Aphex Painting Studio

02/06/2026

Started a painting journal for my latest project…
Adding some small comments along the process. It’s also the place to answer questions and share info regarding the model….

Painting album featuring my Mindwork Games “The golden rose” progress.

02/06/2026

Progress on my Mindwork Games “The golden rose” model.
It’s an emotional piece of 2 mermen and a drowned women in the arms of a girl.
Taking my time with this piece and using a lot of stripling and thin stripe painting to build the skintones and volume.
It’s a very nice and detailed piece!

02/06/2026

Day 5:
Davinci brush for scale.
Tall merman is getting along nice.
Somewhat struggling with the placement of the left ni**le as it is not sculpted on the miniature.
It’s just a tiby detail that will be painting when the rest of the tall merman is finished…
Did a lotbof work ln the chest and arm today.
I worked my way up till the neck and chin.

I added some close-ups (its nicer from afar) of the body…

02/06/2026

Day 4:
A short video on how I accomplished some of the merman’s fleshtones… I used a lot of thin stripes and small dots in 10 tones of blue to build the skintone. I turn my brush every 5-10 dots to make sure I paint a different shape every time…

Mindworks

02/06/2026

The golden rose Mindworks model is based on the painting by Donato Giancola. I shared some pictures of the raw model. It is made out of three parts: ultra modeled base, body and head.
It’s very high quality and highly detailed.

I started by giving each part a soapwater bath.

02/06/2026

Stunning new BlackSnake Model Normandy releases coming june 6th on D-day memorial day.

31/05/2026

Pictures from Kontradt 2026 in Poland! Great pictures. Credit to Krzysztof Urban Scale models..

28/05/2026

Way too hot to paint so found some free time to clean and trim (not a lot of trimming to be done) my copy of Mindworks “The golden rose”. It’s based on the 2007 oil painting that was beautifully painted by Donato Giancola and it’s actually a book cover.

The model shows two stranded mermen and a drowned individual in the arms of a mourning girl.
I got this model because of the, to me, sad and haunting atmosphere it creates. I hope to paint it soon, as it will be a challenging piece.

I took the time to make some detailed close ups of the fine details on this wonderfull kit.

24/05/2026

Painting more pigeons while working on other things…
Really love these Dynamo-models sculpts…
The birds are 1:35 scale.
Painted with Scale75 paints and for this I used an Abteilung 502 size 0 brush, as it is very pointy and has a long belly that can hold a lot of paint….

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