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Love em! Looking great

JoshInJapan,

The first one does look like it is bursting into fire.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

I have pretty much finished the rest of the Burning Men, apart from basing:








I think I have the flames figured out, but the molten metal is proving elusive. I'm going to set these guys aside for a few days, and them possibly come back and see if I can't improve the weapons. Based on past projects though, this seems unlikely. Either way, I'll post another set of photos after I've finished their bases.

Here's a blurry group shot:


Next up, continuing with the fire theme, I'll be tackling this old Ral Partha Balrog Dragon:

Burning men look really good. The balrog model is so cool, can't wait to see what you do with it.

Dude! Those are freakin’ amazing!!!! The sculpting on the flames is excellent. The composition on the models is great and, again, I think the naturalistic palette really works. I’d’ve been tempted to go with supernatural fire, but looking at what you did, I really like it!

Valete,

JohnS


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Dude! Those are freakin’ amazing!!!! The sculpting on the flames is excellent. The composition on the models is great and, again, I think the naturalistic palette really works. I’d’ve been tempted to go with supernatural fire, but looking at what you did, I really like it!

Valete,

JohnS


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Dude! Those are freakin’ amazing!!!! The sculpting on the flames is excellent. The composition on the models is great and, again, I think the naturalistic palette really works. I’d’ve been tempted to go with supernatural fire, but looking at what you did, I really like it!

Valete,

JohnS

PaddyMick wrote:Burning men look really good. The balrog model is so cool, can't wait to see what you do with it.

Thanks! Having set the Burning Men aside for a few days, I find myself more satisfied with them than before. As for the Balron, he's proving difficult to assemble-- I'll have to dig out the pin vise and start pinning.

cygnnus wrote:Dude! Those are freakin’ amazing!!!! The sculpting on the flames is excellent. The composition on the models is great and, again, I think the naturalistic palette really works. I’d’ve been tempted to go with supernatural fire, but looking at what you did, I really like it!

Valete,

JohnS

One could argue that dudes with burning, screaming skulls for heads are already pretty supernatural...

Which is why the naturalistic look works… the juxtaposition of the supernatural with the naturalistic look works for me.

I mean it coulda worked with green or white/blue flames, but I like the look.

Valete,

JohnS

Your progress is always great to follow, the Burning Men are a great conversion/scultping result. Hope they do well for you in the Comp.

 Archer wrote:
Your progress is always great to follow, the Burning Men are a great conversion/scultping result. Hope they do well for you in the Comp.

Thanks! I am pleased with how well they turned out, especially given my almost-absolute lack of experience with sculpting. I feel like they will do well in the competition, but the competition has been pretty stiff recently, so who knows?


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With the addition of some scorched grass tufts, tThese guys are officially done.

Well done JoshInJapan, good luck in the competition. You definitely hit the theme bang on.

Cheers,

CB

Excellent fire effect! I'm finishing my entry for "Some Like It Hot" but my flames don't look as good as yours.

Nice work on those flamey bois!

Captain Brown wrote:Well done JoshInJapan, good luck in the competition. You definitely hit the theme bang on.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks! It was nice having something that literally fit the theme.

KidCthulhu wrote:Excellent fire effect! I'm finishing my entry for "Some Like It Hot" but my flames don't look as good as yours.

Flames are tricky. I think I have gotten the hang of them, but I'm far from mastery.

aku-chan wrote:Nice work on those flamey bois!

Thanks!

Continuing with the burning theme, I painted up this Balrog Dragon from Ral Partha:





I've had this model for decades-- he used to see a lot of action as a Greater Daemon for my WHFB Chaos army. Alas, years of storage took a terrible toll on his condition, and I ended up stripping and reassembling the model with the intent of entering it in the Painting Comp. I opted for the Burning Men instead, but since he was sitting on my painting station all ready to go, I decided to just get him done.

I based his colors on Smaug, from the Rankin-Bass version of The Hobbit. The runes on his sword are tiny and don't really look like runes, so I gave up trying to paint them that way and just made the sword look super-heated/molten. The yellow could stand to be brighter, but I'm getting tired of going back over it, so I'm calling it done.

The theme for the September painting challenge is "Suns Out, Guns Out." I'll be painting these ogres I got in a KS four or five years ago, and entering the best five:

Man, that model is SO funky. They really don't make them like that anymore. Awesome work on the sword.

The Burning Men also look quite good. The one with the hammer is a personal favorite.

