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youwashock wrote:If you are looking to switch, a really dark green could be the way to go. Faces are looking gruesome!

Yeah, that’s the direction I’m headed, just did the tail and legs in a base coat of Caliban Green. Glad someone besides me suggested it

highlord tamburlaine wrote:Nice progress on Demogorgon.

I always get intimidated by huge models like that, yet I keep buying them for some odd reason.

Can't wait to see the finished product- gives me hope for my Demogorgon I've got coming from Greebo...

I’ve had him for years and always wanted to paint him, but was afraid like you said, but what’s the worst that could happen? He gets a Theophony style crummy paint job.

aku-chan wrote:Those demon monkey heads are looking great!

Thanks, they were a big draw to the model for me. I was/and still am thinking about using the heads in my Dreamforce leviaathans for the glory of chaos.

Dr H wrote:For a covering over the wire trees have you considered tissue / PVA?
You can use any tissue paper; soak it in PVA/Water and wrap it around the tree. You can build up thick areas to manipulate into shapes, add the root spread at the base, stumps of branches, etc.
It can get tedious about the thinner branches, but stop early and hide the uncovered ones with foliage.
See my Mononoke piece, that's what I used for the trees on the base.

Good job on your current beastie.
The sculpts of the faces remind me of the beast at the end of Big trouble in little china...

Too complicated for me , just brush on, then paint , it’s how I roll.

Stevefamine wrote:This big guy is looking nuts

Thanks Steve

inmygravenimage wrote:The staged, bright colours are working so well. Really love the Hanuman vibe, and that purple on the demogorgon is tasty.

Well unfortunately the purple will most likely disappear, I’m liking the basecoat on the legs, but maybe the green and purple will work together...

No pic of the legs and tail, not much time and spring break for wife and kiddos. I did just order fake bamboo for my Bushido terrain, coming from China. See it in 2-3 weeks.

Exhausting week, little time to do much of anything.

Received the missing Dark Elf Bloodbowl arm today in the mail, good on GW,sent a few extra pieces as well from the sprue, nothing great except a piece of dragon skin cloak.

GCTstudios (Bushido) has shipped my show exclusive Bikou figure , it was showing out of stock but I ordered it anyway and I guess they found me one. I thought this would complete my ninja clan, but it turns out I’m missing one of the other ninjas , sneaky ninjas . I guess I’ll have to place another order to finish it off.

Also ordered some bamboo plants from China for terrain, just waiting on those.

Really just enjoying having started Facebook (because of the Bushido group, Test of Honour group, and Gates of Antares group. Finally broke down and started using the evil social media outlet.




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Took a couple hours of me time this morning while everyone was asleep to work on the arm/tentacles of Demogorgon. Used death world forest green on the scales, death guard green on the long muscles and ushabti bone on the soft underside of the muscles. Green parts got a heavy wash of athonian camoshade while the bone got a heavy wash of agrax earth shade.

Definitely will redo the legs as that green does not fit the rest of this model.

Right side

Left side


Really glad I did the extra color on the faces now.

Thanks for looking .

the upper half looks amazing....i am a bit hesitant about the legs...is this harsh contrast deliberate? i am not really that known about that monster...

Holy cow! Or unholy two headed baboon! Can't wait to see it finished.

Viktor von Domm wrote:the upper half looks amazing....i am a bit hesitant about the legs...is this harsh contrast deliberate? i am not really that known about that monster...

Yeah, I definitely intend to redo the legs, at the time it was the darkest green I had and thought that was the route to go. Since then I bought different greens for the arms, which I will also use for the legs.

kestral wrote:Holy cow! Or unholy two headed baboon! Can't wait to see it finished.

thanks Kestral, I’m enjoying painting the beast, but I want to see it finished too.

Needed a break from Demogorgon, so I painted a tuna....


Kearsu bringing a tuna (Hirestuna) to a knife fight. Kearsu still wins, ‘cause he’s the boss.

He fighting a tuna...er...will no one be thinking of the dolphins?????

Yes, make yhe legs look like the upper parts and you're golden...so to say...

I agree the green on the arms is the ticket. Cool little ninja, too.

Looking real good!

Beasty is looking great theo, like the gobo ninja too

Viktor von Domm wrote:He fighting a tuna...er...will no one be thinking of the dolphins?????

Yes, make yhe legs look like the upper parts and you're golden...so to say...

He thinks Dolphins are tasty.

youwashock wrote:I agree the green on the arms is the ticket. Cool little ninja, too.

Yeah it blends almost naturally, if I ever paint crocodiles I found my colors.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Looking real good!

Thanks Kid

JoeRugby wrote:Beasty is looking great theo, like the gobo ninja too

Thanks Joe, I like the little jabber too.

