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Author Topic: The stars align...... IT RISES AGAIN!!!! A step into the abyss (April 2014).  (Read 19025 times)

Offline Commander Vyper

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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #45 on: February 13, 2011, 01:26:17 PM »
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.


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« Last Edit: February 14, 2011, 10:13:48 AM by Commander Vyper »
Now water can flow....or water can crash...be water my friend.
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Offline Commander Vyper

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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #46 on: February 14, 2011, 10:49:34 PM »
Shoggoth tentacles finished, local model shop out of gloss varish so still to do:







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! ;)



Part of me wants to go really alien, but I think they'll end up fleshy.

Cheers

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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #47 on: February 14, 2011, 11:13:58 PM »
Nice work, looks really good.

Excuse my ignorance but is that gray primer that you use? What are the benefits to using gray?

Cheers
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Offline Commander Vyper

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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #48 on: February 14, 2011, 11:16:38 PM »
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.

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« Last Edit: February 14, 2011, 11:18:52 PM by Commander Vyper »

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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #49 on: February 15, 2011, 01:25:26 AM »
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!
« Last Edit: February 15, 2011, 01:30:13 AM by supervike »

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Re: A step into the abyss: Tombstones!
« Reply #50 on: February 23, 2011, 12:32:12 AM »
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:





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:


Enjoy!
« Last Edit: February 23, 2011, 11:08:00 AM by Commander Vyper »

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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #51 on: February 25, 2011, 03:57:09 PM »
I really love your Shoggoth!  :-*

Where are your Servitors from?


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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #52 on: February 25, 2011, 09:42:14 PM »
You have painted the shoggoth very fast. Well done, I like it. Looking forward to seeing those gravestones finished.

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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #53 on: February 28, 2011, 12:37:07 AM »
Honestly, I missed this great beauty of a blasphemous thread?
Everything is better with lizardmen.

Offline Commander Vyper

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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #54 on: April 09, 2011, 12:49:00 AM »
I really love your Shoggoth!  :-*

Where are your Servitors from?



Here:

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

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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #55 on: April 03, 2014, 04:00:17 PM »
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.
« Last Edit: April 03, 2014, 04:05:14 PM by Commander Vyper »

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Re: A step into the abyss
« Reply #56 on: April 03, 2014, 07:17:05 PM »
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:
« Last Edit: April 06, 2014, 04:08:27 PM by Commander Vyper »

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Loving those ...äh...Things  lol. And I am going to steal your Graves ;).


My Vintage Dwarfs: leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=42987.0

 

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