Arachnarok Spider, WIP

Hi there! Just few WIP-pics here, to prove I'm still in the painting...

I chose the same color theme as I painted my Forest Goblin Spider Riders, and Goblin Hero on Gigantic Spider (older posts). The pics are really flashy, sorry bout that. I try to do some proper photographing with later pics :)

Bye now!

Serpents of Hellfire: Librarian WIP2

Hello again! Here's some WIP pics after I made the lightning effect on my Librarian...

Well... I have quite mixed emotions about this work. I have allways been against any "gun muzzle"- and other external effects in the miniatures. But nowadays, when I have seen pretty good looking spell effects sculpted on miniatures, as in new GW-fantasy stuff, I have not so steep opinions about them. For example the latest High Elf mages look amazing, with all energy balls and lightnings growing out of them. The broblem that comes with these minis, is the painting. You have to really invest in to the colors, to make the mini look as it supposed to. There are quite nice OSL (object source lighting) tutorials in the network, but it takes ages to master the techniques... "Sigh"

So, with this initialization, lets see my Librarian lightning effect attempt, that has no OSL extending to the mini, and looks like... something.

The only OSL- effect is in the Librarians palm, that I simply painted white inside. Instead of making the whole mini glow with blue light, I painted the lightning through the whole arm, all the way to Librarians shoulder. Thats kind of "comic book" solution to the effect broblem. And that suits me fine, for I have no time, interrest, or the skills to carry out a decent OSL-effect. I continued the theme to the other hand holding the Sword of Caliban. There's some of the power weapons energy flowing on the Librarians armour.

The lightning itself is made out of a little piece of root, glued to the Librarians palm. Lightning effects are quite easy to paint... You just need three layers of different blues, and little white on top. With little practise it comes out nicely.

Back of the mini is quite unfinished... but here's showing some of the cloak :) Some more high lights coming up soon. And I'll be back with a finished miniature. Bye now!

Serpents of Hellfire: Librarian WIP

Hello! Just a quick posting with a WIP picture... to show that I'm still in the hobby :)

Librarian is coming up slowly. Still lot of highlights to do, for this guy is full of details. And I'm planning to do little lightning effect to the right hand... We'll see how that goes. Bye now!

Ruins 3, WIP

Hello! I managed to have some progress with the temple ruins. I got the paint job done, and now I'm trying to compose some vine and roots on the ruins... Here's how it looks at the moment.

Plants are not glued or attached yet... It's hard to get them right. And I'm not sure if I use them at all, because I think the ruins look just fine without them.

So... I try to finnish this soon, with or without the plants. Bye now!

Making more Space inside my Miniature Cupboard

 

Hi there! I have conquered a cupboard  from our livingroom for hobby use. I have stuff in other room and attic too... (normal situation for wargames gobbyist I guess). There's a very limited store room for my games and minis in livingroom cupboard, and I tried to expand the space for my painted minis, that are now mostly laying in boxes and getting damaged.

 At the moment the upper shelves are taken for painted minis, but they are in chaos, and painted minis are stuffed on top of one another with no order. I decided there had to be a makeover of some kind.
And here's what I did...

I made a bunch of simple small shelves out of plywood... and attached them on top of the existing upper shelves.

Like this... A lot of new space for minis now. I got to save all those old painted minis from scrappy boxes.

Orcs and goblins on the left shelf... (well, few High Elves back there too)

And to the right one, I put all my painted 40K, Epic and Descent minis. Some dungeon props there too. Now it is easy to start playing, for I know where everything is. A new situation for me. Bye now!