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Here's a showcase thread of my models for this awesome game (seriously: check it out). I'll be updating this post as I slowly work my way through my minis.

URBICUS: The former legionnaire who fights to provide for his family.



MICON: Poor quarry laborer turned gladiator who only uses cestuses to bludgeon his foes.





NOXIUS: The slave condemned to the arena who just won't die.



HERMES: The superstar at the height of his abilities whom the crowd loves.



MARCUS FURIUS: The landowner's son turned criminal turned retiarius.



ACERBUS: The rhino who is always up to rampage through the arena.




LEO: The king of beasts with a bloodthirsty reputation (and temperament).




ATROX: The terror from the east known for dragging off and eating the unaware (NB: this is my proxy to replace the official model).

Spectacularly nice work! Really like every thing you have shown here.

Cool, I love gladiators!
Where's the rhino from?

Nice golden metal texture. How do you do that?
I also love the rinho skin... it's seems hard as hell

Greetings Gomez, Beautiful paint work on all the models!

The Rhino looks alive! Thank You for sharing!

ingtaer wrote:Spectacularly nice work! Really like every thing you have shown here.

Thanks!

Tim 121RVC wrote:Cool, I love gladiators!
Where's the rhino from?

All these models are from Arena Rex, by Red Republic Games.

petitflacheur wrote:Nice golden metal texture. How do you do that?
I also love the rinho skin... it's seems hard as hell

Acerbus the rhino was actually waaaaay easier than he looks. Lots of washes/glazes and repeated highlights helped me get close to that life-like texture I was shooting for. As for the gold metal... There are actually a couple different things I tried - which model are you referring to in particular?

ingtaer wrote:Spectacularly nice work! Really like every thing you have shown here.

Thanks - I appreciate the kind words. The models are so good that I've really pushed myself to improve so I can try to do them justice.

darkstar6783 wrote:Greetings Gomez, Beautiful paint work on all the models!

The Rhino looks alive! Thank You for sharing!

Thank you for the feedback.

Awesome work and it looks like a great game!

Are you going to be doing all the characters for the game?
The two that instantly caught my eye were Proximus and Nero with riding Septimus! Wendigo came a close third!

Amazingly detailed and original models!

These are excellent, Gomez!

I especially like Acerbus and Leo. Besides the lovely skin/fur your handling of the eyes on both models really makes them come to life!

I can't wait for the guy on the giant Komodo Dragon to release, he is an insta-buy for me.

So good, I love anything Roman Empire especially when it involves gladiators!

I've had my eye on Arena Rex minis for sometime now and you've done a cracking job on yours. I love the skin tone throughout, the Lion's skin in particular looks great - I salute you. Definitely a thumbs up

lazylathe wrote:Awesome work and it looks like a great game!

Are you going to be doing all the characters for the game?
The two that instantly caught my eye were Proximus and Nero with riding Septimus! Wendigo came a close third!

Amazingly detailed and original models!

It really is a great game - easy to learn, elegant (and free!) rules, outstanding models... And yeah, I have a whole mess of models that I've been slooooooowly working on. I've been in since the beginning with the KS and have added to my pile since then (including Septimus and Nero - though starting to paint that bull intimidates the crap out of me, TBH).

DarkTraveler777 wrote:These are excellent, Gomez!

I especially like Acerbus and Leo. Besides the lovely skin/fur your handling of the eyes on both models really makes them come to life!

I can't wait for the guy on the giant Komodo Dragon to release, he is an insta-buy for me.

Cheers - thanks for the feedback. I actually cheat like crazy on eyes in general, going mostly for just a bit of shading or black with a bit of white reflection (like on Acerbus). It's easy and while not very technical makes for a decent effect. Leo's eye is actually sculpted with a hole for the pupil, so all I did was paint the iris yellow.

 Gomez wrote:

petitflacheur wrote:Nice golden metal texture. How do you do that?
I also love the rinho skin... it's seems hard as hell

Acerbus the rhino was actually waaaaay easier than he looks. Lots of washes/glazes and repeated highlights helped me get close to that life-like texture I was shooting for. As for the gold metal... There are actually a couple different things I tried - which model are you referring to in particular?

