Sascha Herm - Miniature Figure Painter

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(last updated on 19.08.10)

All Miniatures displayed on this Web Page are painted by myself.

Some examples of my latest work:

More to come soon!

News:

19.08.10

My Ebay Auction went really well and my Confederates are now off to a new home. I will probably add some unpainted figures onto Ebay by the weekend.

Due to some turbulent couple of days, I still was not able to take any pictures of my Celtic Standardbearer from Warlord Miniatures. I will try to take some now on the weekend.

I was also tempted by a wonderful Figure to go back to my roots and tackle a bigger scale for a change. I purchased a 54mm Miniature from Pegaso Models "Knight of the Holy Sepulchre Order" a few months ago. I linked the Name of the Knight to the Original Pegaso Page, where you see the absolute brilliant paint job done by Danilo Cartacci. It is a very dynamic sculpt and the horse is just beautiful. I spent two days just cleaning and assembling it. Quite a few parts and gaps needed to be filled with putty but it looks very impressive already. Not sure that I will be able to do the original paint job justice but I will try my hardest. I also decided to use similar colour choices as it was painted by Danilo Cartacci but I will use a different colour for the horse.

08.08.10

I have now added again some of my ACW figures onto my Ebay. The Officer waving his hat was sold in advance but all the other members of the Group are now available on the Auction site. I am quite pleased about the success of the other Auctions and hopefully my Confederates will not dissapoint me either.

On the painting side of things. I have finished a Celtic Standardbearer from Warlord Miniatures and will add the pictures soon. I also started on another commission of six HYW mounted Men-at-Arms. I begun with the Armour and will keep you posted about the progress.

01.08.10

I am still in the process of selling some of my painted Miniatures Collection. I have added three more onto Ebay. As all of my display pieces, they also have been fixed to a wooden plinth.

Next week I will add my ACW Command to the Auction side.

21.07.10

I have finished some more Imperial Roman Command Miniatures from Warlord Games. I tried again to speed up the painting process and have limited myself to use only the Foundry Triads, especially on parts of the tunics and leather equipment. Otherwise I used a lot more washings, using the new GW washes and only outlining some detailes again with the previous base colour. Only on some important details, i.e. the hand painted standard or the Officers cloak, I did spent some more time painting these.

18.07.10

I am finally able to access the Internet again. I had some serious PC Problems and it took me nearly two weeks to get my System fully restored. I need to apologise to anyone who did not had any replies via email as yet or are still waiting on their DVD's. It was a nightmare, which taught me a very valuable lesson, i.e. backing up your important data on a more regular basis would be a really good idea...! I am still in the process of working through some more issues to get everything back into the working order as it was before the System meltdown but it will be hopefully done by the end of the week.

On to some hobby news. I have finished a mounted Roman Officer from Warlord Games and I am in the process of finishing four Roman Command figures. Due to the above mentioned PC Problems I have not been able to take some pictures or even paint properly. I am hoping to finish the figure off today.

I also decided to sell some of my painted figures. The French Napoleonic Grenadiers will be sold first and I have listed the figures onto EBAY.

27.06.10

Just a week since my Birthday and I had a big box of Warlord Games Romans and Celts as a gift from my wife. They are just beautiful. Since my first glimpse into "Warhammer Ancient Battles" in the late nineties, I alway liked the idea of an Imperial Roman Army. Warlord's offer on a box of the " Imperial Roman Starter Army" just came at the right time. After dropping tons of hints on ideas for my Birthday, I actually had a bigger surprise waiting for me. She did not only get me the Starter Army but also many of the extra metal figures and on top, like that would not have been enough, some Plastic Celts and metal celtic command groups, yipeee. I am soooo spoiled.

I decided to paint them quicker using a wargaming style, in which I have been inspired by Warlord's Army Painter methods and their Dr. Phil Hendry inspirational results on speed painting. You can see most of his painting on the figures in the Warlord's Webstore.

