Hello all, I'm not a fantastic miniature painter or anything like that... but I thought I'd start taking photographs of some of the figures I paint (or have previously painted) and post them here - and maybe make this an ongoing thread like a few other guys have done in the past
So I'll start with a few pic's of some basic dungeon critters...
All the ones in this photo are plastic, and I think they came from a Games Workshop 'swarms' box-set or something:
A cloaker from reaper miniatures (on a 40mm base):
A couple of stirges, again from reaper miniatures (on 20mm bases):
From left to right, a half-orc soldier, a dark elf (one of the fabled 'Dragon Helms'), and a common orc soldier (the orcs are from Black Tree Design, and the dark elf is from Games Workshop):
The half-fiend, Lord Cömadöl (a plastic Games Workshop chaos warrior):
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Here's some plastic elves I painted recently (from Games Workshop's current LotR range).
A wood elf from the forest of Luna Silva:
High group of high elf warriors from the secret isle of Olor (Toldoloralf to give it it's full elvish name):
They are a little bit smaller than most other figure ranges... but I think that works out well for D&D elves (seeing as how your standard D&D elf is slightly smaller than your average human anyway).
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Thanks nyrfherdr, the plastic chaos warrior mini's are quite nice figures (though it needed a bit of greenstuf to cover where the fur on the cloak joins together). They are quite large too (and suitably imposing) - this one stands head and shoulders above the wood elf mini.
Next up - a group of dwarven axemen from the halls of Steinnborg (from a Warhammer boxed set I think):
Not bad for single piece plastic figures. I got a sprue of about 10 or so of these guys off ebay, and they came complete with a unit leader, a standard bearer and musician ...which I haven't get round to painting yet
Just regular Games Workshop metallics. For example the silver on the dwarves and the dark elf was a 'boltgun metal' basecoat, highlighted with 'chainmail' and then final highlights were added with 'mithril silver'. It doesn't give that much contrast... but I was aiming for a clean look to the metal parts on these... allowing the actual metallic paint to do some of the work reflecting the light (well that was the plan anyway).
I tried a similar thing on these too...
Baron Garmann's men (plastic GW bretonians):
Though I wasn't brave enough to try and paint the baron's emblem on their shields:
I'm a huge Tolkien fan and so my campaign world generally reflects this a little (it's just how I prefer my fantasy I'm afraid). Therefore D&D orcs and goblinoids are pretty much just different breed/strains of orc (with the term orc and goblin being interchangeable). So D&D goblins are considered 'lesser orcs', D&D hobgoblins are your 'common orcs', and D&D orcs are 'mountain orcs' (that is if/when anyone cares to make a distinction).
So that explained... here's some orcs...
A group of 'common orc' soldiers (GW's LotR uruk-hai models work well as hobgoblin-like creatures I think)
I've been going through my stockpile of unpainted miniatures this past week, with the aim of getting a quick coat of paint on some of the stuff that I've got lying around.
More from the unpainted stockpile (pretty mundane stuff this time):
I had to convert this pack-mule slightly as it had a rather comical looking imp-like creature sitting on top of the gear (which I really did not like):
A pack-horse (currently being sold by Ral Partha Europe - but originally Armalion?):
Going through all my mini's I realised I only have one that doesn't carry a weapon (not counting critters with natural weapons). So here's one that will probably be used as many a misc. NPC (from Black Tree Design):
And another one I painted pretty quickly just for the hell of it ...a warthog (which will probably get used as a wild boar proxy). It too is from Ral Partha.
All these look really fantastic. Your photography is also very good. It captures the miniatures very well, without the common graininess of miniature photography.
Thanks for the kind words D'karr ...the photography is probably more luck than judgement (I take about 10 pic's and then choose the best looking, least blurry, one ).
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Next up are a few more plastic wood elves that I've had lying around for some time:
Like the one before, they are from the current LotR range by Games Workshop - and I have to admit that although I like the look and the style of the miniatures, they are a pain to paint. Sometimes it's hard to tell when one piece of cloth/equipment ends and the next begins - or it's hard to try and pick out details (like the hair texture) because it simply is not there
And like other GW stuff - the other 8 figures on the sprue are just variations of these 4 basic poses (i.e. same legs and body but with different arms and heads) - but all said and done, I still prefer them over a lot of other elf miniature ranges out there ...it's just a pity about their lack of detail/bad moulding.
I had some time on my hands last week, and I had purchased a bunch of NPC looking miniatures (from Black Tree Design) a month or two ago, so I figured I'd slap a bit of paint on a few of them.
Nothing special I admit - but seeing as I can cover a lot of monsters with at least a reasonable proxy mini from my D&D plastics, I thought I could probably do with a bunch of 'NPC's for all occasions'
I got the Hirst Arts 'cavern accessory mould' (#85) for Christmas with the intention of creating some small terrain-type pieces to liven up the battlemat.
I've already posted these pictures over on the H.A. boards… but I figured I'd add them to this post too
The first is just a test really - where I have used some miscast pieces to try out some colours (where I've hacked out the air-bubbles and made those areas look damaged instead). The base is just a couple of pieces from the 'flagstone floor tile' mould (#260) that I had lying around:
This one is a simple standing stone that I have carved a runic inscription into (mounted on a 40mm round base):
Next is small campsite mounted on a 50mm round base:
And finally, a dungeon (or castle) lever mechanism (the wall is from the small brick mould #250):
Reverse:
For the Uruk's it was a pretty simple layering technique -but I didn't worry about too many layers (as I painted all these as a group and wanted them done relatively quickly). For example I think there is only 3 or four layers on the skin... which means the transition from dark to light is not very subtle - but I think they look OK as gaming pieces nonetheless
Here's a couple more terrain/dungeon decoration pieces made from the Hirst Arts mould that I have just finished:
And an elven druid:
The dog was from a Ral Partha pack that contained a warrior-looking guy and 4 dogs, and the elf is a 'male ice elf' from Das Schwarze Auge.
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