The Big Bang Theory

OK!  Let's see what we have now.  While a fourth Castellax is on it's way today, with a 5th right behind it, I wanted to check them out next to the Krios!

The last two walking beasts have different weaponry then these three...

Don't mess with these guys!

And with the Krios.  I've been wanting to see these kind of views, to check out how all the colors are working together.

I was glad to see all the reds in harmony!

It's scary to think that I am working on two more walkers for this army that dwarf all this stuff!

This is a load of Dakka!

And on the other backdrop.

The glow...

Marching to battle.

More later tonight!

Marble Everywhere!

Some finished shots for you of the latest round of marble bases.

It's fun to see them on a backdrop not covered in paint!

I know there's lots of fun minis that would neat on this one...

And this one...

And they will be Dark Sword minis :-)

A family portrait!

Zoe

The second member of the Wayward Eight... looking a lot like Zoe.

The nature of the Wild West figures does call for a palette that is centered on shades of brown!  I have been adding greens and even purple in some areas to get a little bit of variety.

It's the nature of the beast, however, when the side you fought for is known as the Brown Coats :-)

Zoe and River!

River and Zoe...

She's so tiny

The first miniature from the Wild West Exodus Wayward Eight set is complete!  This is 'River".

After doing all these giant projects such as the Siege Train, the Holy Roller, and all these Forgeworld beasts... she seemed like a gnome!

You might remember the set of bases I made with the Happy Seppuku moulds.  The idea was to create the deck of Serenity.

Seven more to go!!

A few more Tomb Kings

Here's a few more Tomb Kings units for you.  First, some scratch sculpted Carrion.  Two headed and multi colored to match the story that I wrote for the army.

Also, the columns were sculpted by carving baked sculpey.  They tell the story of the Second Fall of Pseusenes.

It was not easy to carve in those textures around the cylindrical surface, that's for sure!

My hands hurt a little bit afterwards, but the results were worth it!

This unit of Ushabti never was included in a game.  They were extra decoration on the army board to fill in a few alcoves.

They were fun to paint, just like the bow wielding variety.

Glowing weapons, just like the rest!

One more look...

And some individual shots.

One more Castellax

Now for the next one!  And you guessed it, more on the way.

It was a bit of a challenge to get him onto the base... mostly because I was trying not to cover up so much of my icon that I painted on the base :-)

The view from above...

And a different look on a different backdrop.

Waiting for fall...

With the crazy way these last few weeks of summer have gone, I will certainly take fall... if not winter, over this.

Between many tasks today, a few layers of paint were applied to that base set.  I decided to go with a darker red to contrast the previous marble color.

I also brought out a few weathering powders to tone down some areas and smooth out some textures.

Not quite done with these yet, but I may wait until I have some minis to put on them first.

They were more for testing some things than anything else, but I'm sure I can find some fun Reaper or Dark Sword minis to put on them!

You may not remember that huge batch of Mica texture forest bases, but I had some colors out already for something else, and I wanted to use them up!  This is the benefit of having those million and one simultaneous projects :-)

Painting the Mica is more art than science.  Sometimes the layers don't separate quite as much when you apply them, and you have to "paint in" the leaves a bit more.

This can be done by either painting some darker colors under those 'edges', or doing some brighter highlights along those edges.  I try not to get too crazy with those highlights, as the goal is to enhance the miniature, and not detract from it!