Grimsby Painter

NEW YEAR NEW POST

2012-01-08T14:16:00.000Z

CAN'T BELIEVE HOW LONG IT'S BEEN SINCE MY LAST POST NEARLY 3 MONTHS. WELL THE PAINTING DIED DOWN A BIT AS I GOT A BIT DISSILUSIONED WITH WHAT I WAS PAINTING AND ALL I COULD SEE WAS A MASSIVE MOUND OF METAL THAT
A) DIDN'T KNOW WHY I BOUGHT
B) NOT SURE WHAT TO DO WITH

SO THE ANSWER IS THIS I'M GOING TO PAINT IT ALL UP OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS POSSIBLY YEAR AND SELL IT ALL ON EBAY.

SO DOES THIS MEAN THE END TO JOE AND MINIATURE PAINTING?

NO JUST MEANS I'M GOING TO TRY AND CONCENTRATE ON 2 OR 3 DIFFERENT GAME SYSTEMS ( HE SAYS WITH AS MUCH CONFIDENCE AS A POLITICIAN)

SO WATCH THIS SPACE.

long time no update

2011-10-09T09:33:00.000+01:00

just realised i haven't blogged for over 2 months. the reason for this is that i wasn't sure what or if i was going to paint or game anymore. I tried to get back into warhammer then realised that i don't like space marines and orks or the prices for that matter so that got knocked on the head. Then i thought historical and realised that i can't actually face painting any historical figures any more either so what was i to do. After a while looking through all my websites and rules i remembered a book i got called 7tv and i was inspired its based on all those amazing cult tv shows of the 60's and 70's and you can let your imagination run wild so enough of the chat here's what i've been painting so far.

PAINTING FOR JULY

2011-07-31T21:25:00.000+01:00

PAINTIN FOR JUNE

2011-06-29T21:02:00.000+01:00

JUDGE DREDD FROM MONGOOSE PUBLISHING

2011-06-02T22:56:00.000+01:00

PAINTING FOR MAY

2011-05-27T10:44:00.000+01:00

NEW PAINTING AND IMPORTANT NEWS

2011-04-25T10:57:00.000+01:00

IT IS WITH MUCH SADNESS THAT I MUST ANNOUNCE THAT AS FROM TODAY JOES PAINTING SERVICE IS NO LONGER RUNNING. THIS HAS NOT BEEN AN EASY OR QUICK DECISION TO MAKE AND HAS TOOK A FEW MONTHS TO COME TO THIS FINAL DECISION. I WILL STILL BE PUTTING PICTURES OF PAINTED FIGURES UP ON THIS SITE BUT THESE WILL BE MY FIGURES AND NOT FOR SALE OR COMMISSION PIECES.

ALL THE BEST

jOE

PAINTING FOR MARCH

2011-04-01T21:11:00.000+01:00

MIRI AND SAMANDA FROM ANTENOCITI

2011-02-27T19:41:00.000Z

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/sci-fi/sci-fi-figures/g-o-t-figures.html

PANDORA KING FROM CROOKED DICE

2011-02-27T19:15:00.000Z

http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/

HAVANA GRAY FROM STATUESQUE MINIATURES

2011-02-27T18:30:00.000Z

Just finished the Havana Gray figure from statuesque miniatures sculpted and owned by andrew c.Rae, possibly one of the best sculptors.http://www.statuesqueminiatures.co.uk/

HERESY MINIATURES SCI FI TROOPER 11TH DOC AND AMY AND GUESTS

2011-02-21T14:24:00.000Z

BLACK SCORPION ORC PIRATES AND GOBLINS

2011-02-19T17:32:00.000Z

HERESY MINIATURES SCI FI TROOPER

2011-02-15T19:40:00.000Z

BLACK SCORPION ORC PIRATE CAPTAIN

2011-02-13T16:36:00.000Z

THE 4TH DOCTOR AND PARADIGM DALEK

2011-02-07T20:49:00.006Z

FIRST FIGURES OF FEBRUARY

2011-02-06T17:45:00.006Z

BLOOD ANGELS AND CHAOS

2011-01-25T21:28:00.005Z

FIGURES FINISHED 17/01/11

2011-01-17T18:36:00.003Z

FINISHED FIGURES FOR 09 JAN 2011

2011-01-09T17:47:00.003Z

Well i'm slowly getting back up to speed again painting up a lot of figures for ebay due to the lack of commission work. So trying to paint a bit of everything to get more work going. I've even painted some 70mm scale star wars chess pieces so i'll have them all done at some point.

