Just a few pics

[Doomhippie]

I must admit that the arrival of Broadsword has got me rather hot for fantasy figures again. So I reworked some older ones and have started rumaging through my lead pile and see if I could find some suitable figures. These three pics are the first of what will hopefully become a little more soon.

Oh, I guess I have to apologize that some are not quite as focused as I wpuld have liked. I'm still learning the art of taking photos of models. It's not quite as simple as taking pictures of nature or people...


The first one is a travelling bard (actually my character from an old RPG session).



This one is the necromacer from Mordheim. As good a villain as can be hoped for.




The third one are a bunch of cavemen. I actually wanted to use them for .45 Adventures but they work equally well in a fantasy setting as some kind or really primitive barbarians.

[Rhoderic]

Great to see more people who are excited about BA. I love that Necromancer! How'd you do the skull motif? Start with black and fill out with the white, or the other way around?

[Doomhippie]

Actually the skulls are already on the model. I usually paint bones with some kind of medium brown (like bestial brown from GW or beasty brown from Vallejo), use tons of brown ink (at least three layers). Once dry I use bleached bone or sand color. Sometimes I just drybrush it on carfully, in this case I actually painted each skull in order to get a little more depths into them and as a last step bleached bone was used to paint some highlights.

[postal]

very nice I love the cavemen.

[capthugeca]

I must admit that the arrival of Broadsword has got me rather hot for fantasy figures again.

I would echo that sentiment too.

Nice Bard - can you remember who made/makes him?

I am intending to put together some figures for barbarians but am going to have a go at the new Warlord Games Celts to see what I can make of them. With 32 for £17, I can do a fair bit of experimenting and not worry too much about the disasters. Just champing at the bit for them to arrive! 

[bandit86]

Very nicely done.  I think that bard is an old Grenadier figure by Mark Copplestone and I think its mirliton miniature carrys that line?

[Doomhippie]

Yes, it's Grenadier - unsure who sculpted them. Maybe it was Copplestone. I hope to get started on some more minis this week but unfortunately summer break is over and I actualy have to work for my money again...

[Super_Gibbon]

Great work! I like your take on skin tones.

[Operator5]

Excellent paint jobs. And those caveman could use the Savages archetypes. I could see them as a lost tribe deep in the mountains of Zhitai or Torillisk. They would be wary of outsiders but would welcome anyone who helped them battle the Ungeheuer that plague them.

[Evilcartoonist]

Woo-hoo! Go, cavemen! Those colors and technique worked beautifully with them