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It really does seem to be a bit of a cold-blood-fest around here lately, huh? We need to get some small mammal miniatures in here already!!



Wait a minute...

Mammals?!

Small?!

Miniatures?!

Incredibly tangential segway!?

Interrobang!?


I'm house/puppy sitting!


A friend of mine is out of town for a wedding, so he asked me to watch his two Chihuahuas and his house while he was away. So I packed up a few minis to work on and some paints and I was off! It's really nice and quiet now (save for the constant pleas for attention from the younger of the two- such a baby) and I even got some work done- Specifically, RiTides' Lizards:



Unfortunately a lot gets lost in the stark brightness of this room (great for painting, but terrible for my basement-adapted camera settings), but I'll be getting final shots of the entire 10-lizard squad come Thursday. Red face paint marks one of the squads, while the other has no facepaint. All have different patterns.


I then started to work on a trio of other minis for the army. Two smaller lizards (I believe the bipedal one is called Ashoka), and a giant slab of metal from P3 (Snapjaw, if memory serves)


Progress is slower for the moment on these, due to me forgetting one or two critical paint colors! Ah well... Guess I'll go pay attention to the dogs then

Till next time, guys!~

I love the red warpaint on the warrior so much so that I'm thinking a splash of red on some of the other gators might be a good idea! Not necessarily on the faces, but just to provide some relief to the green. What do you think?

Snapjaw in particular is looking just plain menacing, looks like you've even done the eye - really nice!

How long are you house sitting, I can mail you some paint? Seems like it's a conducive environment to painting

And Im back!
Was fun to be out and about- Got into a real Zen with painting. Problem was that it ended too soon!


Anyways, Here are the promised final shots of the lizards, now all with fancy facepaint!

Absolutely love them, particularly that standing model - he is so intimidating! And they look awesome as a unit (two units really, and that's like 1/3 of a 50-point army right there!).

Only thing I'm wondering is if the banner of the unit leader needs something - could the head and the "bones" radiating our from it be the lighter bone color of his bone mask, perhaps splashed with a bit of red, while the webbing remains that darker tan / brown that it is currently? I think that would really seal the deal

Project Deathroll Continues!

First up, a Squamata Spitter from Helldorado- Counts-as Bull Snapper:
Probably the most striking addition to most of the models is the addition of the red warpaint. After the lizard squads, we both wanted to bring some of the color into the remaining models. Its a brilliant contrast and should work to bring the group together. Dont want to go too crazy on it, though. Very easy to go overboard!



Good old Snapjaw, looking a might bit miffed:
(Yeah I know theres a mold line.... sadly nothing I could do about it cause of where it was )



And lastly, the counts-as Ironback Spitter - Whati from Kaha Miniatures:
The yellow shell is proving to be rather interesting... Definitely going to give the back a LOT more shade! Bit too bright currently.

Could you paint snapjaw's mold line as a scar? It's a fab model and wonderful job, why not incorporate it? Love the use of Helldorado stuff, also.

Looks awesome!! I agree about being judicious with the red . What do you think about a few tiny slashes of red on the upper breast of the turtle shell, like where his pectorial muscle is? Just like a gator came up and clawed him. Very tiny though...

Also agreed about darkening the shell, I think the Nautiloid shell you did earlier was perfect.

Finally, Snapjaw looks simply incredible! The mold line doesn't bother me, personally. Huge old metal model, part of the nature of the beast, I think.

Gators look good! Two things I might do:

1: Add some red paint to the upper arms. Especially on the not-Snapper, as there is a lot of mottled green on him and my eye is having a little trouble picking out what to look at. Might just be the picture though (or my old eyes )

2: Bring out the eye sockets of the gator bokor's skull hat. As it stands I don't know where the eye holes in the thing are, and as it is standing in for a face it makes the focal point a little odd.

That's a great thought, Wehrkind - the slashes I was thinking of were something like this:



Wehrkind has done a ton of models with warpaint, although it's more celtic-like on his and blue. But for these beasties I think they'd just be dipping their claw in some red and slashing it on, hence the above pic. I think that could work on the Snapper upper arm as well as the Turtle corner breast plate or upper arm

Maybe the bandages could use a bit of brightening up to be more in line with the lizard unit cloth colors, too? Or just hitting the highlights of them (on the Snapper).

Love it!

@graven: I ended up doing just that- excellent suggestion! I think he looks just that little bit more characterful with the big scar... covers the mold line too!

@Wehr: Per the suggestion, I added some additional red to the arms of the snapper (and the turtle, of course). Not too much, but certainly enough to break him up!
As to the skulls on the bokor- they did lose a bit of depth in the photo (just a case of the 3d mini displayed in 2d)- in real life they're nice dark pits. Thanks for the pointers!

@RiTides: Leather bandaging wasnt quite finished in that pic- its much more defined now. And I went ahead and put warpaint on the turtle. Hopefully it isnt too much. I did a sort of symmetrical placement on the upper arms and chest plate (fun fact, its known as a plastron! Why is my head filled with useless crap like this xD) Hopefully its not too much!



