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Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps





Earlobe deep in doo doo

Great stuff used to shoot with a legally blind archer.

"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
Mekagorkalicious -Monkeytroll
2017 Model Count-71
 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






That orky fella on his doggy is looking mighty fine, excited to see more from this army. And congrats on reaching 100 pages
   
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





Affton, MO. USA

@Llamahead, I hope you didn’t cheat and tell him he missed every time he hit the bullseye .

@Viterbi, I am pleased with how he turned out, so much so that even my new Ito guys are having a hard time of keeping my attention. The Not-Dwayne Johnson’s may get painted next .

Well, got some free time, so I painted a two headed snake ....not something you hear often.


He has a few gaps and flash spots, but I am no professional....and didn’t see them till too far in. He is also a lot of points 25 I believe and a huge target being a 50mm base.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Mostly, on my phone.

Lovely skin tones. I'm a sucker for serpentfolk in any setting. Bushido?


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Also I think that warn brown base trim works really well, unusual but compliments the fig.

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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
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Affton, MO. USA

Thanks Graven, have t decided the secondary color for the base as I do two for facings.

The first of the blessed, and probably the one that caused me to order Ito instead of buying the Shiho clan stuff.

Akame


With a size comparison. She is on a 30mm and he is a 50mm. Some of the other snake people are on 40mm bases, so really gives the army some flavor just with sizes.

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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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Calculating Commissar






Reading, Berks

Both of those are great characters! Some of the brown spots on the two headed serpent may look better if a bit darker, then dry brushed the lighter colour? They are quite pale in places

   
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Affton, MO. USA

 endtransmission wrote:
Both of those are great characters! Some of the brown spots on the two headed serpent may look better if a bit darker, then dry brushed the lighter colour? They are quite pale in places

Looking at him this morning the whole model was lighter. I guess all the wash had dried and shrunk back, so another all over coat of sepia for big snake.

Also started on Yuui, I like the bluish scales, I think they came out well.

Also changed the gold on the weapons to iron warrior steel.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain






A Protoss colony world

I've had it with these motherf*ing snakes in this motherf*ing thread! Lol jk of course (I couldn't resist!), they are really cool models and you are making them look great with your paintjobs!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Surrey, BC - Canada

Theophony,

Yes, the sepia wash is quite thin.

My two cents,

CB

   
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Affton, MO. USA

Thanks guys,

You might be able to see in the background that I have washed the snake two more times with sepia, I think he’s to a good color tone now.

Very little time and access to my painting area, which means that I think....yes that burning smell was my brain. A while back I picked up two boxes of Afghani fighters by wargames Atlantic. That was 80 models that I got for $35, you got to love miniature market dent sales . I didn’t really have a plan for them, but I was flipping through the Kings of War books and wanting to use my 3D printer to make the greater Earth Elementals. Then I though let’s make a whole earth elemental army as I saw some cool paint schemes, but I needed shooters....let’s make a desert themed elemental army and have the Afghani guys be tribal hunters and use the rifles as shortbows .

I started to think of unique basing instead of just sand, and then checking Facebook...I saw a post from Epicbasing.com. They have stl files for Cacti, perfect. So I bought two files, cussed at my printer a bit, and here we go.

A quick paint up with some dry brushing.

Big snake in the back for the color.

Computer is getting so out of date that slicing is becoming an issue. My iPad also is so old that it cannot take new updates. Got to hold off until Christmas.


LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Mostly, on my phone.

Like the basing, neat idea

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





Really love that 2 headed snake Theo, looks great. Did you use any reference photos for the skin colour? It looks very realistic.

Painting Warhammer 40,000 Conquest a P and M blog : https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/763491.page 
   
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought






Those bases are awesome! Good choice, adds a good bit of interest already

Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
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Affton, MO. USA

Thanks guys, the basing bits are great, I'm just having a of a time with my printer. I'm sure I need to change the clear plastic sheet on the bottom of my tank as the one i have has a couple bad spots. I know I have replacements somewhere, but with everything going on I haven't been around my stuff in so long I forgot where. Also after I posted I received the link to my kickstarter rewards for a great basing .stl that i saw but was too busy at the time to post about it.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/where-legends-stand/where-legends-stand-relaunch/description. lots of different styles of bases with 5 different formats for each style: round,square, both with spots for magnets underneath and then all the styles as just base toppers. Supported and unsupported for all. I went in at the $20 level with the intent on putting the forest bases to work on my Ito clan guys, but now I am on a Kings of War mindset, so I may finally assemble some more Sylvaneth dryads to make a tree herder army on the forest bases. Also looking at using the underwater bases as desert bases and just remove the corals and add the cacti to it.

far too much to think about.