FIRST FIGURES OF 2011

2011-01-02T21:24:00.005Z

Well finally 2010 finished and i have to say i think it was one of my worst years ever, i'm not going to go into any detail but anyone who's followed mw meanderings over the past year or so will know what's happened.

So new year new start at some point this year i am going to:-

1) get back into wargaming as i didn't play a single game last year.

2) actually have some figures that are mine and painted as i still have a grand total of 0 figures painted that are mine.

3) get to more shows and enjoy this amazing wonderful hobby that i love and has helped keep me sane over the past 20 odd years (although i think my amazing wife might disagree with some of the above points especially the sanity)

that's all for now folks

LAST POST OF 2010

2010-12-29T21:36:00.005Z

FIRST ATTEMPT AT SCULPTING

2010-12-12T18:43:00.003Z

Today i had my first attempt at sculpting. I thought I'd start with a simple design so i went for an old classic windy miller from trumpton. i used sculpey modelling clay which is very simillar to fimo. the reason i used this is because you bake it hard which takes about 15 minutes in the oven so you can sculpt a bit bake and then sculpt some more. i'm very pleased with the result and hope to do some more soon.

NOVEMBERS PAINTING

2010-12-01T19:30:00.006Z

PAINTING THE FREEBOOTER MINIATURE OF BONACCIA

2010-10-23T02:45:00.009+01:00

I first painted the base with a denheb stone and then gave it a wash of badab black let that dry and a further wash of devlan brown. The highlights on the black were achieved by firstly adding a dark grey to the black and holding the figure under my lamp to see where the light was reflecting, i then added small quantities of a light grey to the mix and painted smaller and finer highlights, to finish it of i gave it a thin wash of badab black to smooth all the highlights out.

The next step was to paint the leather gloves and boots and the ruff, i started by painting scorched earth on the leather this gave a nice dark shade then using the same method as i did with the black i added desert yellow to the mix this gave me a nice highlight without looking chalky or too severe. the ruff was far easier this was just picked out in points with a very light grey and small dots of white on the very edges.

i then worked on the bodice of the figure this was achieved by using a light green brown colour mixed gradually with a very light cream a thin wash of ogryn flesh was used with a couple of final highlights.

the next stage was the face i did this by first putting on a thin coat of elf flash when this was dry i gave the face a wash of ogryn flesh i didn't wait for it to dry fully as i wanted a blended tone to the flesh to make it look more feminine. i then added some dark flesh to the elf flesh to get the right shade for the mouth. the mask was very simple i began with a coat of bolt gun metal and a small drop of black i then worked this up by adding mithril silver to the mix.

The final stage was the hair i always leave the top of the figure till last as no matter how careful i am i always seem to rub the paint of so it's just as easy to paint it last the hair was painted with scorched brown and a light flesh tone mixed in on very small highlights and then given a devlan mud wash.

The finished figure almost all that remains is a couple of coats of varnish i use a humbrol gloss spray varnish first followed by 2 coats of matt spray varnish.

well i hope this has been of some use to you guys if it has let me know and if you have any tips yourself you can share them here

all the best

Joe

MALIFAUX MINIATURES

2010-10-19T20:52:00.003+01:00

Hi everyone just finished my first couple of malifaux miniatures, really enjoyed painting these guys or gals so to speak the first one is called colette du bois and the second is called onryu so i hope you like them

thanks for looking

all the best

Joe

OCTOBERS PAINTING SO FAR

2010-10-17T17:46:00.007+01:00

Hi Everyone thought i'd give a quick update on figures painted so far this month. You may notice there's still not the amount of figures painted that you may be used to seeing, this is still due to the feeling of loss that i'm dealing with after the loss of my Mum earlier this year. Unfortunately the effect of concentrating on painting is a 2 edged sword as all painters out there can understand it does let you relax and focus on something else other than the day to day problems that we all suffer from however it also makes you look deep within your own thoughts about things that have come and gone and things that were said and not said. This is the problem that i am dealing with at the minute so once again apologise for the lack of new work but i hope you enjoy what i have done this month.

thanks and all the best

Joe

steampunk adventuress 2

2010-09-25T21:30:00.002+01:00

just thought i'd add some better piccies of this amazing figure from dark sword

STEAMPUNK ADVENTURESS

2010-09-24T11:50:00.004+01:00

Hi everyone just finished my first steampunk figure. The figures called Jen Haley and its based on the painter and clothes designer. The figure itself is from dark sword miniatures in america and even though it was nearly £10 for delivery it arrived in just over a week from ordering and i received a complimentary free figure with it.