I actually used less "brushed on" shading and decided to use mainly washes. As an example, I started with one base colour on most of Boadicea and her bodyguards clothing, added then the stripes and tartan. I used mainly washes in all creases to add shading and to dull the main colours down. Only after the drying, I added sparingly some conventional highlighting, here especially on Boadicea's stripy skirt.

Most paints I used were Foundry's colour triads, only with the one or other Valejo colour thrown in. I tried to limit myself to basic shading and highlighting and did not use many intermediate mixes. Only on the Roman Officers cloak I used additional highlights and shading.

The skin was painted using Foundry's Flesh triad with GW colours. I actually have eight shades ready mixed in pots to speed up the painting process. I start with Foundry's A, Followed by A + GW Dwarf Flesh mix ( 1:1 ), Dwarf Flesh, Foundry B + Dwarf Flesh (1:1), Foundry B, Elf Flesh, Foundry C. I also use sometimes a diluted Foundry A + Bestial Brown mix (1:1) as the deepest shadow and diluted Bestial Brown only on certain dark spots.

I am quite pleased with how they turned out and look forward to paint myself a little army in the next couple of months inbetween commissions and my work.

06.06.10

Finally, I have finished the Napoleonic Unit of Lancers of the Vistula Legion. It is actually only the second Wargaming Unit I have ever painted. I must say that I am rather pleased about, how they turned out. I hope they will be an impressive sight on the gaming table and the new owner will be pleased about them.

The whole commission will involve quite a few other Units and I am looking forward to start them after. I have also added a individual pictures of each Figures before they were attached to the bases:

I also made further photos of each individual Wargaminig Base:

23.05.10

Just arrived back from a three week holiday in Wales. We had a smashing time. The weather was not sunny but mostly dry and warm, just right to do a lot of different things. The holiday was exactly what we needed and if anyone needs to relax this is just the place to forget all your worries. It was also nice to see my wifes friends and family.

I read some brilliant books, seven in all and I only seem to be able to read books when I am there on holiday. I have been reading some of Bernard Cornwell's novels. After reading many of his Sharpe's adventures I also was curious what else he had to offer. I was not dissapointed. The books I read were: The Pale Horsemen, the Lords of the North and Sword Song, which were about a Anglo-Saxon young man named Uthred and his adventure during the reign of Alfred the Great. The other ones which I started were the first two Books on his Grail Quest Series, which are set at the beginning of the Hundred Year War in France, following a young Archers adventure. I also read a book out of his ACW Series "The Starbuck Chronicles". Another really good book I read was from an Author named Anthony Riches: "Empire - Wounds of Honour" about a young Roman Centurion during his Service in a Auxiliar Cohort staged in ancient Britain.

I was not able to paint but the books offered me some inspirations for future projects. The good hobby related news is that I am nearly finished with the group of lancers. Just a few finishing touches, i.e. Varnishing, Basing and the adding of their Lances and they are good to go. Here are some of the pictures I took before I went on Holiday:

01.03.10

I have decided to gracefully retire from the Steve Dean Painting competition. This is a small “just for fun” competition, where likeminded painters enter their figures to be judged by the members of the forum.

I thoroughly enjoy replying to problems fellow painters come across and helping, if I can.

Over the past few months though, I found it so sad that someone who might be just starting out in the hobby and showing a figure he / she is very proud of, to be knocked out by someone who has been painting for maybe 30 years. I assume it must be very demotivating and that is not what I am about.

Too much attention is being given to the winners and not enough to the great painting of the other figures, that unfortunately do not make it through the first round.

In a „fun“ competition the experienced winners do not need the help and motivation to improve but maybe the ones who get knocked out straight away could do with a bit extra support. Well, that is just my humble opinion.

My painting, of course, will be still shown on my website and any forums, I wish to post them on, in the future.

31.01.10

Due to popular demand on TMP I have added a few group photos of the French Grenadiers, taken from a further distance as they would appear on the Gaming table. I added a few in different sizes. Just click on the picture below:

30.01.10

It has been a while since I last updated my website.