The helmets and the braces of the 2 first gladiators

Looking good!

 petitflacheur wrote:

 Gomez wrote:

petitflacheur wrote:Nice golden metal texture. How do you do that?
I also love the rinho skin... it's seems hard as hell

Acerbus the rhino was actually waaaaay easier than he looks. Lots of washes/glazes and repeated highlights helped me get close to that life-like texture I was shooting for. As for the gold metal... There are actually a couple different things I tried - which model are you referring to in particular?

The helmets and the braces of the 2 first gladiators

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I just went with Burnished Gold -> Shining Gold - > Chainmail, blending them together along the way and washing with some combo of Agrax Earthshade, Nuln Oil, and Fleshshade as I went. That layering might be where that texture you're seeing comes from. I usually have lots of highlight -> wash -> highlight again going on.


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 Aetare wrote:
Looking good!

Thank you!

GAIUS PALLIDUS: Healed by mysterious druidic magic after a horrific injury, this towering warrior can now shrug off wounds that would lay low any normal gladiator.

Love it! Show us some moooreee! The Mob demands it.

Great paintwork. The non-historical elements make me twitch as a lover of gladiators, but the paintwork is stunning and the quality of the figures looks really nice.

kestral wrote:Love it! Show us some moooreee! The Mob demands it.

Ha ha ha - I'm still working, but I am sloooooooow to get stuff finished. I'll post ASAP when I finish something for sure. I do have a WIP thread in the P&M subforum is you're interested in the process as well as the finished stuff.

Elbows wrote:Great paintwork. The non-historical elements make me twitch as a lover of gladiators, but the paintwork is stunning and the quality of the figures looks really nice.

Thanks! I have to admit that I was originally in the same boat as you and was disappointed when some of the fantastical elements started entering the arena during the Kickstarter. I loved the suggestion of mythology they had going with Septimus riding the bull Nero as an allusion to the minotaur, for example, without being an actual minotaur, but the minis and gameplay are so great that I've largely come around (I have Euryale the snake-lady in my painting queue as we speak!).

LUPA: The hammer wielding executioner who crushes the skulls of the fallen in the arena to keep the crowd entertained.

Super stuff.
Love Crocman!

 Ratius wrote:
Super stuff.
Love Crocman!

Cheers! Thanks for the feedback.

ANTAEUS: The philosopher warrior who gives away his winnings because he simply wants to grow as a human being...

A little NSFW on that last one...

Very nice! Wasn't someone requesting more historical accuracy a little while back? That's, uh, pretty authentic (at least for historical greek wrestlers, not sure about the arena).


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Gotta say the Rhino kind of steals the show though.

 kestral wrote:
Very nice! Wasn't someone requesting more historical accuracy a little while back? That's, uh, pretty authentic (at least for historical greek wrestlers, not sure about the arena).


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Gotta say the Rhino kind of steals the show though.

Thanks! He definitely seems to be the most popular with people.

And Antaeus is part of the Hellenic faction, so he's supposed to be an actual honest-to-goodness Greek wrestler in the arena (hence, letting it all hang out there). I appreciate the feedback - thanks for looking.

NERO: The fearsome bovine half of a legendary man-bull pair that rampages across the sands.






Plus a little face off with Acerbus...

OTHO MENTULUS: The ultimate "heel" in the arena, the gladiator that everyone loves to hate - yet his success is undeniable.

Nice all around, but I think your animals steal the show: you've got some great texture/blends, there.

Far out!! This is the tippy tops of excellent painting, very nice work!. The rhino is my favorite, but that's a hard choice because they are all equally well done.

spiralingcadaver wrote:Nice all around, but I think your animals steal the show: you've got some great texture/blends, there.

Cheers, SC - that means a lot coming from you. They've certainly been a growth area for me, as I've tried lots of new techniques on them. (They've also been pretty intimidating due to their size and the quality of the sculpts.)

Stormatious wrote:Far out!! This is the tippy tops of excellent painting, very nice work!. The rhino is my favorite, but that's a hard choice because they are all equally well done.

Thanks for the kind words, Stormatious - I appreciate the feedback. The rhino (Acerbus) seems to get the most comments, for sure...