Author Topic: Hammers thread of Ice and Fire (Read 29307 times)

Hammers · « **Reply #75 on:** 02 December 2019, 09:22:17 AM »

Quote from: HappyChappy439 on 01 December 2019, 09:08:43 PM

Looking good! The fleshy-pink colour really works for House Bolton!

Silly question but what manufacturer is the mini from?

Its a Bretonnian spearman, I am not sure which manufacturer it is. Some GW Warhammer affiliated company. Maurauder Miniatures, perhaps? They are heroic 28 scale, so they fit well with Oldhammer and Gamezone. I have about 20 more ready to go. The pike is from my miniforge, inspired by the Bolton troops at the Battle of the Bastards as seen in the TV series. The pavise is a GW Tomb King shield, which I picked because of it's size, shape and the skull shield buckle which I thought could be incorporated in the flayed man motif. I will however not stick to one motif, but do a several variations of the House Bolton heraldry (a red flayed man on pink de sang). More on that later.

Elk101 · « **Reply #76 on:** 03 December 2019, 05:06:23 PM »

Now that shield is clever! It's quite disturbing, like a midget was skinned and nailed to it.

LordOdo · « **Reply #77 on:** 03 December 2019, 11:01:06 PM »

What a comeback to this thread! Very nicely done, fits the Bolton theme perfectly!

Hammers · « **Reply #78 on:** 18 January 2020, 02:42:40 PM »

My 20 something Bolton pikemen are nearing completion so I thought I'd show my pavise artwork before I glue them onto the grunts.

As most of you know, the Bolton colors are ”rose gouttée-de-sang, a flayed man gules", that is a skinned man on a pink field splattered with blood drops. This is really a classical heraldry horror as pink is the same as red, meaning a red man on a red field with a scatter of red droplets.

To circumvent this I have done the pink in a light flesh tone and the skinned man and blood in a blackish red with a deep red highlight.

Unfortunately the shoddy lighting have tinted the pictures a bit yellow. The shields have a more pinkish hue which I did not manage to restore in Photoshop.

These are based on GW Tomb Kings shield of which most have a (surprise, surprise!) skull buckle. I have in some case cut this off but in others incorporated them in the design of the flayed man. I have added an anchor spike at the bottom of each shield.

Various studs are either metal or over painted in deep red.

Silent Invader · « **Reply #79 on:** 18 January 2020, 02:48:06 PM »

Very nicely done - I like how you’ve used the skulls

Dr Mathias · « **Reply #80 on:** 18 January 2020, 04:43:46 PM »

Those pavises are great, I like the variety. Well done man

OSHIROmodels · « **Reply #81 on:** 18 January 2020, 05:04:47 PM »

Excellent

Captain Blood · « **Reply #82 on:** 18 January 2020, 05:10:33 PM »

Very grim and ingenious Peder

AKULA · « **Reply #83 on:** 18 January 2020, 05:37:45 PM »

Very gruesome - excellent job

HappyChappy439 · « **Reply #84 on:** 19 January 2020, 03:16:48 AM »

Excellent work!

Swaelg · « **Reply #85 on:** 19 January 2020, 04:26:42 PM »

Very nasty looking and excellent!

Hammers · « **Reply #86 on:** 28 January 2020, 08:52:15 AM »

An action shot of my just completed Boltons.

A rather messy composition. I find it hard to set up miniature glamour shots in the cramped space I call my 'atelier'. You cannot, for example, see much of the Bastard of Bolton.

I will fuck about with the individual and small group shots in Photoshop later.