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Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated July 19th)
Post by: Blasphemia Blackwood on January 12, 2019, 01:26:04 PM
I'll be participating in a Mordheim campaign this summer, and by then I'll need to convert and paint two new warbands. I got started on the first: Cult of the Possessed, with this Darksoul (http://gardensofhecate.blogspot.com/2019/01/cci-cult-of-possessed-darksoul.html) and five Brethren (http://gardensofhecate.blogspot.com/2019/01/ccii-cult-of-possessed-brethren.html):

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9oFuuFUFhzg/XDiPW7WMnuI/AAAAAAAAF30/ie1cT8VRpWoUpG5GpcU8FvuwzvpEPj2NgCLcBGAs/s1600/P1111844.JPG)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VuOaGIY03so/XC9IxAbsqMI/AAAAAAAAF1s/ixSpm23UjDQW7pAxHyDQs7AZUdk4AJrHgCLcBGAs/s1600/P1041820.JPG)

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3-Z4Fy0bueQ/XDiOwmei_zI/AAAAAAAAF3Q/UkSx5bU2byYkeHil0nrnYdRb2KFhjvcIACLcBGAs/s1600/P1111842.JPG)

 
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: OSHIROmodels on January 12, 2019, 01:30:15 PM
Creepy but cool  8)
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: Gunbird on January 12, 2019, 03:06:56 PM
I love your painting style!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: Dentatus on January 12, 2019, 03:11:57 PM
Holy smoke, those are creepy excellent. More please.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: Dr Mathias on January 12, 2019, 04:01:18 PM
Excellent, very creepy and evocative.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: Father_Andrew on January 12, 2019, 05:31:37 PM
These are fantastic!  The straw shoots coming out of the head dressing is so good.  Love your paint style too.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: marrony on January 12, 2019, 08:45:42 PM
I'm scared. But I love them too.  :o
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: Golgotha on January 12, 2019, 11:13:57 PM
Those are terrifying and all the more so because they look realistic and believable very well done.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: Grimmnar on January 15, 2019, 06:25:24 AM
The Brethren are just downright creepy as has been mentioned.
The Darksoul though, love love love the conversion.

Grimm
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: von Lucky on January 15, 2019, 06:40:02 AM
Lovely stuff - it's not just your conversion, it's your professional executed painting that makes these impressive.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: Grimmnar on January 15, 2019, 06:43:00 AM
Quote from: von Lucky on January 15, 2019, 06:40:02 AM
Lovely stuff - it's not just your conversion, it's your professional executed painting that makes these impressive.
True true true. I agree 103%

Grimm
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: Muzfish4 on January 15, 2019, 06:50:02 AM
I concur with the above comments.

Creepy as can be and oh so skillfully converted and painted
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim
Post by: Blasphemia Blackwood on January 18, 2019, 06:18:02 PM
Thank you very much, everyone!

An update: the Possessed.

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BttkLr4hjuc/XEH8xG2EA3I/AAAAAAAAF48/aG8TV8KNOnwZ7ox-uoxMicXkvgbJNfYzQCEwYBhgL/s1600/P1181884.JPG)

More on the blog: CCIII. Cult of the Possessed: the Possessed.   (https://gardensofhecate.blogspot.com/2019/01/cciii-cult-of-possessed-possessed.html)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iGOX6uDl3zg/XEH8woegKzI/AAAAAAAAF44/MhaDmgQUGXsFIuqq1nbg_AmQ94AgruSCwCEwYBhgL/s1600/P1181880.JPG)

Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated Jan 18th)
Post by: Swaelg on January 18, 2019, 08:04:12 PM
Smashing! :-* I got to get going on my own cult; your works are so inspiring.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated Jan 18th)
Post by: gibby64 on January 18, 2019, 08:44:33 PM
These all look great!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated Jan 18th)
Post by: von Lucky on January 18, 2019, 10:03:39 PM
An extensive conversion - really impressive, and then add to that an effective colour scheme (the black hands and feet is something I'm going to try).
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated Jan 18th)
Post by: Smoke Frog on January 19, 2019, 04:42:42 PM
Terrifying creations! The one with the bison skull is my favorite. Well done!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated Jan 18th)
Post by: clanmac on January 19, 2019, 04:58:42 PM
Some superb work here. Love the gritty realism. Wonderful.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated Jan 18th)
Post by: LeadAsbestos on January 19, 2019, 05:08:41 PM
I love the Wayne Barlowe sigil! I was inspired by your work to do a Barlowe flavored demon army, but it never got past the planning stage. This is just wonderful to see actually realized. Great work!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated Jan 18th)
Post by: Bloggard on January 20, 2019, 11:17:25 AM
superbly well-done.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 3rd)
Post by: Blasphemia Blackwood on June 03, 2019, 08:55:28 AM
Thanks everyone! Two new minis for the Possessed: Beastmen. They're based on satyrs of classical lore, and on depictions of demons in medieval and renaissance art.

