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So much goodness since the last time I checked in! Marvelous work JP. A real feast for the eyes!

Yep, great work all round. Top job.

Awesome Beastmen!

Like the Chieftain dude too, the sword-swap works well.

That chieftain is really nice! I'd be quite proud to have him running with my WoC lads
I think you did just the right amount of little cuts and bruising too. I think just a few is perfect to suggest the rough look, but any more and it gets lost in too much detail. I am not sure if that is a function of the scale where too much detail gets too busy to take in, or some ingrained human tendency to over-estimate wounds and bruises. All of the artwork I have seen involving banged up fighters seem to have a lot fewer marks on their bodies than I remember later on.

Also, Rainbow Birdman there is really cool

Looking good!!

@ Gits @ Dr H - Thank you Gits, Dr H, nice to see you still hanging around here!

@Aku-chen - Quite simple, but I think it works well too!

@ Wehrkind - Thank you, I think you are entirely right, I think a large part is due to scale, like you say, its simply not feasible to paint tiny scratches from bushed etc, so that even the smallast lines i can make with a crush represent quite considerable wounds! if you over do it I think it becomes too much because by rights they should be dead from blood loss!

@Rustproof - Cheers.


So although i quite liked the rainbow tzaangor it wasnt quite working for me, and then I had an idea, I was thinking how cool they would look painted like albinos, obviously different, but not over the top bright blue! So I have been practising my plale flesh on more of these savage orks, it gives a really different feel to these guys, will have to remember this for the future, albino orks look very intimidating! Sorry, the colours are a bit off on these, I took them in a hurry.





On a different note my local GW is running a halloween themed painting competition and to get me to work to a deadline Im going to try and enter. My entry is going to be a fresh member of this beastman warband, but to make him more haloween like i will likely add pumpkins etc to the base, personally i think he looks absolutely terrifying!


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Very nice! I love the work on the Halloween guy; that mask is just fantastic.

I really like the orcs too. Seeing them in pale flesh like that, it makes me realize just how similar the faces are to the vampire counts ghouls' faces. Scaled up and with a bigger jaw, but otherwise really similar. Huh...

That beastmen conversion looks absolutely amazing.

EDC

Yeah that Halloween model is just awesome! Very "Predator"

Very nice job on the pale flesh. Not too much... just right. Your Halloween model looks fantastic. Can't wait to see you get some paint on him!

@Wehrkind - Thanks! Its true, they are incredibly similar really arent they! I imagine as a sculptor if you find a winning recipe for faces it will be quite hard to not accidentally incorporate some of the same aspects.

@Evildrcheese / RiTides - Hope you like him with paint too!

@Gits - Thank you, yeah I find with pale flesh it can be really easy to go massively overboard if you are not careful.


Before I start guys, I have joined twitter, I am aiming to use this to do small updates, if you are interested come follow me:

https://twitter.com/JPMiniatures


So then guys, Just in time for halloween, and my local Games Workshop (Norwich) painting competition, here is my halloween themed gor! Replete with greenstuff pumpkins! I honestly had a fantastic time doing the base, I think woodland bases may be my new thing.






There is a reason I have been so slow to make this update...well, actually there are two, number one I was getting the shiny new watermark you can see on these photos made, and two, I was massively distracted chopping and sticking in something of a converting mania.

I don't know about you guys, but I think these are some of the best conversions concept wise I have ever had! Really really pleased with them! This whole feral army theme, with little else in the way of restrictions is absolutely fanatastic fun. Here are some of the results:

1) My first feral animated woodland construct thing, animated by a suitably crazy brayshaman in my mind! As you can tell, based mostly on a Kunnoth hunter, but with lots of grisly bone bits. The ''heart'' or whatever they are called has been replaced with a load of trophies and charms. Here he is with a bow:



And seeing as how if I ever played a game with them the most logical thing for them to prozy as would be minotaurs, here he with alternative arms and a big axe! Honestly so excited to paint him!




2) Now after I came up with the idea that this guy was designed and twisted and stitchted together by a suitably insane bray shaman, I knew I had to make him, plus I knew he had to look suitably wild! here he is. The skaven skull is a deliberate inclusion, the hobby butterfly will doubtless want to add some sneaky skaven to this rag tag bunch at some point.



