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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Bob da dowg on 18 October 2006, 08:45:05 PM

Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Bob da dowg on 18 October 2006, 08:45:05 PM: Just one of my first attempts to shoot a scene on the table. Never tried this before and so I had to cope with fiddling around to find the correct (nearly) settings for the lighting. In the end I got some decent ones ready to be reworked (hiding the black base edges and the edges of the terrain pieces)

I hope that once the stress before CRISIS, which I attend to, has ended there will be quite a lot of pictures like this in the Obelisk Miniatures Gallery. Es well as some pics with the Baluchi Zombie which will be released next week.

Hope it works to upload the pic - as well the first time I do this... :?

Doesn't work the way it should I will try and find out how to get it uploaded.

Next attempt...

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/00AmazonesDinoa.JPG)

Darn, at last it worked ...

Cheers, Josef

PS .: Just have a look at FUTURE WARS to see some more
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 18 October 2006, 09:07:53 PM: Hi Josef, welcome aboard, nice to see you here!

you had a typo in your pic link, i've corrected that :)

The pic looks great, i'm just waiting to your zombie release to post an order, need your baboons (and the chicks too :) ) Let us know when the zombies will be available!
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Bob da dowg on 18 October 2006, 09:14:26 PM: Well, what was that typo I did? I thought I was perfect now - Gosh, you ruined my ego for the day.....

No. I'm glad I can see that damn thing on the screen.

I just got the baluchis back this afternoon. Next week is the mouldmaking for the production mould.

And above all I have 19 camels and riders here for conversion for the mounted ones based on Tuareg. And this must be finished by Monday as then Stefan can still do production moulds so I can have them for Crisis. There will be as well some deals for those who want to do a small combo of these.
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 18 October 2006, 09:19:39 PM: just an "i" was missing :)

Tuareg riders?!?!?! Awesome! really looking forward to see them :love:
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Bob da dowg on 18 October 2006, 10:31:07 PM: I know that I run the risk now of getting a lot of posts like "What's that crap..?" or "There's flash on the second mini on the right..." ...
It's just so -

I got them from the caster this afternoon, threw them onto the scanner and reworked the pic a bit to get in more depth.

The Baluchis are a set like shown and just cost the same as each Obelisk 6 miniature blister.

The riders are a bit different. The top one is the leader of this combo based loosly on Tuaregs (I know they have different swords and no shields like these... but its's called Darkest African Fantasies and not Historical Colonial Ressurection Gone Zombie). The next one has two different arms with a Baluchi-type sabre. And the last one has two different arms with lance or spears. The dromedary is the basic model.

Each of them will have a total of six variants ( including the dromedary in different poses, as they will be one-piece-castings apart from the respective weapons arm), so within each blistercode you get six variations which you can convert using either of the two arms (lots of variations). When you now change the arms within the sabre and lance blister you possibilites for variation are zillions.

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/Tcom.JPG)

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/Tlance.JPG)

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/sword.JPG)

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/Tdrom.JPG)

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/Tbal.JPG)
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Operator5 on 19 October 2006, 12:20:59 AM: ZOMBIE CAMELS! I need those! :mrgreen:
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Driscoles on 19 October 2006, 08:02:53 AM: Hi Josef,

I need Baluchi Zombies.

Thats my stuff !!

:)

Camels are important too....

Björn
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: fatgoblin on 20 October 2006, 05:14:45 AM: the zombies are awesome!
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Pappa Midnight on 20 October 2006, 07:21:45 AM: ZOMBIE CAMELS...? :o
I am stunned!
That is really unusual ,excellent stuff!
BTW love the "Natives" v's Dino.......who won..? :)
PM
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Grimm on 20 October 2006, 03:52:32 PM: Hmmmh that is a Must have :love:
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Bob da dowg on 25 October 2006, 09:11:11 PM: Well folks here's a sharper pic of the Baluchis. The next coat of black will follow in some minutes and I'm really eager to start painting them.

The desert raiders on camels are at the caster now and the mould should be done by now. For each of the 3 different riders (commander, lance, sword - the latter two each with two differently posed arms) have 6 movement variations for the camel. Pics will probably follow at the weekend.

There will be six different deals concerning Darkest African Fantasies which will be on offer the whole November and offcourse at CRISIS.

They will be in the shop at the weekend. So anyone going to CRISIS and wanting them, please preorder (after this weekend) as I don't know how long my supply lasts. And as Stefan is going to CRISIS as well he won't cast more than he is going to do for me before that.

So here's the pic:

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/Baluchiblack.JPG)

Hope to hear from you all soon :wink:

Josef Ochmann
Obelisk Miniatures
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 25 October 2006, 09:42:29 PM: :o :o :o

Yes! I want them!
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Bob da dowg on 30 October 2006, 09:34:24 PM: Now they are there -
the lost caravans...

Unfortunately due to some upheavals at the caster's I won't be able to show you pics of the desert raiders before Thursday. But the Baluchi are there:

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/Baluchikleinquad.jpg)

Anyone going to CRISIS can find me there next to PARDULON. If you have any orders to be picked up at CRISIS you can normally buy through the shop and tell EXPLICITLY in the mail that you want the stuff to be collected at CRISIS. I will take your cash there. To make it easier for you.

See you

Josef Ochmann
Obelisk Miniatures
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 30 October 2006, 09:59:58 PM: Josef, I need them, that's fact!

How Grimm would say, god wants it. :D
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Lowtardog on 30 October 2006, 10:34:50 PM: Awesome :D
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: fatgoblin on 31 October 2006, 01:34:27 AM: they look awesome! These are the kind of miniatures that writes scenarios!
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Bob da dowg on 31 October 2006, 12:25:19 PM: Some more goodies to make your table come to life:

The UPP01 -> Universal Plastic Plant is there.

You can do fabtastic trees and plants with it. The trees in the pic are fir cones on which squirrels have feasted. You can find them when you just have a wlk in the forrest. (good when your wife has to entertain the kids during holidays and knows that i can do lots of things with these :lol: )

The plants will be available at CRISIS as well.

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/00UPP001.JPG)

See you at Crisis.

This evening the pics of the camels will be in the shoop as well as I just got a call fron Stefan Niehues that I can pick up the first castings. So they will be there in Antwerp!

I hardly can wait....

Cheers,Josef Ochmann
www.obeliskminiatures.com
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 01 November 2006, 08:06:30 AM: they look good! Hope they're not too expensive :)
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: knoxville on 01 November 2006, 10:16:55 AM: Quote from: "Prof.Witchheimer"
they look good! Hope they're not too expensive :)

That's exactly what I thought, too :mrgreen:
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Bob da dowg on 12 November 2006, 05:54:23 PM: Well at last, after Crisis and some more sleepless nights a few of the Desert Raiders are painted. Here are some pics so you might get a different impression from the bw pics in the shop and here.

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/ObeliskLC2.JPG)

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/ObeliskLC4.JPG)

and here an "unrefined" shot of the scenery.

(http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/ObeliskLC0.JPG)

Cheers,
Josef Ochmann
www.obeliskminiatures.com
Title: Darkest African Fantasies have come to life
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 12 November 2006, 06:05:54 PM: wow, they're still better as I thought! can't wait to get my hands on them