DiStudios (Chris)
Welcome to my Gallery! Although it might not look like it, I have been collecting miniatures since 1989, with Games Workshop being the gateway product (no surprise there!). I worked for the company for roughly 6 years from 1998 and in that time discovered and dabbled in a whole host of miniature games ranging from Ancients to Warmachine. While I love gaming, I am predominantly a painter and have been doing commission work since 1999, which is great as it means I get to paint a wide variety of different miniatures...just for other people haha.
My miniatures have appeared in Harbinger Magazine and have featured in cabinets at various conventions over the decades (Privateer Press/Mierce Miniatures/Prodos Game & Word Forge Games. I have painted figures for Prodos games' Warzone Resurrection range and Word Forge Games' Devil's Run 666.
In 2017 I won Best Painted & Best Themed, at my local Armies on Parade with my Ironjawz :3
Thanks for checking the blog out, I hope you enjoy the pics!
Chris
I first encountered the Crocodile Games' Wargods range around 2002/2003 at Salute. As much as I liked the miniatures, I wasn't that into Egyptian history/culture. Fast forward to 2019, I discovered that they had run a successful Kickstarter to produce a range of fantasy Greeks under the Wargods of Olympus moniker. Being a fan/former student of Ancient Greek History, I naturally dived right in. The theme is set around a fantastical setting of the Trojan War, with children of the Gods leading the various armies.
My miniatures have appeared in Harbinger Magazine and have featured in cabinets at various conventions over the decades (Privateer Press/Mierce Miniatures/Prodos Game & Word Forge Games. I have painted figures for Prodos games' Warzone Resurrection range and Word Forge Games' Devil's Run 666.
In 2017 I won Best Painted & Best Themed, at my local Armies on Parade with my Ironjawz :3
Thanks for checking the blog out, I hope you enjoy the pics!
Chris
I first encountered the Crocodile Games' Wargods range around 2002/2003 at Salute. As much as I liked the miniatures, I wasn't that into Egyptian history/culture. Fast forward to 2019, I discovered that they had run a successful Kickstarter to produce a range of fantasy Greeks under the Wargods of Olympus moniker. Being a fan/former student of Ancient Greek History, I naturally dived right in. The theme is set around a fantastical setting of the Trojan War, with children of the Gods leading the various armies.
A collection of painted figures from the Reaper Miniature Line, including the Dark Heaven Legends (Metal) & Reaper Bones (Polymer) ranges, Warlord & Pathfinder ranges. Despite having collected figures from this range for years, it was only in 2018 that I started painting them en masse as part of a town diorama. I did not bank on this range becoming one of my favourite collections to work on, with me clocking in a total of 11 fully painted character miniatures in one month ~ a new record for me!
My first ever green skin army, having never really been interested by previous incarnations. The Ironjawz; to me; epitome everything I think is cool about orc: animal aggression and slabs of crude iron armour! I started this army in November 2016 as a gateway into Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, and have been steadily painting a army up ever since.
Below are some photos I rescued from my old website, there is quite a random selection in there, which in my eyes, shows how my painting has changed; more noticeably in recent years; as the decades have rolled by. Sadly a lot of my older photos which were on photobucket, forums and long gone blogs, have been lost over the years, this is a fraction of what I had painted at the peak of my collecting and gaming in the 2000's.
I have been a private commission painter since 2000, but up until now I have not had the facilities to showcase my work properly. So as of Winter 2015, I have been making a more concerted effort to take better photos and showcase the pieces I have completed both for private and corporate clients.