Lovely retro Partha dragon. Great job , and excited for your ogres!

youwashock wrote:Man, that model is SO funky. They really don't make them like that anymore. Awesome work on the sword.

The Burning Men also look quite good. The one with the hammer is a personal favorite.

Agreed. The funk value of that model is through the roof. I'm glad you like the sword--I'm still not completely satisfied with it, but I'm calling it done.

The hammer reads are super-heated much better than any of the other weapons, I think.

inmygravenimage wrote:Lovely retro Partha dragon. Great job , and excited for your ogres!

Thanks! I enjoy going back and painting models that are (almost) as old as I am. I have the first Ogre assembled and based. He may be finished by the end of the week.

That dragon is fantastic. Excellent work on a sweet model.

The burning guys all look great, good fire effects for sure

bbb wrote:That dragon is fantastic. Excellent work on a sweet model.

Thanks! It was a pretty simple paintjob- mostly drybrushing, really. I hope he can see some time on the tabletop once it cools down enough to use the gaming table upstairs.

ph34r wrote:The burning guys all look great, good fire effects for sure

Thanks! They were a lot of fun to work on.

Nice rehabilitation there JoshInJapan.

Cheers,

CB

After many, many productive months of hobbying, I find that I have pretty much everything I will ever need to play any game that I'm likely to play. As a result, my pace has slowed, and everything I paint is for the monthly Dakka Challenge. This month's theme is "Sun's Out, Guns Out." These ogres, which I got in a KS several years ago, fit the description well:


These guys are a little different from the other ogres in my collection. My Oldhammer ogres, for example, wear pants. My Mantic ogres have a very exaggerated inverted pyramid shape, like classic bodybuilders. These guys are built more like sumo wrestlers-- broad shoulders and thick arms, but with a gut as well. They are all pretty samey, so the painting has been going pretty quickly. Pic Dump, ahoy!


All of these guys are Festooned With Skulls. They also have fur-lined wristbands and legwarmers. I figured these guys would be barbaric and primitive, so I went with a variety of browns and tans and avoided any bright colors. I struggled with the armor plates-- I gave the earliest ones have bone armor, but transitioned over to bronze NMM for the later ones, with mixed results. They are resin models, so I expect a lot of their weapons to snap off sooner or later.

Since these models are all essentially identical, they paint up pretty fast-- I'm doing them one at a time, over about four painting sessions. Since taking these photos, I have finished one more, and have prepped the final ogre and the dog, but ran out of superglue before I could assemble them. I am on track to have the whole warband finished by the end of the month. Then I have to decide which 1-2 models to enter in the comp.

Next month's comp is Halloween themed, and I plan to paint my Frostgrave Candlejacks. They are nifty models, and will be a good chance to keep practicing fire/lighting effects.

Nice looking ogres. Bug bunch of mean lugs.

Great colour scheme on those!

I love the blue flesh, really nice.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
After many, many productive months of hobbying, I find that I have pretty much everything I will ever need to play any game that I'm likely to play. {/quote]

That's a really impressive accomplishment! I may not be good enough at knowing if I'm likely to play my different collections

Nevelon wrote:Nice looking ogres. Bug bunch of mean lugs.

Yup, these guys are chonky. That almost makes up for their being resin...

inmygravenimage wrote:Great colour scheme on those!

Thanks! It's just a variation of my trademark Paint Everything Brown technique, but for these guys it works.

Slinky wrote:I love the blue flesh, really nice.

Thanks. This is my standard ogre skin technique-- VMC Shadow grey with a Payne's Grey glaze/wash.

Syro_ wrote:

 JoshInJapan wrote:
After many, many productive months of hobbying, I find that I have pretty much everything I will ever need to play any game that I'm likely to play. {/quote]

That's a really impressive accomplishment! I may not be good enough at knowing if I'm likely to play my different collections

Oh, make no mistake, it's not like I play that many games. If I do, though, I'm ready!

I finished the last two ogers:



As well as the weirdly-proportioned Ogre Hound:


Here are all three together:


And a comparison shot of three different generations of ogre leaders:


The Painting Challenge for October is Halloween-themed. I'll be painting up these Candlejacks for Frostgrave:


And have, in fact, essentially finished the little ones, apart from basing:

Very glowy and lovely. Some green, perhaps, on the base?

The ogres have turned out great. Love the dog!

Really dig these ogre sculpts, great job on the blue crew! Hound and all.

Those are some great pumpkin bros too, way to slam them out for the season.