Jon Grant Miniatures

2023 began with me purchasing the Warhammer Underworlds warbands that I had missing from my collection. As such, I started the year by buying 25 miniatures. I am not intending to buy many miniatures this year, as I am really trying to get through my pile of shame. I started by painting up a few more Aeronautica aircraft. First up was a Xiphon Interceptor for my Blood Angels. How I paint - Blood Angels This was then followed by a Storm Eagle for my Night Lords. How I paint - Night Lords I then began looking through my pile of shame potential and found a bunch of Necron sprues. I had originally bought them to add to my existing Necron Army. I began by building and painting my Royal Warden. I decided I wanted to restart my Necron army, with a new paint scheme, which is similar to my old army. With a character finished, I wanted to add some troops to my new Necron army. I built 10 Necron Warriors and started painting 5 of these miniatures. The Necron Warrior sprue also makes three bases of...

  ( Red  items were completed this month,  purple  items completed in previous months)    ← November                                                                                                      January 2023→   December ended up being a quiet hobby month. I did a little bit of painting and built a sizeable number of miniature ready for next year. I struggled to paint this month through a combination of hobby fatigue, poor light (so, I bought a daylight lamp) and Christmas. I did not buy any more miniatures this month. So, for the fourth month this year I can tick off 'Do not buy any new miniatures in a month' . This goal has been an important one this...

  ( Red  items were completed this month,  purple  items completed in previous months)     ← October                                                                                           December →   November has been a quiet month for my hobby. I have been busy with work and here in the UK the weather has been awful. As such, I have had a lack of natural light, which has in part slowed my painting. I began the month by painting the Sons of Velmorn from the new Warhammer Underworlds: Gnarlwood set. This group of Grave Guard was a pleasant change from the aircraft I have been painting recently. It was also nice to complete a whole warband in a single month, something I have not achieved for a while. So, I can once again tick off...

  Paints required: Wraithbone spray Averland Sunset Yriel Yellow Cassandora Yellow Screaming Skull Abaddon Black Leadbelcher Corax White Balthasar Gold Eshin Grey Gryph-Charger Grey Nuln Oil Mephiston Red Evil Suns Scarlet Wild Rider Red I began by giving the aircraft an undercoat with  Wraithbone spray .  Then a basecoat of  Averland Sunset , thinned with a little water, was applied over the miniature. I used a large drybrush and worked quickly, avoiding returning to panels already covered. It took around 2 coats to get a nice solid finish. When this initial basecoat was fully dry the aircraft was given a second basecoat with  Yriel Yellow  (a layer paint). Again, this was thinned with a little water and applied with the medium drybrush. Three coats were required to get a nice smooth finish. When the basecoats were full dry,  Cassandora Yellow  was painted into the recesses and around the panels of the aircraft using a small detail brush (I use s...

Paints required: Chaos Black spray Mechanicum Standard Grey Lupercal Green Sons of Horus Green Coelia Greenshade Ulthuan Grey Abaddon Black Leadbelcher Corax White Balthasar Gold Eshin Grey Gryph-Charger Grey Nuln Oil Mephiston Red Evil Suns Scarlet Wild Rider Red I began by giving the aircraft an undercoat with Chaos Black spray . This was then followed with a light spray of Mechanicum Standard Grey . Then a basecoat of Lupercal Green , thinned with a little water, was applied over the miniature. I used a large drybrush and worked quickly, avoiding returning to panels already covered. When this initial basecoat was fully dry the aircraft was given a second basecoat with Sons of Horus Green (a layer paint). Again, this was thinned with a little water and applied with the medium drybrush. Two or three coats were required to get a nice smooth finish. When the basecoats were full dry, Coelia Greenshade was painted into the recesses and around the panels of the aircraft using a small deta...

                           As I continue to work through the legions for Aeronautica Imperialis I wanted to paint up the loyalist Blood Angels. The Blood Angels are famous for their mastery of the skies, for being one of the legions that defended the Emperor's palace and for being one of the main legions of Space Marine used by Games Workshop. The Blood Angel livery is a bright red with some splashes of black. This is my take on their scheme. Paints required: Chaos Black Spray Pure Red Spray (Army Painter) Mephiston Red Carroburg Crimson Evil Suns Scarlet Wild Rider Red Abaddon Black Leadbelcher Corax White Balthasar Gold Eshin Grey Gryph-Charger Grey Nuln Oil Caliban Green I began by giving the aircraft an undercoat with Chaos Black . This was then followed with a light spray of Army Painter Pure Red spray . Then a basecoat of Mephiston Red , thinned with a little water, was applied over the miniature. I us...

   Paints required: Chaos Black spray Night Lords Blue Kantor Blue Alaitoc Blue Lothern Blue White Scar Nuln Oil Leadbelcher Abaddon Black Balthasar Gold Corax White Gryph-Charger Grey Blood Angels Red  Eshin Grey Mephiston Red Evil Suns Scarlet Wild Rider Red I began by giving the aircraft an undercoat with Chaos Black  spray .  Then a basecoat of Night Lords Blue , thinned with a little water, was applied over the miniature. I used a Medium drybrush and worked quickly, avoiding returning to panels already covered. It took around 2 coats to get a nice solid finish. When the basecoats were full dry, Nuln Oil   was painted into the recesses and around the panels of the aircraft using a small detail brush (I use synthetic brushes for this job). Try to be neat but do not worry too much as you can always tidy the miniature up with a little Night Lords Blue. Allow the Nuln Oil to full dry. The aircraft was then drybrushed with Night Lords Blue  using a medi...