What was meant to be a work day, is now a CONVERSION and POSTS DAY!

Today I was suppose to work, rain has a way of changing that! I decided to take a break from painting since I'm not working, and do an entirely new post about four new conversions I plan to start today beginning with Danielles CHAOS TERMINATOR LORD for her army, a CHAOS TERMINATOR "Bezerker" with Lightning claws, a chaos sorcerer in power Armour (that I've drawn multiple different concept art for) that can act for both my NURGLE army and Danielles Legion of Chaos army, and finally for my NURGLE Army I will begin my custom TYPHUS the plageous, warlord of the Zombie horde.


Stay tuned ill be creating, taking pictures, editing and posting all through-out the day!!!

Also We at chimera minitures will be posting PART 1 of the How to paint "ZOMBIE NURGLE STANDARD BEARER" tomorrow AFTERNOON!

Any questions, comments, concerns, or Conversion/Painting inquiries email:

chimera-miniatures@hotmail.com

Thank-You

Tyler Read

PAINTING TUTORIAL on how to paint "NURGLE ZOMBIE STANDARD BEARER" intro:

Welcome to CHIMERA MINIATURES first Painting tutorial on how to paint a "NURGLE ZOMBIE STANDARD BEARER". In this tutorial ill be painting a custom miniature, but the techniques we cover will allow you to apply any of these methods to whichever miniatures YOU are painting!

First off you will need: 

• Fine liner and Round paintbrushes, all fine grade.
• Paints: most specifically  "CHIMERA MINIATURES Toxic Rot Green", citrus green, Green neon, Yellow neon, Citadel paints etc. I WILL LIST PAINTS AS WE USE THEM
• Table light, magnify glass (or light magnifier it helps!) 
• Paint trays and wax paper for mixing paint.
• Papertowels to wipe your brushes and clean your station, and a bowl of water.
• and depending on your style: a Magnifier mount to mount your miniatures to.

MAKE SURE: your painting on a mat or newspaper of some kind as to not wreck your area, I use a cutting mat at my painting station, this all depends on your preferences.

AND SO IT BEGINS...

Any questions, comments, concerns, or Conversion/Painting inquiries email:

chimera-miniatures@hotmail.com

Thank-You

Tyler Read

Whats NEW at CHIMERA STUDIOS!

We at CHIMERA MINIATURES would like to make Three big announcements:

1. CHIMERA MINIATURES will be doing a series of painting Tutorials related to all things NURGLISH! As I paint my standard bearer ill be doing photo tutorials on everything from painting puss and rot, to rusted  vile armour, how to paint zombie faces, painting eyes of chaos, just overall review of everything it'll take to make your CHAOS WARRIORS rotten enough to be called PLAGUE MARINES

2. CHIMERA MINIATURES will be releasing a new Website by the end of June, which will be a purchasing/commissions website, it will feature hobby products (such as CHIMERAS' specialty line of paints), Pro painted miniatures, Already built Customs, Painting services for your miniatures, specialty commissions, as well as my Paintings for sale and Comic books

3. CHIMERA MINIATURES will be opening up our new store/studio in August! stay very much tuned for details on that one!!

Now...
Before I venture into What will be my first Painting tutorial, which is a more of "How to Paint NURGLE STANDARD BEARERS" Im going to first just do a quick post about Chimeras' Friday/Saturday purchases; Danielle and I both went to J&B Books Friday evening, we finally bought some new green stuff, a massive tube set. We aslo bought two new Army Painter Wargamer: insane detail brushes, Tons of Citadel layers and base paints, mostly colours for the NURGLE ZOMBIE ARMY, different grasses and shrubs (to add to my case) She of coarse grabbed the latest issue of The Walking Dead, and directed my attention to a re release of the very first issue, I couldn't help myself! Lastly I bought Danielle purple dice, and the Chaos Terminator lord pack, which i was very impressed by !

