Myconid Adults

Mushroom Men! These are also from Nolzur's Marvelous Miniature line. I've always had a soft spot for mushroom people ... no idea why. They used to be fairly common in a lot of the D&D dungeons I wrote in High School.

Still playing with Contrast paints. Skeleton Horde for the body, and thinned down Pink for the caps/hands. Then some drybrushing (Screaming Skull and Pallid Wych) on the bodies and Emperor's Children to fix any odd pooling on the caps. Lastly a dot of pallid for each eye. 

Oxen

Sometimes you just need some barnyard animals. Here's a set of Oxen from Nolzur's Marvelous Miniature line. Most of the work was done by Contrast paints. (Black for the main/nose, Grey for the body (w/ a drybrush of Dawnstone)).

I like'em and they were fast and easy.

Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave - Primal Lair

Some terrain bits and bobs for the newest version of Underworlds.

Looking at GW's website, I realize I may have painted some of these "incorrect". The shard of realmstone should have been Amber (i.e. the realmstone of the Realm of Beasts), I painted it more metallic. The pit of acid if filled with bubbling water in my rendition.

I consciously tried to use more Contrast paints. I'm still having mixed thoughts. Sometimes I really like the effect, sometimes I'm not so sure. I think I need to be really aware of how it will pool (and I'm still don't have a great feel for that).

1 gaseous clouds forming from vents in the ground

1 large animal skull and section of skeleton

1 shard of realmstone

1 set of tentacles emerging from a hole in the ground

1 pit of acid

1 large skull resting on rocks

Tardis

I picked this up a while back. It's a Police Box from the Reaper Bones line. It feels a bit small, but then again, the Tardis is small on the outside. I figure it's the one piece of "Universal" terrain I have. Hills don't even look right in every setting (say in a Necromunda Underhive), but this thing can be dropped anywhere and it still makes sense :-).

I have to admit, if you look at photos of the "real" Tardis, it says "Police Public Call Box" (where the "Public Call" portion is written in a smaller font). That was way beyond my ability to free hand, so mine just says Police Box on the placard. It was mostly painted with Guiliman Blue Contrast Paint (and some drybrusing, highlighting and various bits detailed).

Displacer Beast

Meow?!?!?

No idea what a displacer kitty says. This was an exercise in doing black (or in this kitties case ... dark grey). He has a white underbelly, but it's not as apparent in these pictures.

Timeworn Ruins

Not brand new ruins ... timeworn ones!

These were fun to paint. I relearned a lesson to not use the last of a Nuln Oil pot (or mix it with water). It left a slight film in some of the recesses of the "bust" piece. Last time this happened, it went away once I hit the piece with an overcoat.

Nothing particularly fancy about the color scheme. The only real difference from previous pieces of terrain was the use of Skeleton Horde contrast on the various skulls & bones.

Medium Fire Elementals

As I went down, the flames went up higher!

More Fire Elementals! This time from Nolzur's Marvelous Miniature line. These have better faces, but less flamey bits. They look good with the big guy from the previous post though. All told I have 10 small fire (GW's brimstone horrors), 4 medium, and 1 large fire elementals.

I'd like to say that I have 4 of these, since Fire Elementals are by far the most commonly met ones during D&D campaigns ... but really I forgot I already had a pair when I bought the second one. I have 3 air, 3 water, 3 earth and 15 fire.

These are the last of the "Elemental sub project" (an offshoot of the D&D project). I'm all set to run a "Princes of the Apocalypse" campaign. Too bad me and the kids finished that campaign off last Summer. I'm sure they'll get use.

Large Fire Elemental

Down down down into a burning ring of fire!

A large fire elemental from Reaper's Bones line. I'd say this is low hanging fruit, largely because it's just a bunch of dry brushes (from white all the way to black ... white scar, lamenters yellow, flash git yellow, trollslayer orange, mephiston red, and finally abbadon black). The only thing about this miniature that bothers me is it's lack of defined "facial" features. It's not a huge issue though.

Cannons 2

Wait ... haven't we seen these already?

Nope! I bought (and painted) another 2 cannons. At some point, I'll get a sloop (or frigate) and these will look great on the deck of one of those.

Iron Maiden

Nope, not some 80's metal band, it's the original Iron Maiden. The doors almost seem like they'd shut (but don't really). Not much more to say ... just more terrain for dungeons.

