What I am working on

Besides painting I obviously do art. Right now I am machining through the Badab character pictures. Fun stuff drawing 20 marines. How many made looking dudes can I draw? I have to take off the helmets, because it would be lame to have a bunch of helmeted guys. Fun times. But yeah, I have 1 redraw and an IG guy for the book to finish up. And some random bits and pieces, servo skull, bolter, and probably something else.

Besides that, on the painting block is to do some touch ups on the finished arbites. I want to pull up some of the blues to brighten up the figures a bit. Might add a bit of a glow to the mauls to see if it looks alright etc. Watered down Ice Blue all the way heh.

I finished putting together the converted lootas and right now I am looking at this box of nobz and the army build out list I made for the customer. Fun times indeed. I did convert a cool kombi skorcha attached to a pistol for one of the nobz. Just need to finish out the rest to make sure everything fits right and looks good. Beyond this I want to finish up a Bloodthirster model and this eagle model for a high elf army. I found a piece of wood that is perfect for the attachment, just need to clean it up and get it ready to glue down and green stuff to a base. Fun times indeed.

I have a hobby tournament this weekend, and my plan is to quit being such a pissie baby and just have fun. I've been in a bad mood as of late, due to lack of real work advancement. Hopefully I can push out of my funk and just play for fun. Lately the Fantasy side of Warhammer has been pissing me off. I think I just don't know it as well and find it frustrating. Hopefully I can pull through a fun Heavy tournament with my magic light Chaos Warriors. Blood for the blood god indeed.

Look for more orks this weekend, as well as some other random pics.

I write a lot of lists

Gonna use this as a daily painting/army thought blog that is in reference to my painting service as well as my own local tournament scene. First, as everyone should know, the BOLS crew is going to be hosting a tournament in August. Why is that important? Well it will be the week before I get hitched to an awesome lady, so the weekend will be my Bachelor weekend. So if you wanted to come down, see me inebriated and goofy, come on down and throw some dice. I will be playing as best as my addled mind can do. Amazingly enough, the time I got 5th in Baltimore was when I was insanely hung over. So I might not be that much of a push over hehe.

But enough of that, the reason I was writing this is to give an idea on how my process for work, well works. I write up lists of stuff I need to do, with options for paint and building to check off. I know I won't finish everything in a week, but for the most part I will finish most of it. But I find it interesting to write out these thoughts and see if my red pen can clear them off haha. Lucky for me, I like to batch paint and work, so normally I finish off full squads, versus one single model. Currently I have 3 rotating pay projects, 2 nonpay BOLS projects, 3 of my own projects, as well as my own army lists thoughts. So I am usually busy thinking of plastic dudes heh. I find working on 2 or 3 things really helps me come to each project fresh, as I can change gears pretty quickly and come at things much more rested. But oh well.

I am hoping the painting business picks up as people are starting to get more settled economically, and myself and the other painters have more clients under our belts. In fact, if you order something from me I can give you an extra, whether it is magnetizing weapons or just having an upgraded base, something will be upgraded for free. I find it hard to under paint or under build a model, and if I can see a way to improve something, whether it is with options or just having a cool base, I usually do it. I don't like boring models and if things look cool, I will strive to make them cool.

Also, for those that want to paint, shoot me an email at goatboybols@gmail.com. I don't have any secret painting methods and I am always willing to share with anyone. In fact a few customers just used me as the base painter, to get an idea and tried it out themselves. Website is here. Prices and examples of my own work as well as my studio mates work too.

Onto some new stuff, I finished up a batch of Arbites for a commission. I also painted more ork stuff (3 trukks, 1 BW). I didn't take pics of those, as well, I have already finished some and thought, more copies of trukks are not the most exciting to check out. Look for some converted lootas, as well as a new batch of killa kans with wrecking balls. Going to magnetize both arms, since all the other weapons are magnetized for them. Plus I need to make some big shootas to attach to their sides. Fun times indeed.

Change up to the blog a bit, still painted stuff but build ideas

As I said before, a couple other local artists and I started a painting service. You can check it out at www.fullofmonkey.com/40k. Our rates are low and I promise you will get a cool look army out of it. Each artist has a different style and we all can do cool and interesting conversions. Right now I am currently finishing up a crazy ork army as well as some arbites and high elves. Between all of that, I still want to finish out my orks as well as my fantasy Daemon army.

Current Ork Thoughts.

HQ: Warboss, Cybork, PK, Attack Squig, Kombi-Skorcha, Bosspole, Eavy Armor
HQ: Big Mek, Field, Cybork, Burna
Troops: Nobz (7) - normal build out with 3 to 4 pks, wound allocation etc w/bw transport, ram, big shoota, armor
Troops: Boyz (20), Rokkits (2), nob, pk, bosspole
Troops: Boyz (20), Rokkits (2), nob, pk, bosspole
Troops: Trukk boyz (12), Big Shoota, Nob, pk, bosspole, Trukk, ram
Troops: Trukk boyz (12), Big Shoota, Nob, pk, bosspole, Trukk, ram
Elites: Burnas (15)
Heavy: BW, Ram, big shoota (2), armor
Heavy: BW, Ram, big shoota (2), armor
Heavy: BW, Ram, big shoota (2), armor

Not sure points wise, but that is the current thought. Might have more for other stuff. I know I give up a lot of Kill points, but f it - it looks fun. Might be worth it to have a surprise nob biker unit running in the middle, or maybe some way to get two squads of Mega nobz in trukks too. All sorts of fun for sure.

Here are some of the orks I am working.

Stuff I painted for the week woot...

This is a spacewolf I drew in preparation for the new codex. ARRROOO!!!


More marine work for Stephen. His entire model is magnetized so you can customer everything. Woot.


More arbites, woot. Another squad and a big tank. Woot.


One of the 9 Killa Kans for a client. The weapon is magnetized so you can swap em out.

And again, you can visit my new painting commission site at Full of Monkey Designs. Besides myself, there are 3 other artists available to paint minis. So give us a shot if you want some bad ass painted dudes.

Hi everyone, just wanted to give a heads up

Me and a few other local painters have started up a painting service. You can get to it by going to Full of Monkey Designs. But go check it out. I am somewhat booked for this month, but I should be available for larger projects next month. Smaller stuff I am still open for.

Some stuff I've done for commission


Riot rhino for the Arbites and Andrew Bailey.


Stuff for BOLS and a review of Armorcast stuff. None of the effects were made by me. But I paints them!!

More stuff I painted

I painted a lot more this week... Woot. The next coming weeks will have a lot more ork stuff plus daemon stuff and marine things here and there. And hell some High Elves if I can grab them from the guy locally. I don't want to keep him from playing.

Some new stuff I painted