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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Topic started by: Commander Vyper on August 21, 2010, 08:09:56 PM
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Ok, seemed fitting what with Lovecraft's birthday yesterday and that continued nagging sense of dread and hopelessness that pervades our very existence, (stay with me here I'm in character ;)) that the unnamed horrors from the depths of the lead abyss should be summoned to walk/slither/float etc.... the earth once more.
I've kept a box of Cthulhu related minis in my workshop for the last few years and have been steadily adding to it, with the hope one day of getting around to painting them up.
Well as my attention is always difficult to hold on one project, (god know's how I got s much done with my zombies gaming table and minis) I've now found myself floating like a Mi-go from aliens to the world of H.P Lovecraft and the mythos surrounding his works, and the additional works of friends and writers alike.
There have been some very nice pics posted up recently which have fuelled my need to get this underway.
Work so far:
Finding everything in the first instance, (well everything directly 'thulhu related, as I've left out the gothic horror and egpytian stuff for now).
Ordered a few more bits from Doug at E4M yesterday (nightgaunts and an investigator) arrived through a dimensional portal this morning.
What I've been doing over last night and most of today has been cleaning up, basing and texturing, ready for paint.
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Commanderscthulhustuff.jpg)
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Commanderscthulhustuff3Medium.jpg)
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Commanderscthulhustuff5Medium.jpg)
Not a fan of solid bases at all so on the thicker ones I've used Fenris's resin recessed DS bases, (much deeper to accomodate the solid base), then GS textured with sea shell additions for the Deep Ones.
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Commanderscthulhustuff4Medium.jpg)
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Commanderscthulhustuff6Medium.jpg)
Big Fenris Deep One angler fish... (resin bases were too small so used a 40mm and GS'd the same texture).
Miniatures so far from:
E4M (old grenadier): (Shamblers, servitors, mi-go, investigators).
Milrton (old grenadier): (Nyarlathotep)
RAFM: (more deep ones on the way).
Reaper: (Slithe Raiders: Deep ones).
Fenris: (Deep ones).
Citadel, (the very old and rare gothic horror investigators).
More to follow.
The Commander
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Nice.
Have been looking for those Fenris Deep ones but without result. :-[ They look great with the bases. Love the shells! :)
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Nice.
Have been looking for those Fenris Deep ones but without result. :-[ They look great with the bases. Love the shells! :)
Cheers, quite pleased with the amount of prepping I've been able to do today, that includes a 5:30 start with my teething twins and a very lovely wife looking after them in the main from 11am today.
Re Fenris Deepones...relax, Ian will be getting them recast and the 'big' deep ones are on the way too, he's in Norway now for a week so when he gets back I'll give him a nudge.
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Re Fenris Deepones...relax, Ian will be getting them recast and the 'big' deep ones are on the way too
Sounds great! :)
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Great collection... I would like to see your progress with them. Good luck!!
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Great collection Commander. I hate those thick bases too so I clip the miniatures of them.
Rob
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Rob: Definately give those deep ones, (sorry lovecraftian slip ;)) ...erm deep recessed bases ago, if I had any spare I'd sent you one but I'm now out and need to order more.
Well a suprising hot sunny and bloody gorgeous day so feck all painting until tonight when I started my three Mi-go and painted 3 nightgaunts: (pics to follow light appalling now).
Black undercoat, then VJ german uniform black, (very very very dark grey), successive highlights but keeping it toned down then a wash with one of my old school citadel colours from the 90's (freshly opened today), purple wash, then once dry a few more highlights with a little bit of purple/grey mix just to add to the highlights.
Still need to finish them off, will tone down again with badab black.
Horns and claws foundation dark red base then mix of VJ stone/ivory, washed with devlan mud and black.
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Took one good(ish) pic tonight, though just rewashed with badbab black:
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/nightgaunts.jpg)
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Rob: Definately give those deep ones, (sorry lovecraftian slip ;)) ...erm deep recessed bases ago, if I had any spare I'd sent you one but I'm now out and need to order more.
Thanks Commander, send me a picture of kind of base you're talking about.
Rob
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In the first photo you are using a CofC rulebook as a stand. It looks like the old third edition that games workshop was involved with. Seeing it brought back some great memories of playing CofC for the first time. The book looks like it's in great condition for an old edition.
