I started gaming a while back. Some of my first games were GreyHawk, Squad Leader, Mustangs and Messerschmidt's. Some of the first figs I owned were from a local guy and were done from a spinning wheel. Then Minifig and Ral Partha came along and we started getting better quality figs. How things have changed. I don't recall the manufacturer of the first fig I did but it was an Orc of the White Hand.
I dabbled in painting but never really became serious or tried to evolve for years. I remember when washes started hitting the scene and thought they were so cool. It hasn't been since about 2006-2007 that I really started getting back into the hobby side of it. I was mostly an RPG player when it came to miniature based games but my real love was still WWII games. I really like the era so I sought out games. I got back into terrain making when I join TerrainThralls. I made a bunker to show what I could do. Then my first serious project was the Roadhouse. I posted that on the Privateer Press forums as a WIP. I started playing tabletop games again when Hordes first came out a SoCal and I got the Circle of Orboros box from someone who went there. Playing that starter box was brutal. I then wanted to challenge myself with a terrain project and saw a very cool picture in a No Quarter magazine. I wanted to replicate it. So I did. I created the art work and posted it on the Privateer Press forum and was then contacted to see if I would be interested in having that in the magazine. Luckily I had taken pictures of it so I could turn it into a tutorial.
After that I did three more tutorials for No Quarter. Due to the criteria of what they wanted me to do I learned how to do more techniques that I otherwise may have never done. That was cool to do. It was something I wanted to see if I could do. I then wanted to compete in a painting contest other that something local. Just to see how I would fair. I also wanted to see figs in person that were done by professionals. I was blown away. So many amazing and talented people. So I had mentioned that to a friend of mine and he aided me in going to GenCon. I liked terrain so it was an easy choice to make a diorama. I was fortunate to take second place and was beat by Jennifer Haley.
I would like to compete more but so far I have only done so locally. My most recent was at the 2014 Salt City Gladiator Games in the Salty Dwarf competition they had. I was lucky and place a couple of figs one of which was my Thoth fig.
A short time after I went to GenCon I started a website called Salmondworks because I had family that wanted to have a place to post their work. Later I had a couple of friends approach me who wanted to start a website called Geek Garage where we would post our work. I thought it best to take down the website for Salmondworks in order to help get the site off the ground. I have only kept the Facebook page and have rarely posted on it. Now that my children are older they would like to start posting their stuff out there so a few of us started Totem Badgers. We went with a name that would be more neutral because we have some future painters that are local (and web) friends of ours and thought it best to leave all Sir Names out of the title.
I have never learned how to do a wet pallet. I use tin foil right now due to the fact that is all I could afford when I was a kid. Haha... I would like to learn how to use a wet pallet especially after watching Jennifer Haley's video. I am also branching out with terrain and trying new things and Rackham was my inspiration there. Well that is about it. If you would like to contact any of us please feel free at totembadgers@gmail.com.
Cheers,
John...
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