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Title: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on July 12, 2018, 02:03:54 PM
Hi evrybody,
I'd like to show you some images of my work on fantasy miniatures. I often jump from a project to another, so probably lot of variety will be  :)
So, let's start with wat's actually on the cork: some old citadel chaos warriors (from Heroquest), some chaos thugs, an ultra-modern flesh hound and a Chaos champion still in progress. The beginning of a warband to be used for Shadespire, Dragon Rampant or whatever.
Thank you all for reading!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: gibby64 on July 12, 2018, 07:34:09 PM
Good looking stuff!! I play all the games you have listed!... i've painted the Hero's for Heroquest, but nobody else... I'll get on that some day... I painted all the monsters and heroes for DragonStrike... another favorite (way less monsters then Heroquest).... one day! Keep on going, looking good!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on July 12, 2018, 09:51:49 PM
Thank you very much Gibby: painting of these guys is making progresses, I hope to show some painted models soon.
Heroquest is a kind of sentimental affair, I used to play it when I was twelve (so, many, many years ago...). Later I found a copy of the game in a second hand shop (quite a bargain: just one fimir was missing!). Now the idea is to use the models for various project and get them slowly painted. One day, maybe, even play one game  lol.
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on September 05, 2018, 09:09:53 PM
After holiday time finally some paintjob has been done on chaos models. Four chaos warriors, the hound and the little angry thug done. And even a picture of the band so far in beige background!

I'm not totally happy with the NMM, and maybe the choice of the very bright orange spots makes colours a bit unbalanced, ma for now I will call these guys finished.

Now I should think more seriously about some background for this posse: I'm only shure that the hound is a famele one (not sure if that suits the canon, but who cares?). Her name, surely, is Ella!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on September 10, 2018, 03:58:26 PM
Today I've managed to finish the first group of models: three more thugs for the warband. I enjoied a lot painting these: no doubt that the weird guy in skeletal armour is my favorite!

The orange spots represents some kind of gift or mutation given by the dark god Khorne: all in all a bit better in less dark and monochrome models.

 
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: Hobgoblin on September 10, 2018, 07:06:23 PM
These look great! That red-orange glow for the 'hot spots' is superb!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on September 11, 2018, 08:56:27 AM
Thank you, Hobgoblin, very glad that you appreciate this: your threads are very inspiring and I like your mature approach to the hobby!

I admit that the original idea was less that of a glow and more of some spot of unnaturaly, plastic-like saturated colors. I also admit that the effect, all in all, is of something emitting orange light  lol. Now I think I'll have two ways: introducing some glow effects o try to paint orange in a different way (maybe no highlits?). Next on queue is the mutated champion: I'll try on him.
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on December 22, 2018, 07:19:03 PM
After a bit of attention paid to another project, I finally completed the boss of my chaotic faction: meet La Fiera (The Beast), the nameless and speechless half-demon who leads this pack of barbarian warriors.

Nobody ever heard a single word fron his mounth, but he slowly gathered followers and minions in the wasteland where he recently appeared.

With the chaos hound and the two old-styled chaos warriors he is my warband in Warhammer Underworlds. I hope to play some larger battles with different rule sets when he will have some more follower!

Hope you like it.
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: Hobgoblin on December 22, 2018, 07:55:00 PM
That's a terrific beast (or indeed Beast)!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: djbii on December 22, 2018, 10:03:20 PM
Lots of great work there :-)
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on December 23, 2018, 07:46:41 AM
Thank you both guys!
Probably this is the last figure of the year: I hope to continue in this demonic mood even in the near future. Program fo 2019: improve that damn NMM  lol
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: beefcake on December 23, 2018, 10:16:40 AM
Very cool
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on December 23, 2018, 10:56:34 AM
Thank you Beefcake, I'm glad that you like it!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects (Radical winged demon painting)
Post by: randycarter on February 11, 2019, 09:12:13 PM
Hi everyone,
new update is a sort of radical painting exercise: since demonic nature is, IMO, individualistic and chaotic, I decided to paint the handful of demons in the leadpile with individual colour palette... randomising them  o_o
Ok, quite odd idea, but an interesting painting exercise, I think. So I will paint my demons using the palette planned for other works actually on the painting desk.
To make things easier, first other job on queue were some bases for WWII soldiers, so first palette were (almost) just browns!
So a couple of shots of the result on an old (and very cool sculpted) Demon Wing from Chronopia. In the last shot you can see the guy with an old mate, pianted when I still decided what colour use  :)
I hope you enjoy it. Thank you very much for reading
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: gibby64 on February 11, 2019, 10:01:59 PM
well done sir... very cool minis
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on February 12, 2019, 08:15:53 AM
Thank you, Gibby:  I'm glad that you liked this though lights in photos are very yellowish and I'm not very found yet in NMM.

Next demon palette: WWII soviet infantry (!)
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: beefcake on February 12, 2019, 10:06:45 AM
Very nice. I wish these old minis were still in production. So much flavour!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on February 12, 2019, 01:33:16 PM
Thank you beefcake!

