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So even though I like the white/cream color that is on the giant I think to make him blend into the army more he will be going black, like the rest of the guys. So the fist, headdress and the necklace will all be the hardened lava pieces.

You cranked out that army remarkably quickly. Color me impressed. They look really good all together.

 Theophony wrote:
So even though I like the white/cream color that is on the giant I think to make him blend into the army more he will be going black, like the rest of the guys. So the fist, headdress and the necklace will all be the hardened lava pieces.

Not a bad move, in my opinion. He kinda stands out a bit much in white.


Looking good. Looking forward to more.

Fully painted? heresy! great job man.

Nice. I approve of the plan of rewarding yourself for painting stuff by buying more stuff. If only I could get my wife onboard with that philosophy.

EDC

@EDC, same with my wife , but I did order the Avatar to pick up today.
@Graven, Thanks, may not be to your level of awesome, but compared to my regular opponent and my usual stuff it is great.
@oldraven, Yeah he does stand out, but originally he was more of a living giant than animated magma, so different was alright.
@josh, Thanks, hopefully the new colors on the giant will help out.

well as stated above the Avatar of the abyss will get picked up hopefully today, if not definitely tomorrow. After the usual discount and my saved rewards points I got him for less than $10. Here is another image I found of him on the net for a size comparison.

He will be fielded as a war mammoth with a ballista on the back.

Things are coming together for you on the molten front. It looks good all deployed out like that. Also glad you are getting that big guy it will add a lot.

There is tons of literature on how to coop with attention issues. Most common suggestion that seems to work for my loved ones is take a 5-minute break every hour and on the third hour take a 15-minute break. Then work for the rest of the 4th hour and take a lunch or dinner or something for a while. Maybe even quit for the day.

Big guy has been picked up and has been primed along with the other models from the boardgame. might toss some paint if they dry quick enough.

Edit: Well this morning started off as Crap, so I punted the day, still have to go to work tonight, but got some painting time in today.
forced perspective shot, the Avatar is much larger than his orangeness shows in this picture because he is further away and the giant is sitting on top of a paint pot.

The giant has gotten his cream color redone to the stone color off of the other creatures to help him fit the army better, I think it works.

Here is a closer look at the chest stones, the eyes have since been given a turquoise dot to the center of each one.

The fist has also been redone in the stone, which makes it more menacing to me. The black dots have gotten the same turquoise on them since the picture was taken.

Quick pic drop

Talk more later

The army of burning embers looks great!

 Theophony wrote:
Quick pic drop

Talk more later

That bad boy looks pure EVIL. In other words, something you wouldn't want to piss off. Nice.

These guys have really come up very well. The stone look on the giant looks great - very effective and it ties in well with the rest of the army's rock-skin perfectly. Will you be adding gold/copper/etc accents or leaving it with the stone?

I've also never finished an army - for any game. I've played with lots of painted figures, and played with fully-painted forces, but never finished a whole army. That's my aim right now, first with Gondor, and then with... well, something else.

Thanks guys, the avatar only has the first black basecoat, more layers later. I was posting right as I found out moms back in the hospital. So had to run out quick. Things seem stable now, looks like dehydration and an infection, so she will be in for a day or two. Now just wondering if I will still be running her to doctor appointments on Friday or not.

The fire monkey is looking great.

EDC

Thanks everyone for the feedback.
@Azazelx, there is copper on the chains holding the stones together and on the hair braids right before the skull end pieces, it just blends really well into the skin tones.

well I completed the Avatar this morning.





which brings me up to the current state of the army.

The flaming Monkey is looking more and more out of place next to these guys, he'll have to be allied in or something

The monkey seems to fit just fine. Maybe make the flames on the sword blue for a really neat contrast?

It lovely to see a group of colored models. Well done.

Living stone/Lava, looking good!

I think the monkey fits in really well as well.

Yeah, I don't see a problem either. Which list are you using again? Ogres and he's a giant?

Hope all goes well with your mum. My dad went into hospital yesterday, so I can sympathise. Hoping that he's out in a couple of days.