Crummy day at work, just fixing other peoples stupid errors from the last year. It actually has me rethinking this job. I think the one Doctor realizes just how bad things were being kept up and is happy to have me, but on the same spectrum I wonder how it was functioning before I got here and I am hearing that it wasn't....so hard decisions coming up. Not sure I can keep trying to right this ship.

Oh and I found out that there are 2 weddings and a Funeral at our church over the next two weeks that I have not been looped in on, but they have made promises for me . Fun all around.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





Affton, MO. USA


Test base.

Zandri Dust, skeleton horde, drybrushed of terminatus stone and crux terminatus

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
Made in gb
Decrepit Dakkanaut






Mostly, on my phone.

That's so cool. Love it.

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
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Using Inks and Washes





Nice cacti!
   
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Calculating Commissar






Reading, Berks

oh those bases look fantastic! that sounds like a really interesting theme to go for with the elementals and tribesmen

   
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





Affton, MO. USA

Well after many troubled prints, I tried to schange my FEP film, and ended up breaking the trim ring that holds it in place . I ordered a new resin VAT and it got delivered last night, hopefully I will be able to use it this weekend as my wife and basement stealing daughter will be in Indianapolis for a Lacrosse tournament. I will be home with the other two kids and a basement all to myself Mwah hahahaha!

The elemental army is developing in my mind as I have been so busy and exhausted this week with regular work being a nightmare, a wedding and a funeral thrown in just for an extra curveball. So I am thinking of developing the elementals into both Earth and Air elementals in the army. or making the air ones look like sand elementals/monsters.

Also as I just saw it mentioned in the N&R section a company called Gamergrass.com. Putting it here as a chance to remind myself. They are in Portugal, but I have always found GW and Army Painter grasses to be lackluster to say the least.

Also trying to develope an Idea for using the Sylvaneth I have. I just am torn between making them as a AOS army and making it as a KoW army.

Oh well. Sorry for rambling, just more of getting things out of my mind and onto paper/page.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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Calculating Commissar






Reading, Berks

that'd be GamersGrass.com. Gamergrass goes to a slightly suspect site, so be careful

I tend to use https://www.tajima1.co.uk/tajima1-shop as they have a lot more options

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A Protoss colony world

That's one thing I don't have to worry about on my Photon S; the trim ring that holds the FEP is made of metal so I don't think I could break it even if I tried. Changing the FEP is a major pain in the ass though. Here's hoping that was what was causing your prints to fail and you start having more success after all that mess!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
 Mr_Rose wrote:
Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
 
   
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





Affton, MO. USA

 ZergSmasher wrote:
That's one thing I don't have to worry about on my Photon S; the trim ring that holds the FEP is made of metal so I don't think I could break it even if I tried. Changing the FEP is a major pain in the ass though. Here's hoping that was what was causing your prints to fail and you start having more success after all that mess!


Thanks, the new tank with metal ring and new FEP has done the trick. Proof is in the Resin.

Printed these guys up just now that I got a few precious moments in the basement.

Also just printed some base toppers which are in the cure machine as I type. I hope this weekend I can get some time on a Kings of War army. Changing gears as it will be a force of nature army using my sylvaneth models.

The cacti will get their time in the sun (pun intended) soon.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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Affton, MO. USA

Hobby ADHD strikes again

Into the Wild. Sylvaneth Kurnoth Hunter as a test model. Need to fix where the tree trunks attach to the base.


Tree trunks are 3D printed from epicbasing.com, same guy who did the cacti designs.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps





Earlobe deep in doo doo

Nice really naturalistic colours suits Sylvaneth far more than a lot of schemes I've seen them in

"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
Mekagorkalicious -Monkeytroll
2017 Model Count-71
 
   
Made in de
Longtime Dakkanaut






Never thought I'll write this on this forum, but great cacti They add a lot of character to the bases and I'm excited how the desert elementals will develop!
   
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Affton, MO. USA

Thanks guys, definitely going more natural for these guys, though I a man still looking at other possibilities for colors.

