Circle of Orboros: commission Part 1

 Circle of Orboros: The Commission: Part One

Here we go, this will be a big one! I will break this down into each of the groupings But first a nice group shot. Bases will be covered in another update in a tutorial how to for those that wish to know how I got the effect.

Warlock: Kaya the Wildborne::

We will start with the centerpiece needed for every army, the warlock.

I wanted to go for a different skin type, than normally depicted on Kaya; Olive skin triad from Reaper Master Series. She turned out... different, but I am happy with the results.

THE RETURN!

Greetings all! I return!
what a crazy past few months. Painting, gaming, playing, working, painting....What have I been up to.

Latley I have been caught up playing the IKRPG- Iron Kingdoms Role Playing Game- from Privateer Press. Best way to describe it? Its like a skirmish game of Warmachine with a story. More of a skill based RPG, but combat is fun just like the game. We met up every other week and I rode the hell out of the players till schedules started to conflict. Although in the summer I am going to run a 2 month long campaign at the LGS.

Board Games. After being introduced to Super Dungeon Explore 2 years ago, I dove into the board game realm. Super Dungeon Explore, Zombicide, Rivet Wars...WOW. between painting these and playing, I am having a blast. New ones are on their way, and holding demos and special one day events are going to be a blast!

Miniature Games. Aside from my typical Warmachine/Hordes and Malifaux, I got into a few new ones. Dark Age, Star Wars X-Wing, Malifaux picked back up, and newly added Dropzone Commander (have yet to play but that starts soon). Warhammer 40K I played one game, considering I had enough for a small battle from my days of collecting and painting before playing.

Video Games. Not much new here. I basically dropped off from these to paint and play more games. Although I AM looking forward to Warmachine: Tactics releasing later this year.

So there you have it! I have not died, have not forgotten about this blog (for the most part). Hopefully I can keep up with the updates and show you more painting and tutorials, and anything that crosses my fancy.

In fact, today I will be updating the long awaited Circle commission army and a how to on the bases!
:) enjoy!

Welcome back

Hello again!!!

     Well it has been a busy summer for me life wise. As you could tell with my lack of blog updates since April. Wild and bumpy ride. I was able to paint and paint and work, work, work. The blog fell by the wayside as my computer died, was fixed, and then suffered issues within. Its almost back up to par and my camera's memory card full of projects I have have completed.

     Lets see if I can get back into the swing of things with a new update (hopefully) every week on Thursdays - that seems to be the best day for me. So we will start with this welcome back post, and follow thru next week with some newly painted material. In the meantime we can talk about our summer!

     The biggest thing over the summer was my first ever GenCon! I was super excited about it, and it was all it lived up to, 4 awesome days of gaming! I spent the majority of it at the Cool Mini or Not booth (if you remember I am a Legion member - the core demo program at CMoN) running Zombicide demos to thousands of people in attendance. I also met some friends, ran into some old friends, people from the industry, and picked up a LOT of miniatures to paint :)

     I had a blast there and looking forward to going back next year. I am also looking forward (hopefully) to attending Templecon in 2014 which has extended to 4 days!

     For now, I guess thats it. I am going to work on getting pics ready for next weeks upload, but coming up we have that Circle of Orborus starter box from Privateer Press I have been saying since April. We will also take a look at some Super Dungeon Explore heroes from Soda Pop Miniatures, both my own and some commissions, and some random commissions I did for locals from Privateer Press. Also I was able to get ahold of some Dark Age models from Cool Mini or Not and I will add them into the mix.


Keep those brushes clean, and see you next week!

Khador Excitement part 3 - the Conquest

Welcome back! Part 3 of Khador Excitement! And if you can tell by the title, there is Khador here. These all follow the commission requested scheme of White and Red Khador by the client. This. IS. CONQUEST! The colossal warjack for Khador. It is HUGH, so much that the base size is classified as hugh. The base is the size of a CD/DVD. The model itself is as big as my head! This thing means business, and here he is!!

