Here is a video of my Honor Guard Golden Daemon Finalist from start to finish

Enjoy! I put a lot of love into these models. I am pretty proud of myself for making the cut and being a finalist. There was a lot of stiff competition.

Baltimore Gamesday 2009!

Where to begin!!!

So Fritz and I decided to host a club table at the 2009 Baltimore Gamesday. We billed it as a all comers Q and A sort of thing where we welcomed beginners to come ask questions about painting and or tactics. We set up some painting stations and a game table. Also, readers and subscribers were welcome to come meet us and challenge us to a game. It was fantastic meeting so many of you! The best compliment I got all day was from a younger guy who came up with his parents and they all shook my hand. He thanked me for selling him the How to Paint Ultramarine video set and said how much it helped him with his army, and his parents said "This is the guy who made that video!?" Then they thanked me for helping him as well saying that I really turned the hobby around for him. That it was worth every penny and then some. Made me feel good. I got comments like that all day long so I want to thank you all for your support and saying such nice things.

So back to gamesday. I placed my entries in the Golden Daemon. My honor guard and my baal pred. The Pred failed to make first cut, buy my Honor guard was selected as a finalist and may even make White Dwarf! :) That made me pretty proud.

Also, I entered a couple of hand painted banners into the banner competition. One was the imperium banner I painted for our Apocalypse game, the other was my Blood Angels 2nd company banner. The audience shouted their votes, and I won! I made video of that so I will be posting it soon. I got a cool little trophy.

My only criticism of Gamesday? It was a GW event barely by name. They had a large area devoted to selling product, but when it came to offering interesting content, they completely dropped the ball. Almost ALL of the available content at the convention was offered by Club Tables. Even the Golden Daemon awards were glossed over at the end... I believe the worst was that they did not have ANY open gaming tables. How can GW run a Gamesday and not give players a place to play???? With no open tables, guys who came hoping to get in some games were forced to try to get in some action on some of the few tables like ours that offered a chance. I can deal with the club thing... but not setting up tables for guys to play... You dropped the ball GW. It is not that they lacked space... there was plenty of it. Was it profit??? I know it is not cheap to run a convention, but if the line at Forgeworld was any indicator, I cant imagine they failed to make profit. They could have and should have set up rows and rows of tables for people to play games on. After all, there was no tournament this year. Doh, kids coming in, I have to get to work. I will continue this in a lil while. Jawaballs

Holy Emails Batman!

Hey Guys, I just got home from Gamesday and finally had a chance to start going through some emails and almost fell over when I was greeted with over 800 comments and questions. Thank you all for you support and questions but sadly I will not get to respond to them all. I will work my way through as many as I can, but if I do not answer them, it is probably because I already answered it in a different post or in my youtube video comments. I know, that means you will have to read through hundreds of comments, but I have found myself answering some of the same questions over and over and simply cant do that when I have 800 to dig through! I have 6 gigs of content to sort through from gamesday and will be posting battle reports and videos this week, so check back often for new stuff!

For those who are curious, I made final cut with my Honor Guard but not with my Predator. I got a nice little pin and hopefully will get pictures of my squad up on the GW site or in White Dwarf!

I also won Best Banner for my Blood Angels 2nd company banner. A cool little trophy and I will post that too.

The highlight of the weekend was going to the Glen Burnie battle bunker and playing a guy there. After the game began... he announced to me "Oh, by the way, I have not lost a game in two years." I simply snickered and thought to myself that he has never played Jawaballs... That batrep soon! :)

More to come. Jawaballs!

How to Paint Space Marines: Hand Painted Angel Wings Video 2

Here is part two of the video set. I am very sorry for the blurry resolution. My cam has been a lil bitch lately. I think the rest get better from here. On this video, I start laying out the wings using Shadow Grey. Previously, I layed out the entire footprint of the wings in order for me to go on later and add details. Hope you enjoy! JB

Golden Daemon Honor Guard Update 6

Here is a quick pick of my Sanguinary priest. I decided to take an extended break from painting for a few weeks in order to refresh myself and get ready for the push for the Golden Daemon. I have a week off starting at 2pm tomorrow and will be doing a LOT of painting. Expect steady updates! JB

Honor Guard Update 5. www.jawaballsproductions.com

Ok, in this update, I am playing with an internal lightsource coming from the glow on my power fist model. I drasticly enhanced the brightness of the glowing power fist, and then used those same highlights to shine on the armor. I made some circular shapes on the helm and edged it onto the edges of the armor, and almsot covered the red of the fist with blue highlight... Did I do to much? Is it just too messy? Ive never done this before... can any one think of any white dwarf articles where an artist did something similar?

