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 amazingturtles wrote:
The pants and the stitching came out really clear and well on the bloodstoker, alex87! it's personally one of my least favorite models but i really like how you've done him up.

Thanks man. Picked out the stitching on the pants with a dark brown to add some detail and also fixed the mould-line under his chin that had collected the Agrax Earthshade wash I used on the skin.
Agree re model quality. Not my favorite sculpt but I used this guy as a demented surgeon-turned-psychopath in my DnD campaign and had a ton of fun with that story arc, so he earns some sentimental points in my book.

Ready for going out onto Warhammer Live this Wednesday to play some AoS Skirmish, I converted and painted 3 handgunners to be from the dark and polluted city of Greywater Fastness! (Plus a loyal Gryph-Hound)




The conversions are Freeguild Archer bodies, Freeguild Handgunner arms, Wildwood Ranger heads, and backpacks made from Outrider bits. Really happy with the conversions, not too sure I pulled off the dark blue coats effectively.

This just makes up a small part of the warband, which is as follows:



If you're interested in AoS Skirmish, make sure you tune into Warhammer Live this Wednesday at 6PM (ish)!

There is literally nothing I can see there that needs improvement, except maybe the bases

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
There is literally nothing I can see there that needs improvement, except maybe the bases

haha, yes my basing is always a bit marmite for people with how plain it is! I have way too many models in my Order army now to consider radically changing it though.... (Plus, Ninth loves it). :-P

Love that gryph-hound paint job, buddy . Solid painting all round!

Incredible gryph-hound. Best of luck on Wednesday!

 Bottle wrote:

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
There is literally nothing I can see there that needs improvement, except maybe the bases

haha, yes my basing is always a bit marmite for people with how plain it is! I have way too many models in my Order army now to consider radically changing it though.... (Plus, Ninth loves it). :-P

Yeah, those mushrooms are pretty cool. If you want to make bases more interesting without changing them too much, try playing with the elevation by glueing pieces of sprue or rocks down before covering them with sand or texture paint. Then continue as normal.

Sorry if it sounds like im lecturing, basing is something I really love (and something im quite good at, if I do say so myself)

That's good advice, thanks! You can see on the more recent ones (the 3 riflemen and Gryph Hound) that I've started to experiment with slate for some to stand on as well as different grass colours - unfortunately I don't think my Order stuff is ever going to match up to my Chaos basing (snow) or my 40k basing (cracked earth, chipped stone and techno-junk).

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:

 Bottle wrote:

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
There is literally nothing I can see there that needs improvement, except maybe the bases

haha, yes my basing is always a bit marmite for people with how plain it is! I have way too many models in my Order army now to consider radically changing it though.... (Plus, Ninth loves it). :-P

Yeah, those mushrooms are pretty cool. If you want to make bases more interesting without changing them too much, try playing with the elevation by glueing pieces of sprue or rocks down before covering them with sand or texture paint. Then continue as normal.

Sorry if it sounds like im lecturing, basing is something I really love (and something im quite good at, if I do say so myself)

How DARE you contest the quality of Bottle's miniatures! I shocked, SHOCKED, that someone would have the audacity to criticise such marvelous works of art! The only possible complaint that could be made on a remotely rational level is that the feet and legs of those gun-hobo-whatevers are obstructing the view.







sarcasm

Feel like I am letting the side down - but I did manage to do some Centigors and Ungors this week!

I just finished a megaboss up today. Went with an albino look, though the red glazes in the recesses get bit too saturated in my pictures.

I Converted and painted a Questing Knight recently I changed the head to make him more like the Knights Of Lothric in Dark Souls 3, now seeing AOS skirmish is coming out and I rushed out and preordered it I'm thinking of making a warband full of guys inspired by the souls series to go with him.


I also finished a Lord Relictor for my Astral Vindicators Stormhost.

Where did you get that helmet? It looks awesome!

It's actually impressive how cooler the stormcast look when you use actual knight helms. Looks less creepy as well

Ruins of Weathertop

Nice work! I like the diversity in plants/fungus sprouting up, it gives it a more immersive feel.

thanks, i was pretty happy with how it came out

Status update on my edgetastic Sylvaneth: progress was smooth and I'm ready to start priming. I have this lingering concern because for the first time in a long time I'm going to be using the terrain paints as intended and not slathering it on before priming. As a consequence they look super bare right now and I constantly have to remind myself that they'll look less busy up top once the bases are painted covered with bushes, mounds of dirt, and water effects. But it's hard.

