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Lots of sexy stuff! That necrodrake is rather tasty as well!

Yeah, I like the dragon-thing. The dream warrior dudes are cool too, as is the garden of morr. Great stuff!

That Necrodrake is awesome! I can't imagine going through and pinning all his pieces and parts though.

Thanks as always for the kind words. The Necrodrake is a really nice model. So nice, in fact, that I finished it this morning:



The paint scheme is really basic: ivory spray paint, homemade dark brown glaze, ivory drybrush, plus some spot detailing here and there. There were a lot of places that I jut couldn't get to with a brush, so it looks better at arm's length than up close. I ended up basing him on a 75mmx150mm piece of plasticard, with LIquitex resin sand to level everything off. I may go back in and add some static grass later. I also gave him glowy green eyes:

...which may not have worked as well as I'd hoped.

While waiting for washes and such to dry, I started a batch of 10 Fleabag Riders which I hope to have ready to show tonight or tomorrow. It's more than a little lonely with the family away, but I'm getting a lot of hobby work done this week...

Looks good! Not much to do for a skeleton but you did it and it works

I kinda want one of those, would be a nice Beastie for my undead hordes (or unassembled plastic).

That's a pretty awesome looking Necrodrake. And so fast, too! After seeing it, I might try and pull my finger out and finish the D&D Dracoliche that's been half-painted here for the last three or so years.

My wife and son are coming back tonight after almost a week, and not a moment too soon. While they have been gone, I have been eating and drinking like a bachelor, although I have kept the house clean while doing so. Oh, yeah, and I painted a whole lot of stuff:


First up, here's a regiment of fleabag riders:


I like Mawbeasts a lot, both with and without chainsaws in their mouths, so I was really looking forward to getting this unit done. Once I started working on them, I changed my mind just a little. The riders's legs are molded on to the mounts, and have all sorts of ouches and gubbins and such which were a real pain to paint. I ended up giving them a basecoat and dip rather than anything more intricate. I had a real shock when I went to dullcoat them this morning. Humidity is up near 300% or so, and the dullcoat frosted the dip. I ended up hitting them with a glosscoat to deal with it, and I'll have to go back and paint on more a matte lacquer later. Anyway, they are finished.

Next, zombies:


I was eight models short of the sixty needed for a Legion of zombies in KoW, and no one in the country has just eight Mantic zombies just lying around. These all came from my Bones I vampire box. I mounted them on 40x0 pieces of plasticard, and plan to stick them in with the rest of the unit to fill it out:


While digging through the Big Box o' Bones, I found this guy as well:

He's an earth elemental (I think), and he looked enough like Ben Grimm that I just had to paint him up. Pretty simple, dark brown basecoat, drybrushed up to orange. The fossil on his shoulder detracts just a bit from the effect, but not enough to merit carving it out. I also found one of the three owlbears I ordered at the same time. I'll start that one up in a few days.

While digging around in my box of unpainted undead minis, I found this guy:


This is a very very old undead war elephant from Grenadier. I never really liked their human-sized models, but they produced a lot of fantastic monsters. They produced two elephants and one giant rhino in this series. I have the other elephant painted and in the case, but never got the rhino. I had forgotten about this one until last night. He was mostly painted, just requiring some touch ups and finishing to get him to this state. There is supposed to be a light catapult on his back, but I couldn't find all the parts last night.

Finally, some curved river sections:


Pretty close to ten years ago, I came across this tutorial on Terragenesis, and cranked about about eight feet of straight river sections. My one and only WHFB opponent at the time complained everytime I brought the river out because, even with two frod sections, he couldn't get his skeletons across fast enough. I felt bad for him (and didn't want to lose my only opponent at the time), so I started these curved sections. He moved away before I could finish them, and they languished in a box in the closet for years. I found them again when my son and I were looking through my boxes of unpainted stuff, and I decided to finish them. It took me six months or so to actually start, but only about an hour last night to finish them.

So, there it is: my weeklong painting marathon. I'm a little burnt out on this sort of assembly line painting, so I'm going to focus on some samurai personalities for a while.

