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Offline Freddy

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Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« on: 30 December 2022, 01:23:41 PM »
After the historical topics, I make one for my fantasy armies too. Multiple small armies, their purpose is mostly to serve as punching bag against my historical armies (Roman and XVth century Hungarian for now). This might sound weird, but Kings of War has compatible rules for fantasy and for historical armies, and, in general, the ruleset lacks the over-the-top fantasy stuff, so it makes sense. Their set of units is kinda ripoff of WHF, so most of the GW units have their suitable rules released. To make the system better, I also introduced the support and command system from Hail Caesar.

So, first of all, Skaven. I have some clanrats:






Some heavy weapons. The flamethrower is used very rarely, not too historical-y :)



Also some characters.



...and rat ogres.


I even sculpted some clanrats, with easy paintability in mind:




This guy on a display base, I brought it onto a painting competition :)


Some giant rats (here used for Necromunda)


Not technically skaven, but some cranium rats too. 3D sculpt of someone.


Undead.
These ghosts from GW, I painted them with oils.


Skeletons from Mantic. I got these already painted by someone, I just made the bases, some finishing touches, and the banners.



These GW skeletons were painted by me:


And what are undead without zombies:


Also some ghouls


Undead have characters too, this is a resin ghost from TabletopArt:


These necromancer guys are my sculpts, the left one got GW bits into his hands.


Chaos. Here mostly demons from GW.
Nurglings:

Plaguebearers:

Pink horrors:


Three Chaos warriors. I will make them into a whole unit sometime.


And my glorious sculpt of a chaos sorcerer:



Confrontation Dirz Alchemists. The sad story of a company doing great models shooting itself to the head with bad business decisions. but I managed to save some of their figures. I have an older collection:






...my favourite of them being this one:


But just recently I decided to finish all my unpainted Dirz models, but this time with artist oils. painting NMM with these is really simple, so the progress is pretty fast.
This was the test piece:

Two others for now:



We will see, I will make some mixed units of them.

I also have some fantasy characters. They are meant for skirmishes, and as antagonists for a WIP dungeon building boardgame project of mine.
Old GW Dark Elf sorceress:

Old GW High elf:

A classic Stone Troll:

A really ugly old wizard, I used for testing colour schemes.

A SigMarine:

An assassin. Some 3d print:

A female warrior, 3d print too. I used her for colour testing, but I did not manage to paint a proper red i wanted, just that brick red thing. Anyways, girls with nice tits are always welcome.

Two Empire greatswords. I count them towards the characters now, they do not have a complete unit.

The guy from Skyrim (from Brother Vinni)

A sculpted warrior:


So, this is it for now, I will post the new additions here.


Offline voltan

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #1 on: 30 December 2022, 03:34:34 PM »
The dark scheme you use for your Skaven looks really good, fits them really well.
Yvan eht nioj!

Offline Pattus Magnus

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #2 on: 30 December 2022, 07:19:40 PM »
That’s a great collection, lots of excellent work there. Definitely looking forward to seeing more as you add them!

Offline Freddy

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #3 on: 31 December 2022, 11:23:12 AM »
That’s a great collection, lots of excellent work there. Definitely looking forward to seeing more as you add them!
Thank you!
This one is a slower project since the mentioned historical armies have now a serious handicap, they need more units before their opponents have more. The next big task will be to add some light cavalry, in the battles against the Romans now I can mimic footslogging hoplite/phalanx armies, but even those did not completely lack the light horse element.
On the other hand I always slip into the schedule some characters or Dirz figures.
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The dark scheme you use for your Skaven looks really good, fits them really well.
Thank you! The main colours are (base+wash+drybrush)
Armor. Tamiya Field Grey+Nuln Oil+[Tamiya field Grey with some white]
Clothes: Tamiya NATO Green+Athonian Camoshade+GW death World Forest
Fur: GW Eshin Grey+Nuln Oil+White
« Last Edit: 02 January 2023, 01:11:42 AM by Freddy »

Offline Major_Gilbear

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #4 on: 31 December 2022, 02:52:35 PM »
Very nice - ! I especially like the undead banners!  :)

Offline Pattus Magnus

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #5 on: 31 December 2022, 05:15:37 PM »
I just looked through again and wanted to mention the figures you sculpted, they’re really good! It always impressive to see the WIP and the painted examples folks have put together completely from scratch. I find the chaos sorcerer in the blue helmet especially appealing!

Offline Freddy

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #6 on: 01 January 2023, 11:09:50 AM »
Very nice - ! I especially like the undead banners!  :)
Thank you! The base idea came from and old Vampire Counts army book. I did not want to paint "normal" heraldry, with this stlye it resembles more like the metal band Tshirts and logos. I think it goes well with the undead theme.
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I just looked through again and wanted to mention the figures you sculpted, they’re really good! It always impressive to see the WIP and the painted examples folks have put together completely from scratch. I find the chaos sorcerer in the blue helmet especially appealing!
Thank you! The sorcerer was cast in resin, and I painted one for each of the Chaos gods (except Khorne, who hates sorcery). With minimal conversion (a new head and maybe a gun) it also fits 40k.

Offline Spinal Tap

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #7 on: 02 January 2023, 03:27:48 PM »
I love everything you've done here, most especially the banners for the Undead, the Rat Ogres that you've managed to make look non-cartoony and to top it off, your own sculpts fit perfectly into the whole look.

Awesome.


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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #8 on: 02 January 2023, 04:06:26 PM »
Lots of great work here! I particularly like your very Grimdark looking Skaven. They look less comical than they often look in official GW artwork.
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Offline Freddy

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #9 on: 02 January 2023, 05:35:45 PM »
Thanks, guys!
For the Skaven, as sculpts I prefer them as cute little angry rodents rather than scary monsters, but for their paint scheme I chose a darker one to reflect their underground dwelling nature.

Offline Freddy

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #10 on: 11 January 2023, 08:21:26 PM »
Skyrim guy got a girlfriend. Also from Brother Vinni.


Offline Grumpy Gnome

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #11 on: 12 January 2023, 07:47:39 AM »
Great! 👍

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #12 on: 12 January 2023, 08:01:35 AM »
Hey there,
I like the "girlfriend" a lot! What's the salad you planted onto the base made of?  lol

Cheers
GS
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Offline Freddy

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #13 on: 12 January 2023, 07:40:07 PM »
Thank you!

What's the salad you planted onto the base made of?  lol
Chill, it is just marjoram. Drugs are bad, mmkey? :)

Offline gibby64

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Re: Fantasy stuff in 28mm, mostly for KoW
« Reply #14 on: 18 January 2023, 08:38:11 PM »
Absolutely LOVING all of the Dirz... they look as fantastic as ever!
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