Elbows' Fantasy Thread : Warhammer Quest!

[Elbows]

Thanks for the well-wishes.  I'm already looking for other opportunities.  On the plus side I just prepped a couple of figures for painting.  Once my new primer/dip/brushes etc. arrive I'll actually have something to show for 2015!

I also printed up several hundred pages of old dungeon crawl notes I've accumulated over the past 10+ years.  Hopefully I can use some of my old ideas with the new project.

[Hupp n at em]

Really like your use of the various plastic medieval kits to assemble some of your adventurers!  Are those by chance the wargames factory skeletons?

[Elbows]

Yep, the later version of the WF skeletons - with some bits from Mantic skeletons thrown in (helmets, some faces etc.).  They're "eh".  They work but they're very spindly.  Easy to put together, and I used the sprues to make the collapsed skeleton bases too.

[Treebeard]

Welcome back !

Just wow ! Impressive all around.

[Elbows]

Well...after no less than nine months of not painting anything (new job, new apartment...crappier life) I finally put some paint on a handful of Tre Manor sculpts I picked up, and the gorgeous Vampyre.

Once again, crap pictures, but it felt good to finish some stuff.  I admit I put some paint on the Vampyre a couple weeks ago, and hated it.  I had only painted maybe 25% but I hated it.  I walked by the paint desk every day, feeling as if I had forgotten how to do anything hobby related.

Then I finally bit the bullet, sat down one night last weekend and started painting.  Slowly it came back to me, and I'm glad.  I won't be matching my painted numbers from last year (I had the summer off - working at a college has its perks) but at least some stuff.  Also, I couldn't help but think the wizard here is awesome and I may end up running him Frostgrave if Audrey ends up hosting a game some time for me!


Tre Manor Reaper Wizard (metal)


Tre Manor Reaper Barbarian...really don't like this guy, but I wasn't going to waste him.




Tre Manor barbarian I like...a rather crap picture though.  Looks better at game height (sigh)




Lovvvveee the Nosferatu feel from this guy.  I saw it (better painted!) in someone elses thread and ordered it that night.  Love the sculpt.





I picked up a few of Tre's Bugbears which made it into Bones material.  Those'll be next.  I had worked on a eye beast but disliked it so much I binned it.

[Legionnaire]

Welcome back Elbows.

I think we all struggle a bit at times with the 'painting mojo', I only have a small collection and buy/ paint what I use (no lead mountain here!!!!) and currently signed off sick for the first time in my life with bad neck/shoulders. That has given me a bit of valuable time though to make some headway on a few small projects (Strange Aeons).

That wizard looks very 'Christopher Lee'ish' and all the figures are splendid work, well done mate  .

[deathjester25]

Good to see your back to painting! Nice work on some of my favorite reaper minis. I just picked up that wizard last week too. Sadly he's still bare metal

[warburton]

Nice

[DeafNala]

The latest additions are OUTSTANDING...the Wizard & Vampire are especially so. GREAT WORK!

[Elbows]

(picks up the cracked leather tome and blows on it...a cloud of dust spirals into the air, settling to the floor in the dim twilight of the cell...)

So, I've taken a break from my blitzkrieg assault on my Battletech skirmish and decided to get back to some of the dungeon stuff.  We played a game of Frostgrave the other night and while the game was...not awesome, it immediately made me want to get back into painting some fantasy figures.  Starting out small.


Some hounds from...Reaper?  Not sure.  Needed some dogs, and while they're comically proportioned and a bit large overall, they'll do the trick.


Really like the Tre Manor bugbears even though they're a pain to paint.  Wanted to replace some of my other bugbears I didn't like.  I just realized I forgot to paint the toe-claws on one of these fellas.  Also, ignore the super odd bend to his club?



And an internet cookie to whoever can guess what brilliant film I was watching when I decided to kitbash up some odd undead fellas.





I also assembled a couple of collapses skeleton bases (wanted more than my original six) and have primed another small group of men-at-arms.  I'm going to add a handful more ghouls/zombies, some skeletons and then it's time for some monsters.  I do have ratmen waiting in the wings as well.

[tyrionhalfman]

Nice collection. Well converted and painted. Are they inspired by Big Trouble in Little China? Thanks for sharing

[Elbows]

Yep.     I was sitting there with a sprue of Steppe Warriors in my hands...while I was watching the movie.  Immediately decided to take a crack at some unique figures.  Hence the weird hands and silliness. 

[Too Bo Coo]

So much eye candy!!!!

[Furt]

Great additions mate.

Love the floating/flying/leaping skeleton.

Good to see you back at this.

[DeafNala]

Doggies, Bug Bears, AND ESPECIALLY the Kung Fu Living Impaired are all BEAUTIFULLY painted & ,in the case of the K.F.L.I., converted. VERY WELL DONE!