Well finished off Dudiko ( not Michael Dudikoff from the American Ninja movies of the 1980’s ) as she has boobs. I can’t figure out how I did the bases on Kerasu and the others , I need to get better at taking notes.

They will all blend fine later when I finish the bases. I ordered bamboo like Gits used on his terrain, so they will all have portable camouflage like they do in Fortnight.

Demagorgon looks absolutely amazing! You really did justice to that awesome mini.

 Da Boss wrote:
Demagorgon looks absolutely amazing! You really did justice to that awesome mini.

Thanks Boss , I may never get to field him, but he is nice to have watching making sure I make the ring decisions.

Felt like doing some terrain. Started with some plasticard, a little foamcore, pieces of VCT tile and bamboo cake stand skewers. Wound up with the start of a nice little corner display piece for a board.

After some paint

The brown area will get a thicket of Bamboo once my order arrives from China.
Also picked up two aquarium decorations at Petsmart this morning for less than $20 total as they have a buy one get one 50% off till April 7th.

Thanks for looking.

Nice little scene. About how long did it take?

 youwashock wrote:
Nice little scene. About how long did it take?

Cutting the bamboo sticks was the most time consuming part, about three hours total though. Still not done, waiting for the bamboo thicket to grow.

Loving your work. Highly creative.

You really are in full swing. Beautiful work on all of the bits. Nice to see a display piece sneaking in. Though can see how it could easily be used in game.

Nice work. Like the terrain piece.

inmygravenimage wrote:Loving your work. Highly creative.

Thanks G , I blame it on no caffeine for a month and a half, I feel more mentally alert without it .

Camkierhi wrote:You really are in full swing. Beautiful work on all of the bits. Nice to see a display piece sneaking in. Though can see how it could easily be used in game.

Thanks Cam, I need to get more scratch building going on, especially for these games.

Dr H wrote:Nice work. Like the terrain piece.

Thanks Dr. H, more will come eventually, just needed something to break a block, and looking at Japanese garden pictures got me focused on a little path. It all fell into place then.

Well I received a little ninja present in the mail today.

Show special Bikou, available only from GCTstudious when they are at shows. I’ve been waiting a while for them to post when they’d be at a show, and when they were it was not up for sale. I emailed them and got a reply saying they put it up because they forgot till I posted. Unfortunately it was out of stock . I ordered anyway just to get on a list (backordered), but I guess they scrounged one up for me. I thought this completed my ninja horde, but I was wrong . There is still one more ninja, Wamu the apprentice, who will be added to my next order eventually. I might grab another Karapan at the same time as you can have multiple and they come with two different heads.

Also grabbed some trees at HobbyLobby today using the 40% off coupon. $8 for 3 trees is reasonable to me. More will be had, maybe even tonight..... .

The goblin ninja is really nice.

Keep an eye out, the Tiny Treasures stuff at Michaels is often 40 or 50% off naturally. Particularly near seasonal changes.

I've picked up some trees and oddball bits that way

I love the dark green. May be unpopular, but certainly makes it look more monstrous and unnatural. Or maybe it feels more classic studio scheme. Anyway, I think it looks great.

Maniac_nmt wrote:The goblin ninja is really nice.

Keep an eye out, the Tiny Treasures stuff at Michaels is often 40 or 50% off naturally. Particularly near seasonal changes.

I've picked up some trees and oddball bits that way

I’ll have to head over there and check them out. They are just a different direction to where I normally roam. Thanks

IGtR= wrote:I love the dark green. May be unpopular, but certainly makes it look more monstrous and unnatural. Or maybe it feels more classic studio scheme. Anyway, I think it looks great.

Well maybe this weekend we will see some progress on the big galute. I always saw him as more orange than green, but never faced him in my years of playing D&D. Thanks

Well I decided to finish up Bikou, which means all my Bushido figs are painted once again , does that mean I have to order more?


My wife goes to a conference every year and it’s sunday through Tuesday next week. Means I have kid duty and “Have to take the days off” so hopefully I can plow through with Demogorgon this long weekend and maybe find my next project.

So possible future projects.
1. Still waiting on my Blackwater gulch Kickstarter stuff, production company is a one man operation and he’s been sick, so it’s running late.
2. Have had a recent itch to do a contemporary/near apocalypse timeline bit. No idea on rules or models, just vague stuff. I may have to just start planning stuff out.
3. Get back into doing some Gaslands stuff. Graven has been knocking out some wonderful stuff lately and it’s gotten me hyped, but it’s such a small scale game I might just do odd bits here and there.
4. I’ve been using Facebook.....don’t judge me , I’m judging myself harsh enough for doing it. But it’s rekindled some of my desires for Beyond the Gates of Antares. So I might jump back into messing about with that again.

Suggestions always welcome.

