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Uhm... just a note, that little black bit on the bottom of that guy's spear? That's just a little bit of sprue there.... Might wanna clip that off

I am loving the skin tones on the boars though! Ever so slightly pinkish and fleshy... well done!

Great now we have to credit you as caster AND sculptor....The flash actually looks like it belongs.

Wehrkind wrote:Uhm... just a note, that little black bit on the bottom of that guy's spear? That's just a little bit of sprue there.... Might wanna clip that off

I was actually wondering why ONE guy didn't have the little spear-butt... Now I know!

miskatonicalum wrote:Great now we have to credit you as caster AND sculptor....The flash actually looks like it belongs.

LOL well if you put it that way... naw, I'll nip it off. Now I'm not going to be able to see it without knowing its just sprue!

Wehrkind wrote:
I am loving the skin tones on the boars though! Ever so slightly pinkish and fleshy... well done!

Thanks! Yeah this color is hard to highlight up without it turning weird. Once I get all the light colored basing material in place, they are going to stand out really nicely.

Update!
OK, here they are as of tonight. I decided to go ahead and base them to see how the colors all look with the lighter basing.


Lioness. I looked to National Geographic for a nice lion face, and voila




I'll post more tomorrow!

Looks great Gym! Can't wait to see them in person

Yeppers, I'm going to try to get them finished today!

All I have left are various highlights and fixes, the jars and pouches on the Hyenas, and the Warhog shields. All very do-able! So, anyway, here they are as of this morning!

Some alternate views of the Lioness:



Warhogs, various shots:





Hyenas! I really like these guys...

I've been following for a while and just realized that I haven't posted here yet!

These look great, Gym. I especially like the skin tones on the warthog. The bit of colorful detailing on the witch doctor are a nice touch, too!

I'm looking forward to seeing more - and thanks for posting the Amamimoto pic a few pages back, it was so fun to paint!

Ferris Bueller wrote: It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.

Thanks, Gavin Thorne! I have an Amamimoto on the way... I am pretty sure Ribenguo is going to be my go to faction so I must have him.

So I need some assistance. This is driving me nuts. On the Hyena back, there are a bunch of gourds which I assume hold the Poisonous spores. There is a lot of really cool detail on these.

So, the problem. Just above the loincloth, in the upper right and left corners, is something. Can't tell what it is. They kinda look like fur tufts, but are a bit too exaggerated. Please, help me out... what are these things? Edit- Or, how should I paint them? Fur tufts, or something else? I have to say, the more I look at them, the more I'm leaning to fur, but please assist!

Context shot



Detail



Question 2... should this be my new profile pic? I need to fix his workin' eye, but his expression is so creepy, I love it!




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I decided to just paint the weird things on the Hyena's back as fur...

I got nothing on the mystery furs, but I do really want to see a picture of those hyena's dribbling basketballs with their left hands.

Also, get some warpaint/warmud on those piggies!

Awsome work! I also hear that the warpigs have the power.

Well here they are, all done except the final review (need to look at them with my eyes refreshed so I can see any boo boos).


LOL yeah the hogs are a bit clean... but the shields look like barely cured cow hide! I'll have to post a pic of all the shields.

Edit- Yeah, Catyrpelius, I'm now scared to get into it with the warhogs! Plus the hyenas can poison enemies, yet cure their own when collateral damage inevitably occurs. They are pretty bada... pig.

Edit 2- Shields!


Oh, and the tails and such on the hogs... Totally in keeping with the fluff. Zabar had a big war with Axony, so I thought it would only make sense for them to have cat tails as trophies. Oh and yeah, one fox, because well, it just felt right.

They look great Gym!

Something smaller next, eh?

Yep, the little guys are about 75% done... can I post pics, or do you want me to keep them under wraps?


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Gavin Thorne wrote:

Ferris Bueller wrote: It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.

I totally got a laugh out of this, but forgot to respond... Bueller?

My favorite... "How do we get the miles off the car?"

"We'll drive home backwards!"

(Or something like that)

Sure, their existence is public knowledge at this point

OK, here they are! Still WIP, but they are already looking freakin' cute...

The shading on the Oil Can is looking really good!

Ah- gerbils!!

