The Sheffield Irregulars store has 15% discount between November 9th and 23rd when you use the discount code:NOVEMBERSALE.
You can use this code for all purchases made during this time, and remember – there is no profit made by us on these items, so the prices are as low as possible. Great gift ideas for the painter in your family!
So why not treat yourself to a Sheffield Irregulars t-shirt for Christmas.
The winner of this month’s Merit Award will now be revealed…
The scoring works like this, voters mark each entry (except their own) out of 10 for theme and style. These scores are added together and divided by the number of voters to create a total, average score. The highest score wins the Merit Award trophy, sponsored by Jonathan Shaw of BMF painting. Read the rest of this entry »
The voting has closed. I think we have a record number of voters this month. Huge thanks to all those who took the time to vote and comment.
The October challenge theme was: Winter’s Touch, so snow was a common feature on many of the entries.
We had a few first time challengers this month – it’s always good to see new members taking part. I hope you all enjoyed it!
The results of how each entry fared on theme and style – as well as how it ranked overall will be posted later this evening.
Irregular Magazine editor, Nick Johnson entered a pair of penguin models into the October painting challenge (Winter’s Touch)- proving that SI has more than just Games Workshop painters in it’s midst.
Nick shares some info on the hows and why’s of painting penguins.
I hadn’t really been intending on doing an entry for Winter’s Touch. While I had a Khador Manhunter that I’d considered doing, he wasn’t really grabbing my imagination. After about a week, someone reminded me of the blister of Frisky Penguins I had from the Copplestone Castings High Adventure range.
Some frantic searching (and tidying of my flat) later, I found the penguins with less than a week to go to the conclusion of the challenge. Given the variety of poses in the pack, I knew I wanted to use a couple of them on one base. Some dry-fitting of poses later, I’d worked out how to pose ‘em – one stood on higher ground, looking at the stars, while a second (probably bored) penguin had decided to start sliding down the hill.
Jason is looking for people to accept his scenery challenge.
Photo by Slambo_42 on Flickr
Rebecca Hubbard looks at some re-animated artwork
Zombies have been on my mind recently. With the theme for issue 3 of Irregular Magazine being Undead, zombies have been part of the conversations in my life a lot more than usual.
There are quite a few zombie models on the market now – Hasslefree, being a manufacturer whose name springs quickly to mind, but they’re aren’t the only ones.
For me, zombies mean dioramas, so I went for a browse on Flickr to see if I could find some inspiration.
Zombie by Doors of Conception from Flickr
As our October painting challenge, Winter’s touch draws to a close this week (deadline is Sunday Oct 25th), we thought it was time to showcase some of the amazing snow and ice effects SI members have discovered over the past month or so.
George's snow effect
First up, George Perkins recommends this formula:
For Snow a mix of filler, PVA and water to make a paste( with a small spot of blue paint). Apply this mix to the base where you want snow. Then sprinkle with baking soda shaking off the extra that didnt stick. Leave for 24 hrs to dry then brush off any other baking soda that got in the wrong place.
You voted, and the results are in.
The painting challenge themes for Dec – March are as follows:
So now you know, you can plan ahead for your entries, but please don’t start painting them just yet!
Remember, each monthly challenge is designed for you to paint in that month.
Voting for themes up to 3 months in advance seems to be working out well, so it’s about time to decide what painting challenge themes we’ll be facing over Christmas and into the new year.
The December challenge will run into January, as we know that everyone is too busy over the holidays to remember to post pictures, so you get a couple of extra weeks as the deadline will be January 10th. There will not be a separate January challenge.
As the festive season is approaching there is a separate poll just for the December painting challenge, with some suggestions that are inspired by the season.
Please pick your fav 2 themes, the one with the most votes will become the Decemeber challenge.
*Poll is now closed*
This week we celebrate our first birthday. Yes, we are just one year old – but what a year it’s been!
Many of you will have read the History of the Irregulars in issue 1 of Irregular Magazine, but we’ve done so much more since then – time for a quick recap.
