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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: midismirnoff on 12 September 2020, 09:41:08 AM
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Hi there, during the past lockdown I tried to figure out how many unused sprue parts I had. They were nearly a hundred frames, from which I had picked up and nibbled here and there some pieces. That was when I firmly stated I would not buy another plastic kit before I had used everything I could from those sprues.
And so I started my project, where I build two enemy forces for Dragon Rampant using the left behind sprue parts. I hope the painting style will keep the unruly bunch together.
First wave of Koolist archers (the cult of Koolo, well established in the Squaranth Valley is growing stronger every day).
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Those are some interesting kit bashes, they certainly change the look of the base figures.
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Great stuff. Frostgrave + Perry is a gold mine of potential. Really nice, consistent and very atmospheric paint scheme too.
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Brill 8)
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Thank you to everybody for the kind feedback. This is a family shot before the next batch!
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That's very effective, nice job.
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Here's the last batch of Koolist archers. Hope you like them. Check them out.
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The sire administrator of the Squaranth, Captain Godollo, is mustering a force to eradicate the Koolist scum from the Valley.
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Here's Captain Perforta Shtormo who joins the fray. His men may not be very fond of equipment mantainance, but they are eager to kick the Koolist scum out of the Valley.
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Very interesting!!
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Some foot MAA.
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Stunning work. Those men-at-arms are sublime. Your stuff would be great for Vanguard, if you're into skirmish games.
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Stunning work. Those men-at-arms are sublime. Your stuff would be great for Vanguard, if you're into skirmish games.
Thank you Tyr! To be honest I never considered that game. Is it any good?
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Bonega Haveno is a large and multiethnic city port at the end of the Squaranth Valley. Its militia is grim yet colourful, fights for the highest bidder and plays dirty.
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That's a great looking motley bunch of MAA. The gritty paint job shows them up in all their (not so) finest glory. Great work!
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Great job, particularly like the ragged militia.
Where are the shields from with the flayed head?
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Great job, particularly like the ragged militia.
Where are the shields from with the flayed head?
Hi, thank you for your kind words. The shield are GW beastmen's, it was a plastic kit of the time before AoS, the one with minor and major beastmen in it. The beastman's head in the militia is also from that sprue.
Cheers!
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That's a great looking motley bunch of MAA. The gritty paint job shows them up in all their (not so) finest glory. Great work!
Thank you Odo, every miniature in this project seems to be a little down on moral values :)
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The shield are GW beastmen's, it was a plastic kit of the time before AoS, the one with minor and major beastmen in it.
Ah thanks...probably explains why I didn’t recognise it.
Might have to go hunting for some
Look forward to seeing what you come up with next 8)
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And here's the second batch of ragged militia. The unit is now complete.
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I’m really liking what you are doing. Getting some really different looks from the plastic kits, the gritty paint jobs work well
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All good so far but I am really liking the mixed race ragged militia the best. How far are you into using up all the sprues?
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I’m really liking what you are doing. Getting some really different looks from the plastic kits, the gritty paint jobs work well
Thank you Fred!
All good so far but I am really liking the mixed race ragged militia the best. How far are you into using up all the sprues?
Thank you vodkafan, it seems to me that the mixed race has two good potentials: 1) it fits the uneavennes of the build, and gives a motive to the irregular look of the whole. 2) it also allows the painter to be very consistent and regular in the painting scheme of cloth, weapon and such, because the skin tones will keep everything varied and diverse.
At the beginning of the project I had 60+ unused sprue frames, now they are more or less 45. I will count as "spent" a sprue that has no more "bodies" on it.
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Some biggish Reaper Bones Knights join the fray. The fine effect on the cloth was achieved with a generous dose of Vallejo Slow Dry, which let me treat and blend the hues as if it were an oil color.
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Some cavalry at last! Here's the Malpeza Strikanto, an unruly bunch of raiders, occasionally tied to the Koolist cause. Some GoT's Bloody Mummers inspiration can be rightly guessed.
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They look mad as hell, Midismirnoff :)
Bad hombres!
Mercenaries from a fantasy The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!
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Hi there, I'm working on some cursed swordsmen with grotesque shields, I don't know how they will turn up, but here's some wip.
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They are certainly different. Is the cracked effect on the last shield a purposeful look?
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They are certainly different. Is the cracked effect on the last shield a purposeful look?
Hi Odo, thank you. They are indeed "different", and that is more or less what I am trying (groping) to do. I'm no sculptor, nor good painter, but I have a shedload of lying there bits, and want to put them on the field as a fantasy army with a distinguished feeling to it.
They look mad as hell, Midismirnoff :)
Bad hombres!
Mercenaries from a fantasy The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!
Thank you Batty, madness is a big part of it.
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Love those shields.
Did you use crackle paste to crackle the shields, or a Games Workshop crackle paint?
