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