Cheers
Darren
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Nice work, watching this thread with mucho interest. :)
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Commanderscthulhustuff4Medium.jpg)
Like the look of this mini, my Google-fu isn't work well today, who makes it?
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Reaper Miniatures
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Thanks Commander, send me a picture of kind of base you're talking about.
Rob
These bases Rob, (the resin ones) as I said I'm not a fan of solid bases at all so on the thicker ones I've used Fenris's resin recessed DS bases, (much deeper to accomodate the solid base).
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Commanderscthulhustuff4Medium.jpg)
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Commanderscthulhustuff5Medium.jpg)
The Commander
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What's the thing in front of Nyarlathotep base-coated black?
All I can see of it is tentacles, and I very much need to know that which is unknowable.
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You should not speak it's name, lest it will come for you.
(Actually it's a bit of the 'thulhuesque conversion using a tyrannid ravener metal body, a mutated limb from the plastic chaos spawn set, GS tentacles and other bits and pieces. Just undercoated at present as unsure what to do paint wise).
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Reaper Miniatures
Thanks for that, found it. Think I'll order it from Tim @ Miniature Heroes. :)
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/Dark%20Heaven%20Legends/sku-down/02568#detail/02568_w_1 (http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/Dark%20Heaven%20Legends/sku-down/02568#detail/02568_w_1)
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Thanks for that, found it. Think I'll order it from Tim @ Miniature Heroes. :)
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/Dark%20Heaven%20Legends/sku-down/02568#detail/02568_w_1 (http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/Dark%20Heaven%20Legends/sku-down/02568#detail/02568_w_1)
Can't go wrong with Tim.
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True, only ordered a couple of times, but great service everytime. :)
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(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Mi-gowip.jpg)
Mi-go, first base coat and several highlights on the bodies. Oh also got my RAFM deep ones through this am, not happy with the heads on the cutlass wielding ones so will resculpt them.
The Commander
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Brigade games deep one hybrid packs just ordered, be nice to get hold of these finally, (shame they went overseas to be honest now that Tengu miniatures is up and running..oh well).
The Commander
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The deep ones hybrids are wonderful. A bit smallish, but will look fantastic with your growing horde.
Lovecraftian gribblies are on my back burner, but I'm amassing a small but growing horde.
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The deep ones hybrids are wonderful. A bit smallish, but will look fantastic with your growing horde.
Lovecraftian gribblies are on my back burner, but I'm amassing a small but growing horde.
I don't appear to have a back burner anymore, just masses of projects that are going to swallow me whole! ;)
(Especially as I've started planning a quaint little fishing village too ;)).
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shame they went overseas
Yeah... would be nice to still have those figures now. Nice collection you have there btw, and the fishing village sounds interesting :)
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I don't appear to have a back burner anymore, just masses of projects that are going to swallow me whole! ;)
Oh the irony of this statement:
Good luck with this one Matt, be interested to see where you go with this. (although personally I think your taking a Hilteresque gamble of fighting on two fronts re: projects but go for it! :D)
;) :D
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This collection best viewed in a darkened room, late at night... lol
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Yeah... would be nice to still have those figures now. Nice collection you have there btw, and the fishing village sounds interesting :)
Nothing to stop you doing some more???? ;)
(I've plenty of ideas for a suitable populous for my village).
How about a victoria nanny all hunched and shawled up, pushing a buggy, with a little webbed hand poking out over the side?
You can have that one for nothing! ;)
Oh the irony of this statement:
;) :D
Touche!
(It's bad isn't it, this, the aliens project, terminator, the zeds, wierd war, 15mm halo and my 'other' project :D).
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Finished the Mi-go. Pics tomorrow.
The Commander
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Oh the irony of this statement:
;) :D
To be honest I'm actually enjoying painting more by flitting around several of the projects at present. Also throwing the odd random mini into the mix as well, is helping to keep motivated and interested.
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I see that you are painting fast. I'd like to see those mi-gos, I want to buy some of them but I don`t know if Rafm, grenadier or eM4.
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Very nice models here, I look forward to seeing more nice CoC it might be 3rd ed as a stand for the minis in one of the earlier pics.
