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Here is a cool little diorama I got to do for a client. Most of the time, religious art in miniatures is more akin to painting a Menoth force, so this is a bit of a departure. The three figures are from Thunderbolt Mountain- sculpted by the fantastic Tom Meier. I completely endorse grabbing stuff from Thunderbolt Mountain- the faces he sculpts are amazing.

This set is larger than usual gaming scale, but since they're also pretty much true to life scale, so their eyes and details were pretty tricky. Quite different from the old Inquisitor minis I've done.

I based them on an 80mm mini CD and created the cave from green stuff, and the objects around it are a combination of things I pulled out of my bits box and things I sculpted. The donkey started out as a 28mm horse that was standing up, and the jars are from a Reaper Bones spru. I think the bird might have been from the Old Witch of Khador kit.


I posted them up to Coolmini for anyone who cares to see more angles.

Anyway, here they are:




Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Io Saturnalia and have a good whatever holiday you care to celebrate.

Awesome job, I was kinda hoping it would be Orks or something similar, but this is fantastic

This needs to be redone...with a Genestealer cult baby.

I really like the texture and color of the cave. Great job!

Thanks.

 Elbows wrote:
This needs to be redone...with a Genestealer cult baby.

Yeah- this set does not belong to me- we don't have a nativity- mostly because if we did, it would quickly be overrun by Than/Genestealers/Dragonspawn/Balrogs etc.

And she's right- if we had a nativity on the shelf, it would happen. It already happened to my in-law's little Christmas Village.

 odinsgrandson wrote:
And she's right- if we had a nativity on the shelf, it would happen. It already happened to my in-law's little Christmas Village.

I don't think I am alone in wanting to see pictures of this Christmas Village. You have your marching orders, sir!

It happened a few years ago. I don't remember why, but we had a case full of Circle Oboros when we went out to visit them, and my wife and I set the Tharn and Wapsolves up to terrorize the cheesy little Christmas village they had set up in their front window.

I don't think we got any pictures, and if I were to do it again, I'd need to bring along Khanjira the World Breaker, because every Christmas village deserves a Kaiju.