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 spyguyyoda wrote:
Well...if you're gonna start pandering to us, I prefer big monsters to big robots. Tits are still ok ;P

Big monsters will be coming later in the year when Kingdom Death arrives.

 spyguyyoda wrote:
I do have to say that that is probably the best looking BA (army? squad?) I've seen. Ok, I haven't seen too many of them, but they still look great

Thanks
That a full, legal 500pt British Commando army. I've seen better, including the Russians I'm currently working on. I'll try and post some WIPs later


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 Gitsplitta wrote:
Interesting with the birds... we have birds here called tufted titmice... but they don't look anything like those.

Those ones are called Blue Tits and are really cute

We call those birds bluetits

So, this morning I promised a teaser update from the workbench. These guys are some Warlord plastic Russian infantry for Bolt Action and Achtung! Cthulhu



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Very grizzled. Lovely bunch!

Yep, they look great. Almost makes me want to play the game (but not really).

Painting has been rather slow this last few weeks due to distractions like work, holidays, visits to the nans... some more work. There are some new finished models, but the camera is also playing up at the moment too, wouldn't you know it.

Still. The long drives to Devon recently gave me a chance to reflect on some old projects that really need to get resurrected this year, especially Inquisitor Gale and her retinue. 77 pence on Amazon got me all the original Oz books for the Kindle, which are surprisingly good 114 years on and are providing lots of ideas for small additions to the models and diorama (whatever it may end up being).

Looking back over the thread, everything seemed to stall when the Scourges never turned up. I really should try and order those and start again as I had some neat ideas for posing Stannum Silvanus... hopefully still doable with the legs already built.

Still working on the other character ideas though... more on that as it comes into being. Small steps...

Your work is great endtrans... well worth the wait if you ask me. I know what you mean though... my enthusiasm has been flagging a bit. Not burnt out exactly... just not often in the mood.

Thanks. In some ways the painting challenge has been good, in that it has made me sit down and paint, but it's also slightly burnt me out as it encourages bulk painting troops to tabletop standard.

I've managed to do a bit more painting of the Achtung! Cthulhu models for my Strange Aeons games.

By the looks of things, Nyarlathotep has some sort of agreement with the German high command as some troops have started to mutate into servitors, immediately identifiable as followers of the crawling chaos. These lesser servitors are led into battle by some overlords who retain eyes in their tentacled heads and more humanoid hands capable of manipulating modern equipment

Overlords of Nyarlathotep


Servitors



Signs of Cthonian activity have been reported around the Wookie caves. Future maneuvers will be needed into the caverns to get rid of the infestation.


Rumours also occur every now and then of eerie baying and strange otherworldly canine-like beasts on the Dartmoor


Both of these are from the Acthung! Cthulhu kickstarter and are very... fiddly to piece together. The ankles on the hound are about the thickness of a pin, but the detail is really nice.

Dang those hounds are nice. I need some I do.

Preposterously cool. Makes me want to paint my mansions of madness minis!

Nice, all very tempting now I'm re-affirming my allegiance to chaos Liking the 'flesh' tones, and good colour choice for the hound of the baskervilles....

Is the Cthonian pod-thing on the same size base as the others? And are the overlord's heads seperate?

Also pleased to hear you're thinking about Dorothy and her minions again.

That seritor is seriously creepy.... eee gads that paintjob actually makes them look as if they could be real, both sary and excellent at the same time... Very nicely done

 monkeytroll wrote:

Is the Cthonian pod-thing on the same size base as the others? And are the overlord's heads seperate?

Yes, the Cthonian is on the same size base. Also, the overlord heads are separate, which means you could either stick them on something else, or add human heads onto these bodies if you wanted more normal looking troops. Only part of the Servitor's head is separate though.

 monkeytroll wrote:

Also pleased to hear you're thinking about Dorothy and her minions again.

Yeah, me too. I had a bit of a shock when I realised it's been nearly 2 years since the original conversation about Dorothy started! Shame on me.


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 inmygravenimage wrote:
Preposterously cool. Makes me want to paint my mansions of madness minis!

Mansions of Madness is on my shopping list so I can do just that.


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 Llamahead wrote:
Dang those hounds are nice. I need some I do.

There should be a box set containing a pack of them out at some point in the not too distant future


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 dantay_xv wrote:
That seritor is seriously creepy.... eee gads that paintjob actually makes them look as if they could be real, both sary and excellent at the same time... Very nicely done

Thanks! I do like the skin tones on the servitor. The photo isn't quite doing it justice either

The Russians have had some progress and the first 17 are now complete.

These are all Bolt Action plastics, with the addition of a spare Warhammer Empire banner to add that little bit extra character to the mob. There's another 20 or so Russians left on the painting table that I will get around to at some point to bring it up to a full 500 point BA force, but for now they will be great fodder for Strange Aeons and our RPG sessions

All of your recent work looks excellent! I am happy that I finally decided to click on your thread again.

I'm happy that you did too

Very natty, but a bit odd having base details on a clear base, no?

Nooooo never!
Well, yeah ok it is, but he is laying down and the base was looking ever so empty.

I tried putting him on a cavalry base, but he was getting lost on and he overlapped the normal bases

The painting challenge that I've been undertaking on Blogger called for the creation of a figure (or group) based upon a Sam Peckinpah film. There was also a sub-challenge to create a casualty model... so I figured i'd kill two birds with one stone (pun intended) and make something that even fits with the Russians I just showed you.

Nice great likeness to the picture and the blood in the snow effect is excellent

Oh very nice, great reference

Now we, the public, demand a German army with blood-stained snow bases

That is beyond fantastic. I love it.

Speaking of discourse, rather than continue to hijack the Lovecraftian Painting thread here are some more pictures of the Qu-Sh-Ug from Pure Evil Miniatures. The model comes with loads of tentacles designed to come out of it's mouth in a very Mignola fashion, but I wanted to try making one into a tail instead. This was a kickstarter late last year that can now be bought on ebay from PureEvil Miniatures.






For a sense of scale...

That's nice.....for a relative value of nice, obviously I'll keep n eye out for their eventual retail release.

How about differentiating the suckers in some way from the rest of the skin?

Ooops. I pasted in an old version of that text. You can get them on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pure-Evil-Miniatures-QU-SH-UG-Cthulhu-Lovecraft-D-D-/131135437870?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item1e8847fc2e

Very pretty indeed. Like those colours in combination.

One of the joys of Salute is the raised levels of inspiration afterwards. I've been meaning to carry on with the remaining walls from the Garden of Morr kit, but there are so many skulls embedded in them that it's frustrating and off-putting. It turns out that it's far easier to create a new wall from scratch instead of making blood sacrifices to clean off all the skulls.



I rolled out a piece of air dry clay so that it was about the same thickness of the GW walls and once dry, carved in some bricks about the same height on one side. This is currently sitting in some mold rubber so I can make a plaster version and continue with the opposite side. The clay was good for starting with, but was becoming too fragile to even attempt the other side without losing the whole lot. For now, I've not made it a specific length so I have the ability to pick the neatest section to place between pillars and then top it.

So far I'm feeling rather pleased with these and have plans forming in my head for lots more matching pieces like this

Very nice...we always knew that you were more than just a Brick in the Wall. You're a whole Wall.

At this rate, you'll have your own stand next year