Painting Update

I have been under the weather for a few days with out going into details I will just say its good my painting room is near my bathroom :)
I have been a busy boy though and progressed several different projects, I have tow more Pulp Fiction Spys completed plus the next Ebay figure (Wee Wullie). I have been busy painting more Masi Warriors but did not get them photographed.
Today I dashed over to Foundry and met up with Loki, I now have my wargames boards and they are fantastic, I spent an hour chatting to the Foundry boys about Blog-Con and will compose a post about that over on the Blog-Con blog tonight or tomorrow.
Anyway had a mad dash around the house this afternoon finding documents so I could act as a guarantor for my daughter's rental flat, it is all sorted now and she picks up her keys on Monday (no painting for me that day then lots of box lugging)
Anyway enough chat on to some nice completed figures.

Tour of a Commission painters office

So last night was one of those nights where Insomnia hits me (not often but has hit me before), this led to me hitting my painting table after 3 hours of looking at the bedroom ceiling. I did get some great painting completed and have 2 more figures ready for Ebay, these are two Officers that I have left over from another of my impulse buys. I have also pushed the Warlord figure up to the last bits (the easy bits) of the red strips on socks and black Tartan stripes.
As I was waiting for the varnish to dry on the officers I thought it might be fun to share my office when I am doing commission work, some of you may even pick up a tip or two.
So an over view is shown below as you can see I have my paints in easy reach and have to confess that gradually the migrate down on to the desk till I can move and have a tidy up and put them all back on their shelves.

Now any one who paints historical models will have reference library, I must admit mine is minimal as I find these days the web is a great tool for uniform guides so I tend to only invest in books for periods I game myself.

As explained above I use the web a lot for uniform reference so it would be impractical to be going up and down the stairs all the time so I have my laptop to my side on a computer table that holds my to do pile. I also use this to keep an eye on blogger.

You will find some times the customer will send his own reference's or you find reference material in the figure packs, I find it great to stick these to my bookcase so I can glance at them whenever I need to. To the right I have a list of my current commissions with notes of any special instructions and time scale I am working to, I have not added a picture of this as it has the customer details on it.

The last bit to show is where I store all my non paint tools and supplies this holds my glue gun, air brush, base's basing materials and any other kit I may use.

Enough of the inner working of my office on to what I can produce when I have the time, below are the pictures of the two officers the Warlord figure and some African Warriors.

one of the officers was a poor cast right across the face which I could only fix by taking the end of his nose off, he looks fine as a table top figure but so the bidders will know about it I have a close up of piggy man.

On the way to Ebay

I have very quickly found that the best way to make money on Ebay is with single figures, for my units I will stick to Colonel Bill and my blog. So I have been digging out any single models I have this time I am working on the special model Warlord gave with the Last Argument of Kings book and a couple of Napolionic British officers.

I am also working on some commissions, this time some African Warriors just the shields to finish on these two.