Sunday, November 29, 2020

Corpse Cart

After some struggling, I finally managed to take decent photos of my finished Corpse Cart. I'm quite happy with the result. Usually I always paint the skin of my vampires and necromancers in pale colors, but this time  I decided to paint necromancer's skin in more lively colors (he is human after all :) ) to make him stand out more from the corpses and zombies.


As much as I enjoyed painting this model, I don't want to do another one. I think it would be a drag to go through the same long process again. However I do plan to add another Corpse Cart to my army but I am going to use Chariot of the Harvester model from Gamezone Miniatures. I think it's a really cool model and will complement my army nicely.

Chariot of the Harvester
Chariot of the Harvester

OK, so here are the photos of the finished model. Now we need to give this necromancer a name and a background story. :)
corpse cart
corpse cart

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Tabletop World Monument

tabletop world

On Tuesday I began with a crazy task.I had to paint Tabletop World's latest release, the Monument in only 4 days so it can been presented to the public and ready for sale on weekend. I had my doubts about meeting the schedule. After many cups of coffee and few brushes destroyed I am proud to say I did manage to make it! :)While I was familiar with most of things on the model and from experience knew very well how I am going to paint it, like stone and iron, I had my concerns about oxidized bronze. I knew that I will pull it out in the end, but didn't know how long will it take because I had to experiment. I did paint some small bits of bronze in the past but never something prominent as the statue that is in the middle of this model. Since it is a center piece I decided spend some time and study the real life examples. After few hours of experimenting with various tones of green, turquoise and white on bronze basecoat, I did manage to get the effect I wanted. I think that the verdigris turned out pretty realistic.

tabletop world
After getting the statue done I felt more comfortable because now I was on the familiar ground. I started hitting the stone surfaces and iron fences.
tabletop world
tabletop world

Finally I had to fill the flower and sparingly add some grass tufts in the cracks, between the stones. I also used some enamel paints to create rust streaks from the fences on to the stone walls. I was little bit concerned about the flowers. I was using Green Stuff World flower tufts and the colors of those are so bright and intensive, almost fluorescent. I was worried that it will be to distractive and become the focal point instead of the model itself. To avoid this, I used predominately white flowers and some red ones. I didn't use orange, purple and yellow. 

In the end I think that the Monument turned out pretty cool. Here are some final shots:

tabletop world
tabletop world
tabletop world
tabletop world

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Grom the Paunch

In October a guy named Phil AKA oldmanpaints on Instagram announced the Old Orcs Painting Competition to celebrate oRctober. I have never participated in a painting competition before, but I always wanted to, so this seamed as a great opportunity. Other then that, it's been a long time since I've painted an Orc and this was a great excuse to take out, strip the old paint and start working on one of my favorite old school greenskin models - Grom the Paunch! This legendary gobo has such a cool background story and the sculpt is so full of character. Originally he is riding a wolf chariot with his loyal night goblin standard bearer Niblet, but I decided to paint only Grom. I really had a blast painting him. Since his skin is green I decide to use red and orange for his pants and other details to achieve maximum contrast. Also it was a must to include those old school patterns on his chainmail and axe. All in all it was a nice experience. The competition was very strong and there were many awesome entries. In the end I didn't win a prize but non the less it was lots of fun. :)