Sunday, November 12, 2023

Further Depths of Madness

 Can't stop, won't stop.  Nearing the end of painting up all my Cthulhu Wars stuff!  I'm starting to realize what an insane amount of painting this project is, even mroe than I was dreading from the beginning.



First up a group photo of all the official factions I have.  Invasion is missing since I don't have the minis for that one yet.


I printed and painted up the anubis faction (which is being officially released as invasion so hey close enough).  I honestly like the theme and models of the fan version a bit more but we'll see when the official one gets out in the wild.


There was a problem with my grey spray can and it caused some odd flow of paint that I tried to fix with black, A few happy accidents latter and I actually like the result for the Giant Blind Albino Penguins or GBAP!


And yet there are more cats as well, neutral cats but cats non the less.  


Still a few bits, bobs and neutral units to paint up before this whole project is done but the finish line is near!

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Final Factions

 Finished up the last factions of Cthulhu Wars.  This really is a marathon painting up this massive game!  Its been a long road of painting already so this is going to be a big photo dump...



The Tcho Tcho included my favorite color to paint and I went bubblegum crazy!



Until I started painting them I didn't even notice the proto shoggoth were bursting out of some poor soul.


It was nice to paint up a different high priest sculpt from the usual fair.


Adding the optional cultists and neutral ones is certainly increasing the size of these factions.


The ancients had colors I really liked but for some reason I just wasn't too into painting this faction.  The cathedrals really dragged but I like how the whole faction turned out as a whole.


This faction in particular I think has the least interesting alt cultists.  To be fair I really like the standard cultists sculpts on the left side.


In a game like this there really is no reason to use cardboard except the board itself gotta have those shiny gribblies to use!


The cathedrals are really sweet sculpts and very imaginative, but took forever to paint up and I'm not fully sure I like the end result so much.


Combat 7 and super easy to paint up!


The reanimated and unmen are really interesting sculpts.  Unmen in particular are very unsettling with their exagerated proprotions.


I couldn't resist printing up and making the Midnight Society fan faction!  The rules are increadible and fun to play with and that stl for dracula's castle is the best!


All of the STls can be found on myminifactory, these bats are increadible and print out super easy.


Currently this is my favorite werewolf sculpts for sure.  The whole color theme here was a little odd to pull off with just black so I've added blood wherever possible to splas a secondary color that isn't just grey.


The cultists were found on thingiverse for free and honestly are a great sculpt for Cthulhu Wars cultists.  Might eventually add a set of normal cultists just to complete it as an alternative but for now I don't have any extras.


The vampires aren't as interesting but I like the idea that they may be brides of Dracula.


Dracula himself and his high priest death!  Death was a 25th(?) aniverassary model put out by reaper that had been sitting around for years in a bin.


My favorite outer god and mythos entity finally has his own player faction!  Demon sulton is the most insane set of minis for any faction in this game (and takes up the most space too!).


I went with the same paint scheme I used for my Nightstalker Kings of War army.


The actual faction color is a dark chocolate brown (still used on the bases) but I really didn't think that would be a good color for this faction and for the first time broke away from honoring the faction color scheme.


Each of the great old ones in this are creepy and impressive, this one being more creepy but with lots of details.


Really like how the faction starts with tiny versions of the big guys and moves up to terrifying giant models stomping all over the board.



Bebi azathoth :)



With the cult members I did go with the dark browns as they are a bit more down to earth than the monsters.


This alternate cultist sculpt is a favorite of mine with the torn out hair and straight jacket.  Really makes sense for a follower of Azathoth.


Since I ordered the new high priest pac and had the old ones as well I've decided just to paint up both as alternative choices.  Guess we could do a crazy game with each faction having two if we really wanted, might end the game a bit too early for sure.


These demon gates are absolutely awesome sculpts.  They are way more impressive painted up than they ever look in pictures.  I was very surprised by these models!


Finally I painted up the Library of Celeno which just included the librarian and custodian.  Kind of scary that they can't be beaten in combat by literal godlike entities, what the heck are they?


Sunday, September 3, 2023

Package Delivered

 Yep Cthulhu Wars kickstarter finally came in so I guess its time to crack into painting it all!  Storing this behemoth in an easily playable fashion was a top priorty too.




So I bought a shelf (5 bucks on facebook woot!) and filled it with eldritch things.  Got a bunch of fake books to store all the factions in and label them in such a way that no religious solicitors would stay and visit for some reason...



The first faction I had to paint was Bubastis, gotta love some cats!



Windwalker, being the easist paint scheme, came second, really like the models in this one.  Now that I have all the alternate cultists I gotta revist some previously finished factions as well to add the new content.



Couldn't forget the neutral units, Nodens was an amazing model to paint.  So much going on sculpting wise and a lot of fun to experiment on.



The Caco Demon turned out to be a favorite of mine too once I got into it.  Lots of interesting design and thought went into this guy.  Really suggest painting this one up even just for fun!



The Masks of Narlythotep were both quick and fun to paint up.  Not a lot of difficulty to them and hope to finally start getting neutral units on the table next game.



The hound of Tindalos was another easy paint job most of the neutral units I got from Game Steward before the rest of my kickstarter arrived.  Highly recommend them as their shipping is fast and the prices are super reasonable!



I broke out some Vallejo color changing paint on the slimes from Yuggoth.  Really like how greassy and yucky they turned out, pictures don't do these paints justice.



And with the watcher painted I just have a myriad of brain cylindars to paint before we can play Yuggoth map games!



Since it was easy I went ahead and just did all the bases for the glow in the dark great old ones.  Couldn't bring myself to paint over the glowy goodness.



The number one map that I wanted to play was the Library at Celano and I really enjoyed the librarian model in this one.  There's a lot of opportunity and character in this one though those books got a little tedious I have to say.



Last but not least so far I printed and painted up the Midnight Aristocracy fan faction.  This ones is a really interesting faction with a ton of playtesting behind it.  Can't wait to have it hit the table!

Friday, March 31, 2023

Dark Elves and Repaints

 There's plenty of new dark elves to paint up for Warhammer Quest still plus I'm still finishing up touch ups and repaints on the original warriors!


The good old fashioned 90's Cauldron of Blood.  Fun to do such a radically different paint job on this old model.


The bloodwrack Melusai, I have it set into the base in a way it can be taken out to put in the shrine (not yet painted).


Needed a gaggle of Cold One Riders too.  Have to admit the newer ones are so much easier to work with and look way better than the old metal ones I had back in the day.


The Khinerai were 3d prints that had a few issues when I printed them but I just ran with it.  Like the idea of these guys but who keeps naming these things at GW?!


One little beastmaster with happy twirly whips!


Gotta have a dark pegasus for the dungeons as well plus I get to paint a bubblegum pink and teal pegasus!


Found a new model for my warrior priest with a bold red and white scheme to go with it.


This bounty hunter came from MOM miniatures kickstarter that I did long ago.  Lots of fun models from that.


Some quick touchups on the the nurgle chaos warrior.  No one will suspect him in the settlement...


The original Chaos warrior got a nice face lift from my first paint job.


This brewmaster just needed a little more brightness to the scheme to make him more interesting.


It didn't take a lot to add a few highlights to the bretonnian.


Still not entirely happy with this model but She works well as the Chainsaw Warrior.