Nice stuff!

Very productive!

That's a very impressive spurt of productivity. Getting all that done in a single week is just bloody insane!

Productive week for you my good man. Really want you to break out the steel fist stuff though.

Steel Fist?

Me and Josh both backed a Samurai kickstarter by a company called steel fist. It was delivered recently.

http://www.steelfistminiatures.com/products/sekigahara_range

Josh ordered these two amongst others.

http://www.steelfistminiatures.com/products/sekigahara_range/ii_naomasa.html

http://www.steelfistminiatures.com/products/sekigahara_range/sek_11-2.html

azazelx: With the family away, all I really had to do was walk and feed the dogs, leaving me many many hours to catch up on my TV and paint. I'm pretty burnt out on batch painting, though, so those Steel Fist minis came just in time.

carlos13th: I have eight samurai based and gesso'ed. They really are nice minis, and the samurai will make a great unit of hatamoto. I'm going to work on them one or two at a time for a few days while my batteries recharge.

Did you get the guy with the Ogre Helmet? He is going to be my Kojima Yataro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojima_Yataro

There's a dude with what looks like a tengu mask, is that who you mean?

No but that guy is really cool and is probably my favorite of the lot.

[img]http://www.steelfistminiatures.com/images/products/32/600/1.jpg[img]

guy on the left with a ogre helmet.

Cool stuff! Looking forward to seeing the samurai.

 carlos13th wrote:
No but that guy is really cool and is probably my favorite of the lot.



guy on the left with a ogre helmet.

Oh, yeah, I do have that guy. I put the helmet on a different body, though.

Which body? I wanted a guy with a kanabo with the ogre head so it was that body or the tengu body. and I felt the tengu head and body worked to well together to split them up.

carlos13th:I just assembled them randomly. They look OK to me.

Also, I finished the first of eight samurai yesterday:


He's wearing a nio-do with a yarou^kabuto, and is armed with a kanabo. I painted him according to a similar suit of armor found via GIS. He took about three hours from start to finish, and itt was nice working on just one model at a time. I'll put up another model from this set in another couple of days.

He looks great mate. That would have taken me for longer than three hours.

Is GIS google image search?

The samurai looks cool!

Agred - he looks really good. I love the Kanabo.

Here's samurai #2 from my Steel Fist kickstarter rewards:


Just like the last one I posted, his armor was inspired by a suit I found on GIS. A lot of the sengoku-era armor that I'm finding on line is really drab, and makes rather a nice change from the more ornate, colorful suits I've done in the past. This guy too about 3~4 hours, over three morning painting sessions. Here's a shot of the two that I have fnished:


I have a third model in the works, waiting for a wash to dry.

I finished off another Steel Fist samurai:


This one has a tengu mask with his helmet. A cursory Google search gave me several real-life examples of armor like this, but the colors were essentially the same as the other two I did from this set, so I went with black armor and red lacing to add a little color to the unit.

Here's a group shot:

Newest might be my favorite.

Between you and Carlos13th I'm getting a vague desire to make a small KoW samurai detachment. I think one each of the wargamers factory dudes spread out a bit would yield 3 missile troops, 2 spear regiments, 2 elite foot regiments (stick a spare horseman in there to fill it out), two troops of horsemen, and up to two mounted heroes (remember I thin my units out a bit). Probably a good 1000-1500...

Sheesh I may need to stop lurking here till that idea fades..

@ Grimdork: Well, that certainly sounds like a pretty solid core to build around. I'll be sure to pester you periodically until you get it finished.

Let the idea stew for a bit... Too many recent purchases lately

Besides, when bones 3 arrives, I'll have a couple of Oni, tengu, and kitsunes to find homes for

 GrimDork wrote:
Let the idea stew for a bit... Too many recent purchases lately

Besides, when bones 3 arrives, I'll have a couple of Oni, tengu, and kitsunes to find homes for

Well, if they need a home you can always send them here to their native lands. Those are among the very few Bones 3 minis I was interested in...