Knock Knock...

Who's there?  A tower!  Another piece painted for video credits and box art.

Each time I paint one of these, I learn a few little tidbits.

This one went faster than previous attempts, partly due to the craft paint that I used, rather than the acrylic paint from tubes and jars.

I was able to use various colors of paint to simulate additional blocks and bricks instead of having to carve them all in one by one.

When I put a few miniatures on the tower, it showed me that I had guessed right on the measurements to make it useful for actual games.

It is tall enough to block any line of sight, but wide enough at the top to allow a fair amount of figures to stand up there.

I keep getting more anxious to use these pieces of terrain in some games!

Look who;s coming to dinner...

Sneaking around the corner...

First of its kind

Well, here's a new kind of miniatures for me.  These are Mercs Miniatures.  I could not tell you the faction, or even what this guy is. :-)

I had done a lot of work on these guys during the White Scars project, and when the snow bases were being made.  I developed a few ways of approaching white, since that is a video I want to make in the future.  

I get asked about white and black so often, I knew I was going to have to get to those.

This particular white is very different from the recent White Scars white, since the snow would influence the overall mini in the same way that the bike bases did.  I needed a warmer white, but not anything yellowish.  The White Scars could have a more neutral/cool white, since the bases were a warmer color (and all the red/yellow markings).

They like their totem!

Once my trusty Lizards caught sight of the new totem, they immediately claimed it for themselves!

They even brought along some of the objective markers... and a swarm.

This makes me even more interested in seeing these things out on the gaming table with the Temple of Blood!

A close up of the little guys.  Blowpipes at the ready!

I forgot how much I used to love my skink blowpipes.  I had dozens of them, and they would roam all over the table creating havoc.  Perhaps I might start doing this again :-)

I wonder what sort of magical terrain this thing will represent in a given game.  Perhaps a Sinister Statue?

Chamber of Secrets

I dug out the Secret Weapon powders once again to make some dual purpose snow bases.

I needed to make some more of them for box art and credits, but also for some Merc figures.

These represent a variety of sculpting materials... sculpey, apoxy sculpt, and cork.

I will post some images of the Merc figures over the next week...

This base is for one of the Urban Warfare Viridians that I painted in snow camouflage as I worked on the jungle and desert camo for the video.

Here's the group shot!

Standing for all time...

The Obelisk!  Painted for the box art of the video, the credits, and such.

It will also make some nice Khemri terrain!

It is always a blast to see pink insulation foam transformed in this way :-)

The Tainted Pharaoh will be very happy!

Multi-tasking

Several projects required green stuff today, so I added a few things to the combo scratch build/bitz terradons.

As you might remember from the last post on these guys, I needed to get some green stuff on the joints where the plastic pieces and Apoxy Sculpt met.

I added some to the neck and to the legs, filling out any gaps and smoothing out textures where needed.

I also added some collars for the reigns to attach, and some rings on the tail to add more terradon bitz as decoration.

I dug out some old terradon bases, since I just wanted to see what I had.  I was also curious how the attachments on the hanging rocks was going to work out.

I wanted to keep that ball and socket joint, since I would like to be able to attach these to some of those pieces of Lizardman terrain.

It seems like the experiment continues to succeed quite well!!!  Stay tuned for more!

The totem rises

I was finally able to get the totem painted for the box art of the DVD!

I attached some of the same vegetation that I used on my Lizardman army.

I would still like to make one or more of these a terradon aerie.  When I finish off the other one, I will try to put some nests on it!

I might still add some snakes to this, just to get a wee bit more color.

Still, it was nice to see it with the flock!

I have some static grass that I will probably add as well.

It's always fun to make terrain!

It should be a blast to play some games with these. :-)