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n-yBls2JVtU/XPQrlTbF02I/AAAAAAAAGQQ/HDBuGX7O09wXtolLhDRh4D1WcooEgSpJgCLcBGAs/s1600/P6022301.JPG)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z6UcdwKDcOU/XPQrR9OtJCI/AAAAAAAAGQM/RTGbLRZ67boFX30TMr0Bnnkz5DbVwQ1GwCEwYBhgL/s1600/P6022299.JPG)
Title: Re: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 3rd)
Post by: von Lucky on June 03, 2019, 09:25:47 AM
I love them - disturbingly they make sense.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 3rd)
Post by: area23 on June 03, 2019, 12:04:02 PM
Oh dear! :o

Very well done.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 3rd)
Post by: Keith on June 03, 2019, 12:16:19 PM
Heh - these are great!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 3rd)
Post by: McYellowbelly on June 03, 2019, 05:48:01 PM
Great work, very inspiring  ;)
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 3rd)
Post by: mkultra99 on June 03, 2019, 08:14:11 PM
disturbing af.. AWESOME!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 3rd)
Post by: gibby64 on June 03, 2019, 11:19:03 PM
Hung like a beast... sure to make all opponents feel less of a man!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 3rd)
Post by: Cyrus the Great on June 03, 2019, 11:34:09 PM
Your evocative painting style pictographically represents the writing styles of the finest gothic authors!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 3rd)
Post by: Blasphemia Blackwood on June 12, 2019, 05:28:53 PM
Thank you, everyone!

Three more figures are done:

The Magister

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CiOfL1w-950/XPiwXlQQPcI/AAAAAAAAGQc/Ab6eroHEKr89_zaAgsc1H-mJcM_dzIb6ACLcBGAs/s1600/P6042307.JPG)

Beastman #3 and Possessed #2

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fFGp2qmuKKM/XPvrs-RoYTI/AAAAAAAAGQk/wg02g27EDFE_AHm_2elCLAnnA3pkHSVIgCLcBGAs/s1600/P6082318.JPG)

Calling this warband finished and ready to raid the City of the Damned for that sweet wyrdstone... And find the mysterious Moon Child. Some group shots:

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NaLpMHh8Xa0/XP_SzIyZf6I/AAAAAAAAGRQ/8r74m6okVicvtcCdpB_M87eVKfv3auQFQCLcBGAs/s1600/02.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aGRWnzWr3DI/XP_Sy6s4zVI/AAAAAAAAGRI/CpwCuGjrAMQG370IESVvUlLbypN0A8dQQCLcBGAs/s1600/03.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B7fFXWVDYv0/XP_S0LyDBlI/AAAAAAAAGRU/18dMcxxB1m8Axgn_CfWp1OFAieNMPdYAwCLcBGAs/s1600/04.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a9agKYVcFdE/XP_S0BvF-kI/AAAAAAAAGRY/UWUc5s2UY3Ul4hn3Q2wv5vyCI_s0YifDgCLcBGAs/s1600/05.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8yAV9fC34dQ/XP_SzGlngsI/AAAAAAAAGRM/omY8u2losqcxzgaiJJnYR_qSmNjVjrLKgCLcBGAs/s1600/01.jpg)

If you're interested in the other warbands that will participate in the upcoming campaign Mordheim MMXIX, you can see them on the Echoes of Imprerium blog (they're in various stages of completion at the moment): LINK (https://echoesofimperium.blog/2019/06/06/mordheim-2019-damnation-ascendant/).
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: FramFramson on June 12, 2019, 05:51:12 PM
Ghastly and NASTY. LOVE 'em.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: RustyT on June 12, 2019, 05:56:30 PM
 Wow, fantastic theme and concept.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: mkultra99 on June 12, 2019, 08:08:14 PM
So what's with the sigils above 2 of their heads..? Just for fun.. or?
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: Blasphemia Blackwood on June 13, 2019, 07:04:58 PM
Thanks, people!