Thanks everyone for the encouragement

The monkey will stay part of the army, he's just too cool not to be hanging with these guys. His skin tone just wound up more yellow than the others, but I guess that's because he's made of fir and not lava .

@Azazelx, yes it's an ogre list and he is actually part of the list, wish I could give him a magic item as most of the army has shooting attacks I just wish he could too (flaming eye beams from the flaming monkey). Also hope your dad get better soon, sucks having to wait on test results.
@Comrade, swords staying the white flames off the yellow blade,took too long for me to get it to a color I like and I'm lazy.

The rest of the figs from the B-Sieged box set have since been primed and are awaiting their turn, now I just need to decide which ones next? I could knock out the last 4 boomers quick, or the 7 with the pizza paddles, or do I slog through 20 of the sword and shield guys? If there are any preferences let me know now, painting hopefully to begin tomorrow.

Go with whichever ones you'll find most fun/least painful.

Pizza death is best served hot and fresh and with a brick oven

I'm just enjoying seeing such radically different miniatures. If you can plough through the big unit though I would whilst still motivated.

Nice work on the Avatar. The Army shot looks awesome.

EDC

@Azazelx, Good idea, point taken, especially with limited time, plus getting the small units done helps with the motivation.
@Cormadepanda, , I'm actually considering something along those lines for the red goblin Big Git to set him apart from the others, or see below.
@Graven, I'd love to work on the huge unit, but they will be broken up into many smaller units, 2 per base and (counts as 3 ogres), unless I decide otherwise. With not enough time to hit them all at once I think I might squeeze a few in here and there.
@EDC, I still giggle every time I read your username , and thanks.

well I was inspired by a bag of oranges this morning to get some base coating done.


The four remaining boomers will be really quick (hopefully) to get done and I want to be able to field the pizza warriors of death, so they got bumped to the front of the line. I think they will be fielded as berserker braves, now I just need to find a suitable model for the Shaman to lead them, which might be a pizza oven .

Nice work! Really cracking along.

Well basecoating is just annoying and time consuming, so little of that orange will actually be visible it makes me cry. I wasn't going to pick up the Mulfins until later, but I caved .

The image on the box, the story behind the Mulfins are they were just annoying little pests until a father (Orc) grabbed his sons box full of these pets and threw them out the window and they hit a mountain and blew up. Basically they are living explosives , and ever since have been used as ammunition.
But they are tiny

All 36 of them next to another giant from Blood Rage and a boomer, they are snotling sized.

Oh and more orange

My daughter is running a 3 mile race tomorrow morning, so no time to paint in the am.

Well a busy weekend stopped progress, but now I had an hour or so today to paint, so I figured go big or go home .

A second giant to fill out the ranks so more.

and here is how he blends with the others

how was your daughters race? i hpoe it was not too much exhausting?

funny how we here seldom see orange... so it is rather refreshing and totally fitting in the spring to see your works featuring so much of that rare colour

sorry for not coming here more often...i am still doing lots of stuff at home atm...hobby time and dakka time are getting its due tho in the end in the fullness of time

also...dang... everyone is getting better at painting and am still at a level where all my stuff looks mostly as if i am able to just base coat and be done with it......(or to put it in another way nice painting all around here!!!)

cheers, vik

Thanks Vik,

Daughter's race was called "The Color Run", it's a 5K or 3.1 mile run, no times are taken, but they have checkpoints and stuff and are electronically monitored with a wrist band. Along the route they are doused with different powered colors (a little 1:1 scale modeling ). It's fun only, and is called the happiest 5K on the planet. She had fun, we haven't even looked up the time it took her for her run, and she got a shirt, metal and the bragging rights of having run the race.

Orange is just the basecoat, but having looked at them this morning I'm almost dedicated to trying the orange on a marine .

Welcome back bye the way, Dave even posted in his thread, so the Band is getting back together . Our lives will all settle down again here soon enough.....I hope.

My skills are still terribad, but I'm at least consistent.