Elbows' Fantasy Thread : Warhammer Quest!

[Jevenkah]

Thanks, that's the one! I was going to ask if you knew specifically which range he was from, but then I really enjoyed looking at all the nice vikings at Gripping Beast and found a different pointing figure, in a pack with a musician and a bannerman. Just perfect for Fantasy Warriors.

Jevenkah

[Elbows]

Yeah he's a Gripping Beast viking body...cloak/head/pointing arm from Fireforge plastics (Teutonic foot knights I think), then a viking sword and shield from GB. 

[Elbows]

A couple more bugbears...not stoked with the poses or the final paint, but they're gameable, particularly for simple dungeon monsters.  There will be a bugbear group shot when I finish the final two next weekend.  As usual, D&D pre-paints with some minor mods, basing, and repaint.





^This guys is going to give me fits fitting him in a dungeon "look at my GIGANTIC WINGSPAN" 

[Elbows]

Well finally finished the bugbears.  Not stoked about the final two models, but I'm happy the six are done.  Various models with some modifications - poor photos.  They do look a bit better on the table if I'm honest.

I have my first "meh" painted dragon waiting to be flattened and based for tomorrow...for now.  Bugbears!


The final two cast members...


Big trouble...


Notice from the bases, the figures are pretty damn hefty!

Tomorrow, there be dragons.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Really great work, looking forward to the dragons!

[deathjester25]

Love the group of bugbears. You definitely know how to get the most out of pre paints.

[Elbows]

The Near Disaster Dragon...

So, I painted up a dragon...applied some dip, and then went to "flatten" it with some Army Paint Anti-Shine.  On rare occasions (not sure if it was the humidity, temperature etc.) the anti-shine ruins the model...it turns browns and dark greys to pale grey and just has a really weird reaction with the paints.  Of course, of all my models it happened on my dragon.  Luckily the paint scheme was originally dark blue with grey, etc...so I was able to salvage some of it.

For an $8 (shipped!) dragon from HeroScape I'm not too upset with it.  It'll be used, but the paintjob was a bit ruined.  I did touch it up a bit after the fact and I'm happy enough with it.  There are some scale shots included - the only modification was the replacement of its base, and subsequent paintjob.









Overall, I'm happy with it for a very very cheap and easy to paint dragon.

[DeafNala]

I'm not really a fan of most Dragons, but that is THE COOLEST Dragon. The Scaly One & his smaller Friends are all VERY WELL DONE!

[Elbows]

I'm actually the same way...I'm really not huge into dragons (and the big beautiful miniatures intimidate me far too much) but I'm quite happy with the subdued finish it ended up with.  The colour palette was based on some old fluff I used when coming up with my own fantasy world.

The ocean to the North of the mainland had a series of large islands scattered about, and the idea of cliff/cave dwelling dragons resonated with me.  The idea of dragons who clung to the cliff face waiting for ocean going vessels (or large fish, whales etc.) to go buy...swooping down on them.  So the grey-scale colour scheme popped back into my head.  I knocked out the dragon in about an hour and a half...and I think if I had a better miniature I'd have spent far more time on it.

Maybe I'll end up doing another dragon at some point, and I'll actually give it the time it needs!    If anyone likes the figure, they're cheap as chips on ebay:

[deathjester25]

The dragon came out great! Especially after seeing what it originally looked like

[Elbows]

Did some speed painting the other night...some quick Bones spiders (large and huge), and a quick ghostly thing...

Rather poor sculpts and I was impatient so I just whipped em up in an hour or two's sitting.  I used some simple brass pipe to place some of the spiders elevated - along with the ghostly thing.









I dipped another ogre last night and will maybe start work on my giant this evening.  I'm actually churning through the miniatures I have for this project - might need to buy more.  The variety of the miniatures definitely encourages me to paint far more than rank-n-file armies or military miniatures. 

[Dr. The Viking]

Nice with the spiders hovering like that. I suppose they're supposed to be coming down the web?

[Elbows]

Yep, just wanted something other than slapping them all on the floor...   Makes the big sucker look far more menacing.

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

How big are they - please can you tell me the base sizes? or, better still, plesae make a comparison photo with a human.

[Elbows]

Here you go Mick.  For the most part all of my normal sized creatures are on 25mm (1") Renedra bases.  Most monsters are on 40mm Renedra bases with the occasional biggun (like the dragon) on other random Renedra bases I had lying around.  My dungeons are all 1" squares, so a normal figure takes up one space - the 40mm take up four spaces are considered "Large".

The normal spiders are definitely big...the large spider is pretty freakin' big.  However they aren't anywhere near as big as the gigantic Otherworld spiders.