@mkultra99 - those two fellas are the Possessed, and the seals above their heads belong to the daemons inhabiting them. The seals are made up; I tried to design them in the style of Goetic seals, but simple enough for me to be able to construct them from wire. The idea of them hovering above the Possessed's heads came from Wayne Barlowe's fantastic depictions of demons of hell.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: Bloggard on June 13, 2019, 07:15:23 PM
very atmospheric and well-executed vision. superbly distinctive.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: monkeylite on June 13, 2019, 07:58:10 PM
Blimey. These are genuinely creepy. I feel like they will demoralise your opponent before the battle even begins.
Title: Re: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: von Lucky on June 14, 2019, 10:50:50 PM
Awesome stuff - well done in both design and execution.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: Gibby on June 15, 2019, 11:38:36 PM
All of your work is brilliant and extremely atmospheric. If your projects had a soundtrack, Dead Can Dance would produce it.  :D
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: Ragnar on June 16, 2019, 05:23:03 AM
Agree with all of the above, your style is very dark; a real pleasure to look at.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: white knight on June 16, 2019, 11:02:32 AM
I love your projects, you're one of my most admired artists in this hobby. :o 8)
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: Spooktalker on June 16, 2019, 04:56:34 PM
I love your take on the possessed.  :-* They are frightening.

The glowing sigils are very nice. I tinker with a homebrew setting that is partly inspired by Barlowe's inferno, in which the demons have sigils of that nature and I may try something like this at some point.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: Blasphemia Blackwood on June 20, 2019, 09:37:22 PM
Thank you very much, everyone!

I'm moving on to the next warband: the Witch Hunters.

I have a Warrior Priest and four Flagellants so far:

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lQyYHbqz6wc/XQvmpwiU-NI/AAAAAAAAGSk/0Fto8wPmT3QABghgMLPuZDeU1BLIBOq4gCLcBGAs/s1600/wh01.jpg)

Check the blog for more pics and rambling about the conversions: Gardens of Hecate (http://gardensofhecate.blogspot.com/2019/06/ccxxiv-witch-hunters-warrior-priest-and.html).
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 20th)
Post by: Phyllion on June 20, 2019, 09:49:20 PM
That Possessed warband is wondrous.  :o disturbingly brilliant work!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 20th)
Post by: Duncan McDane on June 21, 2019, 12:25:10 PM
Ow, very, very nice...
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 20th)
Post by: mweaver on June 21, 2019, 08:06:23 PM
Woah!  Those Possessed  fellows are super creepy!  Excellent work.

The witch hunters are off to a good start.  I hope you are putting the completed figures on different shelves, or there is going to be trouble.

-Michael
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 20th)
Post by: Spooktalker on June 22, 2019, 05:19:31 PM
Each new update is a treat!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 20th)
Post by: Cyrus the Great on June 22, 2019, 07:21:29 PM
The Witch Hunters will bring the cleansing properties of flame. Fire burns as it cleans! There is such a gritty feel to your universe. :-*
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 12th)
Post by: FreakyFenton on June 22, 2019, 08:03:27 PM
Quote from: Blasphemia Blackwood on June 20, 2019, 09:37:22 PM
Thank you very much, everyone!

I'm moving on to the next warband: the Witch Hunters.

I have a Warrior Priest and four Flagellants so far:

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lQyYHbqz6wc/XQvmpwiU-NI/AAAAAAAAGSk/0Fto8wPmT3QABghgMLPuZDeU1BLIBOq4gCLcBGAs/s1600/wh01.jpg)

Check the blog for more pics and rambling about the conversions: Gardens of Hecate (http://gardensofhecate.blogspot.com/2019/06/ccxxiv-witch-hunters-warrior-priest-and.html).

They're marvelous!  :o
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 20th)
Post by: Dentatus on June 23, 2019, 01:30:26 AM
So much excellence here. I look forward to every new post. Thanks.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 20th)
Post by: Blasphemia Blackwood on June 29, 2019, 05:39:02 PM
Thank you!

Here's the rest of the warband:

Witch Hunter Captain

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LbfHgZzMKOg/XRNDKigEvoI/AAAAAAAAGTc/3WLlfWaHo7gtaAksHejYt5pR8Ca_IV4JgCLcBGAs/s1600/P6242336.JPG)

Witch Hunters

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HxPZ-rGtPwY/XRNDPhSFIyI/AAAAAAAAGTg/HYMbK8UNp2gPGc_vwXavaPgseFHXcMDfgCLcBGAs/s1600/P6242334.JPG)

Warhounds

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SF9OId6PzrQ/XRNDTrIGBMI/AAAAAAAAGTk/YIVB-kVbZeYAulPuMXcl23ABD8yYCRS7gCLcBGAs/s1600/P6242343.JPG)

Gaoler

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yngj4nB821I/XRNDXnSPdjI/AAAAAAAAGTo/DDwnv2Lj7VsXIi1l9EHO6DOJ8qd8u6pTgCLcBGAs/s1600/P6242339.JPG)