latest work

2010-09-17T11:04:00.002+01:00

hi everyone here's some of my latest work also if you would like to visit my ebay page i'm starting to sell of a lot of my wargaming items so have a look just type in grimsby-painter

The 10th doctor

2010-09-05T19:14:00.002+01:00

More finished figures

2010-09-05T18:14:00.004+01:00

here's some more piccies of some finished figures so i hope you like them

Heresy miniatures chris ecclescake

2010-09-05T12:33:00.002+01:00

just finished my first heresy none dr who figure should have the others done in a couple of days

foundry germans

2010-08-14T17:39:00.003+01:00

well its been a busy week i've finished 2 big commission jobs and got another 2 figures done for myself the first ones a german downed pilot from foundry and the seconds a german sentry also from foundry

british paras and buf sargeant

2010-08-08T22:54:00.005+01:00

just finished some bolt action/warlord games british paras and a musketeer miniatures buf sargeant both sculpted by paul hicks the paras are part of a commission piece and the buf is for me (he says with fingers crossed that he holds on to them and not sells them)

Highlander officer

2010-08-06T08:31:00.003+01:00

here's the first pic of my early ww1 highlanders. after trying numerous colour schemes i finally found one that i'm happy with so i should be getting the rest done quite soon. the figure is sculpted by the very talented paul hicks and available from musketeer miniatures which will soon be ordered from gripping beast

finally updated

2010-08-02T13:17:00.017+01:00

well its been a while since i last posted about 6 weeks, things are still a bit up in the air regards sorting things out about my late mums estate unfortunately this has a knock on affect regarding my painting and keeping to schedules. i am now on summer holiday so everything will be back up to date in the next few weeks

first up we have a few vehiles from warlord games these were formally bolt action miniatures very nice vehicles and nice to paint as well.

perry miniatures napoleonic british royal artillery

empress miniatures rorkes drift hollywood version personalities

black tree designs roger delgado's the master

perry miniatures ecw scots officer

ironclad automatons and naval gun crew

apologies

2010-06-13T08:12:00.011+01:00

Well all i can say to start of is sorry for the lack of posts and also being behind on some peoples commissions. The past few months have been very hard going for me on a personal level, as you may recall my mother passed away a few months ago and i thought i was dealing with things quite well, i guess i was wrong so as you can imagine doing most things with any sort of enthusiasm is tricky enough but to lose some enthusiasm for painting well thats a whole lot worse. I have tried to keep up with things over the past couple of months but some days i haven't even wanted to look at my figures or even pick up a paintbrush in fear that my moods may reflect on the standard of my work so once again i can only apologise to everyone for the lack of work and updates lately.

Perry miniatures awi range painted as Donop

Empress miniatures zulu special pack Michael Caine to follow

Heresy miniatures security guard

Hasslefree miniatures ashlee

Ironclad miniatures Grubs

Warlord games bolt action screaming eagles

Renegade miniatures british naps 24 figures for £12 really good value apart from the 4 weeks wait for delivery

Warlord games bolt action red devils

Perry miniatures french naps

Perry miniatures awi hesse grenadiers

Wargames foundry street violence

Musketeer minatures vbcw brigand

Ironclad miniatures steam tank

Wargames foundry home guard

hasbro hand full of heroes available from asdas 30mm heroic scale hard plastic and lovely to paint

Not sure of the manufacturer

Black tree design british from the zulu wars range

Wargames foundry awi continental army command

Wargames foundry Darkest africa

Wargames foundry street violence

Wargames foundry wild west

TRIPLES IRONCLAD WORMS AND MUSKETEER HIGHLANDER

2010-04-18T20:04:00.004+01:00

well what can i say about triples, well the first thing i can say is i really liked the new venue more spaced out better lighting ability to breath and lack of claustrophobia ease of access via tram or car altogether a brilliant experience. if your wondering about the worms i've painted these for john from ironclad miniatures who i have to say was a very pleasent man to chat to and very helpful and had some beautiful figures and tanks there will be some more pics soon. i also got a bucket load of vbcw figures from bill at musketeer miniatures so i had to paint one in the macleod tartan hopefully i will have about 40 of them done in the same way soon.

