Sunday, May 13, 2012
Confrontation Kelt Centaurs
Here's a big gallery of Confrontation Centaurs from Rackham. I am glad that the line is being somewhat revived by Cool Mini. They were really amazing figures, and they did create a lot of new painting and sculpting standards along the way.
Speed painted Sarumon
For those of you who saw the WIP's of this figure yesterday, here is your payoff: Sarumon painted.
I spent about 3 hours on this, using large brushes, working my shaded basecoat technique to the extreme. I wanted to see just how far that could be pushed. It was kind of an important experiment, since I have multiple armies (LOTR and WFB) that will need to be painted in an insane rush. These armies are strictly for playing, but if I did want to enter them in a contest, I tried to leave it so that they could be "finalized" for such purposes.
This was my verison of entertainment... about the same equivalent of playing a video game for a while :-)
Here is one of the WIP's for anyone who missed it:
I spent about 3 hours on this, using large brushes, working my shaded basecoat technique to the extreme. I wanted to see just how far that could be pushed. It was kind of an important experiment, since I have multiple armies (LOTR and WFB) that will need to be painted in an insane rush. These armies are strictly for playing, but if I did want to enter them in a contest, I tried to leave it so that they could be "finalized" for such purposes.
This was my verison of entertainment... about the same equivalent of playing a video game for a while :-)
Here is one of the WIP's for anyone who missed it:
Forgeworld Grey Knights Dreadnought
Here is a Grey Knights dreadnought in the same color scheme as the Adepticon army. I have a few more of these coming...
Here are some of the bases I made for this group of dreadnoughts :
And terminator size bases to match!
Here are some of the bases I made for this group of dreadnoughts :
And terminator size bases to match!
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Saruman in 30 minutes or less...
Ever find yourself in need of a Saruman on horseback to make the Grima/Sarumon combo work with your Easterling/Khandish speed demon army? And you only have 30-40 minutes to spend on said project?
Should you find yourself in this situation, and you have:
An unused Ringwraith mini
Some Empire bits
Green Stuff and plasticard,
than you can make yourself the needed figure in quick order.
When I noticed that the robes of the Rinwraith were not full of holes and tears, as I first thought it would be, I thought it could work. I sawed off the hood/head, and left off the sword arm. I found an Empire head that looked as close to Saruman as possible, and pinned it in place. I did the same with the arm. I was not concerned if it did not look exactly like the official staff. I wanted something glowy!
Then, I remembered that the Palantir is a one use item, so I put the Palantir together in a few minutes with poystyrene tubing and plasticard. Again, I did not want to spend a lot of time on this, since I may only ever use that Grima/Saruman combo in one game!
As that was setting up, I sculpted the hair and the rest of the robes. I put him on a magical looking base, so now he is ready to paint! The whole process took around 30+ minutes. I will be speed painting him, (probably as a warm up) in the next few days. I will post those images when ready!
Should you find yourself in this situation, and you have:
An unused Ringwraith mini
Some Empire bits
Green Stuff and plasticard,
than you can make yourself the needed figure in quick order.
When I noticed that the robes of the Rinwraith were not full of holes and tears, as I first thought it would be, I thought it could work. I sawed off the hood/head, and left off the sword arm. I found an Empire head that looked as close to Saruman as possible, and pinned it in place. I did the same with the arm. I was not concerned if it did not look exactly like the official staff. I wanted something glowy!
Then, I remembered that the Palantir is a one use item, so I put the Palantir together in a few minutes with poystyrene tubing and plasticard. Again, I did not want to spend a lot of time on this, since I may only ever use that Grima/Saruman combo in one game!
As that was setting up, I sculpted the hair and the rest of the robes. I put him on a magical looking base, so now he is ready to paint! The whole process took around 30+ minutes. I will be speed painting him, (probably as a warm up) in the next few days. I will post those images when ready!
Privateer press... A bunch of Cutthroats!
I think when I painted these figures, they were mostly meant for IronKingdoms RPG. I could be wrong... it was a while ago!
More lovely ladies from REAPER
Well, not all of them are lovely ladies :-) Once more, this shows just how much crazy variety there is in the Reaper line. They have gotten even more elaborate with some of their figure sets in recent years, creating some pieces that make great dioramas or unit fillers for Fantasy armies.
This is actually a stowaway from Cathy's Reaper gallery. I think she was messing around with her snow basing technique at the same time I was. That happens a lot :-)
This is actually a stowaway from Cathy's Reaper gallery. I think she was messing around with her snow basing technique at the same time I was. That happens a lot :-)
Masque Of Slaneesh
When I saw this piece, all I could think of was the first game of WFB when she and the Greater demon of Slaneesh earned the nicknames of "Bonnie and Clyde".
This was back in the days of 7th edition. I was playing my Lizardmen, as usual, and Rich had his Demons. On the first turn, he had the Masque and the Demon sprint over to my lines, where "Bonnie" the Masque performed her dance, and "Clyde" the Demon did his leadership spank as well. It caused units of salamanders to take off running.
That meant that I had to come up with ways to combat Bonnie & Clyde, mostly in the form of giant skink & Kroxigor units. With the way shooting used to work with large targets, the demon was getting hit with 30-40 poison shots at a time. Then the Demon went away.
This was back in the days of 7th edition. I was playing my Lizardmen, as usual, and Rich had his Demons. On the first turn, he had the Masque and the Demon sprint over to my lines, where "Bonnie" the Masque performed her dance, and "Clyde" the Demon did his leadership spank as well. It caused units of salamanders to take off running.
That meant that I had to come up with ways to combat Bonnie & Clyde, mostly in the form of giant skink & Kroxigor units. With the way shooting used to work with large targets, the demon was getting hit with 30-40 poison shots at a time. Then the Demon went away.
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