I attached the shield onto the arm of the champion, but am not sold on the arm pose. This arm is extended out shooting, rather then drawn in using the shield as a defense. In a way I kind of like this though, it is different from how you usually see combat shields on assault squads. It is almost secondary to his main intention... "screw the defenses... kill that genestealer!"

Any input? At this point, feel free to be uber critical. Any input is ok. It will help me look at the models from different angles. Thanks for all the input so far!

Honor Guard Update 4. www.jawaballsproductions.com

I am uploading 3 more pics. Here is my apoth, standard bearer and champion. The combat shield is at his feet. I am painting a unifying checker design on all 5 models, and will design a new banner for Dante with a checker on it to bring them all together. I dont know, but will probably do the lower legs of the power fist guy, or his fist itself... and on the last guy I will have to do one more part, maybe his legs and the fist on the 4th. I will post more pics of the jump pack checkers soon!

Honor Guard Update 3. www.jawaballsproductions.com

Ok, so, here are a few update pics of my honor guard. On the power fist, I am playing with adding a blue glow to the metallic areas of the armor coming from the fist. I painted up most of the Apothecary, adding some checkering to his chainsword, and doing the best I could with the white. I will be adding some varnish to it which should hopefully keep it from looking chalky. And I added the jump pack to the standard bearer. I will be doing hand painting on all the jump packs. One one side hand painted variantes of the Blood Angels icon, on the other, I'm thinking the second company winged claw holding the chalice, with the tri line red and yellow pattern behind it like on the banner. Keep checking back! I am taking LOTS of pics and videos, so when I am done I will be making a whole series of them on this project.

Honor Guard Update. www.jawaballsproductions.com

Here is an update of pics!

Need Help with Honor Guard

Hey guys, I need a hand! I am painting my new honor guard, and the standard bearer has a larg optical piece on half his face an one eye. Does any one know of an article in White Dwarf or online that discusses how to paint optics? Not just the lens, but the casing and the entire unit. I will get a pic up here when I get home, I am on my laptop now and dont have my cam here. Any thing come to mind?

As if I did'nt already have enough projects... www.jawaballsproductions.com Blood Angels Chapter Banner and Dante's Honor Guard for Golden Daemon

Well the title was a mouthful, but it is as it is. I plan on entering two items into the Golden Daemon this year for my first ever entries. Item one is a Baal Predator that I will be entering into the Vehicle category, that tank appears in another post. Something I have been toying with since I started Blood Angels was a GD quality Dante and Honor Guard. SO, I decided to go for it.

I am starting with a Vanguard Veteran squad. One figure was great for a standard bearer. He was holding a two handed power sword. SO, I drilled out the pommel of the sword from his two hands, and inserted a brass rod on which I will affix the Chapter Banner, which I started laying out the base colors for.

For the Chapter Banner, I started with a picture of the banner from google, and just started painting it onto a black banner from the Command Squad sprue, using Mechrite Red and eyeballing the proportions. I used Shadow Grey to lay down the wings base, and bestial for the scrolling. Areas of shadow I left black. I really need to work on the head, chalice and whatever he is holding in his Left Hand. Any one have some insight on what that is? It looks like a banner or something. Any way...

For the rest of the squad, I am using the beakie as the Sanguinary priest. He is holding a chain sword aloft, and his left arm is attachable, so I am using the apothecary arm from the Command Squad. I cut off the blood vials from the apothecary chest and glued them onto his belt.

I added a power fist to another of the figures, and will be adding the Champion Shoulder guard and combat shield to one of the others, giving me a squad with a Champion, Standard Bearer, Sanguinary Priest, Power Sword/Plasma Pistol and Power Fist.

I started painting one of the models. I am using a black base, with careful mechrite red on the plates. Then I am layering Red Gore, Blood Red and Blazing Orange. I will probably wash some Baal Red into it too.

I want to do a new Dante. But I am considering making a whole new one. Maybe even an injured Dante being protected by his HG. But I have no clue what to do. Any input?

So there you go. Watch as I add more to this thread in the coming months. Only two months to go!