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Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Lord of the Rings Single Miniature - Los Angeles 2008
My goal with this miniature was to get the look of the European painters. I achieved this (at least I think I did :) by using a pallet that was de-saturated and concentrated on contrast and light. I was thrilled to find out after I won the LA Slayer Sword that this mini was the runner up for the sword. This is a really nice sculpt, one of the best from the range. " };
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Golden Demon - Warhammer Single Miniature - Los Angeles 2008
I had a lot of fun with this mini, especially the base with the snotling, which is supposed to be his pet. I was also happy with the way the shield turned out. The judging for this mini at Games Day was intense. Many judges had to be brought in as there was a stale mate between my entry and Thierry Husser's amazing entry. In the end I got a silver because one link of the chainmail had a flaw. Just a reminder to have others review you work before you enter." };
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2008 Los Angeles Slayer Sword Winner. Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Warhammer 40K Single - Los Angeles 2008. 2008 Slayer Sword Challenge runner up.
This is one of my favorite miniatures I have done! The miniature was created for the second Slayer Sword Challenge. A competition the put all the USA Slayer Sword winners from 2007 against each other. We received a Chaos Lord box set and a descriptive paragraph to follow. I want to thank Australian Painter Sebastian Archer who coached me on the painting of Festus. Be sure to check out a write I did in the tips section!" };
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Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Warhammer Fantasy Single - Atlanta 2007. 2007 Slayer Sword Challenge Winner. This is one of my favorite miniatures I have done! The miniature was created for the first Slayer Sword Challenge. A competition the put all the USA Slayer Sword winners from 2006 against each other. We received a Orc Warboss box set and a descriptive paragraph to follow. I didn't have time to do all the things I wanted to do to the mini before the SSC deadline, so I added the banner and other items before I entered it in the Golden Demon. I did a lot of conversions on this mini including the base that is almost 100% scratch built. I spent close to 200 hours on the mini." };
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2007 Atlanta Slayer Sword Winner
Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Warhammer Large Model - Atlanta 2007
I want to thank Jakob Rune Nielsen who coached me on the painting of Trogdor. This miniature was both challenging and fun. I like the conversion work I did on the jaw. I used a Dremin to remove everything from below Trogdor's nose. I got the teeth from a bit on the Orc Chariot and sculpted the rest. I borrowed a lot of bitz from other models as well. The idea for this mini is that he has acquired all kinds of gear from his many rampages. His favorite target being the Empire." };
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Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Lord of the Rings Single Miniature - Atlanta 2007
I really liked this mini and was happy with the way it came out. The free hand pattern on the bottom of the dress was borrowed from the priest in the movie Corpse Bride. I used layers of shaved cork to make the base. This is one of the few miniature that I painted with NMM." };
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2006 Baltimore Slayer Sword Winner - Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Warhammer Regiment or Large Model - Baltimore 2006.
This was the fourth Beastman that I painted for the warband. At this point I started to notice that the minis are getting better. The Beastman from this point forward are the best in the warband. I really like the pose of this mini and the way the base came together. This was the other rider from the Beastman chariot kit." };
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2006 Baltimore Slayer Sword Winner - Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Warhammer Regiment or Large Model - Baltimore 2006.
I really liked this mini and was so happy with the result I decided to paint more. I had not planned initially that this mini would be part of a warband. I then started looking for the best minis in the Beastman range to paint. Having not even gotten an honorable mention at my first Games Day I was shocked to have one the Slayer Sword!." };
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2006 Baltimore Slayer Sword Winner - Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Warhammer Regiment or Large Model - Baltimore 2006.
This was the final Beastman that I painted for the warband. I saved this one for last as I knew it would be the most challenging with the large freehand on the banner. I spent just over 100 hours on this mini alone. This was the first mini I had painted that my wife commented that I might actually win something at Games Day this year. LOL!." };
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2006 Baltimore Slayer Sword Winner - Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Warhammer Regiment or Large Model - Baltimore 2006.
This was the third Beastman that I painted for the warband. Notice how the skull dangling from the axe is pulling in towards the mini. The metal chain is attracted to the magnet in the display base." };
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2006 Baltimore Slayer Sword Winner - Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Warhammer Regiment or Large Model - Baltimore 2006.
