Arrival of My Baby Girl Tyra

The past few weeks I've been busy with work, getting a new ride and most importantly, the birth of my 2nd child, baby Tyra! She weights 3440 grams at birth and is now almost a week old. Here's a photo of the little princess.

Iron Painter Season 4

The 4th season of the Iron Painter is here. This time round the turnout is incredibly huge. As of now, there are about 50 or so participants already. Sadly, I had to opt out this time as my baby girl is due next month.

If you would like to join in the madness, follow the link on the right side to Wyrd main page to find out more. The top prize is US$100 through Paypal and a US$50 Wyrd voucher so be sure to check it out!

Have U Ever Danced With the Devil...

I had always wanted to paint a wolfen under the moonlight. Varghar, a limited edition model from Rackham seems to be the perfect model with its really cool pose. However, I put it off since wolfen wasn't the race I'm gaming with and I wanted to paint it only when I feel I'm ready.

After seeing a version of this model done by a member on the Wyrd website, I was greatly inspired and decided its time I paint mine up. I also wanted mine to look a little different from the original version by giving it a weapon swap. I've been working with white undercoat but this time I decided to use black since what I have in mind would be very dark. I primed it white as usual and painted it with 3 coats of black to get a nice smooth base to work with.
From there, I sprayed white from the top to get an idea of where the moonlight will fall on the model. Some oxford blue (VMC 807), dark sea grey (VMC991) and black was mixed to create a base colour for the skintone. I tried to keep all the colours very muted by adding grey to whatever colours I used.

To add some sense of motion to the otherwise static pose, I created a water splash with Vallejo water effects and still water. At the end, I'm very happy with the final result. Now to pick a new model and find more inspiration for it. Till then, Ciao!

A Journey Thru Time

Today I sat in front of my computer and browse through the photos of my work in the past. Some of them brought back fond memories. I remember there were 3 of us in a D&D group during my secondary school days that were interested in miniature painting, Patrick, Joseph & myself.

Patrick was the most serious one and he bought the proper Citadel acrylic paints. However he had shaky hands and most of his minis end up pretty bad lol. However, he is really good at sketching and could come up with a group pic of our D&D characters in minutes. Joseph's and my skills at painting were nothing to be proud of either. Myself painted with water colours and some crappy brush. Not too long both my buddies quitted painting while I continue this rather "weird" hobby of mine.

I bought my 1st ever book on miniature painting titled Heroes for Wargames. That was the most informative book I could ever get during that time. I bought proper paints and brushes and produced a mini that I could be proud to show off when people ask me what I do as a hobby.

Unable to find anyone who share this same hobby, I painted less often, or rather took 1 whole year to finish a single model. This started to change when I went for my studies in Northampton in UK. I found a Games Workshop store and to me, it was like walking into an art gallery of miniatures in the 1st time of my entire life! The staff were friendly and I learnt alot from them. My flame for miniature painting was rekindled. That is also when I started my habit of brushlicking.


I continued to paint this way for a few years after I came back from UK. With the internet age, I came across the biggest, most informative online painting site ever "Cool Mini Or Not", commonly know as CMON. That again is like walking into another art gallery, only bigger, much much bigger. Thus began another chapter of my painting hobby.




Without much background in art, I had to start from zero, learning stuff like colour theory, shading and highlights not just by adding black & white. The rise of the French miniature company Rackham, changed the way thousands of painters like myself paint with their Non Metallic Metals (NMM). These few years, alot of talents have risen all over the world with new techniques and styles. I find myself more and more involved in this hobby. I should be painting for as long as I am able to. Till then I look forward to seeing how miniature painting will evolve in the years to come ... ...

One More for the Cabinate

The basework was done with plaster and some greenstuff for the maggots on the corpse. I chopped of the arms and lower body of the corpse on floor as how Bregan would to his victims. That was a last minute addition as I felt the floor was rather plain with just the puddle of gore. I'll try to keep this painting momentum going before I hit another low period. I hope that wouldn't come too soon as I still have loads of unpainted stuff.

Almost Done

Back from a business trip from Bangkok and found some time today to paint up the axe for Bregan. I'm rather happy with the way he is coming off so far. Next step would be to come up with a suitable base for him.

Bregan, Dark Apostate

The apostates of darkness were some my favourite sculpts from Rackham. So much so that they became some of my most satisfied paintjobs. This time I'm painting up Bregan who is the leader of the dark apostates. I first started painting him last year in September. At that time I was very much into NNM bronze and wanted that for his armour.
Somehow I didn't like how he looks so I stripped off the paint and repainted him again in January this year. This time round, I was thinking of doing something different for his tabard/skirt. I blended reds into the blue but at the end I told myself that's not the Bregan I wanted.
Its been months since I left him with the other wips on the table. Finally I had a vision of how I wanted Bregan to look. He was originally a knight with the Lions of Alahan before he turned to the dark side. Black armour with gold trims and a red tabard would be it! So begins my third and most likely my final attempt on this model.