UP TO DATE AND TRIPLES

2010-04-11T06:28:00.014+01:00

Hi everyone think i'm finally up to date now and back on track with my work i didn't realise how long it had been since i posted any finished work.

i'll be adding some more pics in a few days these should be some perry french napoleonic imperial guard perry awi hesse and some copplestone kkbb and anything else i manage to get finished.

i'll be at triples next saturday trying to drum up business with some manufacturers fingers crossed.

all the best

joe

last thursdays game

2010-03-23T13:39:00.008Z

First of all i'd like to thank everyone for all their kind words and messages, they really are very much appreciated.

i'm just about back up to speed with my painting work and i'll have some pictures up soon.

i've started going back to my wargames club on thursday now and we've been playing a lotow varian that nick parker has come up with called zombies underground.

the board we used is the ww1 trench board

the british paras were mine the zombies and slitheens were nicks

and the colonial marines belonged to rich errington

the last member of our motley crew was karl sykes

rich won the game as always with 23 point me and karl finished on 19 points each unfortunately i believe nearly all karls guys were blown up by a miss aimed grenade

ho hum.

update

2010-03-07T08:39:00.001Z

Hi everyone first i would like to apologise to those customers that are waiting for their figures i am slowly trying to contact you all personally. You may all notice the lack of any new pictures over the past few weeks this was due to my mother passing away a couple of weeks ago. I am now trying to catch up with outstanding commissions and i hope you will all bare with me i hope to have some new pictures by the end of next week
thanks again for your patience
all the best
joe

total for january 251

2010-02-02T21:53:00.015Z

well it's been a long time since my last post. lots of things have been going on some good some really bad but wallowing's not getting any figures painted.
so i decided to do something good this month, as well as painting for myself(ha like i ever keep anything i paint)
for the month of february everything i list on ebay i will donate 10% of the total to the help for heroes charity because lets face it if it wasn't for these guys through the years we wouldnt be painting figures in their honour so let's give them something back.

FIRST FINISHED FIGURES OF THE YEAR 80

2010-01-03T20:34:00.005Z

well first proper post of the new year i think i got carried away over the past couple of days went a bit mad with the paintbrush you may notice the new perry miniatures wotr figures i managed to do a box in a day and also a couple of little conversions on the musketeer miniatures buf figures what will next week bring STAY TUNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FINAL TOTAL FOR 2009 2308

2010-01-01T09:38:00.008Z

well that's another year over and the painting count is back to zero i just want to say thanks to everyone who's bought figures from me over the past year this has been the thing thats kept me painting so i look forward to seeing you all agin in this new decade my target for this year is 3000 figures not sure if i'll do it but i can only try

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

DECEMBER PAINTING YEAR TOTAL SO FAR 2222

2009-12-12T09:29:00.003Z

NOVEMBERS PAINTING

2009-12-10T18:16:00.010Z

PAINTING FOR NOVEMBER SO FAR 131 YEAR TOTAL 2054

2009-11-07T08:31:00.014Z

Well this months certainly started of very busy with a nice mix of old and new the napoleonic spanish are actually perry miniatures dutch that were nicely converted by Jeremy whose figures they are the germans are a mix of artizan and bolt action with a couple of black tree design mixed in and the 1960's style agents were from copplestons kkbb range the very nice movement tray that the agents are on is from fenris games on ebay
all the best

joe

TOTAL FOR OCTOBER 320 TOTAL SO FAR 1923

2009-10-28T08:02:00.017Z

septembers painting

2009-09-12T08:46:00.005+01:00

total so far 42 quite a mixed bunch up to now for this month i seem to have gone from ww2 to agincourt to the far future well they say variety and all that

total for august 320

2009-08-31T07:15:00.011+01:00

wow total for august 320 that brings the total for the year so far to 1'661 cor blimey

painting for august so far

2009-08-13T07:36:00.008+01:00

total for august so far 136 and i have 1 figures painted for me its the begian carabinier and i'm just painting some black watch as well so i should have some pics of them soon

all the best

joe

total for this year so far

2009-08-02T07:50:00.003+01:00

well i just totalled up how many figures i've painted this year and i got a bit of a shock as it came to 1241 didn't realise i'd painted so many the one downside of this is that non of them are mine.
the total amount of figures that i have painted for me is 0 a big zero at that so i think for the next few months i will try and paint and keep some figures for me. the first thing i would like to paint for myself is an anglo dutch napoleonic army so i will keep you all updated on this.

all the best

joe

PAINTING FOR JULY TOTAL 207

2009-08-01T07:19:00.013+01:00