Yes, Chronopia range had some really fantastic models: the guy I painted i sepia colours is a beautiful sculpt, great desing, great character, beautiful details and posture. Even if the Devout faction (demons/cultists/undead) was not one of the best in the range, there was some great model in it.
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on April 21, 2019, 08:12:37 AM
It took some time, but I have some pics of a new winged demon: this time WWII Russian infantry palette, with some simple conversions (four wings and a simple weapon swap). Not happy with the non metallics yet, but I'm working on it.  ;)

Thank you for reading and a happy Easter to everybody!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: Father_Andrew on April 22, 2019, 04:06:53 PM
Awesome conversions!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on April 22, 2019, 09:13:01 PM
Thank you Andrew, I'm glad that you like it!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects - marble statues and jellyfish daemon
Post by: randycarter on July 22, 2019, 04:31:10 PM
Ok, keep on on my fantasy roll: inspired by the fantastic recipe of Hagen Pinxit for marble painting, this time I made some statues thought to be used as terrains (for Frostgrave or even for Warhammer Underwolds). The result is far from that of the original tutorial, but decent enough for tabletop level.

http://hagenpinxit.blogspot.com/2018/06/marble-tutorial.html

And then the mandatory (non) winged demon: conversion and paint job thinking in some way to a jellyfish.

Thank you for reading
Title: Re: My fantasy projects - A battle in SoBH
Post by: randycarter on September 23, 2019, 08:57:41 PM
A quick update: few shots from a recent game of SOBH played with my good mate Flavio. My chaos adepts battled with Flavio's skavens (and they totally suked ::)).
But lot of fun in the end!
Featuring a close up of one of my marble statues on the top of Flavio's scenics.
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on October 27, 2019, 05:55:48 PM
Leaking of new material to update the fantasy tread, but having received my brand new tripod, I decided to take some picture of some miniature painted some time ago. I started with a small army put together when I gave a try to Warmachine: so here are my non-Cryx minis! I started with the humble mecanichal zombies (mechanithrall, in game terms) and their surgeon master (plus his minions). Most of them old GW zombies with various conversions and an old Warzone dark legion guy playing as the master. Hope you like them!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: Padrissimus on October 27, 2019, 06:57:20 PM
Great stuff. I thought I was being clever when I zombified some GW Ogre Bulls to be Crypt Horrors. But the Dunning Kruger effect applies, as I now see the sort of conversions that can be done!!!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on October 27, 2019, 08:31:57 PM
Great stuff. I thought I was being clever when I zombified some GW Ogre Bulls to be Crypt Horrors. But the Dunning Kruger effect applies, as I now see the sort of conversions that can be done!!!

Thank you mate, I'm glad that you like them!
To be honest old GW zombies were quite easy to customize: theyr multi-part concept allowed quite easily to swap parts of their bodies with virtually everything. The drawbak were odd positions, lack of dynamism and so on. All in all even today I see often bits of that kit utilized in conversion stuff.
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on November 24, 2019, 05:17:53 PM
Some blurry, over-lightened pics to share what's on the workbench: a re-basing of some old grenedier wood elf painted long time ago, a color test (feat an ugly paint job on the miniature ::)) and the mandatory demon (again, converted from old Chronopia stuff).
Hope you like it!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: sundayhero on November 24, 2019, 05:44:56 PM
Great work !

i recognize chronopia demonwings :

http://www.chronopiaworld.com/artikel.php?id=118

Do you have any spare wings left ? I'm searching for a couple of them, to complete a chronopia unit.

Thanks
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on November 24, 2019, 05:58:21 PM
Hi Sundayhero,
sorry, but I have just one more model and I'd like to keep it.
I have a spare bit of wings from a complete model, but I think you mean the complete model of a daemon wing...
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: sundayhero on November 24, 2019, 06:08:28 PM
Hi,

thank you for your answer,

I'm just searching for the separated wings only, not the figure itself. I bought some used figures sometimes ago, and I don't have the wings of the mini...
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on November 24, 2019, 06:14:24 PM
So, you win a pair of wings! Drop me a PM with your address!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: sundayhero on November 24, 2019, 06:16:10 PM
Cool! Thank you a lot, I never thought I could find some spare wings !
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on December 23, 2019, 09:20:58 PM
Last post of the year I think: a pic of the completed rebasing of my wood elfs. It's a humble update, I know, but it's a good excuse to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy 2020!
Cheers
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: AKULA on December 23, 2019, 09:26:32 PM
Great looking thread

 8)
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on December 24, 2019, 07:39:33 AM
Thank you Akula, I'm glad that you like this even in spite of the terrible quality of images lol!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: AKULA on December 24, 2019, 08:51:48 AM
Thank you Akula, I'm glad that you like this even in spite of the terrible quality of images lol!