Finished 4 more of the assorted reptiles!

First up, Snapjaw- freshly scarred.





Ashoka (Helldorado) - Counts-as Shamblers Bokor





Squamata Spitter from Helldorado- Counts-as Bull Snapper



Finally, Whati from Kaha Miniatures - Counts-as Ironback Spitter




This particular segment of th earmy is nearly complete. Right now I have Rask, Maelok, Wrong-Eye, and the Sacral Vault left. Three Privateer characters (fun, lots of details) and the monster of a lizard!
Should be fun

They are magnificent! And I just love that scar

Looks great! The scar really came out well too. You can almost feel the despair of the trencher that shot Snapjaw in the head, only to miss the fatal eye shot by just that much.

Wow Ramos, I'm basically speechless. They look incredible, and I think you did the red perfectly. I am so pleased I can't even describe it... look at Ashoka, he is going to kick some serious butt!

The metallics are ace on Ashoka too, and the turtle shell came out amazing - you absolutely killed these!

Those look stone cold awesome.

Almost makes me want to play Hordes... almost.

Great work Ramos, have to agree on that shell looks amazing.

Well done mate! they look really really good, the scar is a nice touch/trick :-) they all certainly fit together nicely too and as a group, imposing to say the least!

They look excellent Ramos, the scar came out really well and the turtle shell is lovely.


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They look excellent Ramos, the scar came out really well and the turtle shell is lovely.

Sweet.. such cool poses.

Thanks a million you guys!!!
All points to the scar definitely go to graven- I'd probably just have left it moldline-y if he hadn't spoke up! Turned out to be a perfect call!!

But wait theres more!
Working on the trio of characters now. Lots of really fun details on these. They're all a pleasure to paint.

We have Wrong-Eye (I think hes becoming a favorite mini of mine )


Rask:


and finally Maelok, who is AWESOME!



Incidentally, I wanted to pose a question to you guys... In particular, how the heck to paint all the fleshy bits on Maelok!?

Im trying to match the stock scheme which has a particularly nice reddish-salmon color. For the life of me I cant figure it out. Already tried various mixes of AP Chaotic and Dragon Reds, Warlock Purple, and bone...



Suggestions?

Holy cow it is really awesome to see people not being afraid to use non PP models for warmahordes! They look great.

I usually do a skin tone set for red flesh, so dark flesh -> medium -> pale flesh/ivory, then add a red wash with a touch of brown to pull it into the red category. I like the result, and it always strikes me as more fleshy like as all the colors are shared, just more of the blood part. Works well for gums too.

I may be of some help here dude :-) to get a colour that still blends with the Croc skin I would use the same method as I do for my Orks wounds etc. and that's simply using the highlighted skin colour and adding in some scab red or sanguine base (P3) this way you can start light and blend it in to the main skin tone before you make any darker passes with the addition of more red. hope that makes sense? I'm sure you'll smash it outta the park anyway like always! :-)

The character WIPs look good! I like the somewhat subtle "innards" painted on the stock Maelok, so awesome to use that as a guide . I mean, sure he's undead, but he's been walking around for a while and leading his gators and stuff, so it's not like he's suddenly bleeding out or anything.

I think that pic strikes a great balance without making him too "gory" (which I'm not a fan of). Whatever method you end up using for this will likely be perfect for the big gator that you're adding a brazier to in wave 2, too since he's also an undead beasty with exposed ribs.

Been playing around with both of your suggestions, nerd & Wehr, and I think that combining the two is gonna get me close to what I want

In between all of the Maelok experiments, I've been painting Wrong-Eye and Rask, and I've just about finished both of those guys.
Here's where Rask is so far:



Nearly done!

Nerd and Wehr would be a good name for a game shop

Rask is looking really good! He is going to look so much better on a table in my basement...

*heavy breathing intensifies*

Ensuring I always get the alpha strike (from his feat) with my gators, Wehr! It'll be like my troll beasts all over again (okay, maybe not... but I'm hoping they'll be competitive )

Rask is looking perfect, just like the studio pic! Very well done.

*L* Literally every model in my army that can walk walks >5" Rask's feat does not worry me a great deal! (Ask Charlie how that game went, and how transferring damage to 13 fething bog troggs will not save you from kill box.)


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P.S. Paralysis shot is the scary thing... Def 14 warpwolves do NOT like losing that DEF! Especially when they are planning on being teleported into Rask from 12" away to eat his face the next turn

You're totally right, I forgot - I'll be pulling out Maelok, or possibly Barnabas + Croak Raiders (wave 2!) for that! My two list format is always going to have one arm-cracking list - Rask in this case - and one for tricky factions like Legion/Circle/Cryx.

Started to plant the Warmahordes bug in Ramos' brain... Took him to our local gaming shop for some warmahordes. Khador vs Trolls, Trolls took a gamble for the caster kill to win. If I hadn't, he would have slowly torn through me.