Quick like a ninja, you are.

New one looks good. Interesting choices for what's next. I look forward to whatever you go with.

Gaslands Gaslands Gaslands...
Good plan!

blackwater is interesting for sure...but since it is still not shipped...well...

you really want to make up your own apocalyptic game?...that´ll be worth having a look or two...
i am all for apocalyptical settings...must be my age...some days restarting humanity from scratch sounds like an idea :(

terrain piece looks sweet...though could get some washes for making it less cheerful...

youwashock wrote:Quick like a ninja, you are.

New one looks good. Interesting choices for what's next. I look forward to whatever you go with.

Too bad I’m not as dedicated as a ninja, so much jumping around and I can’t stay on target .

inmygravenimage wrote:Gaslands Gaslands Gaslands...
Good plan!

so I’m not sure which way your voting there , could it be Gaslands?

Viktor von Domm wrote:blackwater is interesting for sure...but since it is still not shipped...well...

you really want to make up your own apocalyptic game?...that´ll be worth having a look or two...
i am all for apocalyptical settings...must be my age...some days restarting humanity from scratch sounds like an idea :(

terrain piece looks sweet...though could get some washes for making it less cheerful...

Not sure if I’d make up my own apocalyptic game, just a near future catastrophe setting for minis and modeling. I’m almost tempted to try using a really old RPG system “The Morrow Project” as a basis for the game. Maybe write my own module and build the town to eventually run an RPG if I ever can get back to doing that.

In the mean time I have been quiet due to work, wife being out of town and a bad stomach virus. I just felt capable of going down to my painting area today after three days of staying close to a bathroom. So leg day it was.


I have done the color split in the legs similar to the upper body, but the lower body had that dark green coat on it while the upper had white primer. I think it will actually help out in the end, just not be exactly the same.

Never skip leg day. Sorry to hear you were sick, glad you are on the mend.

since you did the legs in the same methode but with another "undercoat" it works, at least for me...figures somehow that the legs are a bit darker...but it all looks now as one body!

best wishes....nurgle is visiting me atm too...and i hope i stay strong enough for work too...

I just felt capable of going down to my painting area today after three days of staying close to a bathroom.

that sounds evil....:(

Stomach viriuses (virii?) are the worst. I'm glad you are feeling better.

Demogorgon is coming along nicely. The model looks like it is worth taking your time to finish.

youwashock wrote:Never skip leg day. Sorry to hear you were sick, glad you are on the mend.

Thanks Youashock

Viktor von Domm wrote:since you did the legs in the same methode but with another "undercoat" it works, at least for me...figures somehow that the legs are a bit darker...but it all looks now as one body!

best wishes....nurgle is visiting me atm too...and i hope i stay strong enough for work too...

I just felt capable of going down to my painting area today after three days of staying close to a bathroom.

that sounds evil....:(

Nurgle sucks, he came back with a vengeance after posting this.

JoshInJapan wrote:Stomach viriuses (virii?) are the worst. I'm glad you are feeling better.

Demogorgon is coming along nicely. The model looks like it is worth taking your time to finish.

Yeah I don’t want to rush this beast. In fact the back of the legs hasn’t gotten a wash yet. I wanted the paint to thoroughly dry there before I hit it.

Well like I said, Nurgle was reading my posts and decided to hit me again for good measure. My wife is at a conference, so I called her mom who was a nurse for 40 years at the hospital I currently work at. She came right over (she’s really a great mother in law, if not crazy like a loon ). So far the medicine and Gatorade are helping as my electrolytes must really be out of whack.

My next question to you all is this. I’m looking for cheap (I mean it’s me guys) feudal Japanese coins to use as Ki tokens for Bushido. I’d like them to have some weight (preferably metal) with texture or kanji of some type on them. While thinking about it I remembered I have a copy of Samurai Swords board game (formerly Shogun and currently Ikusa) which has 33 koku, but they are red plastic. They can be seen in this picture


But I’ve also seen these in store. They are 50 metal coins from the game Tokaido, lowest I’ve seen is $14, it just doesn’t look worn enough to me.


There’s also Chinese luck coins out there, which I can’t figure out how to bring photos from amazon over as my brain is not functioning at 100%.
These are probably the best looking to my eyes, but I just don’t want people to complain that it’s chinese and not pseudo Japanese . I know the game draws from a lot of different cultures, so I’m not too worried, just wondering if you all know any other alternatives. I really like the center hole in the coins for what I’m going with. Any help will be appreciated.

Japanese 5-yen coins are copper (but lighter in color than US pennies), have a hole in the middle, and are the only modern Japanese coin with no roman numerals. Given the current exchange rate, they're worth about 4 cents each. That might be your cheapest alternative, assuming you can locate a source.