Building a Better Typhus: Part 1

Hey everyone, a quick post today in what I hope will be a small ongoing series (if I remember to take pictures at all of the steps). I have always loved the Typhus model and artwork, my only problem was that the model was not nearly as awesome as the above picture. While a terrific sculpt its lacks all of the dynamism that the art captures. The lumbering behemoth tearing through your troop's lines.

Abra Kadabra!

Hello everyone, I know it was a long time in between posts and all of a sudden I have 2 within a day of each other! Unfortunately that's just how life rolls the D6 sometimes. I am going to try and be more consistent with at least one post a week in the future.

Wargames Illustrated

Hey everyone, just a friendly reminder that the November issue of Wargames Illustrated is now out and features an extensive step by step painting guide for the Maximus miniature seen on here a few months ago. The article is 4 pages long and covers each and every color, even the base!

Painting Exercises

Hello everyone, today I have an article on how to keep your painting skills sharp. As someone who paints commissions from time to time this is even more important for me, since I have to paint models, colors and patterns that I don't normally work with very much on my own.

Miniature Painting Masters: Chris Borer

Welcome to The Miniature Painting Masters Series where we sit down with some of our hobby's most prolific and well known painters. We kick off the series with multiple Golden Demon winner and extremely talented (and extremely humble) hobbyist, Chris Borer.

Necron Tomb Stalker

Just a quick update today. I finally finished construction and conversion on the Necron Tomb Stalker and its now ready for paint. I've been working on and off on this guy for awhile now, and let me tell you, this model is super fiddly to put together...so many legs.

Its a commission and the client wanted it to be phasing through a wall and attacking a Guardsman. Converting the guardsman was the most fun part of this and I went through several ideas before I settled on the final pose for him. I am pretty happy with how he turned out.

The hardest part of the conversion was getting all the legs to fit on the base with that wall in the way. I still may need to take out a few chunks of the wall to get the Stalker to sit as flush as I want.

Until next time,

Tyler M.

For Sigmar!

Or whatever god is appropriate!

Just finished this guy as part of a commission. He is for a game of D & D and will have a wizard joining him shortly. I am trying to play catch up on some commissions while also getting started on some more Plaguebearers so I can get the painting guide for them done. This guy was fairly quick and easy as far as commissions go, now I just have one more single model and the grand daddy of commissions that has been on a slow burn for awhile now; a heavily converted Necron Tomb Stalker.

And in other exciting news there will be a step by step painting guide for my Maximus figure in the November issue of Wargames Illustrated! 

I am told it will be out around the last week of October, so be sure to pick up a copy. I cover every color with high resolution pictures for each step.

Until next time,

Tyler M.