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 Insurgency Walker wrote:
T9. 140 wounds. Bring it!

Haha! Have an exalt sir.

Liking the look of the arena already. Can't wait to see more.

EDC

Hope to be finished tomorrow morning.

In the meantime, here is I-Walker's medic station and a lady of the evening. I feel I overdid it with the red. I suspect she is a vampire, or perhaps an organ hijacker.

That is looking fantastic, and the lady is looking truly brilliant, really great work on that skirt, and the hair.

She definitely has a strong allure about her.

Thanks!

Well, the Arena is done for now. It could use some more ink/weathering/posters/bloody hand prints, but I -walker needs it for an RPG, and I am ready for a change of pace from gladiators for a while.

Here it is fully extended: Really, for playing actual games you need it extended since the basic set up is more like a terrain piece than a game board.







Some close ups:











And in it's basic, round configuration:

It came out great!

Im intrigued, though. Who finally managed to defeat the massive master guarding the arena?
?

I'm sure many tried and failed, before it finally departed for unknown worlds, defeating the mightiest champion of the arena with a single disdainful flick of its tail as it left.

But its hair still remains. ; ( One more chapter in the long and storied history of the Arena.

Ah, random little projects from bits I had randomly on my project shelf - this is the life!





The Beast Lurks!



Must keep my eye out for more of that cardboard packing material I used to make the building. Unlike styrofoam it won't chip to white.

I've got some of that kind of packing stuff lying around somewhere, it really is nice for some quick terrain! i made a little train tunnel with mine, though it's been lost in box for a while.

I almost want to call the metal piece an ultramarine bbq pit.

Could well be a BBQ pit. I literally have no idea what it is supposed to be. But once something gets on the shelf, it get gets used somehow. I did a big photo shoot for another "Street Scenes" I'll post in a bit, but since it features my entry for the most recent terrain competition, I'm holding off.


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In the meantime, here is a family of redheads featuring the green scholia cap and the kinderticket required in Pentegrad.



And a nude male gladiator I'm doing in greenstuff:



I got the Dreadmere expansion from the reaper bones kickstarter, in large part to do miniatures for the Docks of Pentegrad which I'll put on hold until then. That may well be the best $50 I ever spent on miniatures.

I NEED 10 of those pack tortoises, ASAP.

Love the champagne cap too! Took me a minute to place it.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I NEED 10 of those pack tortoises, ASAP.

You are not the only one...

One will do for me. I'm sure there are toy turtles that could be the rest of the caravan. : )

Looking forward to the next update!

(gallery mods get a sneak preview )

Is that a giant catfish?! WHY DIDNT YOU WARN ME!!!

No one suspects a Giant Catfish! I certainly didn't scrolling down through the kickstarter. It will look good hanging up by the tail down on the docks.

Very happy with how I did up my pegasus terrain and we've been using it alot lately. One thing I'd been grappling with was how to do the large arched fresco sections. I'd thought about freehanding images into them, but I'm not much good at that. I wound up printing random 40K images, then rubbing them to wear some of the image off. This had the effect of disguising different art styles that might otherwise have been jarring.



Really loving the Pegasus stuff and using it alot in games. I also built roof sections to go with them, and plan some more conversions, as well as buying the rest of the range.

I quite like the chimneys

I have a lot LOT of Pegasus stuff and I really recommend you snip off those top tabs and fill in the gaps with the bricks and gargoyles in the kit. It will look 10x better.

This is looking great, I love the shrines the woman is sweeping nearby. Very simple but instantly 40k.
Also, giant catfish??

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I have a lot LOT of Pegasus stuff and I really recommend you snip off those top tabs and fill in the gaps with the bricks and gargoyles in the kit. It will look 10x better.

I would, but Pegasus is my go to terrain for creating one off situations for RPGs. Far more durable than my laser cut mfd stuff. The ability to assemble it multiple ways awesome. I should look at ways of filling/covering them temporarily though.


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Kurnost wrote:
This is looking great, I love the shrines the woman is sweeping nearby. Very simple but instantly 40k.
Also, giant catfish??

Thanks! Reaper delivers again with a giant catfish but I'm not sure just how it is supposed to used? Swimming under water? Slithering on the mud?
I used to fish for cat fish aka bullpout in my youth. Only kind of fishing I liked.

All in all, the dreadmere set is stone cold awesome, and the more I think about it the happier I am. Even in bones.

So I have Belisarious Cawl, courtesy of Insurgency walker, and that is a hell of a model! But I don't often do named characters as rule, other than as converted counts as stuff. I made an exception for Aun'Shi back in the day (and plan to with Celestine), but generally I find them too over the top. So I think I'm going to do a project I'd meant to do in a smaller scale scratch build with him:

Magos Valandria

Valandria came to Penetegrad in the time of Liberation in the company of Angron, ten thousand years ago. In that time she has dwelt quietly on the outskirts of the city, tending her botanical station. As a Magos Biologos, her perspective is somewhat different than most of her kind. She venerates the machine, but is obsessed with the functioning of life, and can spend a century contemplating a single genome's expression. Plants are her particular area of study, and there grow throughout the Argo cluster many crops, medicinal, and even decorative plants developed by her. She takes no credit for these creations, preferring to remain nearly anonymous and aloof from power and politics. Rarely seen behind her walls, she will sometimes, if propitiated correctly, provide a remedy, or train a young person in the botanical arts. To enter her compound uninvited is incredibly dangerous - her servitors may be armed primarily with pruning hooks, edgers and fertilizer sprays, but they are deadly just the same, and many of her creations are almost as lethal. Still, this doesn't stop a handful of adventurers from trying every year. Valadria does not mind - after all, new servitors must come from somewhere.

Still, she opens the gates to portions of her station on certain ceremonial occasions or even randomly, usually remaining hidden during these times.

It would be a mistake to think of Valandria as an eccentric Dotard however. She has survived ten thousand years and hundreds of wars. When she reveals herself she is the size of a tank, bristling with blades and lethal dual purpose tools, a mass of steel hiding only a few withered bits of vulnerable flesh. Across her back in botanical tanks or as trailing creepers grow her favorite creations, some quite useful in battle.

The masters of Pentegrad sometimes seek to impose their will on her and her domain in one way or another. This has never ended well. That she is mad is nearly certain, but she has saved Pentegrad more than once in it's long history.

Idea for the future - Moon Tower. Some towns used to have them instead of streetlights (or still do).

Moontower would be very interesting! A few flat levels on the way up would make it a great connecting point for other buildings, and the top would obviously be a perfect sniper's nest. Certainly a centrepiece for the table, anyway...

Awesomeness love the fluff for Valandria

Thanks!

I am vaguely considering entering the Iron Sleet invitational converting thing, using my Dorok/Pacific Northwest/Feral Worlders. However, the deadline is pretty tight, and 5 figures is actually kind of a lot to do to their standard. Still, I'd really like to do something fairly original at some point, and Dorok troops are pretty neat!




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With some imperial iconography worked in, and some "My ancestors saw some space marines and made their armor as close as they could" influence.

As soon as the League of Riveters thing wraps, I'm going to put out my next Pentegrad Street Scenes installment.


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There was a literal Frog in the photo shoot.

Ooh yeah you should give the Invitational a go it is a pretty tight deadline to do stuff to their standard, but I'm dead excited for it

Neat froggos are awesome

On further reflection I don't think I have quite the Blanchitsu Groove for it. You do though, so win one for us!

You should still have a go bud, your work is excellent.
Excelent work on that Slann BTW.

Love the moontower idea, you must do that.

But I am really looking forward to Magos Valandria, that bit of fluff has me salivating. Brilliant writing bud.