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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Donpimpom on April 16, 2019, 06:27:27 PM
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I´m having fun painting some old school D&D monsters that have been sleeping in my pile of lead for too long
I will post photos as I paint them, to keep the thread light I will just post a couple of pics, if you want to see more you can see the post in my blog
First one is...
The Shambling Mound
from Ral Partha #11-493.
Sculptor Dave Summers
(https://my28mm.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/retocada_all_shambling_mound-e1555434158106.jpg?w=640)(https://my28mm.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/retocada_all_shambling_mound-2-e1555434305603.jpg?w=316&h=422)
More photos here https://my28mm.wordpress.com/2019/04/16/add-ral-partha-11-493-shambling-mound/ (https://my28mm.wordpress.com/2019/04/16/add-ral-partha-11-493-shambling-mound/)
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That's just brilliant. Top work.
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That's just brilliant. Top work.
Indeed! 8) :-* 8)
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Great paint work! After all those years this mini finally makes sense! But he's not that monstrous, more like the friendly forest thing that wants to shake hands.
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Lovely paint job on a very characterful sculpt! :-*
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That's top work! You really brought it to life. :-*
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Great painting, but yes, very friendly shake hands creature (also looks like he feels awkward meeting new people) Love the paint job with the other colours, pinks and reds, to break up the greens and browns.
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Thank you, glad you like it guys.
Indeed he looks like the green gentlemen of the swamp.
The face has a Jim Henson vibe I really like
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You're just showing that "old school" doesn't mean "bad sculpt". Your great painting show us the miniature quality.
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Wow! Great work! I'm not familiar with this miniature, but now I'm going to have to find it!
I love the nose, especially. I wouldn't have thought to paint it like a mushroom. Well done!
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That shambling mound looks fantastic; you're right, he's got a muppety face that's really charming.
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What a beautiful miniature. The face, in particular, is full of character and expression, some of it due to the lovely sculpt, but much of it, I think, due to the marvelous painting. He really looks like a socially awkward forest creature who's practicing how to meet new people. "Then, extend your right hand in greeting, and always remember to smile..."
And they call him a monster...
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Thank you guy I really appreciate your comments. As a side note I discovered same sculptor released more recently a new version of a shambling mound, following an art concept from Tom Diterlizzi and produced by Dark Sword https://www.darkswordminiatures.com/shop/index.php/miniatures/diterlizzi-masterworks/the-shambler.html
I will add a new photo, I already posted this one in LAF, in the thread The Oldschool Fantasy painting party (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=111843.0). I want to include it here since I took new photos, is matching the theme and is part of that batch of oldschool monsters I´m painting
Grenadier Fantasy Classics #321 Demon / Demogorgon
Sculpted by John Dennett
Producer: Grenadier available at Mirliton
(https://my28mm.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/retocada_2019_04_16_2516.jpg?w=640&h=640)
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WOW :-*
Keep sharing your pics, it will motivate me to work on my own old school minis :D
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Lovely work :-*
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These are fantastic especially the mound!
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Very nice. I have him to and am proud of my paintjob, but yours just blows me out of the water!
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(https://my28mm.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/rp-fomorean_giant_01.png?w=640)
The Fomorean Giants are described as “the most hideous and wicked of all giantkind” from Forgotten Realms.
The Fomorean Giant was reference #11-526 in the Monster range Ral Partha released for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons between 1987 and 1996
Sculpted by Jeff Grace
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(https://my28mm.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/umber_hulk_01.png?w=640&h=640)
Umber hulk released by Grenadier in 1992
Sculpted by John Dennett
Producer: Grenadier & Mirliton
Scale: 28 mm
Color pattern is barely inspired in a Umber hulk I saw here at LAF longtime ago, an awesome paint work by a Lafer fellow, but I dont remember his name :-(
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The face on the giant fomorean is stunning :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Top stuff.
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Dude... do you have super-vision... or a 3000x Magnifying glass?????
Holy cow... you highlight stuff I can't even see... makes me want to quit painting and take up... golf for crying out loud (and I hate golf).
Awesome.
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Lovely colouring! :-*
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Top work - really vibrant use of colour
8)
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Amazing!
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Thank you gentlements, I really appreciate you like them
Dude... do you have super-vision... or a 3000x Magnifying glass?????
Yes I use a magnifying glass lamp, my sight has deteriorated a lot in the last 10 years and its a long time is painful to paint without the help of one like this one.
If you are young learn from me, get it now! invest 20€ in caring your eyes!
(https://images.homedepot-static.com/productImages/70367f4a-80b4-4118-b8e6-242f3e993bd0/svn/newhouse-lighting-lighted-magnifiers-nhmagtbl-64_400_compressed.jpg)
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These are OUTSTANDING!!!! I love, love, LOVE the Umber Hulk. I've seen that model for years and have never wanted to paint it until now. Truly inspiring! Keep 'em coming. :-*
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Not a recently painted model, but since I took new photos and I never posted it at LAF (as far as I can remember), and is part of the old school Ral Partha AD&D range, I decided it fits the topic
Great Stone Golem #11-413
from Ral Partha AD&D Monsters range
Sculpted by Nicholas Bibby
Producer: Ral Partha with TSR license
Scale: 28 mm
(https://my28mm.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/ral_partha_stone_golem_11-417_a1.jpg?w=640&h=640)
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That mound! Love the wonderful colours, great job.
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I love that giant... the paint is great on all of them!
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Some real beauties here :-*