This was the second Beastman that I painted for the warband. Originally he was a rider on the Beastman Chariot, but a couple of simple conversion later he was part of my warband. I started doing the freehand on the bases here. Some people have told me that it distracts from the mini, but I think when they are all presented together it is a nice effect." };
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2006 Baltimore Slayer Sword Winner - Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Warhammer Regiment or Large Model - Baltimore 2006.
This was the fifth Beastman that I painted for the warband. He was originally the personality Morghur, Master of Skulls. I spent a lot of time divorcing him from the tree. I really like how this mini turned out. The idea with all the faces with the axe blades is that it represents the transition from man to beast. Notice how one side of all the blades are human and the other Beast." };
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Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Open Competition - Baltimore 2006.
I was really impressed with these minis when the Ogre Kingdom's Army was released. I really enjoyed the tiny conversions that I did and also making the display base." };
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Silver Winning - Golden Demon - Warhammer Fantasy Single - Baltimore 2006.
I painted this mini back in the summer of 2005. This was the first mini I painted that I complained about how long it took to paint (24hrs). Now I can easily spend that on one of my bases! This was not a planned entry for the demons, but something I had already painted and entered for the fun of it. I was very surprised that I got Silver!" };
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Gold Winning - Golden Demon - Open Competition - Atlanta 2007.
I painted this little guy back in the summer of 2004. This was not a planned entry for the demons, but something I had already painted and entered for the fun of it. I was shocked when the mini got gold!" };
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I really love this guy. I sort of liked the sculpt, but when I got the idea to do tentacles on the bottom of the cloak and the eyes on the back, it seemed like a relatively easy conversion that made sense with the in-game fluff so I went with it. I had a test dummy that I painted about 50 times, but aside from getting some of the basic color choices down I couldn't nail it. For one thing I was trying to do a weathered metallic look with real metallic paint and it looked good, but not competition good. I must have painted that damn mask at least 20 times and was literally close to throwing him across the room. The sword was another problem. I wanted it to look like the tentacles but also had to be metallic looking. The suckers on the bottom were my attempt at that. The rivets on the head and the round steel ball on his belt all came out nice, but it's hard to see in these pics." };
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var oData = {name: "dsde", desc:"Dark Sword Dark Elf Warrior", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
These Dark Sword pieces are great. The detail is amazing through the whole line and they tend to be well proportioned and realistic looking. The molds are almost always well done and cleanup isn't painful. That's a good thing because with detail like this a mold line could kill you! I practiced the eyes on several other pieces before attempting these and they came out pretty well, with a nice lighter color near the bottom and pupils looking in approximately the same direction, haha. Painted after GenCon '08 in pretty standard Dark Elf colors, it won 1st place in single figure in GenCon '09 and Dark Sword 'best in show'. That netted me a nice bit of product from Dark Sword and I was able to fill in all the holes in my collection. " };
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This was a labor of love- got the idea to do a techmarine conversion in 2007 and picked up some bitz and got to work. The conversion took forever, but I finished it over the weekend in lovely Ipswich, England while on a 2 week business trip. I was congratulating myself on taking a weekend and finishing it up on Sunday night when I realized that the French GD had been that weekend. I could have just hopped across the channel and seen it. Oh well- my stupid. Anyway, I got some great advice on the painting from a few folks, Todd Swanson, Seb Archer and Mike Stubbs, but as these things go I ran out of time and didn't get to implement a lot of their good suggestions. So I entered him in Baltimore 2008 and received an honorable mention. It was a fair judgment of the piece, it still needed a lot of work so I got back to it and completely repainted the red armor, most of the steel and gold NMM and almost all the scratches and weathering was re-worked. I also added more plants to the base and popped it onto one of my own turned wooden bases. It's a bit busy but had used it more as a learning piece so there's lots of activity going on there. Future ones will be a little simpler. I took it up to Toronto this year and won gold in the toughest 40k category I've seen. I consider myself very lucky. It also won a gold in the masters category at the Long Island Historical Miniatures Show in 2009." };
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Celeborn of Lothlorien, on one of my first turned wooden bases. I went for a padded look on the back, with buttons in between. You can't tell from these shots but each of those dots has a little highlight dot as well. I tried several patterns on the shoulder pads but couldn't come up with anything I really liked and didn't draw too much attention away from the other parts so it stayed plain. Silver in LoTR, Baltimore GD." };