Yes, I get the most interested in models that I can take (as pilots for Valkyrs, I think... if the main Valkyr model gets sculpted).

The Zabar are great, although I also wished for a bit more muddy hogs! Or war-painted like the hamsters, instead. But a fantastic job on that warband

Catyrpelius wrote:Awsome work! I also hear that the warpigs have the power.

And Hyenas are poisoning their brainwashed minds....

(little slow on the uptake, d'oh)

Cyporiean wrote:The shading on the Oil Can is looking really good!

Yep, I'm liking it. I'm finding lots of little areas that need fixing, though. I had to patch some rough spots on the tails and fill in some shadows tonight. I did spend some time detailing the faces, too.

RiTides wrote:Ah- gerbils!!

Yes, I get the most interested in models that I can take (as pilots for Valkyrs, I think... if the main Valkyr model gets sculpted).

LOL yeah, the gerbils are pretty cool little models. But you know... you could take Warhogs as mercenaries.

RiTides wrote:The Zabar are great, although I also wished for a bit more muddy hogs! Or war-painted like the hamsters, instead. But a fantastic job on that warband

I'll still go over these guys one last time before sending them off. I'm debating whether to try for warpaint. What I could do... hmm. I could paint evil looking pig faces on the shields, like the official artwork. That would at least make them look a little more... more angry, more all that good stuff. Hmm...

I like the cowhide shields, was just thinking of the skin

They are great as-is but a little paint on the bodies would put them over the top, I think! Could make it orange instead of the blue you used on the hamsters?

White War Paint on the bodies/face could be pretty good.

Like a Mike Tyson tatoo?


(I kid!)

I'll do a little looking at warpaints.

If your concerned it won't come out right and don't want to mess up the skintone, you can do it on the next batch of Shaka War Hogs I send your way

Those look really fantastic Gym! Really, I am very impressed!

Thanks, Wehrkind!

I've been out of town, but I'm back! Today I completed a Sand Guard. He was based on this guy:



I did some general googling for Arabian and Turkish armor, and saw a lot of light colors, including blue-grey and whites, as well as reds. So, this is what I came up with:

The face chainmail is surprising and cool. Paint job looks nice, although the sculpt/pose is a little stiff, I think.

Yeah, I am debating if some conversions could give it some motion. Maybe a headscarf thingy that was billowing in the wind. He was fun to paint, though.

Yeah, and I love the head (sculpt and paintjob) in particular. Just feel the body/arms sculpt suffers a bit, but you've brought out the best in it.

So, you will be painting more Brushfire from the hotel room at GenCon, yes?

Take pics of your minis that they are displaying at the Brushfire booth!!

LOL no painting in Indy. I finished them all yesterday... I am gonna wait till I get them to Cyporiean before posting photos, though.

And yes I will take plenty of detail photos of the Brushfire display cabinet! There are some minis in the pic on the Facebook page that I can't quite recognize, that have a turquoise color, so I'll be sure to take detail pics of those.

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Brushfire display at GenCon...



What is that kiwi-looking thing in the bottom right corner??? I'm dying, here! Need to see this stuff. Tomorrow can't come soon enough...

I just got home from GenCon. What an amazing con! So with no further delay, here are the Red Wu (they've already been posted in the N&R Brushfire thread, but I'm posting them here for the sake of completeness)



Edit- typo

So its been quite a while since I've updated... but I have some new WIPs to show!

Veiled Assassins... it has taken much longer to work through the skin than I expected. The texture is so fine and beautiful, it is very easy to go overboard and obliterate the visibility of the individual scales. I'll need to go through and refine the skin more, and base them of course!

As usual I did research on skin colors for the critter at hand, and learned a lot about chameleons. Evidently they usually are shades of green, with slight hints of yellow, orange, and blue, with striped or spotted patterns. They don't actually change color to match their background, like you see in cartoons (I was shocked, I tell you!). Generally, they more are trying to look like a leaf on a branch. Unless they get stressed out. Then, they get much more brightly colored. Really interesting stuff!

Anyway, so that is why I chose the colors I did.





Here is another WIP shot of the Endless: Fantasy Tactics sorcerer. This is a fantastic sculpt with great details... little mushrooms and flowers all over! So I've gotten through all the larger areas, just need to detail him up!