More about them on the blog: https://gardensofhecate.blogspot.com/2019/06/ccxxv-witch-hunters-completed-warband.html
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 29th)
Post by: Blackwolf on June 29, 2019, 09:45:25 PM
So good :-*
Title: Re: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 29th)
Post by: von Lucky on June 29, 2019, 11:25:52 PM
Agreed, and the warbands balance each other. And the shades of greys between them. Not fully good or evil.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 29th)
Post by: FramFramson on June 30, 2019, 06:11:55 PM
Oooh another wonderful bunch
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 29th)
Post by: Grumbledook on July 01, 2019, 02:06:20 PM
Dipping back into fantasy again, so it was a real treat to find this! Wonderfully unsettling stuff.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 29th)
Post by: Black Arrow on July 01, 2019, 07:27:20 PM
Amazing work, as always! Nice to see you getting some more work out of the ghoul gaoler there! I wonder where you are going to go from here....?
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 29th)
Post by: majorsmith on July 01, 2019, 09:53:37 PM
The fat jailor is awesome
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 29th)
Post by: Blasphemia Blackwood on July 04, 2019, 05:17:57 PM
Thanks folks!

Sculpted and painted a little flavour/scenery piece based on a piece of artwork from the Mordheim rulebook:

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b9lW9Nk_emY/XR4kC77WnOI/AAAAAAAAGUg/lGD4Cw09I5ozh8Q6JMu93PRo5vQJ08psgCLcBGAs/s1600/P70223362.JPG)
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated June 29th)
Post by: LordOdo on July 04, 2019, 05:19:20 PM
Sae them on Instagram already, and dang they came out nice! Small details like these birds really make your world shine!
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated July 4th)
Post by: Metternich on July 05, 2019, 08:04:33 PM
Wonderfully disturbing.  Like characters out of a Hieronymus Bosch nightmare.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated July 4th)
Post by: Splod on July 06, 2019, 03:33:45 AM
Fantastic. Although I think that is quite enough wang for one day  ;)
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated July 4th)
Post by: Blasphemia Blackwood on July 19, 2019, 06:16:49 PM
The Mordheim MMXIX event last weekend has come and gone. It was really a blast; tons of lovingly converted and painted minis and impressive tables to game on. Just look at these (photos borrowed from betweenthebolterandme.blogspot.com):

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LmTDDS14zZA/XS6gW5iisaI/AAAAAAAB7w0/ZdR259b_ONcMK1NodevcSvf1TjyodEEpQCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_20190712_185047.jpg)
Above: Mordheim gate board by @koltti. (https://www.instagram.com/koltti/) Below: board-box by @nicolasgrillet (https://www.instagram.com/nicolasgrillet/).

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-degB-BTbs3g/XS6fjgNZdgI/AAAAAAAB7wg/C1vpTpXkJsI1-Pkjq7s8TPfidjAQaDgHQCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_20190713_134746.jpg)


There are several reports already, including mine:

Gardens of Hecate (http://gardensofhecate.blogspot.com/2019/07/ccxxvi-mordheim-mmxix-report.html)
Secrets of the Void (https://secretsofthevoid.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/20-years-after/)
Tears of Envy (http://tearsofenvysblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/there-and-back-again-or-mordheim-mmxix.html)
Between the Bolter and Me (http://betweenthebolterandme.blogspot.com/2019/07/mordheim-2019-recap.html)

You can find tons of pics on Instagram as well: #mordheim2019 (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/mordheim2019/).

And these are some shots of my warbands in action (photos courtesy of Nicolas Grillet):

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CIETowMrWhk/XTAqCPWFw2I/AAAAAAAAGVc/1U2J0riLveAQUCkP9d4CNInKniJxfBZBgCLcBGAs/s640/07.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EVs0Eq1RWEE/XTAqDbQRYoI/AAAAAAAAGVw/hQVzDq-wA8kDW8BdzOCSNPjwLRIhvPr6ACLcBGAs/s640/12.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n0c5k9Eqj2Y/XTAqCXA_3bI/AAAAAAAAGVg/kuVI6RJ4crgrxR-9BJ33wr8BjGqNi3_1gCLcBGAs/s640/08.jpg)
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated July 19th)
Post by: Citizen Sade on July 19, 2019, 06:22:14 PM
Brilliant and inspirational.

Kudos to everyone involved.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated July 19th)
Post by: Elk101 on July 22, 2019, 07:39:48 AM
Very impressive tables.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated July 19th)
Post by: Keith on July 22, 2019, 02:09:40 PM
The whole event looks amazing.
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated July 19th)
Post by: Bloggard on July 22, 2019, 02:32:32 PM
my goodness, getting up to speed here.

witchhunters - amazing

boards - amazing
Title: Re: Blasphemia's Mordheim (updated July 19th)
Post by: DivisMal on July 22, 2019, 06:32:59 PM
This scenery is bloody awesome! Brilliant!!!