IronHalo.net Miniature Painting

An update! Hush, now, don't fall off your chair. Firstly, I just made a twitter account for Ironhalo for quick little text updates while I'm painting. Expect exclamation marks :). Secondly, there are three new models in the Warhammer gallery (all up for auction this week) and two new Eldar models in the 40k gallery.

Webstore, live! A large range of detailed bases in round and square, urban to rural... my personal favourites are the steampunk/clockwork range. This librarian is standing on one of the simpler 40mm bases from the Tauran Refinery range; industrial style.

A new army online - this Special Ops themed army was a collaborative project, with modelling by Under The Couch and painting by yours truly :). Full of fantastic conversions and painted in an urban theme.

An update in the Other and 40K galleries: the Ltd Edition Dark Angel Captain from the army box, and a Gundam Seed model, Yzak Joule. This is one of the little models that comes with the large Mecha kits - a friend collects and paints the Mechas, and I painted this for him in return for some IT help a while back.

A large scale model in the Other gallery - I nicknamed her "Stripperella" and I doubt the picture is work-safe. Warnings for gravity-defying breasts :-). The feature of this model is the large tattoo on her back, as she was painted for the Wellington Tattoo Museum.

I'm also told that some people are having trouble finding older images on the site - if that's the case, and it's not in the appropriate gallery, please email me so I can either find it for you or fix links.

January: A model up in the Other gallery - Alistair and his gun-totin' li'l feller, Morris.

I moved house this month, please check the address before posting me anything.

All three of my Golden Demon entries made it into the White Dwarf's GD supplement for January - the Silver placing and Bronze placing were with their categories, and the Dreadnought made it into the section of "we really liked these models but they didn't quite place" :-).

November: wow. Time flies... Firstly, I just won a couple more Golden Demons - a Silver Demon for this Bretonnian Standard Bearer, and a Bronze for the Terminator Chaplain that's been hovering in the side bar for a couple of months or more. Nice to see someone liked him :) - he's back on eBay again.

A few updates: Ejin de Vanth, a new Eldar Autarch, a Space Marine Chaplain, a Blue-Green Knight, a rather pretty Dragyri and a female Wood Elf character.

Also, I got these sweet custom dice from Chessex.

August: I have several figures that need photographing and uploading, but for now just a quick note to say that I'm no longer offering Level 1 as an option for army painting. Frankly I just prefer painting models to a higher standard than that :-). In my ideal world I'd just take Golden Demon level character commissions all the time, but armies to tend to pay the bills.

June: One new figure each for three galleries: A Terminator Chaplain in 40K, a Wood Elf Wardancer in Warhammer, and a Victoria Haley (the special edition model with visible hair...) in the Other gallery. I've also changed the layout in those galleries so that it's clearer and less... bad. Haley won't be for sale for a while, but the other two are up on eBay.

01-05-06: Technically it's only one new model, but in the 40K gallery today you'll find new pics of Helbrecht, based and better-coloured pics of the Games Day miniature I used in the lighting-tips, and last and most significantly pics of the models I enterd (or planned to enter) in the Oz Golden Demons last year; a possessed Dreadnought I didn't get done in time, a Wood Elf Spellsinger and a Celeborn that made it all the way to the finals and didn't place, and the unit of Wood Elf Gladeriders that nabbed a Gold trophy.

The first two 40K models are on eBay, the Wood Elves are with their owner in the States, the Dread... well, I'm not sure I'll sell it any time soon, at least not without some serious persuasion :-).

A step-by-step model in the Tips section, painted with in-model light-sourcing. A blue glow, to be more specific.

A new mini in the 40K gallery, Helbrecht, Black Templar special character. He placed first in a local hobby event (Conflict, in Wellington) painting competition.

I've won another Golden Demon trophy... and yet again, it's for a unit of Warhammer Wood Elves! There's a certain hilarity in that... and a sense of 'what am I going to do next year?!' Nice to know that last year wasn't a fluke though :). I don't have the models back yet, because this was a post-in competition covering Australia and New Zealand, but I have borrowed the photograph from GW's site for now - I'll be able to get photographs of them and my other two entries (non-placing, although they got to the finals).

I've been so busy painting army commissions that I have neglected the site - I've planned in some time over the Christmas break to get some work done on it, such as reorganising the galleries and changing the look of some things.

Keeping it in theme, we've got... Wood Elves! Spellsingers this time, all four variants, in the 'Newest' section. I've changed the layout slightly in the Warhammer gallery - any feedback would be great. Also fixed some of the broken images, d'oh.

Still more Warhammer Wood Elves - the Lord on foot and Drycha, a Dryad character.

Waywatchers this week - a unit of 5, a champion and the lord model. Immense fun to paint, although slow-going. Next week I'll have Drycha and the Lord with great weapon, as well as a few other interesting models like Bretonnians.

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