Author Topic: The stars align...... IT RISES AGAIN!!!! A step into the abyss (April 2014). (Read 19020 times)

Commander Vyper · « **Reply #30 on:** September 08, 2010, 11:13:53 PM »

Mi-go finished now, (need to take a nice updated completed shot):

Oh and a little bit of fun I did a while back, Lil' 'hu (Reaper)....

The Commander

D@rth J@ymZ · « **Reply #31 on:** September 08, 2010, 11:47:40 PM »

Gotta love that Lil' 'hu...cute yet strangely sanity shattering

Commander Vyper · « **Reply #32 on:** September 09, 2010, 08:51:15 AM »

Yeah cute little bugger...come here.....ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! SLURP!!

Will rebase him as on closer inspection... I was a lazy git when I did it.

fairoaks024 · « **Reply #33 on:** September 09, 2010, 12:38:01 PM »

nice work commander,

i always think the Mi-go on the right is playing air guitar

regards

jim

Commander Vyper · « **Reply #34 on:** September 09, 2010, 01:16:36 PM »

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).

kidterminal · « **Reply #35 on:** September 09, 2010, 03:14:29 PM »

Is that the one from the Reaper familiar pack?

Commander Vyper · « **Reply #36 on:** September 09, 2010, 05:31:09 PM »

Quote from: kidterminal on September 09, 2010, 03:14:29 PM

Is that the one from the Reaper familiar pack?

Oui!

Commander Vyper · « **Reply #37 on:** February 11, 2011, 10:19:55 PM »

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

(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.

Gills, fins and webbing shaded with the blue (Asurmen?) wash, light highlights and cloudy/milky white eyes finish them off.

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.

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

einarolafson · « **Reply #38 on:** February 11, 2011, 11:31:15 PM »

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.

achab · « **Reply #39 on:** February 12, 2011, 07:40:45 AM »

Lovely work on these deep ones! These vitreous white eyes are stunning. How do you get this translucent look?

A.

Commander Vyper · « **Reply #40 on:** February 12, 2011, 10:36:30 AM »

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.

Commander Vyper · « **Reply #41 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:21:23 PM »

Another shot of the shoggy from the rear:

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.

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

Profane Creation · « **Reply #42 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:33:29 PM »

These look great! A real inspiration to when I get my Deep One "coven" started

Commander Vyper · « **Reply #43 on:** February 13, 2011, 10:03:48 AM »

Tentacles painted up, photo's later, got sidetracked prepping some black scorpion tombstone figures, a fist full of shoggoth anyone?

, (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

Stavros Banjo · « **Reply #44 on:** February 13, 2011, 11:38:51 AM »

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?

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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