Kris' miniature thread

Kris · Feb 12, 2007

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):

Kris · Feb 12, 2007

And some of the bad guys...

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):

Kris · Feb 13, 2007

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).

nyrfherdr · Feb 13, 2007

Kris,
Your miniatures are solid. Very clean work.
I especially like your Chaos warrior Lord Cömadöl

Keep up the nice work.
Game ON!

Kris · Feb 14, 2007

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

frankthedm · Feb 14, 2007

Those silvers can't be water based paint, way too smooth. What metalic paint do you use?

Kris · Feb 14, 2007

What metalic paint do you use?

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:

Kris · Feb 17, 2007

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)

A 'lesser orc' warband (GW's LotR goblins)

Mountain orc barbarians (GW's LotR Mordor orcs)

Kris · Apr 7, 2007

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.

Anyway I saw this one (an old Ral Partha troll) and thought it might make a cool Annis Hag with a little modification:
https://www.connectstores.com/ralpartha/images/02-142b.jpg

So I've added a bit of green stuff here and there, cut of the hands at the wrists and replaced them with some plastic 'genestealer' arms:

I also did a quick paint job on this figure this afternoon (a Ral Partha 'Smoke Elemental'), as I figured it might look OK as an Allip:

Kris · Apr 8, 2007

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.