm going to paint some Blighted Nyss Striders (pic below). These guys are really ugly with poor sculpts, but their rules are just too good to pass up, so I'll do my best to make them look decent. 

We also have a new edition of 40k incoming, which means I will be airing my Space Marines some time soon, and there will of course be lots of pictures for those interested. Until then, thanks for reading.

/Andreas 2.0

While away from home...

2.0 here

So right now I'm sitting a few hundred kilometres away from home in the kingdom of Jutland or whatever this dark place is called. I don't have any of my painting supplies or miniatures with me, which means I have to recreate in some other way. Fortunately the local gaming store was open today, and that gave me the chance to look at something different. Although I'm a huge Games Workshop fanboy by any standard, I would still categorize myself as open-minded to alternative games. Johan will be posting alot of hordes/warmachine, and GR is mainly focusing on GW products, so I thought I'd give myself a different focus - behold

Just kidding... Well not completely. I will of course keep painting GW and P3 miniatures, but at some point during my summer vacation I intend to pick up one or two of the new plastic boxes from Wyrd's Malifaux. I have previously owned some of the miniatures and played a single game, but 40k just took up all my time back then. Now that Wyrd has released a second editon of the game and some cool new (plastic) minis, there is no longer any good reason for me not to look into this strange new world of wonders/horrors. There are new improved computersculpts for alot of the old minis, which P3, as a slightly bigger company, could learn alot from. The first box I'm going to pick up and paint will be this badboy.

It might be hard to make out just how cool these guys are, but thankfully the Wyrd web shop has some high quality pictures - http://wyrd-games.net/shop/Crew-Boxes/

Check it out if you are a fan of the heroic-horror-steampunk-fantasy genre, or if you just like great miniatures. 

Thanks for reading

Andreas 2.0 - The story

Where and when does a story truly begin?

I could start from the beginning of my "painting career" about 20 years ago, but the story would be long and honestly not that interesting. The first model I ever painted was a skeleton from the time where you could buy those guys in boxes of 8; it was a horribly painted model and I won't be posting pictures of that thing any time soon. Instead I will begin the story with this guy - a model I painted just 5 years ago.

'What is so special about him?' You might ask. Well that shoulder pad was the first clean 'eavy-metal-esque paint job I had ever done, and it would a few weeks later become the place, where I painted my first freehand. As you can see from the model below, it wasn't a total disaster.

The freehand did however take a long time, and I got bored with it quickly, after which the army project died a quick and undignified death. I did however get my eyes open to the endless posibilities that come from large open surfaces (eg. shoulderpads and banners). I really liked that you could give a model some personality, simply by adding paint that wasn't restricted by the sculpt. This is something I have found to be especially true on cleaner paintjobs. A great example of this is my ultramarines (shown below). The paintjob isn't bad, but it would be very boring to look at if it wasn't for the freehand.

These models are probly the epitome of my painting style, and the techniques used are the ones I'm most comfortable with. They are however not the end of the story, but rather the beginning - a story I will hopefully be telling for a long time. These ultramarines were probably painted a year and a half ago, and alot has happened since. I won't be recapping everything in between, but I will post 2 pictures that perfectly sums up, just how much i have progressed since then.

It might not seem like much, but I can assure you that every detail on this model is an improvement on the ultramarines. The shadows are not just black, and the subtle blends make the the model more vivid and alive.

And then there's the freehand. This is the most fun I have had in a long time. I wouldn't dare do it on a whole army but who knows, some day I might have a stroke and paint a whole battleforce with this kind of freehand.

Anyways - Thanks for reading this far. I won't be posting much for a few weeks, as exams are draining much of my free time, but hopefully I will be able to post a short bit on my current projects.

Cheers - Andreas 2.0

Welcome to the Bitter Old Painters Blog!

This blog came to be during a conversation between Johan and 2.0, being inspired by some of the great blogs out there; Tale of Painters, Massive Voodoo, etc., just to name a few. They wanted in on the action too! Rasmus was invited, a bit of bashing our heads together trying to come up with a name, and the blog became a reality.

Most of us have had or still has blogs on some of the biggest wargamer forums – Dakka, Bolter&Chainsword, Warseer, etc, and these will still be maintained – although the WIP pics of new stuff will primarily be on this blog, while pics of finished works will be found on the forums.

This blog will be primarily focused on the creative aspect of the miniature hobby - all of us game to some degree, but we are mainly attracted to the painting and converting aspect of the hobby.
Rasmus and Andreas mainly dabbles with 40k, and the specialist games connected to the universe, and Johan has recently taken up WarmaHordes again, painting armies with almost fanatical zeal and speed.

You’re very welcome to drop us a note, or better yet, leave a comment or critique in a blog post – we all love getting response on our work, including ways to better it. J