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Showing posts with label dwarf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dwarf. Show all posts

Monday, 2 September 2019

DU BEKAR!

This is a gorgeous piece and I've been on with it on an off for a few months. It's been so long in fact that they were started with normal paints and had some final effects added with contrast paints which were released in the meantime.



The base was airbrushed and given a gloss varnish for the ice. 

From a modelling point of view, the only compexity was magnetising the weapons for Azog. In the film he is armed with the stupid great block you see here. However, I dislike it intensely. So...


1mmx2mm rare earth magnets recessed into both sides of the wrist, allowing me to swap them out as required. 








Overall, very happy with how this turned out as a display piece.




Wednesday, 6 March 2019

"All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by..."

We have lost the beacons, and the shadows lengthen. The company and I have spoken, and we are agreed: profit will pay second fiddle to survival. We will return home. Someday, somehow, we willl return home.



I've had an idea for some Kharadron Overlords for a while - a single sky ship, lost and far away from their home port, trying to find a way out of the realm of Shadows. This is very simly a test piece to try and nail down the colour scheme and also a test for a realm of Metal basing scheme.

I was going for a utilitarian look on the uniforms of the dwarf, although I am considerignhaving a mix of uniforms to suggest this is end of a skyfleet.

The base was made with sprue and a purple metallic paint.

Saturday, 4 August 2018

The Company of Thorin Oakenshield





I've been chunking away at getting these painted for my eldest. As always with Middle Earth miniuatures I've thoroughly enjoyed painting them although tracking down good reference shots for the whole costume has been a little tricky. I'm not done yet but I'm getting close to halfway.

Thorin


Balin





Dwalin

I'm particularly proud of his tattoos on his head



Bifur

Bofur


And, of course, they need someone to hunt them: Azog.



This last was my first experience of Finecast. It will also be my last.

Friday, 1 June 2018

Barak-Eik Expects


Our GW Store is having a painting competition  - as are all the others - and this is the first of my two entries. The full title is, of course, "Barak-Eik expects that every dwarf shall do his duty."

To be honest the main value of it was in helping me lock down the colour scheme for my Kharadron Overlords. 

The deck was made from coffee stirrers:




The dwarf was built more or less from stock, no conversions. 



The zombie pirate, on the other hand, required some fairly serious work. He started as the bog standard zombie from the sprues that are nearly 15 years old. 

The coat started as some tails from a Skitarii, with the upper section, torn sleeves and lapels sculpted from greenstuff:








And the hat was actually made from a disk of greenstuff in pretty much the exact way a real bicorn hat is made. 






Painting wise the KO was painted in a colonial british, East India Company scheme befitting their background as merchant venturers. 



The Barak Eik symbol was based on the EIC symbol.... 


...and then repeated on the deck of the ship















The whole thing was finally stuck to the base using a bit of sprue to get the tilt right.














Overall, another little project that came out exactly how I wanted it.