Welcome to Chest of Colors!

We promised you a late Christmas Cracker, but due to the problems we had with our server we're even more late than we expected. But here we are with the promised stuff:

You probably recognize Illusionrip, one of the most awarded painters in Poland. In 2009 he sold two miniatures from his own display case, but this time we have something better: one of his awarded models. It's the Sad Marine, which was a Golden Demon Finalist in France in 2007. You may remember the model of a kneeling Space Marine, sad about the never ending war. Now it can be yours!

Then there's a very nice diorama depicting a sexy sorceress standing on top of a waterfall. Also painted by the same Illusionrip! So if you like his works, why not try to get this one?

Slawol is selling his Archaon - Lord of End Times and Space Marines Terminator Chaplain, and you still can bid on Rzymek's Space Wolves Blood Claws if you missed the previous auctions.

What more can I say? Check our auctions and good luck!

Long time no see, as they say.
Yes, it's been like more than 2 weeks ago, and it was just a short update about our site being back online. So what we've got now is a lot of new miniatures to let you know about!

Good manners require that we should let ladies go first, so let us start with Ana and her limited edition Lord of Tzeentch on Disc. Take a look at the patterns on his clothes and tentacles to see what took her so much time to finish this paintjob.

Moving on to men now...
Demi_morgana is our most recognized Warmachine painter, so you should check his Privateer Press stuff, including this Soulhunter and interesting Ghost of Dire Troll. But there is also a group of German Geneticists from Darkson Designs and a Warhammer 40.000 Death Guard Terminator Lord if you're not a Warmachine or Hordes fan.

Illusionrip was not satisfied with the previous photo of his silver-winning diorama, so he decided to replace it with a new picture of the Demonic Tower. Hopefully it does more justice to this excellent piece!

A new member of the Chest of Colors group, Slawol, who has just moved there from Box of Brushes, rearranged pictures in his gallery and posted three new pictures: Maneater Paymaster (painted at the time when he was still in Box of Brushes), Archaon, Lord of End Times and Terminator Chaplain. All of them are examples of the style that Slawol is trying to develop - dirty, gritty, and not very cartoony...

Szary's female Eldar Farseer seems to be a total opposite of Slawol's style - saturated colors, bright paintjob, sharp detailing. I believe many people will love this kind of painting!

Flameon's painting seems to be something between Szary's and Slawol's styles: Check this Theoden and Deathmaster Sniktch out to see what I mean.

Przemo painted this excellent Infinity chick for a painting competition. With this quality of painting his chances should be pretty good.... unless his rivals are well prepared for such opponents!

Szczurek also wants to enter the competition, so he chose and painted this Infinity model. Let's wait to see the opponents... But in the meantime you can check this Elf Standard Bearer and Aenur in Szczurek's gallery.

One painter who managed to escape our attention is Kacper_gda. To catch up with updates in his gallery, let me mention these models: Slaanesh Champion, the Masque, Juggernaut of Khorne, Be'Lakor, Chaos Marauder Horsemen, and other Chaos Marauder Horsemen, Tigers and Space Wolf Rune Priest.

And now something you don't get to see very often: a Dragon painted by Nameless as his entry for Iron Painter. He managed to paint this beast in 2 weeks. Impressiveachievement, isn't it?
But that's not all - he also painted Grom da Paunch of Misty Mountain and a Templar Knight from XIII Century, so you still have quite a lot to see.

To finish this update, I would like to remind you about the 3rd CofC Miniature Exchange, which is taking place right now. Some of our members already managed to deliver their miniatures to their recipients, so we can see these works in their galleries now. Let's start with Demi_morgana, who painted this model from Scibor Miniatures, then Lemartes with his Cherub, and Gildor with Prince Imrahil.

Enjoy browsing!

Holidays are coming, so I think people will have other things to do than painting miniatures. So before this merry time comes, we'd like to share a few new paintjobs with you.

Let's start with the most productive of the painters mentioned today: Demi_morgana. He painted two old (let's call them classic) Games Workshop miniatures: Heinrich Kemmler also known as the Lichemaster and Krell. If you want to see them on a special display base, check this photo of these two Undead Characters together. But Demi_morgana's gallery includes one more new model: the Black Coach made from Dracula's Carriage released by Westwind miniatures.