The run up to Christmas was very busy and for the last month, I have been concentrating on my wife, as she has been in hospital. All is well now though and she is recovering here at home. Needless to say the last few months, I have not done much painting.

Back in November, I painted 3 Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard and have finally got around to doing some photos. I have had these figures a long time and a couple of years ago, I painted the first half of that Command Group. They are Foundry sculpts, painted mainly using the Foundry colours. The results are above.

I am also continuing with the commission of the Lancers of the Vistula Legion. They are getting near their completion. Quite a bit of work involved with them, due to their excellent detail and splendid Uniforms but they will be great when they are finally finished. I am very excited about these.

I also have a commission of 6 Knights of the HYW, which I am looking forward to start next.

During the month of December, after reading Don Troiani's brilliant book "Regiments & Uniforms of the Civil War", I was inspired to design a small diorama using some ideas from the book and the battle of Antitam ("Sunken Road") and named it "Give 'em lead boys!".

I had great fun doing this diorama. I added a WIP page for that project and also wrote some Information on the page of each individual miniature used on my diorama.

29.08.09

While I was working on the commission of the 12 Lancers, I found in my "Lead-Pile" a figure I nearly forgot.

During some research on the Internet about the Vistula Legion and the Lancers I was painting, I also came across some pictures from Leaders of the Polish Napoleonic Allies. I was inspired by some of the period paintings depicting Jan Henryk Dabrowski and Prince Josef Poniatowski, that I decided to paint the Prince, which I bought a while back from Front Rank Miniatures.

After seeing the paintings I decided to try again another kind of pinto horse, which I knew was used during that period by some of the Polish Army Commanders. I used again Andreas Black Paint set and for the first time also their White Paint set.

I also added some detail onto the horse with putty to represent extra tassles, more extravagant braiding and additonal harness features.

01.08.2009

I just finished the commission work of the six HYW Men-at-arms from Perry Miniatures.

Instead of watching DVD's as usual, I decided to listen to some Audio Books for a change. My wife recommended the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer as she had read the books conventionally. I must say it actually helped me focus on the project a lot better without looking up to the TV screen.

I started doing some research a while back into the coat of Arms of the period. The customer wanted the figures to represent French Knights and I found on the Internet just the right page for some inspiration. It is a Danish Website with a good Download section of Flags from different periods. Here I found also a page dedicated to French and English Flags during the Hundred Year War.

Here is the Link: DANSK FIGURSPILSFORENING

So, after basecoating the figures and the horses, I got to work on the faces and started first on the eyes. The Armour was then painted using my own technique to gain the realistic effect I wanted. Next I chose the appropriate Coat of Arms from the Webpage above and began painting the clothing.

I wanted to try something different for the horses and got some of my inspiration from a book by Danilo Cartacci. The White Dappled Horse and the Pinto / Bay Horse was the result. The Black Horse was actually painted using the new Black Paint Set from Andrea Miniatures and I was rather pleased with the result and very impressed with the paint. The Bay Brown and the Chestnut Horses were painted using a number of multiple layers of Foundry paints. My home made "Wet-Palette" was essential during the hot weather we are having at the moment and I could not paint without it anymore.

I chose complementary colours for each of the horses Leather Tack, Saddles and Blankets. The customer requested a realistic muddy field for the base.

The figures were completed with a coat of matt varnish.

Here is the finished Group:

12.07.2009

I have added the second lot onto EBAY. Lots of individual LOTR Figures, a couple Limited Edition Warhammer Fantasy and a few large scale historical specials (Andrea, Elite, Pegaso), still in their original packaging. I will try to add more now on the next few weekends.

On the painting side, I am in the process of finishing six mounted Men-at-Arms of the Hundred Year War from Perry Miniatures. Just the Horses to do and will be concentrating on the bases after. I will keep you posted about the progress and hopefully will be able to show some pictures by next week.

