Bigg and Small

Hi,

Last time I promised you that I would revisit Super Dungeon Explore. Here you go. New painted miniatures are the Druid and the transformed Bear/wolf  (this topic is up for heated debate amongs SDE scholars), and the kobold Ogres Rex Mini and Rex Max.

Here is a small photo cartoon introducing our new heroes. "Big and Small" -Enjoy!

The Druid encounters some kobolds while searching for mushrooms for his stew. It does look a bit bad for our hero!

Rooargh. The kobolds are suprised when the druid tansforms to a gigantic monster!

The poor kobolds run for their life, pursued by the druid. 

Oh Dear, the Kobolds ran to their big brother Rex Mini for help. 

How will this end, as also Rex Maxi have come to his brothers aid?

Below are som more details of the minis. The transformed Druid is painted by my friend, all credits to him for the awesome painjob.

Rex Mini and Max

Sorceress - WIP

Today I wanted to start working on something happier and brighter than previous grim and serious projects. When looking trough my box of miniatures I choose the freebooters miniatures sorceress. She had a hint of manga style in the sculpt that suited my desire for something fun.

I quickly primed the miniature white and the base black. While waiting for the undrcoat to dry I scetched on my ipad the cloak and tried out different bright colour options. My choise was a pink coat.

The miniature has long legs and I decided to paint some blue tights. I will try to paint the tights so that i would look like fabric streched thighty over skin, showing the flesh underneat. 

Kildrak The Barbarian Dwarf - finished

I had time to finish Kildrak. Not in mood for much text but I will give credit to VoltRon for the snow effect go check out his blog.
http://miniarmyhugetimesink.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/how-to-make-snow-bases/

This is also the first time I had to paint jewels. I tried my hands on some Glaze technique for the jewels.

But here is the main course:

Front

Right side

Left Side

Kildrak meets two Orcs

WIP - Kildrak the Northern Dwarf Barbarian

I just want to upadate with something. I started basecoating a AoW Dwarf Berserker that will act as my DnD character miniature.

Blue skin you say? Well the idea is he is from the far north wast Ice and Snow fields and it is reflected in the  inhabitants. When ready the skin will be a very pale ice blue, same with the beard. I post more pictures when it is ready.

I also want to make snow covered base for him so I have been searching the net for some tips. Baking Soda and PVA glue seems to be the key.

Thunder Spirit Panther - Shaka

Hi

Just a short update. I painted an Helldorado Saracen Hunting Panther as my Shaman Thunder Spirit companion (named Shaka). I tried to get lightning and thunder on the skin of the panther. A new technique I tried out is glazing. I tried to get the shoulders to be lighter coloured than the rest. I will go back to the eyes and try to get them to stick out more. But meanwhile here is a little set-up between the Hoplite and Shaka.

Shaka vs Hoplite

Sun Steppe Orcs encounters Dark Elves

Hello,

This time I show you a few pictures of my finished 5 Orc strong Sun Steppe clan patrol. I am quite pleased with the result.

Some Dark elf explorers encounters the Sun Steppe Orc patrol.

Another project I started is to assemble a plastic AoW Dwarf berserker with a two-handed axe. I was surprised that the second hand holding the axe comes in two parts. A bit of tinkering getting the hand in right position and aligning it with the hand. The Dwarf will be my miniature for a DnD lvl8 Dwarf Barbarian Kildrak, so I want to step up my paint job for him. 

Aow Dwarf Berserker 2-h Axe. Note hand in  two parts!

First almost painted projects

During the last two evenings I painted two miniatures. One DarkElf Corsair and One Ax Ork. The colour scheme for the elf is the same I used over a decade ago. For the Orc I am testing a kind of steppe/desert nomad orc coulour scheme. Armour, helmet and shield is bronze, axes are iron. I also did not want to go the usual green but a kind of dark brown leather colour for the orc.

Ax Ork - His home is the steppes with scarce resources so Bronze is used for the armour but the choppa must be Iron to be able to cut through "the Civilized peoples" chainmail and plate armours. 

A Dark Elf Corsair painted in a the same colours as my early Dark Elf army, Front vieiw

Back view of Dark Elf Corsair, It is really fun to paint the cloak

The Videos of the unboxing

The Unboxing videos as I promised. This is really my first attempts at making videos so please feel free to comment If you would like to see more or leave improvement tips. Enjoy!

Part 1 

Part 2

Shipment arrived, unboxing

Today I received my order from Wayland Games. So as I promised, little text and many pictures. I made som unboxing videos also as a test. I will be uploading them in my next post.

The box contents:

Helldorado:

-Saracen Starter Set

-Alchemist

-Lancer

-Tarik ibn Malik and Hunting Eagle

-Dibbukims

-Infernal Ambassador

Avatars of War:

-Avatars - Plastic Dwarf Beserkers Regiment

-Netherhound

-Marauder Champion

-Orc Warlord

Gamezone:

-Imperial Wizard

Hasselfree miniatures:

-Bugharoth first HF demon

-Aquatic Troll

Ax Faction:

-Jotnars Bane - Troll Hunter

Freebooters miniatures:

-Sorceress

Army Painters:

-Warpaints Mega Paint Set

Here are some pictures of my unboxing:

Just opened the box

All the stuff taken out of the box

Here are all detailed pictures of the different Blister packs. Unfortunately for you I will keep them packed until I plan to assemble them. 

Ax Faction Jötnar Troll Bane

Avatars of War - Dwarf Berserker sprues

Orks say "We need paint!"

Hi,

I started this new blog to show my reinvented interest in collecting and painting 28 mm fantasy/sci-fi figures (or are they called miniatures?)

About ten years ago in my early twenties, my interest in Warhammer Fantasy faded and I was left with boxes filled with unpainted miniatures. We have been playing some DnD (Dungenons&Dragons) with my friends and that partly reignited my interest as we play with 28mm miniatures.

My goal is to collect cool figures with no specific bias toward any manufacturer. In the beginning it may be a bit Games workshop heavy as I have loads of old miniatures. I am still waiting for my order of a new paint set (Army painter) as my old 15 year old paint pots have dried up (silly Citadel paint points with the black screw on hat). Meanwhile I bought my first new miniatures in a while and assembled them. They are Mantic Kings of War AX Orks. I never collected any orks, so I wanted to try that. Below is a picture of Orks demanding paint "Paintz uz, or we stompa you!" Love the small Snottlings that came with the kit. I will try to limit text and have lots of pictures in the future. Well until next time!