Anyway, here are some pictures I took while packing them for their exciting field trip to the hobby store, where I can prime them and catch up on our league.

I got to see Drycha fully built on launch day and decided I wanted her to look distinct. Originally it was just going to be a re-pose, then it was a head-swap to differentiate it from the other unpainted drycha that was seeing play in the store (Dry-chan vs Drycha-cha iirc) and I got to thinking I could fill in some of the hornets' nests covering her body to make it look more like a real one that's only partially slouched off. But after implementing it I decided I'd rather have it all look like gnarled bark. Her armour is held on with blue-tac right now, if it looks a little bulkier than it should.


I got the spite revenants at the same time as Drycha, at the time I picked them over tree-revenants due to their rules and there was a real sense that you had to pick one of them and commit. Some odd effect of them being the same kit and similar names despite this very different roles. The idea was they'd accompany Drycha and the dryads and together act as a big nasty tarpit while my wild riders picked off the real nasty stuff. In practice people would just avoid attacking whatever unit I'd casted shield of thorns on in lieu of everything else,they ended up evolving into a dryad tarpit with drycha tackling a big blob by herself and the spites positioning themselves somewhere to maximize their spooky terrain effect. I suppose their theme is 'exile is no excuse not to take care of your hair.'


Inversely, the Kurnoth Hunters come from my 'great ideas stolen from the internet' collection. I spent so much time gradually accepting the way Kurnoth's look that I finally stopped worrying about it and went looking for painting advice for them, only to be immediately blown away by amazing conversion work done by someone for their all-revenant themed army. Though I stole the idea, I ended up paying enough in blood trying to re-engineer it, let me tell you...


The theme for the tree-revenants is 'oh no, you used all your tree revenant parts for other projects!'

... Actually because I had used the hair for Drycha and the spites I had it in my head to try something different with them from the get-go. A restless dead theme gelled well with both my army's backstory and generally what tree-revenants are. I asked around the store for what units would be suited to the way they behave on the field and they all said 'skirmishers'. Then, later, patiently, they explained to the Sigmar baby that I am what skirmishers were in fantasy and what units were skirmishers.


My branchwych and Mistweaver Saih. The former is meant to bridge the sylvaneth look and the centaur theme of my wood elf army. I... may redo her at a later date, but I'll can't seem to find an angle where she looks good in a picture. She's remarkably unphotogenic. The mistweaver is a case study in how to fix a badly executed idea with liberal application of green stuff.


And another shot of my twisted treelord ancient. I realized later that I never took a picture of his face dead-on. Wearing the Durthu face like a mask modifies the treelord's facial profile in a really cool way, I feel.


I also turned the wildwood trees into little stumps that will have smaller magnetic tree branches growing out of them, used the excess tree parts to wood-up my bale wind vortex. But I forgot to take a picture of it.

 Captain Joystick wrote:
... only to be immediately blown away by amazing conversion work done by someone for their all-revenant themed army.

Corai's maybe?

Sylvaneth done well is one of the coolest themes that Age of Stuff has to offer. Bravo on really cranking it, all the spooky tree people are legit af

- Salvage

Awesome! I worked pretty hard to convert all my Sylvaneth into spooky shambling skeleton trees and put a few ghosts on Drycha. Gave the whole army a Death feel to it. I'll have to post better pictures of them now that I got a better camera.

Nice sylvaneth conversions there!

I just did me a Bonegrinder Giant!





The other Gargants a feeling a bit small!

Wow. I didn't know they were that big. Awesome work (as always).

what emberlord said.... holy cow.
both the size and painting are wow...
nice work.

That guy is tall. I love that you did the rags stiched together in such a variety of colors, makes me think of the old empire uniforms.

A verminlord Corrupter I've been working on. It's going to go with an army of plague monks, but will also eventually get a pair of wings to function as a 40k substitute beastie.

I mean... that's pretty scary.

Though I would adjust the bell to convey a sense of gravity/motion...

From my First Skirmish, night goblins are weak but fun as hell for sure, great when you have tons of bodies vs 3 model armies.

3 Freeguild Swordsmen as a mini project ready for a tournament this Saturday. I'm going to push the unit to 40 over the summer, it's at 30+ now. :-)

Three stout gentlemen they are. The mustache on that head is one of my favorite things.