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2014/08/27 09:59:23
Subject: The Ordo Bloggit: 27th August - Mansions of Madness: Decorating the mansion
Yeah, I do like that LAB equipment, good find indeed. Do you have any more details on the game -my google-fu has failed miserably to find anything about it.......
Knightley wrote:Looks like accessories from a D&D set? where did you get it all from?
Some are, indeed - old GWdnd! They from the bits horde of a dear, departed old friend we lost to bowel cancer last year. His son's been selling off his massive (like, extreme shipping containers worth) of stuff as a source of income for his mum. He knew I was looking for this sort of stuff, so dug it out for me.
Miss Dee wrote:I was working in the LAB late last night ...
When.my eyes beheld a fearful sight!
M0rdain wrote:That lab stuff does look cool.
Oh, it is. I used a lot of it to build the altars on my.sob tanks.
monkeytroll wrote:Yeah, I do like that LAB equipment, good find indeed. Do you have any more details on the game -my google-fu has failed miserably to find anything about it.......
It was a weird.finnish game.of buildong a lab to breed critters (4 types, essentially nurglings, Aliens, mythos worms and mini yetis) and then attack your opponent's lab - so a resource management skirmish game. It was massively.over.complicated, but cool. Wonderful minis though!
2014/08/28 01:18:16
Subject: Re:The Ordo Bloggit: 27th August - Mansions of Madness: Decorating the mansion
double edged sword, shame for your friends passing, awesome you have some really cool looking old scenery.
I bet having the friend back would have been a better option.
IceAngel wrote:I must say Knightley, I am very envious of your squiggle ability. I mean, if squiggles were a tactical squad, you'd be the sergeant. If squiggles were an HQ, you'd be the special character. If squiggles were a way of life, you'd be Doctor Phil...
We refuse to take sides in this anymore. And we refuse to let you turn us against one another. We know who we are now, we can find our own way between order and chaos...
It's over because we've decided it's over. Now get the hell out of our galaxy! Both of you.
"Whoever takes purple sash is purple, and follows purple leader." I follow purple tau. Theophony
2014/08/28 19:35:48
Subject: The Ordo Bloggit: 27th August - Mansions of Madness: Decorating the mansion
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
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"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
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2014/08/29 23:50:17
Subject: The Ordo Bloggit: 27th August - Mansions of Madness: Decorating the mansion
Still less scary than what Michael Burke where's under the desk.....
"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.
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2014/08/31 09:58:42
Subject: Re:The Ordo Bloggit: 27th August - Mansions of Madness: Decorating the mansion
Knightley wrote:double edged sword, shame for your friends passing, awesome you have some really cool looking old scenery.
I bet having the friend back would have been a better option.
Well indeed. Sadly missed. Taught me an awful lot about painting and writing rpgs, and my kids to love hash browns
Miss Dee wrote:
Brings back fond memories of doing Forbidden Planet
dsteingass wrote:I caught the reference Dee
Good man.
Gitsplitta wrote:Graven, you're takin' a walk on the worm side...
by Lou Bleed?
Llamahead wrote:Still less scary than what Michael Burke where's under the desk.....
*shudder* now there's a horror beyond imagination...
So, onwards, steadily. First, some WIP 2s - they've had a wee wash:
And a couple of shots of the Maniac, who's a bit further along:
The relative lack of detail in the miniatures' faces is annoying, but I'll do what I can with my limited skills. On the plus side, my usual crazy eyes are ideal for this Not sure about the blood drips on the shirt, though I'm very happy with the puddle of blood leaking into the floorboards. He needs more variation in his hair, too, it's a bit samey with the rest.
Just taking my time, enjoying these guys. It's nice having lots of bits of furniture to play with, but I'm happy to get on with painting what's primed just now, I realise. So more investigators will be a-comin' after the critters!
Adios, graven
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2014/08/31 10:11:25
Subject: The Ordo Bloggit: 31st August - Mansions of Madness: Maniac Wip3, Cthonian, Cult Leader & Nun Wip 2s
Good work Graven. Tentacles are always awesome. and like what you did with the blood.
What's with the weird bases with holes and slots in?
