Psyber's Super-Duper Dungeon (Warhammer Quest)

[Frugalmax]

That guy looks incredible! One of the last of the "I hold my arms out to intimidate you, not at all because it's easier to cast!" generation. Nice work!

[psyberwyche]

That guy looks incredible! One of the last of the "I hold my arms out to intimidate you, not at all because it's easier to cast!" generation. Nice work!

Big "I am Cornholio" energy 

[psyberwyche]

I put the finishing touches on a few gribbly beasties over the weekend. These Wargames Atlantic spiders make great Gigantic Spiders for Warhammer Quest, mainly because they fit quite nicely on 40mm bases.



I've painted them to match my smaller spiders (clearly they're tired of the adventurers cleaving through hordes of their babies, and have come to redress the balance).



The rough pattern on the abdomen is inspired by the real life "noble false widow" spiders that live in my garden. A few years ago the regular old garden spiders started disappearing, and these horrible things moved in. Creepy AF... but great inspiration 

A few details?





And a big shout-out to Ian at Fenris Games for adding more base sizes to his Templar Ruins base range by request, which has really helped this project of late. Now that's service!

[Dean]

Very, very nice, if that's the right word 

[DeafNala]

That is a LOVELY spider...BEAUTIFULLY painted & nicely based! VERY WELL DONE as always!

[Little Odo]

The freehand on the spiders' abdomens is fantastic - truly scary. The rest of the painting is none too shabby either 

[Mikai]

Beautifully done!

[Elk101]

Fantastically creepy job on the spider.

[majorsmith]

Love the spiders!

[psyberwyche]

Thanks all. I just hope I don't draw the Gigantic Spiders card for the dungeon too often, because they give me the creeps 

Anyhow, a little more progress made on the project. I was looking for a good mini to use for the custom Assassin "hero". I was going to paint up the old Talisman assassin, but he looked too much like a dark elf for my liking. So instead I went for a duellist from Vespero's Vendetta, the old Dogs of War regiment.



Super quick to paint. I love an old Perry miniature, they always have just the right level of detail for tabletop minis IMO.

[Vladimir Raukov]

Fantastic work, as always...even if the spiders are a bit freaky to look at (in the best possible way).

[Mellal]

Woha, impresive topic !!!

On the latest paintings, I really love what you did with the spiders, bravo.

[Frugalmax]

Great work all around! I always wanted one of those Vespero's Vendetta guys, he looks awesome!

I agree completely on the Perry brothers' sculpting- they hit a great balance of detail and paintability. These days some that I think have that balance pretty well in the fantasy realm (the Perry twins are still plugging away at awesome miniatures in the historical realm) are the Frostgrave and Oathmark metals from Northstar- very characterful without having so many little details to be a burden to paint.

[psyberwyche]

Great work all around! I always wanted one of those Vespero's Vendetta guys, he looks awesome!

I agree completely on the Perry brothers' sculpting- they hit a great balance of detail and paintability. These days some that I think have that balance pretty well in the fantasy realm (the Perry twins are still plugging away at awesome miniatures in the historical realm) are the Frostgrave and Oathmark metals from Northstar- very characterful without having so many little details to be a burden to paint.

Exactly this. I do have some of the Frostgrave plastics, which are great fun for kit-bashing. I know it's picky of me, but the only thing that puts me off is the big integral bases. On the plastics it's no big deal to chop them off, but  some of the metal minis have these big chunky discs moulded solidly to the feet, and it seems like a chore to make them fit the rest of my collection.