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I'll update this thread now and then as I get more stuff done and pictures are publicly released by Mantic. These will be my own images though...

Let's kick off:

Gargoyle Lord:


Trolls:



Werewolves:



Mummies:

Well, what we have here is a case of "Making a Mona Lisa from Cow-Crap"

Mantic's models are some of the ugliest and worst on the Market, but you have done an amazing paintjob on them all!

I would love if you could share how you did the stone on that Gargoyle?

Zenithal black to light grey with an airbrush, very runny black wash into recesses and cracks. Brown wash glazes here and there. Highlight under edges with a sharp light grey. Stipple green for moss on the base, the lord himself got a few purplish glazes here and there to shift it to 'almost alive' tones.

Maybe you'll consider the question stupid but... what colours did you use for the bases? And from which manufacturer is the tufts/grass? I'm going to base a whole army for a middle eastern feel and I'd love to achieve exactly your results with the bases.

By the way, an amazing result with the minis, specially the mummies.

The tufts are GW 'middenland tufts'.
The bases are painted as follows:
Black undercoat.
Base with thinned 50-50 mix of VGC Heavy Sienna and VGC Heavy Brown. It's approximately 'Graveyard Earth'. The thin base lets the paint flow onto the sand rather than having to paint heavily near the models' feet.
Drybrush with Vallejo 'Panzer Aces' Light Mud. Pretty much Bleached Bone.
If doing any rock, drybrush those codex grey (or any mid-grey really) before the light mud drybrush.

Thanks!

Great brushwork!!

I really like the stonework on the Gargoyle.

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Those mummies look awesome. Great painting of everything but the models themselves just appeal to me.

Those werewolves are very fleshy. Just this side of pornographic. Great job! Nice to see some dudely beefcake for once!

Great stuff all around.

These are now up for advance orders on Mantic's site (which means I can now show my photos!):

These are brilliant! Unlike some I really like Mantics minis, and you certainly do them justice. Good show...

I love those sculpts, and the paint work is very well done. Cheers

These are really nice, vibrant colors, nice shading, great detail and I love your basework. Just ties it all together quite nicely.

Dreadball stuff has been unveiled by Mantic, so here are my shots:

These were shown on the mantic blog recently, so I can now release my photos...

Those trolls! Love the colours on them.

Finally, as they've been unveiled:






I scratch built the helmet on this, as the prototypes were not cast in clear resin. Do not take it as 'final' or in any way as official for shape, it's just to get a feel for the bubble helmet.

Just how tall is that purple robot? It looks awesome. As do the evil martians.

It's an Asterian Cypher. Umm, it's about 50mm tall to the top of it's 'spines' IIRC. Bigger than a standard DB player, but it is quite spindly. I really like the design. Armed versions are coming for Deadzone I think.

Wonderful work Winterdyne

My shots of the Nameless Spawn:

That head sculpt is awesome! Very well painted too. Although, I'm not sure I'm sold on the overall mini as a whole. Robot-Cthulu just isn't working for me. But, you've done all you can and it looks great. Metal work is nice and the yellow contrasts against the purple tones very well.

i want your skills! Really awesome paintjobs

Man, those models are very well painted, great job.

Ok, image spurt as pictures from elsewhere have surfaced:

One of the two mawbeasts I've done for Deadzone.


Probably my favourite of the marauder troopers; I just like the pose.


Not overly fond of the sergeant, but was fun enough to paint as part of the batch.


Now these I do like. His dancing compatriot will surface in good time I suppose. Lots of fun to paint.


These are a fair amount more work than you might imagine; many many surfaces that I regretted doing feathered blends on. The result I'm quite pleased with though. Not sure what the underslung weapon on his left arm is supposed to be - some sort of energy ram I supposed.

Nice lookin' minis! Goblin sniper is prob my favorite of the lot.

The dancing one's great. I can almost imagine him going 'I GOT HIM! OOOOOH YEEEEEEEAH - HEADSHOT MOTHERF---!'...

Love the goblins, im a big fan of KOW minis and the game.

Nice batch, winterdyne - out of interest, what colours are you using fir the skin tones?

Vgc heavy blackgreen blended up through heavy green to heavy khaki. Touch of VMC burnt cadmium red around the mouth.