Commissar Yarrick - final pics, CMON link... and a possible commision service!

First let's get the pics out of the way:

Oh and here's the CoolMiniOrNot voting link

Now on to the juicy stuff. I am thinking of starting a commision service. I feel my painting skills, while not great, are adequate, my display cabinet is filling up and I've grown less emotionally attached to my minis as the years go by. So what I have in mind?

I'd like to focus on character minis. I could either take up commisions for character minis or sell some of the character minis I paint as one off pieces. And here is where I need your help. I'm new to commision painting so I don't know much about pricing. Most commision companies don't have a set charge for this type of painting so a web search yielded no results. I would like to know what you think would be a reasonable price for a paintjob like that on Yarrick. For the real hardcore fans of this blog you can look up other minis I have painted and propose prices for them as well so I can get an even better idea of how to price my services. Either way I'd greatly appreciate your help.

Commisar Yarrick - finished!

The mini is finaly finished today! I invited a friend to my house so we could inspire each other to work more on our minis. He was converting, I was painting, time went by and soon Mr Yarrick was all painted up! I'll need your help in spotting any mistakes before varnishing though. Let me know what you think of the finished mini.

Commissar Yarrick - started working on the metallics.

I finally got to tackle some of my favourte colours: metallics! At the moment they've received just a basecoat, a few highlights and a wash. They need some more highlighting before they're ready but... any update is a good update I guess.

Commissar Yarrick update - green areas and boots painted.

So its back to Mr Yarrick after the emergency greenstufing. Today I tackled the laurels and the purity seal wax. It was quite time consumming considering how small these areas are but I'm happy with the end result. I also painted his boots using the same blueish dark grey I used on the storm bottler casing and the sword sheath. I like how this mini is turning out but it seems it's gona be time consuming. At least I'm getting over my fear of painting black (or very dark grey actually).

I'm gona set my goals low this time and hope I can meet them. I want to finish Yarrick, the Sister of Battle Serapheim and a Dreadknight till the end of the year. That's it, 3 minis! let's see if I can do it...

Sisters of Battle Seraphim

Long time no post...

 I decided to do some more work on the comissar today and paint the green laurels but unfortunately I spotted some air bubbles I had failed to notice when I was assembling the mini. So it was emergency greenstuffing for the commissar and no more painting.

Since I realy wanted to paint something I decided to start on another mini I had lying around. It is a Sisters of Battle Serapheim mini and it's quite special for 3 reasons:
1) I've never painted a Sisters of Battle mini before. I've painted minis from all 40k armies except Sisters of Battle so far.
2) It was the only Sisters of Battle mini left on my local gaming store.
3) A new Sisters of Battle codex has just been released.

Not much to see as only the armour and gloves are painted but still I like how the blue-black armour turned out.

Commissar Yarrick - yellow trim and leather painted

A bit more progress on the mini. The trim is a joy to paint though it's easy to miss some of it in such a "blinged-up" mini. Still it amazes me how a simple trim on the edge of a cloack can make a mini stand out. Leather was a joy as well. I think GW's browns compliment each other realy well for highlighting and shading.

I think I should paint a mini with yellow armour in the future. Despite being so fond of painting yellow I've never painted an Imperial First or an Iyanden mini.

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Commissar Yarrick PIP - the red post

I painted the red parts. Because a commissar needs a touch or red. And soviet stars. Ok maybe not soviet stars. Or maybe yes. Or...