05.07.2009

I have finally decided to make room and sell some items of my unpainted collection. I started listing mostly Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, GW Lord of the Ring and some Metal Modeles 54mm figures for now but will add more in the next few days, i.e. Foundry, Redoubt Enterprise, Pegaso 54mm, Andrea 90mm, Verlinden 120mm, Elite 75mm and more GW stuff. Some older and also rare figures among them.

I hope there will be something for everyone.

14.06.2009

Well, at long last I have now been able to do some painting. It was months since my last brushstrokes. To get back to the swing of things, I have finished the remaining three ACW Command figures from Perry Miniatures.

I quite enjoyed them but the faces were again a particular challenge. I found the detail, especially in that area, in my opinion, a little bit "fuzzy".

Also, I actually started with the eyes for the very first time after applying the base colour. Made it bit easier for me to get the "look" right. Not quite perfect yet but getting there, I think.

Here is also a picture of the whole Command Group:

03.06.2009

I have now uploaded all my files again and took some time to re-construct my website. I am by no means an expert but wanted to keep my design very simple which makes it quicker to update. As you were probably aware, my server security was breached and malicious codes have been implanted on 46 pages of my site, as it seems I was not the only site to have been attacked. The guys from my Webhosting Service helped me no end and their server security was increased as a result. Google's Webmaster tool helped also a lot and with their help, I made sure my website was cleared! My page has got a "green tick" again on Google's Search Engine.

I deleted all my pages and started all over again. My site should be clean by now. Thank you all for your patience and I like to apologise to all if your visit to my page has resulted in an Virus attack on your PC.

If any of my visitors experience any broken links or other inconsistencies, please contact me by dropping me a line or so via EMAIL, so I can sort it out as soon as possible.

About my painting:

I am working on some bigger commissions at the moment, which include 12 Napoleonic Lancers of the Vistula Legion, 6 mounted Knights of the Hundred Year War and 4 Guns and 26 Crew Members & Officers of the Napoleonic British Horse Artillery. I will keep you informed about the progress of these.

I am also painting the remaining three Miniatures of my Confederate Command from Perry Miniatures, just for my own pleasure during some spare time.

30.05.2009

I am in the process of re-designing my whole webpage. I was meaning to this for some time now and have finally got round to doing it this weekend. I will ask all my visitors to be patient and I will let you know as soon as all links are working again! Sorry for the inconvenience!

17.01.2009

My first entry for the new year and things are finally moving...well me and my wife that is but first things first, as I also have some hobby news.

Just before Christmas I was able to finish my first Victrix figure. I received the metal figures as a special gift from Julian from Victrix. I added the pictures of the British Napoleonic Pioneer to my website.

I also had a lovely Christmas and I really enjoyed the few days off during the Bank Holidays. I received loads of wonderful gifts. Most of them, of course, hobby related. I got some sets of the new Foundry Napoleonic colours, a box of the Victrix Plastic Waterloo British Infantry Centre Company (which are really great), one box of the Plastic French Napoleonic Line Infantry from Perry Miniatures, also a few boxes of their Agincourt range, a 75 mm metal figure from Pegaso Models depicting a mounted 15th Century "Roaming Knight", which is an absolute beautiful sculpt and some more hobby related books. I surely have been spoiled.

Unfortunately my painting time has not improved and will has to stop completely for the time being, as we are now moving on the 14. February into our new place. I had to pack already most of my painting material away. Me and my wife still have to work right up to the moving date and therefore need to do as much as we can now.

My apologies to everyone in advance if I should not get back to you immediately via email. I will try to stay online as long as I can before finally packing the computer away and setting it up again in our new place. I hope the transition will be smooth and I am confident that the German Telecom will be able to install our new telephone line and the Broadband connection right in time.

I also would like to thank everyone for their patience in view of outstanding work on commissions and like to apologise for some long delays. I hope to resume my work on these as soon as my new hobby room is again fully furnished (which is, by the way, bigger than the last one, yipee).

"So many Figures, so little time...."

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