TEASER: BIGFOOT IN THE PUDDLE OF DEATH

 

Basing for Necromunda mini WIP

Home-made with cardboard, polystyrene and bitz.

Ready for Ultraviolet Resin!

I have just received a nice parcel from Greenstuff World. Always a pleasure to test new products!

Wraithlord WIP

GW's Wraithlord (plastic, by Jes Goodwin)

The base is from Scibor Monstrous. 

A bit of a conversion withe some Drukhari bitz. I like the pose.

Yet to be painted...

WIP: Two Minotaurs for (almost) the price of one

GW's Cygor (plastic, by Aly Morrison): Milliput + primed with GW's Out-of-sale sprays (rhinox hide and mournfang brown)

The 2nd Minotaur is a heavily converted piece using:

Mierce Minotaur Bust (resin, by Alex Huntley) + GW's Ghorgon bitz (plastic, by ???)

The right leg was a different part I didn't have, so i had to sculpt it from scratch with green stuff.

There are other bitz that will be added later on when the basic painting is done. 

The bases are made with MDF + bitz + Greenstuffworld' tree stumps +Vallejo's earth texture.

Last post of the year: WIP base

This is a WIP of a huge mini I will paint in January. It is HUGE!

The base was made with some Secret Weapon's basing accessories and many other pieces of different stuff.

Have a nice evening. See you in 2018!

WIP for the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018

Magnetized Spider!

Kingdom Death's Spidicules (plastic, by Thomas David?)

When you are a painter and a gamer, you have to think practical. You need to have an easy access to the minis used in a game and you have to keep in mind that they will take a particular amount of space on your shelves (although they are called miniatures!).

 When you look at the dimensions of the Spidicules, you realize it's a monstrous piece of a monster!
So you can either rent a storage container somewhere, or try to find a cheaper and easier solution.
I have decided to magnetized its legs and the appendice on its head. Now I can store it in a small box and it only takes a few seconds to get ready for the game!

Spidicule + baby Spidicule (Spiderling)

First, I built the head of the Spidicules, drilled some shallow holes were the legs are attached, filled these with green stuff and added magnets.

 Then I did the same with a smaller magnet for the head appendice. I also added some green stuff here and there to fill the joints of the different parts.

I cut some plastic parts out of the legs and used green stuff to create joints where I could add a magnet. A small metal wire is still necessary to bear the weight of the body.

And voilà!

Now let's paint that beast (Can't wait to defeat it in Kingdom Death's Monster!)

Jack-in-the-box

"Please let me in! You've forgotten to let me in!"

 

Colour Our World Brackened!

Experimenting on a base with GW's new "Barbed Bracken" and "Creeping Vines" kits.
Great stuff, but the paint doesn't spread and adhere well on the plastic which is softer than the usual GW plastic.

You can bend the vines using a hair drier. That's what I did, so I glued the vines unprimed. But then it was quite difficult to make the white paint stick to the plastic.

My advice is:

1. Wash the plastic with soap.
2. Bend the vines with a hair drier
3. Prime.
4. Glue and paint.

WIP: Lewis Chessman

This is a project of a base for a mini done with the king from the Lewis Chessmen set.

I bought that piece in the British Museum last year.

If you want to know more about the Lewis Chessmen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen

Birds of a feather...

I'm trying some new material: Eduard's photoetch birds. Great stuff, but really small. You need a magnifying glass to assemble those, and that's not easy peasy.

A teaser for something big incoming

Guess what!

Dark Mechanicum's New Killing Machine

This is just a WIP teaser for my next big project.Guess what it might be.

Big papa Nurgle's Shower of Pus 1 WIP

Forgeworld's Great Unclean One (resin by David Cockersell)
+GW's nurglings (plastic, by Brian Nelson and Darren Latham)+blight drones (plastic by Mike Anderson).
+ Sedition War fluorescent sprues
The base is made of cork mats.

The basic project was to use blight drones which would pour pus on the unclean one, like a shower of pus. I have explained how to make the pus earlier:
http://davogrod.blogspot.fr/2017/01/shower-of-pus-1.html

I got this idea of pus jets from Maxime Pastourel's tutorial on his "Rotten Swarm". Thank you Man!

http://leskouzes.blogspot.fr/2016/01/the-rotten-swarm.html

 

I first made sure the pus sprues coud fit the model. 

 

Then I also made them fit individual bases so that they could be used separately (for gaming). Long hours for that one to assemble and paint...