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One more ruin, this one's just made from whatever spare corkboard I had left laying about from the first two. =P



Oh its based on this one btw, though obviously its just the bare framework that's left.

The second pic isnt working fyi. Looking good, though. Is corkboard good for this kind of stuff? I'm looking into making a beastmen diorama for a comp.

Ah, its from the TesRenewal site, and they don't like hyper linking for some reason. No worry, its like showing you a burnt stump and telling you it used to be a tree. =P

Specifically the stuff I'm using is this. Its real easy to cut and you don't need to bother texturing it either. When it comes to damaged sections you can break it apart with your fingers (not to say it'll fall apart during a game though).

Fab-u-lous!

Wyrm, your talent betrays you.

You are the Nerevarine of custom videogame minis. :p In the meantime, I can only hope you do some Redoran/Raven Rock Guards. Also that cork he is using is a bit thinner and bettet but, you can buy sheets of it from CVS or Walmart in the office sections. It lasts forever too.

I'm just using that cork because its what I was given to make some Middle Eastern terrain for a friend. Aye I probably aught to go onto Ebay and find some larger sheets, but we'll see what happens.

You mean one of these guys or the Morrowind ones? The House Guard which I've already made is wearing a stripped down version of the Skyrim Bonemold armour, though yes its not the same as making one entirely based on the set from the DLC.




However right this second I'm making a Tang Mo mercenary from Akavir, albeit with a gorilla head rather than a chimp one.

Redoran Watchman!

The guy on the far left of the first picture I posted in this thread is wearing a Redoran Watchmen's helm. Though I don't like the model, so he'll probably never be painted. =P



I could probably manage a Redoran Watchmen armed with a spear easily enough. Not sure if people appreciate the skirts which some Redoran guards wear though.



Though aye, I don't like how those pauldrons go with that helmet. Something less obnoxious (like in that image LeCacty posted) would suit it better, or rather some Chitin Armour.



But wait no, I think Stormwall's looking for something more like this right?



...Because the armour which the Redoran guards in the Dragonborn DLC are wearing is actually a mix of the Hlaalu and Redoran sets actually.

Oh I'd also throw up this updated version of the Morrowind Ebony armour set which gives it less of an Imperial and more of a Dunmer look when talking about the Watchman's helm.



And this has literally just been an excuse for me to spam images.

You mean the redoran cloaks? That's part of MW's aesthetic!

When I got the Skrim DLC for Dragonborn, I was like "Did they get a Star Wars refugee?"

Dammit you guys make me want to play Morrowind again. I hate you

I just look at Skyrim's interpretation of bonemold, consider what a dead Horsehoe Crab smells like in real life and think just how smelly a province Morrowind would be... Not counting all the Netch Leather, giant insects and fungus.



Its interesting aesthetic to have the native armours made from animal parts instead of metals of course (barring the highest tier stuff like Ebony and Glass).

Morrowind is so unique, art wise. It's really spechial.

Oh lord, I don't even know what to say in response anymore.

 Stormwall wrote:
Oh lord, I don't even know what to say in response anymore.

WE'VE GONE MAD!

I have never seen Horse-shoe crabs so huge! I am used to seeing foot across, and maybe 2 feet long females at best.

But yeah, the armor would be likely from boiled and cleaned crabs as the things are not edible for humans.

Heh, those are sculptures, not actual crabs. ...Um, because you couldn't really use a real one as anything more than a buckler.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Heh, those are sculptures, not actual crabs. ...Um, because you couldn't really use a real one as anything more than a buckler.

They are really well made sculpts

Challenge accepted.

Well then....

Bleh, WIPs then.



A Tang Mo mercenary and a Redoran Guardsman (his shield's gone walkies however). Both are just metal armatures with a bit of greenstuff on them. The Tang Mo's head's by Crooked Dice (no comment on why an Ape has a tail, I didn't have any Chimp heads spare). =P

And now I'm downloading The Elder Scrolls Online. Don't worry, it won't suck up my life or model making time, because it probably won't run on this laptop of mine.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Bleh, WIPs then.



A Tang Mo mercenary and a Redoran Guardsman (his shield's gone walkies however). Both are just metal armatures with a bit of greenstuff on them. The Tang Mo's head's by Crooked Dice (no comment on why an Ape has a tail, I didn't have any Chimp heads spare). =P

And now I'm downloading The Elder Scrolls Online. Don't worry, it won't suck up my life or model making time, because it probably won't run on this laptop of mine.

I like the spears!

Progress update, of a sorts. Two reasons why I haven't been very productive with this thread this week. One I installed the Elder Scrolls Online and it actually worked, so you expect what playing an MMORPG's done for my time keeping, and secondly today I threw together six buildings for that modern Middle Eastern project which I've been working on. Now what I will say is that once those six are done and given away the guy who I'm giving them to'll probably spend a while working on them, so I'll have a while before I have to make the next lot for him.

So, the immediate plan is to paint up the ruin which I posted up here earlier in the week. I'm out of cork, so no more buildings for the short term. However, that means back to painting soldiers then. My Reaper Miniatures order turned up this morning, so I'll be sifting through to see if anything looks like it has some immediacy about it. Those two greens I posted though'll probably be first to be painted though. That or I make some terrain out of balsa, such as market stalls or stacks of crates.

Ah, no promises that I won't waste even more time playing that game, but I'll try and put aside the time to manage something Morrowind related at the least. Hmn, had that game chosen to stick more to Morrowind's aestethic with its architecture I may have taken some ideas from it. Right now though whilst it does add to the series, the areas of Morrowind which you can visit don't include any clay buildings, instead going for the Mournhold style. At least the environments besides the buildings is pretty evocative of Vvardenfell however. ...Sorry though I'm rambling a tad here. So yes, pics at some point. ...Woe to anyone who's been expecting me to update either of my two other blog threads recently.

STUFF!

'Nother non update. Middle Eastern buildings will be finished tonight, I'll probably throw up an image of them here for the sake of it. I'm currently painting up the Tang Mo, plus the ruined building, and a few other mercenaries (the next lot seem to be Imperials). Following this Tuesday and that ruin being finished I should be moving onto more Hlallu buildings, particularly I have my eye on a guard tower at the moment.

...So yes, bide your time dealing with this waffle. I'll do my best to have something actually painted tonight. =P

Yay for non... stuff?

I'm at work, so ah, nae pictures till I get home.

* Whenever my flag changes y'all know I'm abroad in the wonderful land of Ireland.

I had the notion to upload these pictures before work today (even if it did keep me up till two this morning), so here, have a cheeky wee update.

The last of the current batch of ruins now that I've used up all that cork board making other buildings (hmn, actually all the cork was supposed to go entirely towards those, I just happened to blag some for myself...). I left off any graffiti this time so that any town that I make doesn't look like its been overrun by taggers. ...Perhaps they had something better to do (like running away from a Dreugh) when they happened by this building.




Plus here's that Tang Mo mercenary as well. I doubt I'll do much more with this particular race, but it could be a part of a set of random mercenaries (or even an Akaviri force of Asian style warriors and snake people...)




Right, beyond that there's not much else to say as far as progress goes. I have some Imperials being painted, a Treasure Hunter and Expeditionary Force soldier in Newt Scale armour. What's actually going to be finished however is another matter. =P

Kewl!