Born Painting Miniatures

My recent commission was this converted Space Marine Land speeder.  The twin heavy bolter and twin assault cannon are magnetized and load-out represents the Talon Master of the Dark Angels. I first removed mold lines and cleaned it up.  Work in progress:  Thanks for checking out my work! If interested in having me paint your models, message me on the Born Painting facebook page or brendan.bornpainting@gmail.com.  

Presenting my recent project: the miniatures of Warhammer Quest Blackstone Fortress!  With all the support behind this game I was very excited to paint up this demo copy for a local game store.  There are 44 models in the set and the game looks fantastic.  While being in the 40k universe it is a cooperative role playing style board game.  Check out the video from the midst of assembling the models: The models were fun and easy to build with some requiring a hard squeeze to get fully flush.  After priming and a bit of airbrushing this is what they looked like: Work in Progress Player Characters Rogue Trader Janus Draik and Ratling Twins Rein and Raus Priest Taddeus, Navigator Espern Locarno and Zealot Pious Vorne Ranger Amallyn Shadowguide, UR-025, Tracker Dahyak Grekh Rogue Psykers Traitor Guard squad 1 Traitor Guard squad 2 Spindle Drones Ur-Ghuls Chaos Lord and Space Marines Ne...

After airbrushing, repainting and reassembling the knight, I decided the base should kind of match the rest of my recent Imperial forces: the Catachans. The feet were glued to a custom resin base with a lava flow texture.  Testors putty was used under some of the "toes" to make it more stable and flat to the surface.   The next step was to add texture to the dirt areas.  A layer of sand was glued down and it was left to dry completely. Then it was ready to be base coated.  All of the surface was painted black.  Watered down Mournfang brown was added to the dirt and some grey layering added to the water area. More detail was added by dry-brushing tan and bone on the dirt and also layering blues and grey onto the water. I shaded the dirt with agrax earth shade.  The water was shaded with Drakenhof Nightshade.  While the washes were drying, I cleaned up the rim of the base with black. The next step was gluing grass flock a...

I recently took on the task of completely redoing this Imperial Knight. It came to me well painted in a very traditional blue and gold color scheme but when he broke, I figured it was time for an overhaul.  So I popped it apart and in the Simple Green it went.  The knight was previously a Knight Paladin with double battle cannon and reaper chain sword.  A Knight Gallant seems to be more of what I will use on the table top so I built up the power gauntlet.  Also to keep him cheap but swappable, I magnetized the heavy stubber on.    After a few rounds of stripping off the old paint, the knight was ready to be primed.  I started with airbrushing the entire thing in black primer.  The under detail/ mechanical bits were airbrushed with grey, silver and nuln oil.  I later did edge highlighting and brushed on more nuln oil.  For the armor, I airbrushed target raised areas with elysian green and then the same but mixed with yello...

Straight to the point You say to yourself "I worked hard today, I'm tired". You have a running list of things that you think you ought to accomplish but then put them off day after day. That was me for about the last 10 years.  But I did the math and realized the track that I was on wasn't heading where I wanted to go.  Every day closer to the end with no meaningful middle.   Start today and make something every day.  One of the most powerful tools in your toolbox for happiness is self expression - Use it

Hi all - as promised I am bringing to you my experience having attended the Michigan GT 40k team event this past weekend.  My friend Chris played Hawkshroud Warhammer 40K: Imperial Knight Warden  and I played a Catachan battalion based on the guy wearing flak armor with muscles bulging from the Warhammer 40k Astra Militarum Catachan Command Squad  . Our Team was named Krastellan Defenders. You can check out my video on Catachan combos here:   Chris and I put a bit of work into his models the night before the event by adding basing and cleaning up some edges.  I ended up fixing his airbrush and he wrote a back story for the army and printed off army lists.  I was glad to see some familiar faces at the event - Team Channel 4 News, Team Bad Decisions and others I recognized having attended Buckeye Battles.  Since I've been doing more and more airbrushing, I picked up an airbrush stand from Badger. Now on to the games!! Round 1, we...