Underworlds: Rippa Snarlfangs Wolf Riders

A blast from the past! It's some wolfriders! I have some of the old ones someplace, but these are much nicer. Good miniatures that were fun to paint! I particularly like the wolves!

Given the background of Beastgrave (namely, no-one can really die and sometimes creatures get trapped in amber for awhile iirc), I wonder if the wolf riders all died off 1,000's of years ago and nobody bothered to tell Rippa and his Boyz. They could be the last wolfriders in existence!

Noteworthy bits from painting: The white part of the white wolves is contrast white with Pallid Wychflesh highlights. The grey part is contrast grey straight (no highlights or anything). The goblin flesh is contrast orc flesh with Skarsnik and Nurgling highlights. It's a bit on the pallid side (I used something similar for Gloomspite where that look is more appropriate ... I think I'd experiment more if I painted more of surface orc/goblins). Everything else is pretty standard. I'm still struggling with eyes, ironically, in part due to my eyes...

The Bad Moon Loonshrine

I thought this would be quick to paint. Just a bunch of washes and drybrushes ... right?!?!? Every-so-often I'm wrong like that. It took longer than I expected (about a week+ of my painting time). Vertically, it's probably my largest piece of terrain, it's really quite big. I guess the Night Goblins are compensating for their small size or something.

BTW, I do like it, it's a good "miniature" and fits right in with my various Night Goblin/Moonclan/Gloomspite Grots.

Everchosen Display Board: "To the Victor..."

July hasn't been a great month for getting miniatures painted. So I'm going to count the display board I made for the Everchosen Open Event as single miniature! Woot!

I took the picture as I was dropping it off, so it's not against the usually white backdrop. All of the miniatures on it have already been seen on this blog, but not in this format.

The original plan was to pit all the Underworld's Stormcasts (Farstriders, Steelharts, & Cursebreakers) against all of the Greenskins (Zarbags, Ironskulls, & Mollogs), but I couldn't fit them all on the board I made. So I jettisoned the Trolls and the Varanguard.

Warhammer Underworlds: Mollogs Mob

The pictures came out a bit dark, they are a bit more vibrant in reality. I got a little weary painting this Underworlds band. I kept getting distracted by real life, and if a project takes too long my interest will often waver. I usually like painting Trolls. I used some of the new Contrast paints on these (the blue is Ultramarines Blue, the stalactites and the belly was the Grey Contrast Paint ... although I still highlighted and both of them with lighter colors). Still not sure about them (although I bought a few more recently).

Warhammer Underworlds: Zarbag's Gits

Goblins!

It's Zarbag's Gits for Warhammer Underworlds. These are a fun set of miniatures to paint, I followed my standard Night Goblin formula for how I painted them (see the Night Goblin article on the right). The only model I don't really like is the fanatic. I get that he's quaffing the moon brew that will turn him super strong (and cause him to want to spin spin spin), but a fanatic doesn't seem like a fanatic unless he's in a twirling pose. As usual, I painted the squigs blue (cause blue squigs are cool!)

There's always a moment when I paint the cowls with either checkers or dags where I question myself as to whether it's a good idea or not. Hopefully I did a good job this time.

Malign Sorcery: Mork’s Mighty Mushroom

Mork's Mighty Mushroom! Not Gorkamorka's Mighty Mushroom, this one is all Mork all the time. I like the miniature (if you can call it that ... it's pretty tall), although I think I'd have preferred it not having the little moons in the mist/spores coming out the top. This is also the last of the Gloomspite Endless Spells.

Malign Sorcery: The Scuttletide

If you have arachnopobia, this is NOT the miniature for you. It's a whole lot of spiders. Big spiders, little spiders, and all sizes of spiders in between.

Looking at the GW's paint job, I see they didn't come up with a scheme that's better than mine. It's an interesting conundrum, the big spiders are big enough that you could do some cool markings (like a tarantula or something), but there are so many smaller spiders that it'd be extremely tedious to do it across the entire swarm. So I kept an easier scheme across the board (mostly browns, but with a light yellow drybrush across the legs). Speaking of the legs, they don't have any undercuts, so I made sure the tops were lighter than the place the undercuts should be (so it looks like there might be "space" under the legs).