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All looking excellent Minus, the new warforge model looks nice although the sculpt looks a bit busy for some reason.

Really like the group shots of the Alkemy and Eden minis, I'd love to see some in game shots of the Alkemy game.

Beautiful work, they all look amazing.

GiraffeX wrote:All looking excellent Minus, the new warforge model looks nice although the sculpt looks a bit busy for some reason.

Thanks.
I like the sculpt of this new model. Don't know if its sculpt is busy, but I liked painting it.

GiraffeX wrote:Really like the group shots of the Alkemy and Eden minis, I'd love to see some in game shots of the Alkemy game.

I'll post some photos, then.

Camkierhi wrote:Beautiful work, they all look amazing.

Thank you Cam' !


I quote my last message here to have the photos on this page... for the lazy people like me.

 Minus wrote:
Ok. Been away for a while. Thanks for your comments.
I have some news to show. Hope you'll enjoy !

First, I painted 2 more models for Alkemy. This is all I have for that game so far.
Now I'm painting a few objective markers.






I painted a werewolf-like model for Eden. I painted every model that was released for my faction :




And the whole group so far :






Then I painted a second model for Kolaps. Do you remember Nicolescu, the butcher looking model with a two handed axe ? Here's his friend, Vlado the penitent :





And the last model I just finished is the latest WarForge model, Nikita the assain :




I also have in game photos of Alkemy. I can post some if you are interested.


@ Casey : to get a bright pink, you should use a white undercoat. If the model is primed black, paint the pink areas white first. You can use the new citadel base white. Then apply a rich deep color, like the old Warlock purple. Then highlight with pink and white.

I got some photos of my latest Alkemy game. We had a 3 player game. The ruleset is not made for it, but we wanted to have a try. And it works really well.

The templars are marching to an old sanctuary :




Aurlok warriors get out of the jungle :




My own Aurloks, called the Nervials, were resting close to a pond :




The table at the beginning of the game :




The Aurloks have seen the templars and move to intercept them.





In the center of the table a lot of fights happen :




The Aurlok wolf attacks the Nervial shaman :




The Aurlok wolf attacks the Nervial toad. The toad doen't look that dangerous, but he kills his opponent and drowns his body into the pool.



In the back, we can see the Templar commander smashing heads.

That's a very neat battle mat (and the figures look great!).

Looks like a fun game with some lovely painted minis all round.

Happy New Year everybody !

What are your modelling plans for 2015 ?

Gitsplitta wrote:That's a very neat battle mat (and the figures look great!).

It's the official mat, sold by the game editor. And yep, it looks good.

GiraffeX wrote:Looks like a fun game with some lovely painted minis all round.

It's a fun game. It totally works around objectives, killing everyone doesn't make you victorious. Insted, you have to activate beacons, close magic vortex and so on.
I'm only a beginner with Alkemy, but the game mechanics are simple to learn and the fighting systems is really great. It uses special dice, with values and symbols. You launch two dice. The values of the dice plus your combat skill are compared to the target's defense to see if you hit your opponent. If you do, the symbols combination determines how many life points are removed.
Simple and effective. I really like it.



I also painted some NPC models for Eden the game :

Models look awesome, that looks like a great game you had.

Happy New Year, looking forward to seeing what you are upto this year.

They are nicely painted although a bit weird on the model side

I had a look round on both Eden's (Taban) website and Alkemy and they have some nice minis but there's no rules for Eden and Alkemy is only in French. Do you know if Alkemy will be doing a translated version?

Camkierhi wrote:Models look awesome, that looks like a great game you had.

Happy New Year, looking forward to seeing what you are upto this year.

I have several projects for 2015. One of them is to get back to my Dark Eldars Army.
But the next project is to paint 2 more NPC for Eden.

GiraffeX wrote:They are nicely painted although a bit weird on the model side

Those beasts live in a world that was wasted by nuclear bombs... this caused some consequences. The lycals look like a mix between a wolf and a hyena... with 4 eyes... well one even has 6 eyes.

GiraffeX wrote:I had a look round on both Eden's (Taban) website and Alkemy and they have some nice minis but there's no rules for Eden and Alkemy is only in French. Do you know if Alkemy will be doing a translated version?

The rules exist for Eden. You can download them for free in english : http://www.eden-the-game.com/downloads-ins15.html
For Alkemy, they are currently translating the rulebook. I have no idea when it will be ready but I'll ask if they have a deadline.

If you are interested by this game and have some questions, feel free to ask. I'd be happy to help.

