Fantasy Friday: Maneater Ninja

Yeah! It's friday again! The end of the week and also another episode of Fantasy Friday!

In the past two weeks I showed off the Ogre Kingdoms Maneater Pirate and Paymaster and today we are continuing our tour in Ogre land with the Maneater Ninja.

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I painted these fellas up for a client and he gave them to me already assembled and undercoated so i have no idea where all the weapons and equipment went that was supose to go on his belly. I found this the hardes maneater to paint because it's a striking figure but very bare. I tried my best making it look interesting and good.

Next week is the last of the maneaters that I will shocase here at Fantasy Friday and after that maybe some Chaos, Empire or Vampire counts.

Seb

Terrain: Games Workshop Watchtower

Last week I spent a lot of time working on my warhammer fantasy terrain pieces. I had already finished the Citadel Woods set and started work on the Watchtower and Chapel. Now those two are finished too and I just have to work some more on the Temple of Skulls.

So here's the result on the watchtower. It's a nice piece with again a lot of drybrush work but I also painted a lot of rusty bits and some weathering on it and to complete it all I added some moss.

I'm not to sure about the weathering but as a terrain piece it will do nicely. I'll upload a post on the chapel soon so stay tuned...

Seb

Citadel Wood (or drybrush saturday)

Yesterday I had some painting time again. The wife was out and supposed to take our kid but he was a bit ill so I said he could stay with me. With absolutely nothing else to do I set out to get some things finished on the hobby front.

I first sat down with my drop pod and after setting everything up and getting ready my son started crying. (he's 6 months) so I got up and cuddled him for a bit until he was satisfied. Then onto the project again. I got about ten minutes of brush time before my son needed some attention again so there I went again. Now, he was in the same room so he could look at me and I was talking to him, my wife calls this brainwashing as I tell him anything about the 41st millennium he needs to know but I felt sorry for him so I went back and forth between my son and my paint station.

I finally realised that it wasn't going to work. I was doing small detail work on my pod but had to stop and get started so many times over that it felt like a chore rather then some nice hobby time. I looked at my cabinet and realised that the citadel wood set that had been sitting there undercoated for months was probably the right project for the moment.

I got out my large brushes and started drybrushing like a mad man. I wanted the old dead, haunted look for the trees and patches of grass on the floor to fit in with my table. just three hours later I was done and the glue of the foliage was drying. I had enough time with my son to give him his milk bottle, fruit, clean nappy and cuddles whilst the tree set got done.

The good thing was that the citadel wood set is easy to make it look good. it's just mindless drybrush work. My son was happy and I have another finished project that I can take off my list.

Everybody happy.

Seb

Mini Showcase BeastLord

For a christmas special at my gaming club we all put one of our models in a hat and drew one each to paint up for eachother. The funny thing was we didn't know who contributed which model and we had to keep it a secret untill our anual mega battle in December(more about that later...). We would then all put the model we painted on the table to have a look at eachothers work and take our own respective models back home.

I drew this great model. The beastmen army general, a Beastlord! I never painted any goats so it was a challenge but I was very pleased with the result. I always seem to paint better when I paint for someone else, or at least that's what I think. It was great to see all the painted models on the table and the IG Kommisar I put in turned out great as well. I don't play IG nor do I still collect them but it is a great model to paint.

The guy I painted this angry goat for was very pleased with my efforts. He hadn't played with his beastmen army for a while but now he will start playing again and he's even bought new units to expand his already impressive army. I couldn't get a greater honour then that.

The paintjob itself just took about 4 hours because the models was already undercoated. I did give it a new base as the model wasn't based at all. It was fun to paint and not too complicated but I'm not a fan of the beastmen myself so it will probably be a one off unless I get a commission order in to do a beastmen unit/army.

Seb