Garfy
Garfy is a UK hobbyist with over twenty years experience. He's a regular contributor to White Dwarf Magazine including 4 Armies of the Month features and has written articles for the Warhammer Community site. He holds 3 UK Golden Demon finalist pins and 2 Armies on Parade Gold award. His other passion is photography and cinematography, which he uses to great effect to deliver high quality content to the blog.
Showcase: Night Goblin Warboss
This is one of my favourite Goblin sculpts, I painted this model a few years ago but I decided to dust him off and take some fresh pictures of him. You can see I paint in very bright bold colours. I think if I were to...
Showcase: 2 Chaos Chosen from Dark Vengeance
With the excitement of being in White Dwarf this month, my hobby motivation is extremely high and I’m really enjoying painting at the moment. These traitors are my favourite sculpts from the new Chosen models. For simple push-fit models the details are incredible. More angles...
Showcase: Tyranid Lictor in friend’s colour scheme
Some of you may have seen this chat post where my friend Sierra painted one of her Zoanthropes in my colour scheme. She then challenged me to paint a Tyranid in her scheme, not wanting to let her down I agreed but not before kicking up...
WIP: Dark Vengeance Chaos Space Marine Chosen
Small update on the Black Legion. I’ve been painting this pair of traitors slowly all week. I’m just working on the red daemon skin parts, then it’s bone, then yellow markings and finally the bases. Once these are complete I’ll start work on creating the...
Chat: Tyranid Zoanthropes + Guest Appearance
I painted these ‘thropes’ when the models first came out, so the paint jobs are a few years old now. So why am I sharing them with you now? Well read on to find out. This cool looking ‘thrope’ was painted by my friend Sierra....
Showcase: Black Legion Chosen Chaos Space Marine
This Chaos Space Marine Chosen is the test mini for my new army. I don’t have a ‘black’ army, so thought i’d change my original direction of a force from the Crimson Slaughter and go with a more traditional Black Legion. This is a very...
Showcase: Night Goblin Squig Herd
What’s red and bounces on grass? No, not an Arsenal striker in the penalty box, it is of course my squig herd! This is my favourite unit from my Goblin collection. Read on for more pics. I painted this herd a couple of years ago,...
Tutorial: How to paint realistic blood and gore
I’m on a quest at the moment to paint realistic gore. I’m trying to learn the best way so I can apply it to my Black Legion when I finally start them. Read on to find out how I’m getting on. Above are my Dark...
Tutorial: How to Paint Ultramarine Vehicles
In part one of this stage by stage photo tutorial, I will explain how I paint my Ultramarine vehicles to a factory clean standard. Part two of the tutorial will explain weathering. Part one starts after the jump. I will list the paints as I...
Showcase: Black Orc BigBoss
Third Eye Nuke and Sigur are kings of gore on Tale of Painters with their Black Legion and Heresy World Eaters respectively, but they have inspired me to experiment with mixing Tamiya Clear Red with Badab Black wash. I started by just slapping it on...