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That stuff he wears does look like magical stuff. he is a Big brute! Another thought, his skin may also be able to resist the heat

@ Shaso, I haven't decided on the skin tone yet. I thought that most of the creatures would start with an orange to yellow burning fresh liquid lava base working up through grey and black for the hardened stone parts. The Fire Giant I was thinking of doing opposite with greyish skin and the hair being orange to yellow.

Nice idea! living stone that could handle fire, very nice!
Oh I have some more sergeants up for viewing btw

Looking forwards to watching you paint this army Theo.

I've tossed a little paint today on the fire giant, not enough to even take a photo, mainly just the base colors on the base (no pun there) and some on the model itself. Had to get the lawn mower working for the first time this year, I should winterize better, but last fall was so mild and so was winter, I think i didn't even mow for 5-6 weeks at the end of season and the grass still did well. Off to work now, I have both jobs tomorrow and just church on Weds. Hopefully I can steal time in the morning before getting the kids onto the bus, or between church and the Hospital.

 Theophony wrote:
I've tossed a little paint today on the fire giant, not enough to even take a photo, mainly just the base colors on the base (no pun there) and some on the model itself. Had to get the lawn mower working for the first time this year, I should winterize better, but last fall was so mild and so was winter, I think i didn't even mow for 5-6 weeks at the end of season and the grass still did well. Off to work now, I have both jobs tomorrow and just church on Weds. Hopefully I can steal time in the morning before getting the kids onto the bus, or between church and the Hospital.

I know the feeling. Our lawn, in the last week, has taken off like wildfire. Especially after the recent rain we've had.


Cutting grass cuts into hobby time.

Those are nifty models, I can't wait to see them painted up.

Haha fire giant definitely skipped leg day as it were. Cool project, ambitious but doable. Looking forward to seeing it all painted up.

That's a pretty good looking army setup. Are they glued down, or just blu-taced so you can use them for B-Sieged as well? I assume that you bought it for the Zombicide characters (like I did!)

I've had a play with the editor and created a mission for Z:BP. I still need to playtest it to see if it's fun or interesting. After playing so very many missions across all their games, I've found that many of them are quite samey really - at least when it comes to the mechanics. I've tried to make mine a little different.. though it really isn't that much.

N&R is an interesting part of the boards. There's a lot of stupid let loose in that section, and my tolerance for that is ...variable at the best of times. It's often that I have to give myself a break from a topic of interest for a week or two so I can cool off.

@Grimdork, I think it's more of a case of there's no lower arm day as he is very much a primate with almost a full second pair of arms instead of legs. Either way though he needs to adjust his program.
@Azazelx, I wanted to do the Kickstarter so I'd get the characters, but missed out by a day . I really am not a fan of these characters looks though, a big let down to me, plus ultra silly weapons (very arcade game/ anime inspired). Models are just loose n the carrier bases, the larger bases I glued some cork to them to help pull it all together though.

I'm sure there's a way you could get the character sheets, if you were interested. I also found a source online (I can't recall exactly where) that had fanmade sheets for all of the other KS exclusive characters that CMoN didn't provide. Haven't tried them yet, though...

I know boardgamegeek had resized most of the original Heros from zombicide to fit the new dashboard, so they probably have the b-sieged crew as well.

Littlest one was not feeling well today, so no progress to be had.

Excited to see those guys painted up! What scale are they in? They look really beefy.

They are a 28mm scale, but then again the heroes are really exaggerated as well, I'll try and do some scale shots this week.

No purchases today ..........Yet

Just joking. I did see that Miniaturemarket has gotten the rest of the B-Sieged stuff from CMoN, so this army can expand further later on. I did stop by to see if they had received any damaged items(when I see something has just arrived that I'm looking for I'll swing by and check and hopefully grab a dinged and dented deal ). SO what could I possibly want to add to this army? I mean I'm at 2000pts and I haven't even used half the figures from the B-Sieged Box and one figure from the Blood Rage Box.

