Waiting for his new sword, a plastic one, to replace the wobbly finecast one.

Hello everyone, Corvus again. Yes I know I should be posting more here, looks like I saved up a lot stuff again for another big post.

But I have a good reason this time :) I just got back from my summer holiday. First my family and I spent a nice 10 days in Italy, then we went home for a couple of days and then spent another two weeks at the seaside in The Netherlands (like we do every year).

As you can expect after my previous post the Age of Sigmar box has taken up all of my hobby time last month.

I took the sprues with me to Italy together with a knife, cutters, glue and some other assembly gear. I managed to assemble all Sigmar models and three of the Chaos models. As usual with the more recent GW plastics assembly was a breeze and fun to do.

Then in the last two weeks I spend a couple of nights painting the basic rank & file Sigmarites. Progress seemed slow (only the armour is finished now), but I guess the hardest work has been done already.

Here's what I have so far:

The partially painted Sigmarites, the blue has only been basecoated.

The Chaos characters assembled:

Other Sigmar models, assembled and primed:

This little sheet displays my color choices. So the turqoise is going to be my main color for the shields, shoulder pads etc, while the violet is going to be the secondary color.

But the rest of the project will have to wait a bit since this guy is now waiting to be painted: Belial of the Dark Angels, which is a commission job.

And in between I'm still doing quite some behind the scenes work. The plan is to create a new website and overall look for Corvus Miniatures at some point.
The new logo looks like this, I hope you like it :)

Hello everyone, first of all happy 2014! I hope you got some great painting time in 2013 and that this year will even be better. I'll be posting my traditional year statistics post soon, but first something else:

I've been neglecting this blog a little bit over the past few weeks, so let's grab this opportunity to take a look at what I've been up to lately. As you can see on the picture below there's a bit of everything on my desk now, especially gaming-quality stuff.

I've been doing quite some work on the Hobbit set lately. I've even played a few scenarios :) I expected another boxed set to come out with the new movie, but alas only new models and a new manual, so my Unexpected Journey will probably end when I played the last scenario.

Here's the finished scenery:

And then some quick shots of some of the finished Good models. When everything is painted I will post a big showcase with decent pictures. I would also like to say that I recorded the entire painting process of Gandalf on video. I'm currently editing this so expect a painting tutorial video on him soon!

What's still left to do:

Like I already said I played the first few scenarios. The dice rolling, measuring, moving miniatures, it felt great to play a wargame again after quite some time.

So good actually that I'm seriously considering getting back into 40k. I have an Imperial Fists army in mind. Considering my painting speed this will probably take quite some time to complete, but I'm going to try it nonetheless.

Here's a test model I've completed a while ago:

The army will probably consist of models I like to paint, instead of making a very competitive one. I will of course keep track of the progress of this project here on my blog.

One last thing I'd like to share is that I recently cleaned out the cupboards and drawers of my painting desks. There's a lot of stuff that I don't need any more, so this will be sold on eBay. I still need to sort out all the pictures and look up posting costs, but when that is done then there will be many interesting deals available for everyone. Here's all what I've put aside:

See you in the next post!

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More pictures of these finished models incoming, just wanted to see those on a white backdrop to compare them to the studio paintjob :)

My version:

'Eavy Metal's version:

Almost there...

Hello folks! Way too long since the last update :) Not that much painting has been happening here, been cycling a lot, wasted my time on some indie games like Terraria and Limbo, and I've also been on holiday. More on that later, but we'll start with the painting action shall we? Oh and there's more I want to tell you about, but I'll save that for another ok :)

Last month I finished two Titan Wargames miniatures, of which you have already seen one appear on the blog. If you missed it click on the image below for more angles. The other chaos dwarf (a female in fact!) will be uploaded this weekend or shortly after.

Apart from the chaos dwarfs I've started a rather tedious project: a unit of Blood Angels Death Company. During my holiday I assembled them, and as some kind of test I started painting an arm. This allowed me to define a recipe for each of the colors which are on the complete models. Pretty pleased with the results... going for an 'Eavy Metal style of painting here in case you didn't notice :)

Here are the rest of the guys waiting to be painted. Oh yeah there primed in white. Didn't have any black primer in the house, and I'm always to eager to start working on a new project that it can't wait a week :)



I've also been using a non-metallic Citadel paint again in a long while. I think the reds in the Vallejo Model color line aren't that much good. I have several of them but most of them have changed in a thick goo, with a layer of transparent medium (thinner?) on top, in such a way that shaking won't help. The other which are in good condition don't have the brightness which I'm looking for. So I decided to try out Evil Sunz Scarlet and the foundation paint Mephiston Red. Works as a charm! I'm really pleased about the paint, in fact I'm considering on buying some more the line.

But I'm still not a huge fan of the paint jar-type of thing. Of course they're a huge improvement over the old screw capped ones I had in the beginning of my painting career, but I think taking out the paint with your brush is still quite cumbersome when you're used to dropper bottles. I think I will pick up some empty Vallejo bottles soon and transfer the paints. I also noticed some paint hardening near the "hinge" of the lid so they're still not entirely perfect in my opinion. But the paint quality is certainly top notch!



I already mentioned my holiday. Well there isn't that much to tell about really ;) My family and I visited the sourth of France this time. The first few days we had some bad luck with the weather but that was okay since it allowed us to visit some cool places instead of cooling down at the swimming pool like we did all the other days :)

Highlight of this trip was probably a visit to the fortified medieval town of Carcassonne. A very inspirational place!

Thanks for reading, see you soon!