While already jumping to the next project , I backed a new patreon for Lostkingdom miniatures. This months $13 subscription is for new Magmohorin (Chaos Dwarves), but this et is very 300 inspired with the king on a palaquin similar to the movie with slaves holding it high up, and the Chaos Dwarf immortals with chained up huge guy in the center of the unit. Also a couple war machines that are ridiculous . Eventually there will be more Chaos Dwarves to make an Abyssal Dwarf army with. They did a kickstarter a ways aback and there is just too many amazing sculpts to not make a army with it.

The patreon also came with a welcome bundle which turned out amazing. I didn’t see any previews of it, but there were extra models in it that were not listed, one of which will work as a Druid for the Sylvaneth army. I missed printing one piece, it will be on the next plate after this one finishes.
,
Beautiful model. Comes with the base in either round or square. As I think this army will be for Kings of War I went with square.

Speaking of basing. I added some of the treestumps from Epicbasing.com to a shrunk down base from the Where Legends stand Kickstarter.

Same base just rotated 180 and added the extra stumps and stirland mud. Still needs drybrushing on them.

Wife and daughter just home from the Lacrosse tournament.she moved to a brand new team this year...they came in last, but they played against teams that have been together for multiple years, so I say they did fine.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander





United States

Excellent work as always and really like the resin figures you're turning out. A resin printe ris undoubtedly in my future, but I'm restraining the urge to buy oen given how busy things are right now, and how many painting projects, kitbashes and FDM projects are lined up waiting.

I played lacrosse in high school, good on your daughter and yes, being a newly organized team is a definite factor: "it's a building year" is a thing. Our coach described it as a chance for a bunch of people to hit each other with sticks and a ball thrown in the middle as cover. In history class in New York State we learned that the five Nations (later six) of the Iroquois Confederacy (the Houdanassanee) played massive games of lacrosse to settle disputes, sometimes with hundreds of warriors to each side. The game could go on for days and often resulted in serious injury and death. Your kid is plenty tough to play!

"He fears his fate too much, or his desserts are small, who will not put it to a single touch; to win- or lose- it all."

Montrose Toast


 
   
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Affton, MO. USA

Thanks Meer_cat . Resin printers are definitely a power beyond the FDM ones, just a few more cautions to be careful of.

So now I remember why I stopped working on Sylvaneth. I HATE ASSEMBLING DRYADS.
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Unintentional base damage came out looking like wood...nice .[/url]
Iknow dryads don’t really fit the bill as large infantry, but I think, with the other base decorations they have enough volume to not look too far out of place. All are just temporarily poster tacked to the base in this picture.

Two hordes side by side of the heavy infantry. The bases are the same 3D print (turned 180) with extra embellishments from Epicbasing.com added to fill it up.

Also printed the last part of the character base. The base is 40mm square, but this front branch would be horrendous for gaming . I’ll make a second print without the front and she can just slot in between the two if I ever get a game in.

Also from the welcome bundle from being a lost kingdoms patreon ($13 a month) was this Magmhorin (Chaos Dwarf) mercenary.

Had a massive error while printing. The model is fine, but the base is completely trashed in behind. I’ll try and save it a second I’ll move him onto a 40mm square base anyway.

Also he needed 5 Big Hat Inmortals (yes, they are spelled that way “In” Magmhorin

5 different guys, here with 5 different shields and 5 different axes. Each one has options for swords and spears as well, I just couldn’t fit them all on the same build plate, but these 5 are complete .

More later

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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





UK

Productive as ever, and looking good. I must admit, this is where printing shines for me. You just wake up one morning and go 'I want a Sylvaneth army' and boom, you're off to the races with one the very same day! Incidentally, if you're looking for big ent/treant monsters, The Printing Goes Ever On some some great ones that print really nicely.

 
   
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Affton, MO. USA

 Paradigm wrote:
Productive as ever, and looking good. I must admit, this is where printing shines for me. You just wake up one morning and go 'I want a Sylvaneth army' and boom, you're off to the races with one the very same day! Incidentally, if you're looking for big ent/treant monsters, The Printing Goes Ever On some some great ones that print really nicely.

Maybe they look better in hand, I’m just not a huge fan of their models. The Lost kingdom has really struck a chord with me with their designs.

Especially short guys with big hats and pointy bits everywhere.


LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
 
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