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You need a chaos marine with stretchy tentacle arms to duel that Chappy now!

Looking good so far! Funny though that you read the herder as wearing a shirt; I painted up mine as just having a harness with a scarred gut.

Hahah Wehrkind, I struggled with his "Shirt" for a while.

He has these really odd creases in it which imply it is cloth, wrinkles that make no sense if it was flesh, but then there are the raised lumps and what appears to be a nipple piercing (?). I think the sculptor changed their mind half way through and just went with it.

I went with the shirt as it gives an excuse for his arm joints being the end of his "sleeves" and not just lines in his flesh and it was important to me that he looked good as he is the only orc amongst many a grot and will draw the eye. I don't know how he is going to keep them all in line, there are so many of the tiny gits.

The Da dude is fantastic, not only does he have tiny skull knuckledusters, but he also has an angel on a stick. I was talking to Coldfire about it, hes sure it is some kind of iconography, but Im convinced it's way too heavy to be that alone and that he actively bludges enemies to death with his Angel club.

I would love to paint him with metal armor and a green cape, he is so incredibly like doctor doom.

Yea, I read the creases as "folds of excessive flesh" and "scar tissue" and a big definite on the nipple piercing. On the other hand mine is modded up to look a bit more Slaanshi (come play little chaos hobbits!) so I was probably biased to start

I thought I had a picture of him on here, but I have been realizing lately that I fail at pictures forever, and don't have half the photos of models up that I thought I did. I might try and get one in the following week, as I take breaks from studying for finals to photograph damned near everything.

Yeah I'm pretty sure that is flesh actually, but hey, he could be wearing an Under Armor compression shirt for all we know. I always love those pistols the grots have, and the ferocious pirahna-dog.

Those grots are awesome. Such fantastic models.

Ifalna wrote:The Da dude is fantastic, not only does he have tiny skull knuckledusters, but he also has an angel on a stick. I was talking to Coldfire about it, hes sure it is some kind of iconography, but Im convinced it's way too heavy to be that alone and that he actively bludges enemies to death with his Angel club.

I would love to paint him with metal armor and a green cape, he is so incredibly like doctor doom.

Asmodai is such a great model. He was my first HQ for my Dark Angels, and became my Dark Apostle when I switched them over to Fallen using the old Alpha Legion rules; which let me have a chaplain-eqiivalent in Chaos back in the day. The angel-on-a-sick is his Crozius Arcanum. Yes, he beats people to death with it, as it functions as a power weapon.

He feels fantastic, he has that weighty chunkiness of an older model, reminds me of my old chaos sorceror with the hilarious skull mask.

Updated shot of all the grots together (huge so click for zoom!)



And the completed muted tone striking scorps. This was requested as the same scheme as GMM used for an army they did a while back, so I kept the same colours but added the red gems and silvers to tie them in with the rest of the army while still keeping them mega dark.



Back to Asmodai tonight hopefully

shame he has no blades of reson on him in the very old dex and hes not in the 2006 dex.

Hey Iffy, the zoom is disabled on the grots so we'll have to just enjoy them from afar.

I have no idea what went wrong there, just a sec and I will relink the image, its not clicking to the gallery for some reason.

edit: There we go, it was the image link not the page link, works now!

The cloak on asmodai is stuning, plus it one of my fav models.

All looking great. Well done :-)

Hehe I love grots Are you basing them, or leaving that to the buyer?

The scorps look nice too, sort of an urban camo scheme. Sort of

Basing is down to the buyer, bit of a shame for their shots right now but the final shots of them after basing will be brilliant

The scorps are interesting, the grey is very muted and melts into the base scheme for the army, so I had to try and pull them back a bit with the gems. Going to matt varnish them entirely and then gloss up those gems to make them draw the eye, the little bit of colour apart from the crazy yellows helps them look more like completed mini's.

I think yours is a good take on them. They have colors and details, but with the exception of the bright yellows it doesn't look like they put on their bulls eyes before battle. Though I suppose Scorps have a 3+ save, so they have some leeway in being big and brightly colored.

Really nice blog here.
Definitely got to look through it all some time.

Those grots are going to look fantastic all based up Ifalna.

The scorpions are really neat looking in the shadows of your photo booth. What fabric do you use as a backdrop? Velvet?

Haha yes, terrible faux velvet.

One day I will stop being a cheapo and get some proper stuff, the real deal absorbs all light so gives a lovely backdrop, but I do need to work on my overall lighting. Not having a permamant photo area means my light varies wildly as I have to set it up each time :( Im going to try taking long exposer higher light shots in the future and then tweaking the contrast, the shots I am getting right now just don't seem to be clear enough for my liking.

So, I assume when you stop using your velvet for photo shoots you'll be painting a picture of Elvis on it?! ;-)

Why paint Elvis on it, when I could make a tiny Elvis costume out of it?

My pink cat could finally look stylish.




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Oh holy feth, 60k views!

Thank you to everyone who has been viewing and especially commenting on this blog, it has motivated me more than I could ever have imagined.

LOL!

It'd probably appreciate the "fur coat".

Our boiler is broken at the moment and it's chilly, I had to make him a coat out of the sleeve of a furry purple dressing gown with white stars, he looks like a wizard gone wrong :(

Ifalna wrote:Our boiler is broken at the moment and it's chilly, I had to make him a coat out of the sleeve of a furry purple dressing gown with white stars, he looks like a wizard gone wrong :(

Pics!

Lt. Coldfire wrote:

Pics!

Ofc!



Being pink is emasculating enough without the ridiculous purple coat, poor little Manny.



Leeloo is not so much upset as bewildered and frightened.

Nice looking cats, though I normally am not a fan of the hairless ones . Leeloo looks like his is about to totally flip out, though!

_Tim?

Manny is hideous, no questions asked, but leeloo is sweetness personified. She is just very very nervous with anything new, thats the same face she pulls when shes worried about anything wether a coat or a broom she has never seen before.

Big pupils, one ear twised, sad face.

Ifalna wrote:Manny is hideous, no questions asked, but leeloo is sweetness personified. She is just very very nervous with anything new, thats the same face she pulls when shes worried about anything wether a coat or a broom she has never seen before.

Big pupils, one ear twised, sad face.

Reminds me of our cat, except that he happens to look like Leeloo no matter what is happening. Cats are in a claque of their own, when it comes to it. Though miniature rabbits are pretty adorable!

_Tim?

My cat sleeps on Minty the poler bear and under when he's cold.

Well I had something nice to say about the grots, and there were some space elves too weren't there? I kinda forgot everything else when I saw the crazy wizard cats

Manny seems to be 'You press that shutter button girl and you're going to be waking up to a mauled bird in the bedroom'

Whereas Leeloo is more 'You dress me like this, then you gotta go take photos? Why?'

Is it bad that I giggled aloud when I saw Leeloo?

Leeloo is so cute, I miss my cats

You actually own lolcats. Score.