Pre-Heresy and Romans.. oh My!!!

Well I have been rather busy since Games Day. I have started on Studio Mcveys Isable and trust me have found his work to be truely a challenge(but fun). She is not even ten percent into completion but hopefully when she is done I will have picked up a few new things for my painting.

Onto the Title of this weeks blog. First off I would like to start with a quick WIP shot of my Warlord Games Roman army. Now this is just one model I am photographing but I love the models all the same so I grabbed one at random. Now this is not even 50% done, but it is a fast paint either or. I am basing the colors around the Brutii Family for this cohort and will do two cohorts of 18 models each to a legion. Now I only use the veteran models as they have the ture feel of a roman army on campaign for me, and thats what I am shooting for. With that Igive you the glimpse of the model in question C&C welcome no matter good or bad.


Now for those of you who don't know I am a HUGE emporers children fan, and with the Horus Heresy novels out I had to have an army of Pre-Heresy Marines. Now in late of 2009 I contracted friend and model master Dave taylor to build me this wonderful army and believe me he certainly deliverd. Though not cheap the army was well worth it and I will most certainly cherish it for years to come. Now I am slowly painting these as I am in no hurry and am having fun. A few minutes here and a few there equal a squad over a week or two. Now be mindfull these are table top but they most certainly took some time to paint and I am rather pleased with the turnout. Anyways onto the pics.




Well thats all for now and with that I wish you all Happy paintings.

P.S: All commissions are now finished and I am open to recieving New ones as of tonight. Email with your intrests at alexanderakers at yahoo dot come.

Pro Painted vs Seriously?

Ok so I figured I would talk about something that has been on my mind lately. As usual I have been looking through forums and ebay and all sorts of places at minis as well, that's my hobby! I have come to the point were I really begin to wonder what the hell people are thinking when they post a "Pro Painted" model and charge an arm and a leg for it.

Now to many a true "pro" is a painting master or someone who has won demons, and other painting trophies of note, but for some reason people who have no actual talent claim to be pro's. Now I know a dictionary discribes professional as someone who makes a living off something, and yes their may be some "professional"painters out there that are actually good, but many don't seem to know a brush from a stick, and charge more when they obviously have no actual control in their paiting. I for one do not sugar coat things for people especially on forums. If I think your painting sucks I will tell you why and make suggestions on possible ways to improve. Now to my inspirations I am no where near their calibar, but I hope one day to be. Anyways I leave you with these pics as some of you have requested them. Some are of my Ogres that won me a my first demon some are the phoenix guard that dave taylor built for me. Keep painting people and let me know what you think of what I have posted as I love you critiques good or bad!

A pic of my favorite one of the lot. I threw out the display at games day as I thought it sucked :).

Group shot!

Side shot of the favorite!

I took a better pic of the Sorcerer as asked.

One day the primarch will join his retinue... not sure when. Missing is the banner carrier as he is not finished. These are of coarse table top quality.

Finally a single shot of fulgrims Elite.

Well that's it for this post people, thanks for checking out the blog and I promise next week to have some cool pieces up for you. I just finished building(and fixing) isable from Mcvey studios!

Games Day Baltimore '10 and a bronze win!

Well I want to start off saying sorry for the lack of posts as well I have been utterly busy painting for games day, and all the hard work paid off. With my first demon EVER!!!! I took bronze in the warhammer fantasy reg't category with my Iron Gut Ogres. Now I love ogres no real idea why but I had a ton of fun doing these models. For those of you wanting to see them here is a link to the stuff of legends site.
http://www.sodemons.com/gd210us/06-whregiment/index.htm

I will get some pics this week of my guys with the demon, but as we know.. my pics suck. Until then I wish you all a found adu and grats to all of the other participants in demon and my gamming mates from "The Knights of the Basement", and fellow Darkwald members for being there. They really made this year the best games day I have ever been too and I am rather excited now for next years.

Finally a real Update!!!

Alrighty well it has been a crazy few weeks to say the least. Lost the job, my car decided to die on me.. and tons of other stuff but thats ok because when it rains it poors, but after the rain is a beautifull day. Now with all of that said I have been extremely busy as of late. I have been working on a south african boer war commission(pics later this week) as well as my fantasy army and 40k pre-heresy army (built by davetaylor. To say the least add in my romans have arrived from warlord, and I have a brigade(over 200) of seven years war hannoverians to do soon so busy bench... But without further adu here are some pics. Please remember I suck at photography but I hope to improve so any tips welcome on it.