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Mi-go finished now, (need to take a nice updated completed shot):
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/PB.jpg)
Oh and a little bit of fun I did a while back, Lil' 'hu (Reaper)....
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Littlehu.jpg)
The Commander
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Gotta love that Lil' 'hu...cute yet strangely sanity shattering o_o
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Yeah cute little bugger...come here.....ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! SLURP!!
Will rebase him as on closer inspection... I was a lazy git when I did it. :D
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nice work commander,
i always think the Mi-go on the right is playing air guitar lol
regards
jim
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Cheers,
Lil' Hu is to have a nice wash and brush up. Currently he's in the bath playing with his squirty Ryleth bathtoy and starspawn sponge.
Bless!
(Don't worry, I failed my SAN check years ago).
;)
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Is that the one from the Reaper familiar pack?
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Is that the one from the Reaper familiar pack?
Oui!
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So rising from the abyss, the cthulhu thread surfaces again.
Deep Ones:
Have a massive soft spot for em, have a good selection of them from a number of companies, but wanted to get the old grenadier deep ones I got from the bargain bucket at Salute 2009 painted as I based these up last September :o (I've been busy! ;)).
What I liked about them, is although quite simple sculpts, the heads are perfect Devonian and Permian era boney fish inspired and hint at the length of time that the deep ones have been present under the sea, and perfectly matched to the shadow over Innsmouth description....
I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
I've also been looking at colour options from my LOTR army of the dead so into base colours, washes and glazes currently. I went for a grey basecoat, washed and glazed with the new GW green wash, hopefully aiming to get some depth to the basecoat and give a nice slimey dark green/grey finish.
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Deeponesfirstwash.jpg)
Gills, fins and webbing shaded with the blue (Asurmen?) wash, light highlights and cloudy/milky white eyes finish them off.
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Morewashes.jpg)
Just have claws and last highlights to complete then add a bit more water effect to the rockpools on the bases and they're done.
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/deeponesandshoggoth.jpg)
Which leads me onto to the new Tengu miniatures Shoggoth. I've gone for a similar paint finish to Iain's store models.
Although I started with a white undercoat and built out using Green GW ink and the green wash. Once I got to a suitable depth of colour I stated to add some coat d'arms armour wash in there and some of the very old GW green wash, and ork flesh wash.
Once compelte, I went over the eyes with a thined scorpion green, stippling and pooling little dots of green to give that pulsating glow. (I also think a jet black one with neon blue eyes would really pop too!).
Anyway still to finish this one, got to go round tidying up the eyes, glazing them and adding some highlights to the entire body before glossing. I was going to add limbs/tentacles but got carried away with my washes. I might add some to the finsihed project.
More pics later.
The Commander
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You are painting fast!! I like that shoggoth. And the deep one eyes are great!! I like that disturbing impression of blank white eyes.
Regards.
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Lovely work on these deep ones! These vitreous white eyes are stunning. How do you get this translucent look?
A.
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Cheers,
Base of VJ ivory, skull white added then very thin washes of purple, green, and finally blue GW wash, then wetblend back up to white with ivory/skull white, pick out the sockets with Coat d' arms armour wash.
Will finish the shaggoth today, old gods willing.
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Another shot of the shoggy from the rear:
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/shoggyback.jpg)
Well decided to add a few of the tentacles so drilled and pinned three of them, shoggy lost an eye for the larger tentacle, but I'm sure it won't miss it! ;)
Will paint those later today.
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/shoggy.jpg)
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/shoggytentacles.jpg)
The King in Yellow is giving me a faceless glare from the corner of the painting table so I better succumb to his will later. Also a couple of dimensional shamblers and sevitors are ready for colour so might tackle them later.
The Commander
The Commander
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These look great! A real inspiration to when I get my Deep One "coven" started :D
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Tentacles painted up, photo's later, got sidetracked prepping some black scorpion tombstone figures, a fist full of shoggoth anyone? lol, (There will be a wild west cross over at some stage I'm sure).
On the subject of tombstones, just sorting out a recent Tengu and FOW order of 'stones, will base up later.
The Commander
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Just one question. When do you find time to sleep? Between this and all of your other projects you must be at it 24/7... or were you just born with a paintbrush in your hand? :D
Loving the Deep Ones. Really must get mine painted up too. Keep up the excellent work, it's most inspiring, old chap.