Well for starters I think I need some versatility, so besides the big guys I want to add some goblins to the horde. But since I'm sticking to the lava creature theme, I figure I can just paint these guys up as fire goblins.
http://www.miniaturemarket.com/cmnbsg008.html now they will probably be really tiny (snotling sized), but they might just be good enough to win my heart, here's a side by side of the master sculpts they showed.
I see them as firebreathing little turds to annoy the enemy....so goblins

The other main expansion I'm planning for this force is the Avatar of the Abyss.

I will plan on using this as a mammoth with a ballista on it's back.

Both are $15.99 from Miniaturemarket, but all buying is on the back burner till I get some progress on these guys.

This Is how I imagine the army to look

but my skills won't get anywhere near that cool of a look, but what the hey, I've never tried to get a firrey effect, except for some legion of the damned figures from way back.

Oh those B-sieged minis look like heated rocks.,yes, your make that army look like that and it will be awesome Theo!

Here's a size pic for Da Boss

Cool thanks! Those are some really cool designs.

I am eager to see that Fire Giant painted up, I love that miniature. The big beasty will certainly make some ballista as well.

Thanks guys,

still a while till the Fire giant gets done, I don't like how he started off.

But I do like my test for the boomer.

Looks like a good start!

Liking where this is going.

EDC

Nice start on the Boomer, Theo. Are you planning to highlight to almost white on the fiery effect?

@Grimdork, Thanks
@Evildrcheese, I am too, I haven't been this excited about how a mini turned out since I started painting Zombies......we know how that turned out
@Azazelx, I wasn't planning on it, I like the cartoon like look of it so far. Maybe once I get the army done I'll experiment a little more and go from there.

So yesterday I got that test model done and I actually got some painting time while the kids did homework. So things happen

that's all 12 boomers and the sergeant along with a siege breaker and a shooter with 4 layers of yellow done to them.

Here is the First Shooter with the four yellows done and then the red wash added. All the white areas will get the black-codex grey treatment.

Boomer sergeant at the same stage.

THe Siege Breaker completed with the black to codex grey treatment.

I think I've decided to do more of a burnt out base instead of Lava since the models would blend into the base a little too much. So for now they will get a Khemri Khaki base coat.

Also looking at the boomer sergeant his feet have an opposeable thumb, so it kind of ties into the fire giant there

So yesterday I got some painting in between jobs. I wanted to continue the paint across multiple models to see if the army would look good, or if it would only look good on the boomers.

so here is the progress from yesterday


The Molen /Shooter didn't come out as nice as I had hoped, but I think they will still fit the rest of the army.


The boomer sergeant still needs the highlights on the black areas

All in all I think the army will look good together. It's turning out far more yellow than the glowy orange from the original pics, but somehow I keep getting pulled that direction .

I also am entertaining ideas as to what should be added to the army once I get it completed. No worries about if it fits into the Ogre army as the rules are pretty flexible with allies. My only concern is that the models SHOULD look cartoony.

I like it. Especially how the brighter colors makes the rocky hide really stand out.

Thanks Oldravenman3025.

The color contrast is nice, and is one reason I liked the Scythes of the Emperor as my marine chapter.

Well I took a few minutes and inished off the Boomer Sergeant.


Now to get rid of this headache and go into work.

Got some painting time today. So I started on fixing the Fire Monkey Giant. I had started him off as black skinned and was going to work up to grey, but decided to stick to the Fiery theme. Obviously still WIP

I think I need to change out the gold, maybe a copper color instead, but open to suggestions.

Also I need to figure out a color for the Monkey's fiery banana sack . I don't have any idea what to do, I don't want to do just leather and black i think would be to wierd and yellow,orange or red would blend too much with the skin.


here is the group shot so far.

also need to come up with color idea for the metal of the sword, should it be the same as the copper color of the jewelry.

Not gonna do a glowing hot look? Really cracking along on these guys, may just get em done eh?

The grey with that much orangey-yellow is quite an unusual look, but I think it actually works well.