First off is my space marine pre-heresy librarian. Now I run my pre-emp children as slaanesh chaos space marines(as any devot follower would) so he is actually a sorcerer( killed vulkan he'stan without even batting an eyelash).


Now this fella was a blast to paint. He is of course my Slaanesh lord on steed for my WHFB army. I did not like the eyes or the fins but overall it was fun and he is much better in person then on camera.


Now these guys aren't adeptus custodes(someday I hope though), they are fulgrims finest and personal body... thats right the pheonix gaurds themselves take to the field for me. I run them as chosen. Still very WIP but hey why not.


Finally I leave you all with pics of my re-organized my paint desk and cleared out my old paints that had dried out(over 50), as well as since some people were emailing me and a few wondered what I look like heres a pic of yours truely in front of a mobile satellite terminal I work with. So with that I say to you all keep painting, and a fast shout out to Chris Borer who just launched his own personal website http://www.fullborerminiatures.com/ . Let me say his work is amazing and for those of you who don't know who he is CRAWL OUT OF THE ROCK YOU ARE UNDER!!!

Greetings

Greetings one and all I am dropping this post so you all know I am alive and kicking. This past week since getting back from annual trainging has bee a tough one. Due to budget cuts in the Gov't I have been laid off. As such I was not willing to rish starting my own company at this time as I needed to make sure that money went to keeping my family afloat for the next few months. So with that said I am now accepting even MORE commissions. Here are my baseline prices people their is no negoitiation on these so please don't attempt to stiff me.

regular 25/28mm model $10.00(2 coats of paint)$15.00(3 layers very smooth) and show quality ranges from $20.00-$300(depending on what you are looking for).
Horse models add $2.50 to each price.

Vehicles for 28mm and such start at $20.00(plus $5.00 if I have to build it) $40.00(some freehand in use), and anywhere from $60.00-$300.00.

15mm is $2.50 flat rate for troops cavalry what have you with $10.00 per vehicle.

I also charge $1.50 per base if you want me to base your models. REpeat customers get discounts(since well they are repeats). If you are interested or know anyone who is please email me at alexanderakers at yahoo dot com.

Soon I will return!!

Well my time here at annual training is nearing a close, and I for one am extremely excited as that means a lot of things will be happening soon for me. In July myself and my business partner Lenny C. will be founding our own gaming company called Battle Road Hobbies. It will be started with the launch of our own product line of American Revolutionary 28mm figs. We are "EXTREMELY" excited for this to say the very least and it will be followed in upcomming months with a full fledge store of 20-25% off on everything(MSRP) year round. Thats right you the client will get some killer deals on your favorite hobby supplies. Now this isn't the only thing I have got going on ,as I stated, in July it will be a very busy month. I also have 13 time Multi Demon winner Mathieu Fontaine(arkansath on my bloogroll) comming down to teach a intense two day workshop of golden demon style painting. Now we only have 9 spots remaining so strike while the iron is hot on these people($110.00 a ticket).

What is included is the warhammer Ogre you will be working on as well as 3 YES 3 catered meals, and 3 top end brushes per person. That my friends is a lot of loot as well as 22 hours over two days with one of the best painters of our time. I for one am utterly excited, and btw if you want Mathieu to come to your area to give a class email him (all the info is on his blog) as he is more then happy. Well I am off to tend to my physical soldiers as their is a lot of post work to be done and being their SGT. is a never ending duty. Until next week people.

Off for three weeks!

Well I am off for the next three weeks having a lovely paid working vacation for the National Gaurd here in mass. If you can't tell sarcastict is the word of the day it would seem. What to expect when I get back is pics of several progects going on. Yes I do have an announcement after almost 15 years I will be quiting 40k for most likely good as I focus on my historicals and my warhammer fantasy more. I will be auctioning off most of my 40k stuff on ebay when I get back and rolling all of that money into my gamming webstore that will be opening later this year for all of your purchasing needs. That said I will be posting links but their will be a few mega armies and pieces you all won't want to miss out on. So with that I bid you all happy painting and a found adu. See you in 3 weeks.