The Rack

It's some more dungeon terrain. It's Nolzur's Magnificent Miniatures Rack this time. Wasn't 100% sure the "ropes" are ropes (they might be chains). Painting them as ropes gave it a bit more color. It'll make any dungeon encounters even more terrifying.

2019 November Totals

The penultimate month of 2019! Effectively lost some time due to Thanksgiving, but still made some progress. Only 1/2 as many as last month.

• 1 Large Water Elemental
• 2 Gazers and 1 Spectator
• 1 Beholder
• 1 Cart
• 5 Warhammer Underwords: Skaeth's Wild Hunt
• 2 Medium Earth Elementals
• 2 Mimics
• 2 Ruined Walls (the last of the Blasted Hallowheart, Azyrite Townscape stuff).

November Totals: 16

2019 Totals: 228

Mimics

Run! Oh wait ... it's just a chest. No need to run this time.

Mimics from Nolzur's Marvelous Miniature line. I like these two, they were simple and fun to paint.

Medium Earth Elementals

Earth Elementals!

I have to admit, I'm not a huge fan of these two. A quick Google image search indicates these aren't particularly popular to paint either.

They have a couple of issues. The first is their pose. Whomever sculpted them did so in the same style as the previous Nolzur's elementals. Needless to say, an earth elemental shouldn't have the same stance/features as a water/air/fire elemental. They are plodding creatures made of earth (not fluid in any way). They should have legs. The other issue is the lack of distinctive detail. There's good detail, but it's not distinct. There should be more and different types of earth easily distinguished. Mostly they are all kind of a parched earth look. I tried to vary it by making some look more stone like. They are just not that inspiring.

With that said, they make good backup for the large earth elemental I painted earlier. Like that one, when I go to finish the bases, I'll probably add some "basing" detail to the miniature as a whole (i.e. grass growing on their backs, moss on some of their rocks, etc).

Warhammer Underwords: Skaeth's Wild Hunt

You can hide, but you can't run! These guys are faster than you!

It's Skaeth's Wild Hunt for Warhammer Underworlds Beastgrave.

I had a lot of fun painting them. They are beautiful miniatures. The bases are a bit weird, given that Beastgrave takes place underground. It has quite a bit of greenery and flowers. I kept it pretty close GW's paint job. I varied some of the hair colors a bit and painted the Ligor as a baby White Lion. I used Guiliman's Flesh Contrast and the Orange Contrast for the first time, both worked really well. The white contrast also continued to work well. I also tried Sylvaneth Bark Contrast for the "hairy" bits ... that didn't work quite as well (although still okay).

It'll be interesting to see if GW ever releases any more Kurnothi.

Cart

Run ... it's a ... cart!

It's an odd day to post this.

I have a fairly large (6,000 pts worth) WHFB Beastman army. At the end of WHFB, large units were king. To do that, many people built unit fillers. Basically little dioramas that made moving the units around a little easier and took up a large chunk of space in the unit. I had plans to make a unit filler that consisted of cart being pulled by ungors filled with the spoils of war (namely a bunch of extra shields and weapons I had from the Gor sprues). It would take the space of 10-15 ungors in a unit. At the time, I searched high and low for a good cart. I never found one. Then I saw this one for Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures line, I bought it immediately. When I was painting this (over the last few days) I had no intention of making the unit filler, since WHFB is effectively dead.

Well, to finish off the story (and why the timing is odd), GW just (like 6 hours ago) announced they are revisiting WHFB. Maybe more carts to come in the future?!?!?

Beholder

I see you! It's the big thing that I spent entirely too long trying to find. Nolzur's Beholder!

I painted it the same way as the Spectator and Gazers (see previous post).

I asked my kids if I should assemble it with the "casting" eye-stalks or the regular eye-stalks. They went with the magic effects. I preferred the regular ones. In the end, I decided to do both. I'll probably end up losing all of them and I'll have a Beholder with only 1/2 the eye-stalks... 

Spectator and Gazers

I spy with my "little" eye...

It's the Beholder's little brothers, the Spectator and Grazers. These are from Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures line.

The Spectator does have a mouth, it's filled with teeth, but given the angle of the shot, you can't quite see it.

