Big Things, Cramped Dungeons

 I'm getting closer and closer to being done with all the Warhammer Quest shenanigan's

For the frost giant I went with repainting a D&D miniature I found at a con.

The stone horn was a bit easier to paint than I was anticipating which was nice.  a really stunning model too.

For my Jabersylth I went with Reapers jaberwocky.  He's skinnier but I really like the scuplt.

The beastmen get several new monsters in Norsca such as this pumba-esque tuskagor.

And a giant Doombull to up the ante in the higher levels.

For the ogres I've finished up the maneaters both hero and...

The rest of the maneater family.  I'd like to get corresponding models to all the classes they can roll up but that would be a hefty investment in both time and money.

Gotta have some wolves for sure patrolling the tundra.

Centigors add some fast moving and hard hitting cavalry to beastmen encounters.

And last but maybe least the ungors in festive holiday colors.

As for the sewers I went back and finally tackled the hell pit abomination.  This was a real beast to paint and I'm glad I only have to do one!  That said I'm really happy with the OSL work on this one.

Finally I took a small break to paint up this Lord of the Jungle from Reaper as gift to a friend.

Fun Pics

 Anyone who takes a look at this blog may quickly realize I have a stupid number of painted minis and props.  More than could be considered healthy.  Instead of seeking help I'm making fun dioramas with it and snapping pics!  These are going into the Warhammer Quest Rules we use as 'art':

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I got my Real FX steam pod/portal in lately from their kickstarter.  The portal looks amazing.  I've added a 'filter' with hot glue to make it look less artificial.  I highly recommend getting one of these ASAP

This elephant was the result of a paint job I did for a gift.  Thought I should have a little fun with it before it goes out though.

These first ones I'm going a little crazy with light pods (also from Real FX kickstarter) They make fun shadows and earie glows.  So sue me I'm having fun!

I really like how this one turned out the OSL on the Hell Pit looks stunning in this light.

For my ghetto photo shoots I have two smart lights on tripods and one in the ceiling above the table.  This lets me experiment a lot more now with lights to make fun scenes.  The various props are all sorts of things I have gathered for terrain over the years.

I really wanted to get some use out of that tower/wall configuration as you can see...

This may be my favorite it has so much character and story to it with the knight and his entourage facing down the black dragon. 

I'm really trying to not overuse the portal but its so hard!  This time I put in a different filter made of super glue and given a wash for color.  You can build up the glue on parchment paper to just put in place on the portal and switch out with whatever you want.

Lustrian Quests

 Last batch of back stock photos!  A ton of lustria stuff has been finished up for Warhammer Quest.  Getting close now to having everything painted that we have in our version of the game!

Up first the old metal Carnosaur.  Honestly a great model and an easy paint.

I liked this amazon priestess mostly because she was easy to put together...

The rest of the amazons however (from the mordheim models if I recall) are insanely evil to put together. They are all metal and every one of them has separt parts for their hands so you could swap out weapons...

Needed an ancient carnoasaur as well so the newer plastic model fits the bill as a bigger dino!

Unlike the rest of the lizardmen I made the chameleon skinks more subdued and brooding.

And right back to bright offensive colors!  I had a ton of fun with the lustria models getting to experiment with colors all over the place.

Our Lustria expansion adds some new dark elves to the mix as well.  Up first the Corsairs.

Then comes the Shades who have a tendancy to run away after pew pewing arrows all over the party just to show up with every subsequent monster group.

Back to the Lizardmen here are the character models for Saurus, Skinks and the Skink shaman.

The ripperdactyls are a fun model I really like the ball joint flying stick that lets you pose them more dynamically.

I wish I had three of the older salamander models with the giant fins but alas I had to settle on these for now.

Gotta have at least one Slaan when adventuring in Lustria.

And the pink baby stegadon as well.  

I ended up with the old metal temple guard that are a little runty compared to the new ones but still cute with their skull caps.

The terradons turned out nice and bright as well.  I wish they were plastic though as the flight stands are way to easy to break.

And finally I decided to taste the rainbow on the Troglodon.  I wend absolutely crazy with the spray paint before going in for detail work.

More Questing In Norsca

   Still going though a back log of photos.  Finally got a painting station up in the new house so I can get back to work too!  Just about have the rules for Norsca finished up as well just working on the adventures themselves now.

I really liked these Bestigor miniatures.  Just the right amount of details to distinguish them from the basic beastmen but not so much to become gaudy and overdone.

GW's chaos hounds though maybe could have used a few more mutations but I wasn't going to go through and add tentacles at this point.

Added a new chaos spawn this one from Reaper miniatures.  Love having some mythos in the dungeon now.

In Norsca generally everything gets worse for the party so now there are chaos warriors mounted on juggernauts.

Cultists are a fun addition to Norsca (and my Kings of War Abyssal army).  They are a group spellcasting enemy that has a chance to summon daemons often at the expense of their own lives.

I went a little crazy with colors on the Chaos Forsaken models.  I really wanted to have them stand out on the board as something horribly mutated.

Last but not least are the He-Man like Marauders.  Fune models for sure as painting goes lots of flesh tones to work with.

Ogres of Norsca

 Delving further into the Warhammer Quest painting I managed to get a start on my ogre army for Kings of War as well.  Nothing is fully based yet so there's plenty of work to do before fielding them but they are ready for WHQ for sure:

The butcher just called for fake blood, don't judge...

Purple fire for the firebelly was fun to do.

Picked up this D&D mini's giant years ago and now he serves as our frost giant.

The gnoblars were fished out of a bucket of parts from some used ogres I acquired

I decided to add an icey back to the gorger just to make it a little more themed with the rest of the ogres.

More purple!  The hunter model has a lot of fun little details too a very enjoyable model to paint.

Found this toy monster at a michaels and turned it into our Ice Wyrm

Big weapons for the Iron Guts.  A lot of the metal in these ogres has been given a slight purple shading as a theme.

The ogre iron gut hero with a giant shield, eventually he will be part of my siege breakers for KoW.

The leadbelchers turned out alright with the matches having a real contrast to the frozen skin.

Gotta have a mammoth for norsca and for an ogre army!  This was a reaper miniature recently'ish' released.

Mournfangs really are much bigger models than I thought they would be.  Still adding purple fur wherever I can for this theme!

Regular old Ogre bulls this time in a cold flavor.

For the ogre hero I used the executioner maneater which is a fantastic model but I had lost the original top of the weapon so I had to improvise.

a poor man's rhinox, those things just cost way too much for me to bother with anymore.