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lol
No these days I have even less time than ever with the twins and life in general, but all things have their time and space in this life: (Cthulhu projects create their own though outside of the limitations of our own euclidean geometry restricted little existence!).
For all the things that are progressing, there are hundreds if not thousands of miniatures that have gone without paint or progress for far too long.
Thanks for the comments, appreciated.
Next up, finished shoggy and some tombstones wip.
The Commander
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Shoggoth tentacles finished, local model shop out of gloss varish so still to do:
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Shoggothcomplete1.jpg)
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Shoggothcomplete.jpg)
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/Shoggothcomplete2.jpg)
Might get another one and go for that neon blue pulsating eyes look I was talking about...we'll see.
Nothing on the tombstones as yet but started the servitors tonight, pointless pic but took it anyway! ;)
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/ServitorsWIP.jpg)
Part of me wants to go really alien, but I think they'll end up fleshy.
Cheers
The commander
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Nice work, looks really good.
Excuse my ignorance but is that gray primer that you use? What are the benefits to using gray?
Cheers
Andy
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I use black, grey and white depending on tone of the mini, These will be fleshy, so a grey gives a nice base to the washes/thinned coats. If I was going for a bit brighter hue I'd start with a white undercoat.
Black I use where there's metallics and deep shading involved and where the figure may well be darker when finished, (although with the shoggoth I used white and kept glazing it with green and black inks to give 'sticky', bright depth to the finished mini). Grey's kind of middle of the road, neutral standard undercoat for me.
Hope that helps.
The Commander
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Really great stuff Commander!
To be honest, I never really cared to much for those Deep Ones, but seeing yours has changed my tune (now it sounds like Erich Zann's violin.) May have to look closer.
I'm slowly making a dent into my other minis, maybe someday I can start putting some real effort into Lovecraft.
Hell, I'm still working on zombies!
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Bought some Tengu cthulhu tomb stones, added these to some GW ones, a Fenris stone mile marker and some metal tombstones from FOW and started putting the graves together:
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/tombstonesii.jpg)
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/tombstones.jpg)
Polystyrene trimmings to give the graves height, make them appear to be 'full' or descreated etc... Coffin lid shield from my bitz crate, metal skull from Ben at Black Cat Bases (CHEERS) fixed using PVA glue/superglue, the dipped in scenic basing material.
Close up of the coffin lid:
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/Vyperzoom/Cthulhu%20pics/tombstonesiii.jpg)
Enjoy!
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I really love your Shoggoth! :-*
Where are your Servitors from?
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You have painted the shoggoth very fast. Well done, I like it. Looking forward to seeing those gravestones finished.
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Honestly, I missed this great beauty of a blasphemous thread?
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I really love your Shoggoth! :-*
Where are your Servitors from?
Here:
http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Horrors.html (http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Horrors.html)
Only £1.75 each, do not be tempted to buy on ebay and pay double their cost. Doug will sort you out a treat.
Cheers
The Commander
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Yup the project that slumbers beneath the waves is rising again. Well the LPC got my mind twisting to the vast darker corners of the great beyond.
After losing 3d6 san on some Mi-go repaints and basing and painting the first of three gibbering flutists of the outer gods, I thought I'd get on with those graves.
More later... 'they' are restlest and I need more flesh.
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Just working up a consistent soil drybrush then will move onto the headstones
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Almost finished the next two servitors, just the vestigial eyes and basing to sort. Will post up tomorrow, well later today. ;)
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And they are done:
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Loving those ...äh...Things lol. And I am going to steal your Graves ;).
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Ventured outside for a better shot. Plus wip on the skull grave.
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Bit more work in the stones and a few more mocked up.
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Loving those ...äh...Things lol. And I am going to steal your Graves ;).
I'm sure that kind of thing is frowned upon in some circles ;)
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Love those servitors! Where are they from?
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Love those servitors! Where are they from?
http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Horrors.html
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It's sooo good to revisit this thread. Loads of eye candy and inspiration. 8)
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just a brief update before salute, no time to do anything major so just based up a few more grave stones: should end up with about 60 or so. Plenty for a decent graveyard.
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Cool thread! Lovely minis.
:o