Kacpero shows us a better photo of his Slayer of Daemon finalist: Red Scorpions Librarian in terminator armor. But even more interesting is the other new miniature in his gallery: converted Sigvald the Magnificent. The colors are pretty uncommon for this model, but they were requested by the owner of this model to represent his PRG character.

Then we've got Ana and her Limited Edition Sorceress. You will probably wonder why some things were done in a particular way on this model. Let us explain that the sorceress is floating above the ground and her dress is made of crystal fabric. But Ana will surely tell more about it on the forum.

And the last miniature in this update is Cersei Lannister painted by Nameless. Yet another step forward in his project. Keep your fingers crossed for him

I think it will be difficult to manage to post another update before Christmas, but stay tuned, as we'll be back very soon with something special. Call it a Christmas cracker if you wish

As we're getting closer to the new year, some of us felt they should refresh their display cabinets and so some of their miniatures became available for those of you who still have some money left and want to place a bid....

The fist of these things is Sigvald the Magnificent painted by Illusionrip. If you would like to add this miniature to your collection - this may be a good moment, when other bidders spent their money buying X-mas presents

Then there's something interesting for Beastmen fans: Illusionrip's Beastface the Centigor with a nice scenic lava-themed base.

Thrall offers his Standard Bearer of Chaos, which can be an useful addition to many Hordes of Chaos armies, or maybe even display cases?

And there are two "second chancers": Gildor's Yoda - now extremely cheap, and Rzymek's Blood Claws for all you Space Wolves players out there.

Check our auctions out and good luck with your bids!

So we've got the first miniature of our Third Chest of Colors Miniature Exchange! It'd Sir Michael painted by Slawol for Yaro. But that's not the only new paintjob in our galleries!

Slawol managed to add two more new miniatures to his gallery: Protectorate of Menoth Choir Acolyte being a part of his project of painting miniatures in style inspired by John Blanche's works, and an Ogre Maneater Paymaster inspired by Beltane's version.

Ana painted Sergeant O'Donnel, a nice female military model from Euphoria Miniatures and Nameless presented this Wolf and Red diorama.

The last miniature in this update comes from Thrall, who painted this Standard Bearer of Chaos and hopes to give this miniature a new home.

Stay tuned for more, because we'll soon have something new in our galleries again!

And here's something for our eBay watchers: While these Space Wolves are still a hot army, you may wish to grab these two packs of Blood Claws and Grey Hunters. If you prefer Daemons of Chaos, you may wish to check this Chaos Demon Prince Be'Lakor out.

And if you're not interested in Warhammer, take a look at this Leogante, Wings of Redemption - Andrea, Gollum or Jedi Master Yoda painted by Gildor. And I bet the painters wouldn't mind if you place a bid

Here we are with another update about news in our galleries. The first thing which will surely catch your attention is (now OOP) Rackham Chimera painted by Illusionrip. Expect to see more of his paintjobs on Rackham models in future.

Then there's this converted Heresy Miniatures demon painted as the Devil by Nameless, who also shows us his Morrdha - Vampire Preacher.


Artur's gallery now includes photos of his latest Colonel Chenkov, and our other Warhammer 40.000 paintjobs are Rzymek's Blood Claws and Grey Hunters for Space Wolves space marines. Rzymek continues his bigger Bretonnian project, and so he painted this Grail Reliquary for that army.


Then we have something very rare: update of Lothar's gallery! This time it's this black version of winged Be'lakor, and another Be'Lakor without wings (as everybody should know red goes faster anyway ).


Then there's a big update to Gildor's gallery - starting with this Wood Elf Lord and Dwarf Lord, including Gollum and Jedi Master Yoda, and ending with his most colorful and probably paintjob best so far - Leogante - Wings of Redemption from Andrea Miniatures.

Our delay with this update allowed me to include Ana's version of
Miranda from Hasslefree Miniatures. The dress was based on a real dress, and the miniature was a gift to the owner of that dress. There's one more nice female model to be shown soon, but you have to wait for it at least a few days...

We are pleased to inform you about the launch of the first Polish mini-painting event dedicated exclusively to Corvus Belli products from the Infinity range. It is sponsored by the Polish retailer and limited to national entries for now, but watch this space in case they got more ambitious

Forum thread in Polish can be found here.

Good luck to all the competitors and hope they share an odd picture or two...