Kumaccio
New member
Hello everyone, first of all let me introduce myself briefly:
I'm a 28 years old Italian student, I've been introduced to this wonderful world in 1998 when I was just a little kid awed by fairytales and knights and epic stories and blabla, you got it, we are all almost in the same boat I guess.
I grew up painting and collecting those wonderful and expensive miniatures for years, from time to time reading some spare White Dwarf I found in bookshops. Let me tell you it was not quite an easy job to find anything related to Warhammer here in northern Rome, but I managed to keep going. Internet was not yet such a big stuff it is now so there was no way I could even have a connection, imagine to buy online!
Since I was the only kid around collecting and painting I couldnt play the game with anyone so I focused more on collecting and painting. Please dont judge me as an almost 20 year painter though. I had no way to improve my painting in any way, my only reference was the impossible, at the time, comparison with Golden Demon winners or the 'Eavy Metal "painting tutorials". The lacking of colours, brushes and any kind of knowledge of what I was doing, coupled with my early years led me to... nowhere. My parents (their wallet actually) grew quickly unpleased by my collecting frenzy so I slowly slowly stopped collecting and finally took a long break after almost 8 years. Long story short, after a long break I started going back to that childish hobby and started painting back again, which was something I loved doing in those days. I kept taking breaks of several years and going back again at it until in 2012 I met my girlfriend and the passion for the painting rose in her aswell, slowly at the beginning, since much stuff changed for both (we moved in apartment together) and after years of just not having the time we finally managed to start painting constantly since the end 2015 almost. We never painted for so long and it's almost like we started learning from 0. We joined a scale model club (alfamodel club) here in Rome and the hobby turned into passion and almost craving day after day.
I've been following coolminiornot for years now, reading some WIPs of awesome painters and watching some of the best paintings that inspired me strongly to keep going and learn and learn to one day achieve mastering of painting, not to win anything, but to be able to paint and build what I have in my mind.
So far, I focused on Chaos Army for Warhammer Fantasy and Ordo Malleus (grey knights now) for my Warhammer 40k
Sorry for the gigantic introduction, I am sorry if my English is not good but we Italians are in a very complicated relationship with English eheheh
Finally, here we are with my latest WIP:
I had this Imperial Knight around for quite some time and I did not know how to paint it. Since I had some pieces around of Grey Knights army I wanted to mix both to have an Inquisition Imperial Knight or something alike. I had 0 inspiration for a long time, and I almost forgot I had the Imperial Knight at all. One day I opened randomly my Grey Knights army book and looked, as every time I opened it, fascinated at the opening artwork. My gf listening me praise the glorious image once again, blessed be the Emperor, suggested me ironically to paint that holy(damned) image on the massive piece of holy steel(crap) I had under my desk for several month. Since I had never tried almost any kind of freehand, I was skeptical at the beginning, but took it unexpectedly as a challange.
I started with the carapace to see what my skill level would be alike and decided at some point to just do it:
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Its not yet completed, I have to fix a lot of things but I'm honestly happy where it is going and I'm proud of it standing tall over other works.
Sorry for the pics, it's just to show the progress so far
Suggestions and critiques are much appreciated.
I'm a 28 years old Italian student, I've been introduced to this wonderful world in 1998 when I was just a little kid awed by fairytales and knights and epic stories and blabla, you got it, we are all almost in the same boat I guess.
I grew up painting and collecting those wonderful and expensive miniatures for years, from time to time reading some spare White Dwarf I found in bookshops. Let me tell you it was not quite an easy job to find anything related to Warhammer here in northern Rome, but I managed to keep going. Internet was not yet such a big stuff it is now so there was no way I could even have a connection, imagine to buy online!
Since I was the only kid around collecting and painting I couldnt play the game with anyone so I focused more on collecting and painting. Please dont judge me as an almost 20 year painter though. I had no way to improve my painting in any way, my only reference was the impossible, at the time, comparison with Golden Demon winners or the 'Eavy Metal "painting tutorials". The lacking of colours, brushes and any kind of knowledge of what I was doing, coupled with my early years led me to... nowhere. My parents (their wallet actually) grew quickly unpleased by my collecting frenzy so I slowly slowly stopped collecting and finally took a long break after almost 8 years. Long story short, after a long break I started going back to that childish hobby and started painting back again, which was something I loved doing in those days. I kept taking breaks of several years and going back again at it until in 2012 I met my girlfriend and the passion for the painting rose in her aswell, slowly at the beginning, since much stuff changed for both (we moved in apartment together) and after years of just not having the time we finally managed to start painting constantly since the end 2015 almost. We never painted for so long and it's almost like we started learning from 0. We joined a scale model club (alfamodel club) here in Rome and the hobby turned into passion and almost craving day after day.
I've been following coolminiornot for years now, reading some WIPs of awesome painters and watching some of the best paintings that inspired me strongly to keep going and learn and learn to one day achieve mastering of painting, not to win anything, but to be able to paint and build what I have in my mind.
So far, I focused on Chaos Army for Warhammer Fantasy and Ordo Malleus (grey knights now) for my Warhammer 40k
Sorry for the gigantic introduction, I am sorry if my English is not good but we Italians are in a very complicated relationship with English eheheh
Finally, here we are with my latest WIP:
I had this Imperial Knight around for quite some time and I did not know how to paint it. Since I had some pieces around of Grey Knights army I wanted to mix both to have an Inquisition Imperial Knight or something alike. I had 0 inspiration for a long time, and I almost forgot I had the Imperial Knight at all. One day I opened randomly my Grey Knights army book and looked, as every time I opened it, fascinated at the opening artwork. My gf listening me praise the glorious image once again, blessed be the Emperor, suggested me ironically to paint that holy(damned) image on the massive piece of holy steel(crap) I had under my desk for several month. Since I had never tried almost any kind of freehand, I was skeptical at the beginning, but took it unexpectedly as a challange.
I started with the carapace to see what my skill level would be alike and decided at some point to just do it:
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View attachment 54869
View attachment 54870
View attachment 54871
View attachment 54872
Its not yet completed, I have to fix a lot of things but I'm honestly happy where it is going and I'm proud of it standing tall over other works.
Sorry for the pics, it's just to show the progress so far
Suggestions and critiques are much appreciated.
