Painting Service

Den of Imagination offers a variety of services including single display miniature pieces as well as an army painting service.

Blood Angels

GIGANTIC BLOOD ANGELS ARMY WITH EPIC FREEHANDS!

Hierophant showcase!

From our painting service - our level 6 (Legendary) Bio Titan! Paulina did wonderful job...

THE TEMPLE

Now this is something special fresh and new. Fist your eye on The Walking Temple.

RED GLOW NECRONS

Make it glow. oh yeah take a look at this eye candy.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Khorne Week #2 Hellbrute

     Hail Khorne! How is everyone doing this bloody week? Today I present to you a brutal pound of daemonic flesh locked in a metallic shell with used to be a blood angels dreadnought but now is a servant to Khorne's will.  OK, now let's talk about the model itself. I really wanted to show that the poor bastard who is locked inside is tormented by the extreme temperatures. That's why I painted the melta gun in a bright yellowish tone to represent the heat. I have to say that the Hellbrute is my personal favorite model from the Dark Vengeance set, the amount of details that go into this beast is just ridiculous.







Bring more Blood!
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Khorne Week #1


     Hey Guys. This week is going to be all bloody and red. Khorne has taken over the Den so you will be getting only gore and lava red updates.

     The main plan is to have a photo gallery for every day. I will sum up the whole week with the finished "Chaos Legion" aka Khorne Force project gallery and eBay auction. Hopefully I will manage to do a preview video of the whole scenic base in different angles. Maybe I'm going to add some tutorials but blood bones lava and red armor are topics that are quite widely covered through the inter-web so if you have any suggestions let me know.I'll try to do a step by step freehand tutorial on some Khorne iconography I think that it would be appropriate. In addition to that I'll post some wip pics of stuff that isn't finished yet for the diorama. I'm talking about the Daemon Prince of Khorne here.

    Hope this week will be a Bloody Blast. I Leave you with some DoW Quotes montage to get you in the Khorne Mode!



"Blood for the Blood God!
Skulls for the Skull Throne!",
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Friday, November 30, 2012

Chaos lays waste to the lands of men

     The display base is finished. The base that is placed on the "lava" area is just a filing in for the Daemon Prince. Now it reminds me of a jin-jang symbol but soon it's going to get some nice colors  It was quite fun building this terrain. I used a lot of crackling paint to make chaos waste land  theme. When chaos is advancing, the volcanoes on the planet erupt shifting the landscape, causing disorientation to the defending troops. I just can't wait to peal the tape of the sides. It's going to be awesome. Literally days form finishing.

     Can you tell from the photo how many 25mm round bases are there on the picture ? 



     The decision hasn't been made yet but it looks like the Ultra Marines will suffer again from the hands of Khorne's Warriors. To change their victims of chaos vote on this pole.



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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Brutal as Hell

    Just an update on the "Chaos Legion" project. Soon to be finished, soon to appear on eBay. 





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Sunday, November 25, 2012

How to paint Khorne Space Marines

     Specially for all you Khorne fans I had put up a tutorial on how I paint up chaos space marines.  In this process I used an airbrush to create the first highlights and finished off with a lot of wash work. I started by preparing the mini priming it with Chaos Black.

I. When I had my mini ready and primed I airbrushed it with Vallejo Air Dark Brown color. When the coat was dried I covered it with Vallejo Air Light Red but only from the front and the top of the model. I tried to leave the deepest areas brown. I finished with  Vallejo Air Orange color sprayed only from the top finishing my pre-shading process.


On this picture you can see that all the bottom surfaces were left in a dark brown color.

II. After the pre-shading was done I started to paint all the gold elements using Vallejo Game Color Gold. At this stage I also painted all the black parts like chain mail using GW Abaddon Black.


III. To give some depth to the gold I washed it with GW Shade Reikland Fleshshade. I did apply the wash all over the gold parts and I infringed towards the armor plates.

IV. At this point I needed to let's say escape the orange tone and bring back the Khornish redness  So I glazed all of the central areas of all red armor plates with GW Glaze Bloodletter. That made for a really smooth transitions. Unlike washes, glazes don't tend to leave borders of concentrated pigment when they dry off so they are excellent for this kind of job.

