Jus' Cawling

AdMech

There is no real quick rundown on how to paint AdMech.They just take a long time. I have been using contrast paint in the harder to reach areas, as the thinner paint is often more accurate, and often runs into tight corners through capillary action. Yay Physics 🙂 baseball diamond clay for base + crushed …

Ultramarines

Ultramarines.Here is a quick rundown of my paint process for Ultramarines.This has been a good process allowing me to paint over 30 mini’s in a short-ish amunt of time undercoat black (airbrush) basecoat Mcragge blue (airbrush) ambient light pass Calgar blue (light coat from above) (airbrush) 50/50 nuln oil /water wash black armpits/knees/crotch/gun/backpack body mcragge/calgar/fenrisian …

Tervigon

Tyranid Paint Scheme

This post is intended more as a reminder for myself on how I did the tyranids.This is a cheap, fast easy paint scheme that I think looks really good. undercoat white carroburg crimson wash over skin tyrant skull drybrush over skin white drybrush over skin naggaroth nightshade over carapace VERY light drybrush skink blue over …

Tau mountain

Mountains

The hardest part of creating lifelike mountains is just starting.Seriously, grab some polystyrene, glue it in layers to desired height, then hack away with a hot wire cutter.Cast some rock outcroppings (woodland scenics) Next difficult part is making the plaster rocks fit. Easy – just snap pieces off with a set of pliers and carry …

Creature Updates

Major updates to this guy. I was having issues with the displacement around the eyes and the mouth. There were problem tiny polygons in these areas that were going crazy on certain morphs. The real problem was finding which morph caused them, as I have about 8 maps there that are animating ina and out …

Face Study in 3d

Old Project Reboot

So after looking over the work I did for the 2009 Don Quixote CGTALK myths and legends competition, I decided to update the zBrush sculpt for DonQ himself. I’d like to have time to be able to develop this further, The Steampunk penny farthing was a whole lot of fun to model, and is 80% …

Whispering Deff

What do you do when your 6 year old son decides he wants an “unholy offspring of lightning and death itself” birthday cake ? You say to yourself “bah! cooking! how hard can it be?” First off do a search on youTube for “modelling chocolate”. I had no idea modelling chocolate even existed. Michaels sells it. …

Old Work

Thought I would share a couple screenshots of old WIP projects I worked on. As you may have guessed its very much a Work in Progress. It all started out as a joint venture for a CGTALK competition that I worked for months on with a  guy that pleaded for weeks for me to help …