At least you’ve got photos...mine have been nuked by photobucket  lol
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on January 25, 2020, 05:58:16 PM
Ok, time to update the thread. This month I finished the fishy-demon wing and I painted a guy from the Gipi set of Zombicide Black Plague (wanderful design, it was even exiting to paint something designed by Gipi) and a little guy we used in a recent Pulp Alley game as plot point. Lovely game with some good old friends, lot of fun!
Cheers
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on February 22, 2020, 04:37:51 PM
Monthly update: I finished another Chronopia Demon wing, so I even finished an entire unit of six! Incredible accomplishment by my standard  lol
I even take a pic of I'm working on now: something wery barbaric will be on the cork...
Cheers!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: Chimpfoot on February 23, 2020, 08:46:30 AM
What great stuff
No school like the old school   :-*
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on February 23, 2020, 10:18:04 AM
Some great stuff in this thread. I particularly like the flying demon creatures.
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: Swordisdrawn on February 23, 2020, 10:36:12 AM
Wonderful stuff
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on February 23, 2020, 10:58:32 AM
Thank you for the kind replies, guys, I'm glad that you like my work! Saddly I run out of flying demons, but I have some legged guys left still to do: I have lot of fun in painting everyone with a different palette.
Cheers!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on March 21, 2020, 03:17:12 PM
Time for the monthly post! Sadly I haven't yet finished the paint job on my new barbarians, so I continue sharing the pics of my non-Warmachine army painted few years ago. This time it's turn of black ogruns, sort of ogre pirates. Old granadier hobgoblins plus a reaper ogre. A bit flat, but they do the job.
Cheers!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: sundayhero on March 28, 2020, 10:32:28 PM
I like the work on the demon wings, especially the center to right ones :

(https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=110671.0;attach=117499;image)



These are very diferent from the chronopia rules book, and better if you ask me. I may use a similar paint scheme.
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on March 31, 2020, 09:09:00 PM
Thank you Sundayhero: I'm waiting for your take on these!

I like the work on the demon wings, especially the center to right ones :

(https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=110671.0;attach=117499;image)



These are very diferent from the chronopia rules book, and better if you ask me. I may use a similar paint scheme.
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on April 23, 2020, 05:58:11 AM
Hi all,
no fresh updates yet on the painting side (even if hopefully something will get finished in the next weeks). So other pics of the old Warmachine project: this time a couple of minor constructs, clearly a reference to one of my favorite anime. I hope you like them!

Cheers
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on May 22, 2020, 09:55:26 PM
I finally finished the batch of barbarians I was working on from long ago. I should focus on some speed painting technique, I guess.  ::)
Anyway I like the result: it has been an exercise on muted palette and strong contrast between shadows and hilights. All in all they come together decently. They are a mix of old Citadel, recent GW and one of the lovely minis from the Zombicide Black Plague supplement from Gipi.
Cheers!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: Grimmnar on May 25, 2020, 06:10:50 AM
They are a mix of old Citadel, recent GW and one of the lovely minis from the Zombicide Black Plague supplement from Gipi.
And that random Heroclix Hercules thrown in there for good measure.

Grimm
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on May 25, 2020, 08:05:47 AM
And that random Heroclix Hercules thrown in there for good measure.

Grimm

Just another beefcake in the batch! : )
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on June 22, 2020, 05:29:37 PM
Another semi-fresh update on the fantasy side: a chunky daemon thing from Chronopia range (a Dusk realm warrior, I think). OK, the mini isn't the best of the range (somewhere I read it called as one of the "worst miniature ever"), but it has some nice details and it has been a good exercise on NMM. Here also with its winged companions!
Hope you like it!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on November 09, 2022, 02:56:49 PM
After a veeeery long hiatus I take advantage of a new camera phone, hoping that that will allow me to post some rapid shots of my minis. So, here's a scratch-build(ish) war chariot for my barbarians.
The sculpting is quite rude, I admit, but overall it will do the job. If someone has some tip in sculpting bridles it wil be very welcome  ;)

Hope you enjoy
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on December 04, 2022, 04:53:47 PM
I finally found time enough to finish the paintjob on the chariot.

Hope you enjoy!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: Pattus Magnus on December 04, 2022, 08:26:56 PM
Nice job on the scratch build/ kitbash, I like it! I have ambitions to make some similar chariots, so seeing yours is giving me some inspiration and ideas.
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on December 06, 2022, 11:00:02 AM
Nice job on the scratch build/ kitbash, I like it! I have ambitions to make some similar chariots, so seeing yours is giving me some inspiration and ideas.

Thanks, glad to be helpful for other fellow's projects! Here's a pic of another chariot done some times ago: sadly no images of the WIP...
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on January 18, 2023, 08:22:58 AM
Hi everybody,
in order to play a game of Rangers of Shadow Deep with some friends, I kicked off the new year with a really quick improvement of the rat swarms in my collection. Here a pic of the whole bunch.

Hope you enjoy!
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on March 13, 2023, 03:05:14 PM
Just a quick update of a very slow project: it's my personal scenary season, so I'm working on a field and fences. The tiles warped a bit, but anyway it will look fine.
Now let's start painting...
Title: Re: My fantasy projects
Post by: randycarter on March 20, 2023, 01:14:01 PM
Some old friend told me that they wish to begin to paint miniatures and call for my help in moving the first steps: long story short, we had a very fun sunday afternoon of miniature painting! Here a group shot of the event and thet first finished minis (not bad at all, for total newcomers)!