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This is the first time I've entered a straight up unconverted piece. I liked the way it looked in the blister and new I wasn't going to have time to do any major conversions so I tried adding extra details like the gauge on the back of the gun, the freehand eagle on the back, and the faded checks on the claw. It was a very tough category but I was lucky enough to get a bronze in 40k single. I like the base on this one, it was done the last day but I was going for a dusty, destroyed building with a French Foreign Legion type of feel and I think it worked out ok. The wooden base is one I made myself. I wanted something with hard edges for a slightly more futuristic feel without painting is black." };
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A very popular sculpt. It's simplicity opens up the door for your imagination. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to do the freehand pattern on her back like I wanted to, but she still managed a silver at Baltimore '08." };
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A lot of conversion in this one. Part Witch, part Lelith Hesperax, part Morathi and lots of brown stuff. I dont' know why but painting this was a real pain. The eyes though, I got on the first shot and are probably the best I've done considering how small they are. Gold in the Warhammer single fig category at Baltimore 2007." };
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A really enjoyable mini to paint, despite the smaller scale and the fact that the GW LoTR casts are getting worse. The freehand vine pattern on the cloak is hard to see, but I wanted it understated, so it came out about how I wanted it. Placed Silver in the LoTR single category at Baltimore 2007." };
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For me, this is Rackham at their peak. Characterful and masterfully sculpted, wonderful to paint. Didn't really do it for anything, entered it at GenCon for the hell of it, because I thought the mercenary officer was better. Well, this one got 4th place and the mercenary officer didn't place, so good thing I entered it." };
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My first and so far only piece done entirely with Rackham paints. I'll have a review of them up soon, along with some paint chips. I loved this sculpt from the moment I saw it. Great face, great weapon, and the mail is the best I've ever seen, no exaggeration. I don't know how they did it but it sets a new standard in ring mail." };
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Done a year ago for my friend Katie. Also done entirely with Rackham paints, and I've gone back to Vallejo and GW since. This piece was only available in the painting kit, as it's a 1 piece sculpt, there's another version with a larger bow that is separate." };
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This was my entry for the GenCon painting contest this year. I wanted to try something really ambitious, so I filed down all the detail from a Drune Lanyfh and resculpted most everything. Then I covered the whole thing in freehand. The stripes, mask design, checks and diamonds were all freehand. You can't see it, but the base has a cutout for the grating, and a lowered section into the base. My sculpting is still not super, but I was proud of the pulls on the fabric from the turning of the torso." };
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I tried to get some different (for me) weathering effects on the armor. I used some uneven spots of color and highlights. It worked the best on the left leg plate, which you can't see very well in these pictures. It was painted for Rackham in the US, so maybe you'll be able to see it at a show somewhere." };
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This was my demon entry for Baltimore '06. It was a fun project for me and I got to try a lot of new techniques. The gun is pretty much scratch built, the backpack is a major modification, the left arm was heavily modified and other bits were added and sculpted here and there. The base shows a flower growing in the one spot of light allowed through by a break in the metal plate above, and a charred and burned hand on the base is grasping a second flower that was just picked. Hope you like it!" };
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My GD entry for Baltimore '06. The first time I've painted the same miniature twice- I did the original a few years back so you can see how (and if) I've progressed. I tried for an nice bright gold and to get the somewhat full face of the film actor." };
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A prime example of miniature dichotomy. The weapon, boots and general pose are so cool, but some parts, like the face, let this sculpt down. Still, the good outweighs the bad and I like the overall look quite a bit." };
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var oData = {name: "grim", desc:"Grimaldus", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
The second space marine I've done after last years demon entry. Done as a commission, so I stuck with the traditional color scheme and base size. Interesting exercise in that there were a lot of areas that were just black on the official version, so I had to find a way to break it up a bit yet still keep it cohesive." };
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A new miniature put out by Revelation Miniatures. I have a review of it in the tips section with more info. This piece feels different, due to the fine quality of the detail and it's reasonable proportion. It's just as tall as any other companies miniatures, but doesn't feel like it. Good stuff." };
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var oData = {name: "Sessair_Archer", desc:"Sessair Archer", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
What a great blister, all three of these guys are great. The arrows may be a bit large, but everything else is nice. Very enjoyable to paint as well." };
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var oData = {name: "Dayak", desc:"Dayak of a Hundred Lives", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
This is the first Rackham orc I've done, and since it was for them I stayed pretty close to their official color scheme. It forced me to learn a couple of new techniques for weathering and adding visual interest to a large flat area and in the end I think it turned out pretty nice." };