V. With my armor highlighted I needed to separate parts from one another. for that purpose I used GW Shade Nuln Oil. I washed every recesses that connected the armor with the gold elements and also parts of armor connecting one another.

VI. At this step the model was coming to live. All it needed now was to do some lining on the gold parts. I did it with GW Chainmail  After that  I started painting up all the details and did some more glazing to saturate the red color a bit more.

VII. Glazes and washes even after drying can leave a certain glow to them so it's important to apply a coat or two of Matt Varnish to the models. On this picture the coat hasn't fully dried yet but it's looking quite nice.
Examples of using this method: http://www.denofimagination.com.pl/2012/11/gift-for-khorn.html




    I have to say that I'm in love with glazes and you should note an important thing about them that you can mix them together to get different colored glazes for your minis. I think that this method, when comparing the time spent on painting the models to the results is really good .

     Hope you enjoyed this tutorial, if you have any questions regarding miniature painting don't hesitate to contact me. I will answer your questions to the best of my possibility.  Also if you want to show support you can like my Facebook page and keep track of new wip pics and articles.

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Friday, November 23, 2012

Thoughts from the Depth #3

    Hello Ladies and Gents! Sorry that there's no cool post for today but I was preparing that red power armor tutorial that some of you requested and in the middle of it my two, not one but, two sets of batteries went dead on me and my possibility to make this tutorial got delayed. I'll do it on the weekend probably so expect it Monday.

   I thought that this will be a good opportunity to list few projects that I have in plans for the near future. Here it goes. First of all, the mentioned painting tutorial followed by coconut roots basing tutorial. After that how to paint desert sand bases. I have to add "Painting etherals" on my list for sure because of past requests and I mean like ancient past. There should appear a position to the conversion tab. I do that a lot so a tutorial for it would be awesome.

   Speaking about tutorials, did you see me do anything that you found interesting and want me to do a tut on it? If you have any requests don't be shy and just post it down in the comment section below.

    Also I did some work on my Vampire on Nightmare project and I have to say that I'm still struggling between themes. I'm lining more towards cold blue colors and a Winter-themed base but Red Duke comes to mind . I mean who doesn't love Vampire in Dark Red armors. Any suggestions?




Have a nice weekend and feed your Imagination,
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Gift for Khorne

     No, no one is going to kill anyone. I have painted few Chaos Space Marines from my Khorne project. I must say that the red is coming quite nice now. I think that a tutorial will be in order, yes? I'm really pleased with the shading I managed to achieve with the airbrush before painting any details. Washes just took that a level higher and now they are really vibrant. On this project I'm trying out methods that don't require layering almost at all. I'm mainly using washes and glazes. Still need to add few details to those guys but they already rock anyway.




     I leave you with a sneak peak of my personal project- a Vampire Count Vampire Lord. Many of you probably know that VC is my favorite army. Unfortunately I haven't done any models from it for a very long time so when I found this one in my bits I just couldn't help myself.


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What do you want to do?

A must see vid!



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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Liebster Blog Award

     Another member is doing the blogger rounds - the Liebster Blog Awards. The rules are pretty simple - if you have received one of these awards, you put a post up with a link back to the blogger who gave you the award, then award it to 5 other blogs that you think deserve it.



TamsionP from Wargaming Girl gave me This Liebster Award so if I understand correctly I should pass this down to next five bloggers that I like or think they deserve it. So here it goes.


Five award winners:

First award goes to Camelson from Camelsonart: His painting style is really original and in my liking and he paints some amazing minis .

 Minion Studio: For their beautiful armies. My favorite one is the Necron Scythes Circus

Arbal from Coloured Dust: His product reviews are something to keep an eye out for.

Inkub from Wojna w Miniaturze: for his multi-language blog about the hobby and many other things.

The Dark Templar: For his cool chaos space marines.

Pass it further and remember to promote those smaller bloggers that need your support!
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Lupercal

     "Kill for the living, kill for the dead!" Here he is Horus the Lunar Wolf. Ready for a paint job. I really like how all the parts come together in a way that it's not noticeable that they are magnetized. That will be handy during painting. I'm really happy with the result hope you like him too.






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