Gritty fantasy - THE HORDE page 4

[AKULA]

Great job, particularly like the ragged militia.

Where are the shields from with the flayed head?

[midismirnoff]

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!

[midismirnoff]

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

[AKULA]

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   

[midismirnoff]

And here's the second batch of ragged militia. The unit is now complete.

[fred]

I’m really liking what you are doing. Getting some really different looks from the plastic kits, the gritty paint jobs work well

[vodkafan]

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?

[midismirnoff]

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.

[midismirnoff]

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.

[midismirnoff]

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.

[Batty Coalhouse]

They look mad as hell, Midismirnoff 

Bad hombres!

Mercenaries from a fantasy The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!

[midismirnoff]

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.

[Little Odo]

They are certainly different. Is the cracked effect on the last shield a purposeful look?

[midismirnoff]

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.

[Batty Coalhouse]

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.