Painting wise: Skin was contrast Ultramarine Blue, drybrush Caledor Sky Blue, drybrush Lothern Blue. Eyes were Whitescar White, Black slit eyes (using Micron Pen), Lamenter Yellow Glaze. Tongue: contrast Blood Angels Red, Wild Rider Red highlight. Teeth: contrast Skeleton Horde, Ushabti Bone highlight, Screaming Skull highlight. Gums: contrast Pink (something something).

Large Water Elemental

I hope you like to swim! It's a Large Water Elemental from Reaper's Bones line. This miniature is a blue to begin with, so besides the base I mostly drybrushed Admin Grey, Whitescar White, glazed with Waywatcher Green (mixed with Lahmia Medium) followed with a last drybrush of Whitescar White.

I was trying for a wavy white cap like effect from the oceans deep. I think it mostly worked.

The other two elementals have already been pictured. They are the Medium Water Elementals from Nolzur's line. I went back and did the same set of drybrushes to make them "fit" in better with the big guy. I tossed them in the picture so you get an idea of the size of the big one.

2019 October Totals

October is done. I've decided to label the total threads with the "totals" label. Who knows, someday I might want to go back and just look at these.

I'd say it was a good month. I passed 200 for the year! With that said, let's get to it:

• 1 Owlbear
• 2 Cannons
• 2 Pillories
• 1 Elk
• 1 Shambling Mound
• 1 Stone Giant
• 2 Xorn
• 1 Phase Spider
• 3 Giant Spiders
• 1 Carrion Crawler
• 1 Rust Pile
• 1 Faceless Horror
• 1 Eldritch Demon
• 6 Grashak's Despoilers
• 8 Ruined Walls (from the Blasted Hallowheart and Azyrite Townscape sets) (not pictured yet)

October Total: 32

2019 Total: 212

Warhammer Beastgrave: Grashak's Despoilers

It's Grashak's Despoilers from the new Beastgrave expansion for Warhammer Underworlds. These are painted following my standard beastmen formula. I did the skulls slightly differently, I didn't highlight all the way up to flat white.

I think my formula gives good simple results (and is relatively quick). I painted about 250 of these a few years ago using it. It's my 7th Beastman Shaman and my untold number of either Bestigor or Ungor (I think I have 50+ Bestigor, and probably around 70+ Ungor) ... so yeah ... I'm good on all of these models ... didn't really need any more. I still have one more chariot to finish (my 6th chariot ... now that I think about it).

I had an odd nostalgic feeling while painting them.

Eldritch Demon

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

It's either the big guy himself (in Epic scale) or one of his offspring. It's a Reaper Bone's Eldritch Demon. 

I like him, in a sanity destroying kinda way. Mostly done with washes and progressively lighter drybrushes (and a few spot highlights on warts and areas I wanted to look "blotchy"). He made up for the slow to paint Faceless Horror by being relatively speedy to paint.

He's painted using the same colors I used on the Deep Ones earlier.

Faceless Horror

Run! It's a ... what the heck is that thing?!?!?

Sometimes, I grab something on a whim. This time it's Reaper Bone's Faceless Horror. I believe this is supposed to be a Gibbering Mouther for D&D. I'm not sure if I've ever fought a Gibbering Mouther in D&D. I always assumed the Gibbering Mouther was a Shoggoth without all of the copyright/trademark issues.

I thought I'd crank this out pretty fast, but it took longer than I expected. All those teeth and eyes! Soooo many eyes. Although I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. It's pretty much how I pictured it in my head. I particularly like the half digested skeleton in it's gaping maw.

Rust Monster's Treasure

It's the "treasure" pile from the Nolzur's Marvelous Miniature's Rust Monster. One of these days I'll paint the Monster himself. This was some low hanging fruit I did while I waited for various washes to dry. Literally some Ironbreaker, followed by an Agrax Wash, followed by some Gold Highlights (and then I did the base like I always do). 

Carrion Crawler

Part of my "classic" D&D monsters project, this time it's the Carrion Crawler. I was surprised by the lack of painted examples of this beast online. I ended up choosing a color scheme based off an albino giant grub worm I remember finding in a field (and being grossed out by) as a kid. I remember it being huge (like 4 inches long and an inch thick) ... but that could be my childish memory exaggerating. It was big enough that I remember it after all these years. Color-wise I tried to keep him to natural colors, with just a hint of blue. I thought about giving him some caterpillar markings, but in the end the albino grub motif won out.