Easy marble columns for 28mm

I have been looking for a easy method to paint marble effect as it is pretty cool material in terrain.
Additionally, I have been stacking up on vitamin tubes until I would find such an method. The day has now come, and I think I found good, fast method to produce marble in tabletop quality.

The actual column is a vitamin container, similar seem to exist in every country.
On the plus side, you get shitloads of vitamins while collecting these.

Obviously, the work begins with basecoat, white in this case.
I also constructed a stick that holds the container while I paint it further, and allows me to rotate it on the spot.

The magic is in masking airbrush with unevenly torn paper, the colour I use is beasty brown from army painter. Other colours could be colder blue-greys and such.

Just place the paper close to the surface, and spray carefully, varyind the nozzle distance and pressure to make the patterns more organic.
I did not vary paper distance as I wanted the edge of the pattern to be clear and hard.

Obviously splitting seams are done by starting another seam.

After I did all these (about an hour), I went through them with the same colour and did few touches here and there without the mask to liven them up a bit.
Then I used Vallejo's sepia shade heavily dilluted to wash them and tie the effect together, it took the edge and harshness away from the pattern.
Lastly, gloss spray to make it more marble like.

DnD Ranger and spell effects

Here’s my lvl 2 Wood elf ranger and his first 2 spells, Hunter’s Mark and Hail of Thorns.

GW Laketown houses painted.

So, here's the rest of the houses, and hairspray weathering for the wooden parts.

GW Laketown Houses

For sometime now, I've been coveting for GW's Laketown Houses for no particular reason but that they are very beautiful, and looked like well suited for modding.

Guildball Navigators Guild

Here are some pictures of my now painted Navigators Guild.

Aylum inhabitants, female 1

I found out that I had forgotten to paint all of my Statuesque miniatures' lunatics. I still had 3 women that required attention.
After painting this, and again realizing how fantastic these are, I thought I really should order more. As the heads are swappable, I could squeeze in few more unique miniatures still.

Guildball Farmers Guild all painted up

After a very long pause in any miniature gaming, I got interested in Guild ball due to escalation league arranged in our gaming club.

First test figures of 3mm celts

 I have for some reason always wanted to try smaller scale miniatures.
To accomodate this, I went with 3mm celts from Magister Militum.
The ultimate plan is to make a travel ready wargame set to play Hail Caesar, DBM or KoW. For that I need some romans too.

Lunatic asylum to the battle!

I bought few miniatures to Pulp Alley (or other games) from statuesque miniatures.
First to get paint were inhabitants of a lunatic asylum and a Indian gentleman.

 I have a doctor, nurse and 3 male patients. I still have 3 female patients to paint.

 Very nice and stylized sculpts.

 The expressions are funny :)

 Slightly more sinister look.

 Nurse is probably not very innocent herself. The floor tiles were made with egg cutting tool (yes..).

Confused?

Making a Christmas decoration

 I Decided to use my powers of sculpting to good as it is Christmas, and made a decoration / present.
The two heads in the background are fridge magnets, but I don't think I have time to paint them before Christmas as I have to go to a work trip :(

Happy late halloween

Our Dungeons & Dragons gang is meeting up again after a break, so we might need few miniatures.

Reinforcements to Chaos

With the publishing of "Traitor's Hate" -supplement for Chaos Space Marines it became painfully clear that GW hates me. No new toys, no new relics, copied Loyalist psychic powers and few lousy formations.
So, to field something new, I need to turn to Forgeworld and Chaos Rapier battery!

Spectator, the little brother of a beholder.

 So, there might be a chance for our DnD adventurers to cross paths with a fierce Spectator in the future.
That left me with an option to try to find one online and order it, or sculpt one.
I chose the latter.

Witch's apprentice

 The apprentice is ready, and yea, I really need to fix those pupils..

Witch / Shaman for Frostgrave

I realized, that I have a warband for Frostgrave pretty much ready excluding the leader.
So, I took and painted my witch.
The base is WIP, but I wanted to take the pictures already.
EDIT: Aaargh, I forgot to paint the things on his shoulders...

Gnoblars as goblins

 I have been looking to buy goblins for DnD, and have been a little disappointed to what is out there until I stumbled on GW gnoblars.
These little buggers are very cool, and with minimal effort convertable.

Guillotine and chests.

For the weekend, I have been painting mostly fun stuff.

Two more to walk the desolated streets of Frostgrave

 With slow determination, I have coloured yet another two frostgrave soldiers.
This was my first attempt of OSL too.

 Archer with selfmade arrow and bowstring.

 The OSL is okish, I need a lot more practise to get it to pop, but it doesn't warrant a paint removal.

 I got tired and painted the lantern guy's trousers and boots black just to get it done :)

So a paladin and a tank stepped into a orc camp..

 I started painting the Frostgrave soldiers, and managed to finish the orc camp.

Next up Gnoll. And a tip about antishine.

 Next monster painted is a Gnoll from Reaper.