Thats cool thanks Minus

I'll add them both to my list of games to check after I've completed some of my current projects.

No problem.
Once again, if you have questions feel free to ask.


I just finished two more NPC for Eden. Two sort of zombies wandering through the desolations.

Excellent job on the bluejeans Minus.

Thank you Gits !
This time, I tried painting the pants using only washes. I quite like the result... and most important is that it was quick and easy !

They are nice pants, which wash did you use for the zombie on the left, that's a nice colour blue.

Hi GiraffeX !
It's really simple... I was surprised that it looks so good in the end.
I painted on a zenithal basecoat (zenithal white spray over black coat). First I painted the pants with space wolves grey.
Then I applied a wash made of ultramarines blue + black + medium.
Last step was to add devlan mud on the dirty areas.

Finished. Waiting for the washes to dry was the longest part.

Thats a lot easier than I thought it would be, cheers

You're welcome.



Last week-end was my gaming club's Convention. We organized an Eden tournament on Sunday and we had 14 participants.
I took photos of the event, I thought that you might like to see them.


ISC drones are patrolling in the desert.




Bamaka warriors are attacked by the Matriarchy.




Fighting in the heat of the foundry :




Sister Yliss has found machines. She orders to destroy them.




Survivors are exploring the parking lot of an abandonned mall.




Wait ! Doesn’t this look like Mad Max ?




An intense fight in the remains of an industrial area.




You can see more images in my gallery right here : http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-50760-45085_Eden_tournament_18_01_2015.html

Really cool shots & fantastic gaming spaces... wow!

Thank you Gits !

It's something I like with Eden, when you deploy your painted minis on the table, you can feel the post-apocalyptic tribe.

That looked like a great day out, those tables are amazing.

It was a great day.
Thank you GiraffeX !


Lately I realized that I had painted a lot of models for skirmish games (Eden, Fury, Alkemy, Kolaps) last year, but almost nothing related to 40k.
Then I decided to paint some Dark Eldars to make my army grow up.

I needed a Raider for my Grotesques, so I went on.
The raider itself is almost finished (only have to add all the dirty details) and the monster is only at the beginning.

Now that is very interesting. Looks brilliant, monster looks awesome sat like that.

Loving your use of confrontation minis (as always!) - go dirz!

Camkierhi wrote:Now that is very interesting. Looks brilliant, monster looks awesome sat like that.

I wanted this raider to be immediately identified as the Grotesques transport. I think it's clear enough, isn't it ?

inmygravenimage wrote:Loving your use of confrontation minis (as always!) - go dirz!

You should love what's coming next, as I'm painting the one that comes on top of the raider, and another to be my squad leader.


I'd also like to share this with you. Some folks here could be interested by the Kolaps Reboot.
Remember my Nicolescu (the butcher with a two handed axe) and Vlado (the living dead penitent) ? If you liked them, there's currently an Indiegogo for a reboot of that game, with the first 2 factions : APC (some kind of private police agencies) and also the Vampires.
The game is not translated yet but the models are fantastic. The Indiegogo is already funded, the models have been sculpted so there's no risk with this one. More information on TGN : http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/kolaps-ground-zero-rebooted-on-indiegogo/



More pics of the raider coming soon.

New WIP picture.
The raider is almost done, I'll add some dirty, shiny and sticky details in the end. Right now I'm painting the passenger.

Raider looks awesome. How did you paint the tank? Looks creepy (in a good way)

It give the phrase :Swab the poop deck!" a whole new meaning

Red Corsair wrote:It give the phrase :Swab the poop deck!" a whole new meaning

So true !

Nashbashem wrote:Raider looks awesome. How did you paint the tank? Looks creepy (in a good way)

I painted the tank white, at first. The content (the ugly thing) is painted using several layers of Army Painter washes (they are similar to previous GW ones like the famous Devlan Mud). I used sepia, brown, red and purple washes, and applied them successively starting from a lower point, so the liquid is darker at the bottom.
Then I painted the fluid surface with a thin brown line.
At this point, the inside of the tank is done. Next steps are to paint all the dirt streaks coming from the upper trap door. On the previous image, these are made with brown and green washes. To get the final result you can see below, I added some more streaks with pigments.

You can add some white lines and dots to simulate the reflection. And in the end add some gloss varnish.

Might sound complicated, but honestly it's not because it doesn't require much care or precision except for the liquid surface.



And the Raider is complete.
I added a character on the front, to show that this space is free. That way I can show in game who embarqued the raider.





Hope you'll like it.

New painted model : my Grotesque's squad leader.