Saturday was much more brief grocery shopping, then Followed buy a purchase of two fine liner brushes, then to another store where I bought paint containers(two sets of four) and three tubes of paint, this is where it gets interesting: NEON PAINT

yes I said it, NEON. Its going to be a beautiful thing an entire army of TOXIC Nurgle face rotting skin eatin' vile flesh bags spewing rot EVERYWHERE, I can just picture it now EVERYWHERE!!!

out of the neon colours I purchased I was able to do some mixing, adding other greens and such and was able to add to CHIMERA MINIATURES new line of paints: this one is "Toxic Rot Green"

Container of Toxic Rot Green without labels or CHIMERAS' logo

Sorta reminds me of OOZE from TMNT2

Oh P.S.: J&B books, if you dont know it, is a local hobbyshop/comic book shop located in Trenton Ontario its one of the few locations that I venture for all my hobby needs! they can be found online here at: http://jandbbooks.com/

COME BACK NEXT TIME FOR MY NEW ONGOING TUTORIAL SERIES : How to paint "ZOMBIE NURGLE STANDARD BEARER" "Cronius the Bearer of Plagues"

Any questions comments or concerns or Conversion/Painting inquiries email:

chimera-miniatures@hotmail.com

Thank-You

Tyler Read

Priming, The Chimera METHOD ~ also NURGLE ZOMBIE PRIMED and awaiting paint job!

Its roughly seven in the morning, Way to early for a post but its gonna happen! Can't sleep so I decided to Prime my Nurgle ZOMBIE Chaos Standard Bearer as well as a squad of my girlfriend Danielle's Sisters of Battle.



I decided while I was Priming, now would be a good time to give a quick tutorial on my Priming method



First off why is priming necessary: You will want to choose a good base coat primer that will stick to your Finecast miniature so that when you begin your painting process it has a good solid material to adhere to. If you choose to paint unprimed models they will likely have paint flakes and chips, and its layers will look rough and poorly textured causing the model to look porely painted. A primed model allows paint to smoothly adhere to its coating, and allows for Shadowing/shading affects in the painting process!

CAUTION: Always remember to spray in a well ventilated space, to wear eye protection, respiratory protection and to always abide by handling methods on hazardous chemicals

PRIMING

1. First remove all Mold Lines, Glue Spots, excess Green Stuff or any unwanted remaining bits from the model you chose to prime
2. wipe gently with emery clothe to remove all oils (mostly for vehicles)
3. mount to Pin Drill or Puttied Spray Cap
     
4. Hold 8 inches from spray can and then do a gentle left to right hand horizontal motion with the spray can across the model,
5. Repeat process rotating the model to reveal each side (as well as above and partially below) until the model is 100% covered in primer touch up excess spots as needed.

Nurgle Zombie Standard Bearer

awaiting his future paint scheme!

I find I always like to prime in black very rarely do I paint with light paint tones so I dont prime in white. I use a Tremclad Primer or Krylon Dual Paint + Primer its best to let the mini dry over night before painting, however I find they tend to dry within minutes of application!

This method is best for quick priming individual models, for priming larger quantities of models such a full squads or armies I prefer to mount them all to a board, with puddy and spray each side rotating all models at once and re spraying.

Any questions comments or concerns or Conversion/Painting or inquiries email:

chimera-miniatures@hotmail.com

Thank-You

Tyler Read

The LISTS

Final post of the day: throughout the week I'm going to post some of the custom figures Ive created  over the last few months!

Spacemarines list:

• Orion, grand master of Orion's fists
• Champion of ultramar
• Ultramarine or Dark Angels Chaplain
• 6 man Grey Knight squad (With Castellane Crowe)

Space Wolf Terminators:

• Caller of the wolf
• Anvil rockfist the IInd
• Braga BLADE the Bearded Bear
• WULVEN LORD
• WOLF GUARD
• customized ASSAULT on BLACK REACH TERM'-turned into Wolf Flamer

Ill be posting all of Dark Vengeance: Dark Angels as well as the forces of chaos.

I also have a few new painted miniatures to post such as WARBOSS SKINWALKER.
I'll be continuing to build and paint my Nurgle Zombie army over the next few months and will do a step by step painting guide for the Nurgle Standard Bearer starting tomorrow after I prime him this evening

Stay tuned...

NURGLE STANDARD BEARER complete!

Last night I sculpted the the rotten vile standard, for the Nurgle Zombie. After I finished with the standard I went over the bearer and finished green stuffing his joints and other unfinished areas!

Now that Ive completed the Standard Bearer I've moved on to illustrating more concept art for the rest of my ZOMBIE-NURGLE army, however my building process has been put on hold util i get to J&B books this weekend to buy more GREENSTUFF.

Concept art for Nurgle Standard Bearers' Standard!

Heres a quick post of the final Concept  art for FIRST SQUAD's Damned Nurgle Standard Bearers' standard. Instead of the regular chaos star I felt it more accurate to represent the army with a more Nurglish approach...

This was the final design choice I decided to sculpt last evening...

Finished sculpted photos in the next post...