I'm thinking of painting some horses with crackle paste to get a cracked, reptilian skin look. The horses are sci-fi and supposed to be mutating.
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Hi there, I forgot to answer about the crackling. It is the very genuine GW Agrellan Earth. I think it would be great on horses, I'll be stealing the idea!
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I wonder how the Agrellen Earth will work on horses, Midismirnoff?
I'm excited to see. I was going to add horns to the heads of the horses and with the cracked effect they were to be muties :o
Let's see how this goes :D
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I think you have a clever plan! Keep me posted!
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Here's something new: 12 heavy weapons wielding sheriffs.
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I'm loving this!
Bit of a crazy Slaine from 2000AD vibe - big weapons, bad dudes doing bad things and sometimes good things 8)
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I'm loving this!
Bit of a crazy Slaine from 2000AD vibe - big weapons, bad dudes doing bad things and sometimes good things 8)
I didn't know the comic, until you showed me, and that is ace! I really like this gritty kind of post-fantasy. I'll definitely have a read.
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Here's a first batch of Sheriff Sharpshooters I made for my Dragon Rampant / Saga AoM Warband.
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There's very little gunpowder fantasy out there, cool to see some magic muskets being fielded.
These guys look properly grim!
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There's very little gunpowder fantasy out there, cool to see some magic muskets being fielded.
These guys look properly grim!
Thank you Wirelizard, they are indeed ghost muskets! I don't really know why is it so, and what fluff lies behind this stuff, but it seems to be something unusual.
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And now something for the opposing force: the Koolist menace. Some foot men at arms here, aka 4Bd:
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Wow - the best yet! They're terrific!
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I like the ghost musketeers too - weirdly atmospheric and great colours.
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Ahhhh I forgot about this thread very interesting and atmospheric.
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Thank you all for your support, this one army is now complete! Here's the last unit: Knights. The corrupted look is what you get when you are a loyal servant of Koolo the wood daemon.
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Such a massively random concoction of so many different plastic parts, yet strangely, it all hangs together really well. Great work. Ultimate kitbashing - just throw it all in and make sense of it with the painting and fluff. 8)
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Very cool aesthetic. Definitely feel the decay. Your colour choices and weathering draw them all together. Very nice variety of conversions, too.
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This is great fun, you should solicit donations of everyone's leftover bitz!
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Such a massively random concoction of so many different plastic parts, yet strangely, it all hangs together really well. Great work. Ultimate kitbashing - just throw it all in and make sense of it with the painting and fluff. 8)
Thank you Captn' I think you had it right. The main point here was to make an army (well, two actually) out of single leftover parts. Except for the caped horses, that were altogether unused, the rest of the models come from sprues that didn't contain more than six or seven whole models, so couldn't fit in any "stand alone" project. The rather extreme gritty speed painting is the cement I needed to make them somehow stay together and not fall apart.
Very cool aesthetic. Definitely feel the decay. Your colour choices and weathering draw them all together. Very nice variety of conversions, too.
Thank you Peithetairos (is there a pun in your name?)! I'm glad you liked them!
This is great fun, you should solicit donations of everyone's leftover bitz!
LOL! That would be a cool idea, but opposite to my needs! In fact I'm trying to get rid of my leftover bits with this project! :D
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Great collection. It fits together well.
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Such a massively random concoction of so many different plastic parts, yet strangely, it all hangs together really well. Great work. Ultimate kitbashing - just throw it all in and make sense of it with the painting and fluff. 8)
Plus one to that.
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Great collection. It fits together well.
Plus one to that.
Thank you, gentlemen, I appreciate.
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And so, my first Warband is complete. Here's the setup for Lion Rampant: Back to front and left to right: Bowmen @4, Mtd Sergeants @4, Foot Sergeants @4, Mtd Men at Arms @6, Foot Yeomen + Javelins @4, Bidowers @2.
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I agree with Captain Blood’s comment above... t all hangs together, ultimate kitbashing. You have created your own, distinctive style.
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The Phantom Phusilier Phalanx is back! The ghost musketeers are now skulking behind their rusty pavises.
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And this is the last batch: pavisiers and wee folk defending the Phusiliers.
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Really imaginative and nicely executed.
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Really imaginative and nicely executed.
Glad you like it, Elk!
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The Green Cavalry, despite its name, is made up of seasoned cavalrymen, who raid the weakest parts of the Koolist deployment. The Sheriffs are mainly an infantry force, and can boast no Knights, and so the Green Cavalry is sometimes given the duty to punch through enemy lines. In such occasions, it lingers behind the Phantom Phusilier Phalanx until enemy lines are disordered, to unleash its brutal charge.
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Some hordelings o' mine.
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Your work continues apace, & continues nicely.
I would be interested to see you do a similar take on some scenery to go with those troops.