Practice makes Perfect

This piece was done a while back as practice for a few of the videos.  I practiced the flesh tones for the Demonette video, as well as the big Ultraforge demon.  Obviously, freehand was in that practice session as well!

All of the Mantis Warrior figures from Raging Heroes are easy to put together, and have a ton of variety, considering they are metal minis!  You can mix and match parts of them without having to chop them up.

This one will be part of the third auction wave, coming tomorrow or Saturday!  Stay tuned!

Is this your final Response?

OK, last of the Response team before the group shots.

Again, these were probably painted sometime in 2008...

I may be seeing them again next year at Adepticon, if I ever get the time to be in the dealer's room! :-)

Consider yourself conscripted

Some of you may remember the concept behind the combined I.G. Sisters army, and that it was going to have mass amounts of conscripts.  The idea was to have 'locals' recruited as these conscripts.

While the female warriors generally go on to become Sisters of Battle, or officers, the lads end up as conscripts like these.

I took some plastic historical Celts and added a few pieces of gear.  Some of it was I.G. bits, and some backpacks were from Victoria Miniatures.

These are some partially complete conversions, minus some green stuff straps and purity seals.

I still have to determine exactly what kinds of base they will go on.  Since they occupy the underhive, I think it will be quite dirty. :-)

I am looking forward to doing some color tests on these.  Obviously, there will be some stripes and some plaid going on!

I believe that there are 40 of these guys in the army list, so that's why the plastic Celts seemed to be the way to go.  I seem to remember boxes of 20 for $40, or an even better price per mini ratio.

I did one set of 10, and these are the first five of the bunch.  Again, the basing will likely change.

For those not familiar with it, here are some images of the Sisters of the Raven, and their color scheme.  The Celtic look carries through all aspects of the two allied armies.

The Raging Heroes Kurgonava Sisters made outstanding Commissars!

More iconography...

and a link to a previous post:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-future-holds.html

Here's a sketch of the leader of the army, Living Saint Morrigan.

Cathy's Malifaux Bases

Here's a brand new set of bases that Cathy made for her new Malifaux crew!

She did some really neat work with the sculpey, getting lots of fun little details.  In fact, I kept noticing new ones each time I took an image from a different angle.

The sewer grate is very cool, and the wood platform even has a little knot hole!

Cathy was the first one to carve barrels from a piece of sculpey.  This technique was included in one of the videos!

Cathy loves to make green stuff cobblestones!  I have always had a tough time with that.

Here is the whole set.  I loved how the hand is coming out of the water!  Her first try at using the Secret Weapon Miniatures body parts.

I will take some more WIP images of these with the figures on them next...

Stay tuned!!

Dominating the conversation

Well, when I posted the first images of this the other day, I did not expect to create such a gigantic firestorm of angst and rage.  No matter how many times I tried to explain that this was just a fun piece made for an Inquisitor RPG, that was ignored and the flames grew higher.

The whole idea behind this was for it to be outlandish, powered as it was by Xenos tech from a corrupt Inquisitor.  It was that technology that made this 'fly'.  The engines that you see are mere directional thrusters.

Here's a close up of the unit insignia, which was a lot of fun!  I love creating new logos :-)

I will still try to finish this off, especially now with all the Secret Weapon products that I now have!

Aside from the wings, the majority of the work went to creating the crew cabin.  That had to be enlarged to that it could also work as a transport for the retinue.

Any named vehicle needs nose art, so here we go!

And then there were four

I had forgotten that all five of the Response Team members were different poses.  I did n't realize that until I worked on the unprocessed photos.

I am pretty sure that Armorcast made the bases as well.  I think they still bring these to Adepticon each year...

Not a Secret any Longer!

Hey, another super box from Secret Weapon Miniatures just arrived!!!

Inside was some splendid new items... Plinths of all shapes and sizes!

Here are a the designs, broken down into a few categories.  This is the Town Square series.  The edges are all very clean, and the composition of the 'cut' plinths are quite nice!

Here's a round from the same series...

And then we have these!  I already have a few things that will find their way on top of these plinths.  As with everything else, nice clean edges.  No more screwing around with wooden plaques for me!

The Egg Plinth is something I have not seen before.  Perhaps something Eldar should go on that.  The square plinths will be for Stikki Wikkit and Baby Babo, I think :-)

I look forward to using these.  I will experiment with a magnet sheet and some metal to see if that will stay flush... otherwise I will drill out a hole for a RE magnet.

Some general shapes that will do nicely.  I see some Dark Eldar Jetbikes residing on these!

I did this to illustrate how even everything is, with no imperfections.  Plenty of sizes to work with!

Yes indeed.  Whatever size or shape you might need, you will find.

Another shot with the super fancy plinths and the block format.  So, I will proceed with some bases for the tops of these massive plinths!

Actually, I was very glad to see lots of blank plinths.  You know how I love basing... so it will be a blast building up a base to go on top.  I have never gotten a chance to try that out!  This will be very cool.

Thanks again to Justin and the good folks at Secret Weapon Miniatures!!!!

Be sure to check out the new line of sewer bases:

http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=products_new