Two Golden Demons this weekend (Germany and Italy)

This weekend, two Golden Demon contests will be held at the same time in what it seems to me a total careless datepick decision from GW internationally. Some painters like to travel abroad to these events and placing both events the same day, considering that there are only 5 Golden Demons in Europe in a year, seems a bit foolish. There won't be any more Golden Demons in Europe until GD France which will presumably be held on April, as usual.

Anyway, we have two spanish groups travelling abroad this weekend.

Italy: the south mark! Arsies (Javier Gonzalez), Iguazzu (Alex Varela) and company
Germany: Fenix (Borja Garcia) and our friends from Valladolid

Good luck to all of you guys! We want to see pictures soon!

WIP: High Elves Sea Guard part 1

This is one of the projects I am working on. Due to the release of Warhammer: Island of Blood and the new range of high elves, I've decided to build a little army of these little flower eaters, around the hero that is the elf prince of Tribute to the Fallen. First step will be a unit of sea guard from Island of Blood which I present you right now:



I don't really like the seadragon relief on the shields.


That's why I will get rid of them with the use of my dremmel. I will also erase the reliefs on the banner, though I'm not sure if I will be using this one or building one of my own.



Now I fill the holes on the shields with some milliput and sand them after they are dry to smooth the surface.


I also don't like how big the armour scales are. I believe they could have modelled an additional row of scales between every two of them. So, that's what I'll do next.



Also, I'll be sculpting some reliefs of my own on the shields. I would prefer to use the plain shields for some complete freehand work, but as this will be an entire unit, reliefs will make work faster. I just modelled one and then made a little green stuff press mould to repeat the relief in the rest of the shields. Now they will have a symbol to relate them to my Tribute to the Fallen prince!




Now that everything is finished, I will wash the pieces with some water and soap, to get rid of possible mould grease and putty dust. See them dry on my bath towel!



Stay tuned!

WIP: High Elves Sea Guard part 2

Games Day UK 2010 News

Apart from the Golden Demon contest which is what I'm really interested in, yesterday at GD UK 2010 there was a lot of new stuff unveiled from what GW will be releasing soon. I think this time there are a lot of remarkable new miniatures and I wanted to mention them in my blog. If you haven't heard yet, take a look at this link where you will find pictures of all the new things GW has prepared for us:

Bell of Lost Souls post on GD UK 2010

In my opinion, the most interesting of all the releases is the creation of Warhammer Forge, some sort of new Forgeworld range but focused only on Warhammer Fantasy. This is something I wanted to see a long time ago, and I hope to see at least the same amazing stuff for Fantasy as the one seen for 40k in Forgeworld. Maybe Chaos Dwarfs isn't the best of beginnings for the new range but it's certainly good news for Old School lovers. And I have to say, I really like the new Dark Eldar range!

Golden Demon UK 2010 First News

Incoming sms from David Rodríguez aka Karaikal:

David Rodríguez (Karaikal):
Gold in Single Fantasy
Bronze in Single 40k

Cristian Sánchez (Kai):
Gold in Single 40k

Considering these were the 3 entries from our Spanish representation, I have to say quite impressive! Congratulations my friends!

Slayersword went to Matt Parkes. Can't wait to see pictures!