3)Next up is a couple of ungors, and i must admit the stock poses are a bit rubbish and dated, so I have been making a bit of a more sophisticated ungor, after all, since the end times they have had thousands of years to gather some better clothing, this first one is still very WIP:




4) This second one came about when I thought about the idea of female beastmen, femgors if you will...... i figured small dainty archers mixed in with the ungors would be pretty neat and an awesome converting opportunity, again, very WIP:



5) To finish, I plan on painting this guy like an old gor with grey hair, just because:

Some fantastic work there! All those conversions work insanely well!

Thsnks para, I have to say I'm really psyched with how they are coming out. Indulging in all this fantasy chaos stuff has opened so many conversion opportunities for me I keep getting carried away, my mental list of ideas is almost endless at the moment.

Loving these conversions, they are all so unique

Metal AF as always!

Fantastic work on all of your beastmen, love the conversions on the ungors especially changes their whole feel. I don't know if you just put them on as placeholders but the thin elf arms look a little off tho.

Goddamn man... I love your work so much! Those conversions are just fantastic, and considering that beast men have never really done it for me, that is saying something. I am very impressed!

Nice work on the painted Halloween beastman, he's looking pretty rad.

The new conversions are looking great too, you've really outdone yourself!

EDC

It's been a while but I thought I'd poke my head round the door and check what was going on: I love everything in this blog.

What! Elnibbus is back!

Great conversions, your style is ultra clean, great blending.

I'd really love to hear how (maybe on the society page) you did the cuts and bruises on, as paradigm called him, grimdark Tarzan, and a bit about how you got that great textured look on the hooves. I won't hold my breath for the secret of your outrageously smooth blending

Love your work, J-paint That Bray-Shaman in particular, is all kinds of awesome!

WHAT THE

These feral conversions are amazing!! I have always had a soft spot for beastmen, and these are easily the best I have ever seen done. The conversions, the painting, the... oh my god. I can't even begin.

J-paint, please tell me that you're still working on these guys. I NEED to see what you do next!

@IGtR - Thanks, shame they are all so time consuming as well!

@Lecacty - Hahah, thanks!

@Two Spartan - Thanks for the feedback, I can see where you are coming from with the elf arms, I might bulk them up a tiny bit more before I call them finished, depends how impatient i get to add paint!

@Wehrkind - Hahah i would hope there aren't too many people who beastmen do it for! But questionable kinks aside, thank you!

@Evildrcheese - Fingers crossed I can live up to the hype!

@ Elnibbus - You are alive! Don't waste your time on this rubbish blog, we want to see updates!

@ Nerd - Hes becoming a lurker, its a slippery slope.

@Heretic Tom - Thank you very much! I would absolutely love to do a little bit for the society page, I will try and do it properly though, with step by step instructions! As with everything I do it will take a little while, so dont hold your breath, but I hereby commit to do mini tutorials on both!

@Angelofvengeance - Thank you! im excited to paint him!

@Freytag93 - Hahahahah this is some high praise! I hope this post lives up to your expectations! I am indeed working on them, but as any of my long term followers will tell you, progress is glacial around here!



Wow, so these guys are clearly going down well! I have spent the time since my last post slowly adding some paint to my minotaur construct, I had real fun trying out all the different textures on him, the bird beak and mushrooms in particular! The other texture I included on this guy was I coated all the wood areas with the textured GW cracking paints, personally I think it gives a fantastic depth to these parts and works really well as bark, its an idea I will probably be using again.
I have gone for quite a natural scheme with lots of bone, I imagine the brayshamans contorting and twisting it into shape with dark magic before linking it with that odd sinew-like brown wood flesh.
As you can probably tell he is not quite finished, he still needs to be based and I am holding off for now, I really want the basing on these guys to be something special so I have been stock-piling supplies and practising.
A quick question for you all, for the axe version of this guy, should he have some globules of blood and gore hanging from the head of the axe like the halloween project? Would this make it even more sinister or would it be a tad over the top?







And with bow instead:



And my favourites bits:
Its only when you see it like this that I realise I rushed the glow on the eye socket of the bird....will need to tidy that up.

That is crazy, brilliant and fantastically painted! I feel some blood would work on the axe just to add a splash of colour on an otherwise quite two-tone model.

The rest of the figure is very pristine and beautiful that way. I'd lay off the blood.

1 vs 1 for blood, any more votes?

I'm going to screw up the votes even more. I think long dry, crusty blood would be neat, like a kill from the last time he was summoned.

Darn it, I may steal this idea for my death army. maybe make the wood seem more dead and have more bones woven through it.

Great converting and painting.

Oh, and blood +1