CONQUEST

I went for a bit more detailing in the paint job here, those rivets were...well not fun to be honest. There are plenty of them and each has at least 2 if not 3 colors of paint on them. Overall I did enjoy painting him tho, a massive warjack ready to crush the opposition.
     Side note that I dont have an airbrush which would have helped on these massive figures. But I had fun painting them by brush anyway.



Here is a size comparison shot with the warcaster Harkevich who is on a 30mm base and my iPhone. Just to give some of you an idea how tall Conquest really is.

Wow-We! There you go some love over the weekend and multiple posts in a week, GO ME! I hope you enjoyed checking out the Khador Excitement with me. I had a blast and I think the client enjoyed them too. He is probably lining up more for me as we speak.

Coming up soon will be a Circle starter army for the 2-Player Hordes starter box from Privateer Press. I may even get a few Super Dungeon Explore heroes up on here as well within the month, but time will tell. Now I am off to paint something, I hope you are too!

Khador Excitment part 2

Welcome back! So this post is titled Khador Excitement part 2 of 3. And if you can tell by the title, there is Khador here. These all follow the commission requested scheme of White and Red Khador by the client. These next 3 models I will show today are 2 warcasters and a mercenary attachment. All three of these were done up a bit more than the previous two. A bit better quality, but not to the full 9s.

First up are the two warcasters. These are the leaders of your army. You can see they follow the paint scheme, and the basing detail (I am actually going to add another tutorial on snow bases sometime).

Forward Kommander Sorscha Kratikoff

Kommander Harkevich

This next model is from the Mercenary faction. These guys are great to fill in gaps in your own army that you need....filled. Sylys here is a warcaster attachment, meaning he attaches to a warcaster on the filed and has benefits for both of them. His name looks difficult but really pronounced Sigh-less Wish-nail-er.

Since he is a Mercenary model, the client wanted him to fit into Khador color scheme, but also be able to look as if he can go into other armies as well, just in case. So I reversed the color scheme on him, and tried some ink highlights on his armor. Turned out pretty good I think, but there are a few spots where it did not catch right and the camera may or may not show that.

Sylys Wyshnalyrr

And there you have those. Now onto the BIG, BAD, CONQUEST!!!!!
so for part 3 of the Khador Excitement we shall see the finished Conquest, Khador's own colossal jack.

Khador Excitment! pt1

Welcome back! So this post is titled Khador Excitement part 1 of 3. And if you can tell by the title, there is Khador here. These all follow the commission requested scheme of White and Red Khador by the client. The first two I will show today are unit attachments (I think, I dont play Khador). Both were done using a quick and basic paint job so they have at least tabletop quality.

First up we have Cuppa Joe, Kovnik Grigorovich. Walking tall raising his weapons into the air. Basic paint job again to say.

Kovnik Grigorovich

Next up we have a Battle Mechanik Officer. His job is to repair the jacks on the field.

Battle Mechanik Officer

So there is part 1 of the Khador Excitment. Part 2 will have 2 casters and a Mercenary model. Part 3 will be the BIG excitment, the Conquest! I am going to post them all today just so I dont forget about them down the road.

Kingsley Warlock - Anima Tactics

     I have always loved anime. Cipher Studios puts out some great looking anime style models for  their game Anima Tactics. It is a skirmish size tabletop game. Skirmish basically is small amounts of figures on each players side, as opposed to Warmachine or Hordes which usually contain a large amount of models per side. 

I dont own much for the game, in fact Kingsley here is my first that I own, but I have painted for others. There is no time to learn another game and keep painting, but I loved painting him. So here I present Kingsley Warlock from Anima Tactics::

The base is actually from Enigma Scenic Bases: Dungeon Floor. Also I should note here that the sword was a try at NMM (Non-Metallic Metal). It is the process of using regular paint to copy the effect of metal, the shine, dull, and reflection as if it was actual metal paint. It turned out ok. This is one of the things I want to work on more, but need more time to practice. I still like how the model turned out, especially the skin. I was trying a new approach to the African-American skin using some blends and inks.

I would like to check out the line of miniatures more, but first I have other projects to finish. For now that is all. Going to sleep for a change, keep a lookout for more updates this week or next!