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2014/08/31 19:30:13
Subject: The Ordo Bloggit: 31st August - Mansions of Madness: Maniac Wip3, Cthonian, Cult Leader & Nun Wip 2s
Camkierhi wrote:Been lurking, great stuff, really like the atmosphere of these models. Maniac looks great, Maybe just "age" the blood on the shirt!
Lurk away buddy! Agreed, I've added some purple in with Blood for the Blood god and it's darkened it nicely.
Dr H wrote:Good work Graven. Tentacles are always awesome. and like what you did with the blood.
What's with the weird bases with holes and slots in?
Ah, that's for the insert monster card:
Special attack's on the rear (each variation of a creature has a different special attack, not always bad, sometimes completely horrific - you don't know till it gets you!)
BTW, did I show you lot the LAB gribblies?
Cute little monsters!
Expect a decent pic of the finished Maniac in the next day or so,
graven
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.
2014/08/31 20:53:58
Subject: Re:The Ordo Bloggit: 31st August - Mansions of Madness: Maniac Wip3, Cthonian, Cult Leader & Nun Wip 2s
inmygravenimage wrote: [
Special attack's on the rear (each variation of a creature has a different special attack, not always bad, sometimes completely horrific - you don't know till it gets you!)
It must be late but I totally read that wrong, some strange goings on in your mansion
I'm only hear because I thought some one mention stripping again, it always seems to be going on in your thread Graven.
Thanks chaps! So maniac is done, I think
Fixed the hair and blood.
Onwards with the nun. I really dislike this model, it's the only one of the investigators that I feel that about though
I think it's the ridiculous eyelids.that bother me most. Still, I'm happy with.the newspaper on the floor.
And the cult leader is coming along.nicely;
I.think I'm going to a purple group and a yellow group of cultists, as there's 2 leaders.
After this, more on.the Cthonian and start investigators I actually want to paint! Might try to sort out a jem'hadar cruiser, too.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh! On the subject of stripping: should I.try.to.paint one of the witches nude, in gauzy fabric? Or is that too cheesecake?
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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.
2014/09/03 13:08:03
Subject: The Ordo Bloggit: 3rd September - Mansions of Madness: Maniac done, Cult Leader & Nun Wip 3s
The Nunn looks like she's been punched in the face repeatedly (not your painting... it's the sculpt). I really like the way the maniac turned out. The cream colored shirt works nicely, especially with the blood.
Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."
If she's a nun, where's her habit...
Oh that reminds me of a nun joke, actually 2, but I'll stick to one (not suitable for the easily embarrassed, or at work, or near anyone you won't want to explain it to).
Spoiler:
2 nuns were in the bath. One said "where's the soap", and the other said "Yes is does, doesn't it"
Bases are looking nice too.
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2014/09/05 13:21:40
Subject: Re:The Ordo Bloggit: 3rd September - Mansions of Madness: Maniac done, Cult Leader & Nun Wip 3s
monkeytroll wrote:Nice job on the cult leader, and maniac looks better with the hair change.
With those eyes you should paint the nun in a reptillian/fishy scheme, she reminds me of some kind of deep one/human hybrid or similar....
I like to think she's already got her mutation token.
Dr H wrote:Good work Graven. The maniac is good.
If she's a nun, where's her habit...
Oh that reminds me of a nun joke, actually 2, but I'll stick to one (not suitable for the easily embarrassed, or at work, or near anyone you won't want to explain it to).
Spoiler:
2 nuns were in the bath. One said "where's the soap", and the other said "Yes is does, doesn't it"
Bases are looking nice too.
Thanks mate. More so for the comments than the joke
M0rdain wrote:Either that or the nun has had an allergic reaction to the tentacle slime.
Spoiler:
(I nearly corrected my misspelling to testicle there)
I could totally see that Cthulu worm thingy bursting from a chest, just saying.
IceAngel wrote:I must say Knightley, I am very envious of your squiggle ability. I mean, if squiggles were a tactical squad, you'd be the sergeant. If squiggles were an HQ, you'd be the special character. If squiggles were a way of life, you'd be Doctor Phil...
Oldies but goldies. I didn't say that was the best joke I had, just that the nun reminded me of that joke in particular.
Nice work Graven. Good start.
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2014/09/07 20:31:02
Subject: The Ordo Bloggit: 7th September - Mansions of Madness: Cthonian done, Remaining investigators WIPs
My P&M Blog :
and like what you did with the blood. 
