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Just recently finished up with my Bloody Barnabas. Very pleased with the swamp basing on this. My first actual detailed, multi-texture base, as I usually stick to plain basalt and gravel. Decided to go with a darker, muted color pallet, painting Barnabas with more of an American Alligator skin.



Probably my favorite model to date and now I'm in love with base work. Making some 3" Swamp markers to place for his Swamp Pit spell and some other things, modeled much like his base. Cheers!

Very cool, I think the base suits the model extremely well.

The base does look pretty cool

That's one awesome model and you really did him justice. You have my respect.

So that's why he is so angry...

This models get an A in my grade book!

Very nice. How'd you make the cattails?

Thanks for the comments folks. The cattails are snipped pins with greenstuff on the end. Put a bit of the dirt I used on the base on them to give them a slightly fuzzy look as well.

very nice.
somehow reminds me of disneys robin hood. i think there is also a crocodile with an axe. :-)

I like it!

rubirub wrote:very nice.
somehow reminds me of disneys robin hood. i think there is also a crocodile with an axe. :-)

HAHA, just what I was thinking.

Good work.

A few additions to Barnabas' crew!

A Bull Snapper. Pretty happy with the result on this one. Had to do a decent amount of greenstuff work to get rid of some of the part edges. Sculpted a wee bit around the eye for the gash. Did a subtle striped pattern for the body, which I plan to do for the rest of my gators as I build them up, as well as the swamp bases for each model.




Also created a Swamp Pit Marker for Barnabas' Swamp Pit spell as well as the tier/pact swamp zone bonuses.



This one was pretty fun to make, as I don't often do much terrain work. After cleaning up my desk, I found a lid to a Pringles can. Wondered if it could work as a terrain base and turn out it was 3" diameter, which worked out great! After watching a vid, I went through with it make it with DryDex Spackle, some sand, and some water effects. Tossed some fine grade flock into the water effects to give it a light algae look. The Pringles lid is a bit soft and isnt exactly flat, but it was a good first experiment. Actually nice since it has a slight curve to it where it allows a little bit underneath it and still lays flat.

Followed this tutorial series to make it, make a few substitutes for what I had on hand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzA9UIe7dHg

Very cool. That basing is great. I like the realistic tones you used for the gator's skin.

Thanks! I wanted to try something other than the green gator skin. Was thinking about an olive green but ultimately went with brown in the end. Felt like it would make my gators stand out a little more and has a nice pallet to work with.

Dats New! Nice models

I love the models and the subject title. +2 for you!

Figured I'd bump this rather than make a new thread, mostly since its part of the same force :O

Finally have gotten back to painting and such after a long full time summer gig, so here's a Croak Hunter!

Loving the irate gators. The frog is nice too.

Another light update.

A second Croak Hunter and Ironback Spitter

I like all of the models, but the two croak hunters are my favorite.

Thanks! I have to say theyre my two favs in the force as well. Its a shame they dont performa s well as they look...damn frogmen whiffing dice rolls.