Dahlia and Skarath

I didn't expect the last of the Hordes Minion Casters to be my favorite once painted, but I really like how Skarath turned out.   I decided to make the belly darker so as to best contrast with the middle section and back plates.  I tried to make Dahlia simple and complementary to her snake.  It seems like my camera came through today, and took a decent picture for once.  Cheers!

Tale of Painters for May!

I just thought I'd share some rough shots of the models I painted for Tale of Painters this month.  I painted over 2,000 points combined.  These were the pictures that went up to make the deadline.  They're a bit rough, but good shots should come over the next few weeks of the various models!

Tale of Painters for April (Month 8)

I got a bit of work done this month for the Tale of Painters project on Librarium Online.  I managed to turn something in on all five of my armies in progress, which is always a challenge.  I submitted:

20 Corsairs with Full Command
Six Doom Reavers
Wrong Eye and Snapjaw (also used as Beastmen models)
An Imperial Fists Dreadnought.

For the next month, I'm hoping to finish:

An Imperial Fists Tactical Squad
Khador Mechanics and a Greylord Ternion for Khador.
Rorsch and Brine for Trollbloods (with Brine also being a Beastmen Razorgor)

I'm also entering a contest on Librarium Online to paint 1,000 points in 24 hours, and will do so with Beastmen next week.  So I suppose whatever I manage to finish there will be my entry.

Wrong Eye!

What's better than one anthromorphed alligator?  Two, of course!  Especially since this one has a top hat and a bottle of liquor.  Wrong Eye will also be pulling double duty as a Beastmen Shaman.

One of the things you'll notice is the "frosting" on the model.  I got lazy and used Armory Spray Varnish again, and shockingly it killed a ton of detail again!  I have no one to blame but myself, and now poor Wrong Eye's coat is all glazed over.

I now have three of four "heroes" painted for my 2,250 Beastman army, but only one unit of core.  This is bad form, and I hope to have some Ungors and Warhounds running around soon.

Snapjaw!

Mmmmmm, Alligator goodness!  Snapjaw will be taking the place of my other Minotaur hero in my Beastman army.   Obviously gifted with sharp claws, tough skin, and well...a snappy jaw, hes going to be one nasty minotaur.  Now to get some actualy Ungors painted. Chomp chomp!

Tale of Painters for March (Month 7)

Vroom!  The Tale of Painters deadline for this month came and went, and so I had some entries.  Last month I painted (for ToP):

One Lysander of the Imperial Fists
One Khador Marauder
Lug and Brun Cragback for the Trollbloods
Ten Ungors for Beastmen (and Lug the Minotaur)
Fifteen Dark Elf Executioners

Pictures of all the craziness!

Lug

 

 

Yesterday I managed to finish up painting Lug, one of my absolute favorite models from Privateer Press.  Heck, he's probably one of my favorite models from anywhere, and he was a blast to paint.  Not only that, but he after assembling GW's metal models the past couple weeks, Lug was a joy to put together, in that his pieces actually fit together with very little green stuff. 

You'll notice he's currently on a 40mm x 40mm square base.  This is because he's too cool to just play in Hordes, and is going to pull Minotaur duty as a Beastman (along with a lot of the other Minion models).  Rargh!

Minions Madness 2010!

I recently completed painting what used to be, under the old Privateer Press system, 1000 points of Trollbloods.  It was a lot of fun for Tale of Painters on Librarium Online.  I still have six months of Tale of Painters entries, however.  So for those last entries, I decided to work on Minions.  Specifically, I'm going to work on the four Minion Warlocks. 

As soon as I saw the picture of Wrong Eye and Snapjaw (the Gators), I had to pick them up, and the Armored Bear wasn't far behind.  At that point, since they can all work with Trollbloods, it just seemed natural to go for all four.  So these will be my projects for the next few months (on the Trollblood side of things), and it looks like a great time. 

Alten Ashley, Monster Hunter

I've always liked the Alten Ashley model, and lately I've been doing a lot of bright reds and blues, not to mention an entire line of bright yellow miniatures. Doing a model in subdued browns and greens was really appealing. I wanted Alten to really be a model that would blend into the background. After all, it's my understanding that you can't do much "monster hunting" if you're wearing hot pink.