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A big brute of a fig, but a pleasure to paint. Probably the largest figure I've ever painted. Another one done for Rackham so I stuck with the studio colors." };
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This was originally Virae, Queen of the Fiannas, but I wanted to do something special with her. So I filed off most of the detail and resculpted the leg armor on both legs, the chest and back armor, the shoulder plates and top of her arms (which are from sin assyris) and her entire head other than the topknot- plus the vials on her back blades. Painting her was a lot of fun, I feel like I made some nice strides with my NMM. She was lucky enough to place 3rd in a very tough single figure category at GenCon 2005." };
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var oData = {name: "Witchelf", desc:"Dark Elf Witch Elf Hag", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
I was fishing through my collection trying to decide what I was going to do for Gamesday and fell in love with this sculpt. The legs, clothing, everything is in good proportion and detail. The haughty look on the face is perfect. The only thing I didn't like was the sword in her right hand so I created a weapon for her out the Lilith Hesperax trident, some plastice crossbow pieces, brass rod, and other variou bits laying around. It got a Silver Demon at the Batimore GD 2005." };
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Gandalf the Grey, in his best scultped pose I think, though I do like the other one GW has with the big hat. There have been some really nice jobs on this fig out there, so I wanted to try and make it a little different from them while staying true to the movie. It won a Gold Demon in LoTR single, Baltimore 2005." };
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var oData = {name: "Brother_Zarepheth", desc:"Brother Zarepheth, Space Marine Champion", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
This was my Gold Demon winning entry at Baltimore 2005 in the 40k Single category. Both 2nd and 3rd places were sword winners from last year so it was a very tough category! It was my first experiment with the GW plastics, and they were a pleasure to work with. Lots of people have made comments about the torso twist, saying that it would be impossible to turn that way. I actually posed myself and had my wife take a picture so I could get it right, but as was pointed out on bolter and chainsword by a couple of people, what I didn't do well (at all really) was model the turning correctly. Had I done that it would have been much more believable." };
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var oData = {name: "Joan", desc:"Joan of Aquitaine", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
This was my Silver Demon winner in the fantasy single category from the Canadian Golden Demons in 2004. This was my first real conversion work, I redid the neck, right arm, some of the shields and decorations and of course the head was from another miniature from the Mordheim range. I sculpted the hair and a few other details too. When my ceiling collapsed the miniature was broken badly and I had to resculpt the nose, arm, hair, and part of the horse. I do love the idea behind this piece though, it's one of my favorites." };
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This was my Gold demon winner from the Toronto Golden Demons in 2004. This mini is tiny, but well sculpted and the details are nice. I think it's so popular because it's simplicity makes it great." };
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var oData = {name: "Galhyan", desc:"Galhyan, Cynwall Heliaste", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
This is the only one of the Cynwall that I really like, and I liked it immediately. Done as a commission for a friend, I tried for a watery/jewelled effect on the halo, and a darker, more majestic theme for the rest of the fig. I did side with Rackham on the colors for the masks, they were painted in bright pastels to provide contrast." };
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var oData = {name: "Velrys", desc:"Velrys, Prince of the Impure", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
This is one of the first figs I did after GenCon last year. Another fabulous Rackham sculpt with plenty of character and unidentifiable bits. Stuck pretty much to the stock scheme on this one as I couldn't see anything wrong with it.." };
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var oData = {name: "Phidias", desc:"Phidias de Basarac", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
This is the special limited edition fig I picked up at GenCon 2004. Tried to come up with a slightly different color scheme, I tried for a richer fabric look on the red." };
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var oData = {name: "Royal_Guard", desc:"Royal Guard of Allahan", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
Part of one of the best boxed sets in existence, and absolutely maddening to paint. All that filligree has to be a deterrent to anyone playing the Lions. But boy are the sculpts great. The blue armor scheme is something different, and the whole fig is basically just the three primary colors." };
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var oData = {name: "Steam_Warrior", desc:"Steam Warrior", age:"", company:"zach", pictures:oPics, salelink:"", about:"Painted by Zach Lanier
Another post Gen-Con piece from 2003. I learned a lot from painting this, and it marked a big jump for me in a number of ways. Still one of my favorites, though as I get better I see plenty of stuff that could be improved." };
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The first place winner in the single figure category at GenCon 2003. One of my first Confrontation figures, and a lot of fun to paint." };
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