Eyes of Autumn diorama: Dark Sword miniatures

Way back in the 'glory days' of dioramas, I thought it would be fun to replicate some of the artworks of Larry Elmore in miniature form.  Dark Sword produces the miniatures used in this piece.  They are always super detailed, and nicely cast.  They are all characters from Elmore paintings.

This was my first attempt.  It is from a painting called "Eyes of Autumn".  I hope Mr. Elmore and Dark Sword don't  mind me using a small version of the image to show what I was going for!



Hee is the original picture of the artwork by Larry Elmore (fantastic!), on which most of Dark Sword's miniatures are based.  This gives you a good idea of what I was working towards with the diorama!



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Here are the miniatures by themselves:




And now for the work in progress images to show how it was made.  Obviously, I used regular sculpey for most of it (the white clay) with some Super Sculpey (pink) for more detailed pats that needed some extra strength.

Tainted World Eaters Rhino

Here is one more of the 'tainted' Pre Heresy Rhinos!  Each one of them was done a bit differently.  The weathering was my favorite part :-)  It's always easier to do that when the colors are lighter.

Angels Solarus take flight! Speeders!

I must say that the Forgeworld land speeders are a whole lot easier to deal with than the regular plastic versions.  They weigh a lot, being solid chunks of resin, but I didn't have to paint them in a dozen pieces and hope that I could get them all glued back together :-)

There was some trial and error when placing the colors on the various surfaces.  It's one thing to do this color fade on a space marine... but a vehicle is something entirely different!

















Here's the group shot:

My Favorite Dark Age Mini

I begin this gallery with what I consider my favorite Dark Age figure.  Not only are the details sculpted quite nicely, the muscles and motion of the figure are captured very well.  It was all done quite smoothly, making it so easy to paint.  It was one of those that just painted itself. :-)


I've got him up on Cool Mini or Not here:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/306301

Clean Slate: Grey Knights troops in slate color scheme

This unit of Grey Knight troops is yet another part of the Demonhunter army painted in the slate color scheme.  This time around, the shoulder pads were painted black with glowing red-orange designs.  I loved that!  It was a welcome change from the usual red with gold insignia :-)

Teeny Tiny, but neat... Thunderbolt Mountain

To give you an idea of how much smaller these are than 28mm scale, the horse is on a 25 mm round base.  However, these things are super detailed, despite the smaller scale.