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Saturday, April 19, 2014
EBDT
The Earthborn Dire Troll. This guy. Was fun.
As the EBDT was basically naked, he didn't really fit the salvaged, "at war" theme I've been running with, so he got some serious armor treatment.
Using Privateers Brown/Aluminum stuff to get those hard edges, He was given various plating, a helmet with straps and chin-plate, belly plate and an assortment of straps. The long greenstuff strap was rolled out and flattened, then after fully cured, cut and wrapped from the front of the torso, under the arm, and to the back plate.
Once again the rivers were done with a mechanical pencil tip (I have a metal 0.7mm that is not too thick on the end so it really gets a clean press. The buckles on the helmet were done following the tut for buckles NQ47 IK Gobber article.
Really excited in about getting some paint on this one and have had a lot of positive feedback already on this guy. Mostly because he looks like a linebacker ready to demolish whatever finds itself in front of him.
Just got my Thumper crew in the mail too along with matching dice for my .45 fury tokens. I always have to have swirly dice apparently. These are the Gold Leaf Gemini 16mm from Chessex.
Until next time!
As the EBDT was basically naked, he didn't really fit the salvaged, "at war" theme I've been running with, so he got some serious armor treatment.
Using Privateers Brown/Aluminum stuff to get those hard edges, He was given various plating, a helmet with straps and chin-plate, belly plate and an assortment of straps. The long greenstuff strap was rolled out and flattened, then after fully cured, cut and wrapped from the front of the torso, under the arm, and to the back plate.
Once again the rivers were done with a mechanical pencil tip (I have a metal 0.7mm that is not too thick on the end so it really gets a clean press. The buckles on the helmet were done following the tut for buckles NQ47 IK Gobber article.
Really excited in about getting some paint on this one and have had a lot of positive feedback already on this guy. Mostly because he looks like a linebacker ready to demolish whatever finds itself in front of him.
Just got my Thumper crew in the mail too along with matching dice for my .45 fury tokens. I always have to have swirly dice apparently. These are the Gold Leaf Gemini 16mm from Chessex.
Until next time!
New Trolls!
Recently I decided to take a break from my Circle and work on some new
stuff. I had bought and painted a Gunny model some time ago. I wasnt
satisfied with his paintjob so I stripped him down and repainted him.
Then I realized how much I like Gunnbjorn and said screw it, Im making a
Gunnbjorn force.
Mind you, none of these are finished, hell, most of them are just a basecoat of brown, but I figured I'd get this up and going.
Gunny himself, on a new spiffy base..
The brown is Vallejo's Dark Rust and I decided to do the skin not as blue, going with a base of Greycoat Grey and adding Trollblood Highlight to it as I lightened it up (can be seen on the face.)
The big thing I wanted to do with this army was theme it with a very Gunny/troll trencher look. So many of the models are sporting salvaged armor and clothing, such as these Fennblades.
The rivet bits were done with an empty mechanical pencil.
The Impaler sports some salvaged rockets strapped to sticks, taking a page out of the Deliverers' book. The rocket bits were taken from 40k Orks.
The Axer's face was bulked up (couldn't stand the metal ones face) and
he was given a Cygnaran Defender's cannon. Ok, he wasn't given it, he
ripped it right off.
I was a bit disappointed upon getting the plastic Diretroll kit to find that the Bomber was the same as the metal. So I went ahead and used those new gorgeous Mauler hands, now hurling a scrap metal bomb (an 40k Ork wrecking ball). The pyg's face was covered and helmeted due to some pretty nasty mold lines along his mouth/teeth.
Lastly, to unify my theming, I made some custom tokens/markers/accessories.
Gunny's Rock Wall template:
Spell and animus tokens, made from plasticard and Fury tokens, made from 45 casings.
Much more to come in the future! EBDT and Swamp Gobbers are being built as we speak! Enjoy folks!
Mind you, none of these are finished, hell, most of them are just a basecoat of brown, but I figured I'd get this up and going.
Gunny himself, on a new spiffy base..
The brown is Vallejo's Dark Rust and I decided to do the skin not as blue, going with a base of Greycoat Grey and adding Trollblood Highlight to it as I lightened it up (can be seen on the face.)
The big thing I wanted to do with this army was theme it with a very Gunny/troll trencher look. So many of the models are sporting salvaged armor and clothing, such as these Fennblades.
The rivet bits were done with an empty mechanical pencil.
The Impaler sports some salvaged rockets strapped to sticks, taking a page out of the Deliverers' book. The rocket bits were taken from 40k Orks.
I was a bit disappointed upon getting the plastic Diretroll kit to find that the Bomber was the same as the metal. So I went ahead and used those new gorgeous Mauler hands, now hurling a scrap metal bomb (an 40k Ork wrecking ball). The pyg's face was covered and helmeted due to some pretty nasty mold lines along his mouth/teeth.
Lastly, to unify my theming, I made some custom tokens/markers/accessories.
Gunny's Rock Wall template:
Spell and animus tokens, made from plasticard and Fury tokens, made from 45 casings.
Much more to come in the future! EBDT and Swamp Gobbers are being built as we speak! Enjoy folks!
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Party Hard: Trollblood Family Reunion
The great Trollblood commission is complete! (for now at least). A fairly large commission model wise, the bulk of this is for the Kegslayer Family Reunion list. I will not that I did not assemble the models, albeit a few conversions and fixes.
-Borkha and Keg Carrier
-Calandra
-Dire Troll Mauler
-Dire Troll Bomber
-Storm Troll
-Pyre Troll
-Boomhowler and Co (10)
-Trollkin Champions (11) (Two Min, 1 Max)
-Krielstone Bearer and Stone Scribes (6)
-Trollkin Champion Heroes (2)
-Skadi Bonehammer
-Stone Scribe Elder
-Stone Scribe Chronicler
-Trollkin Runebearer
-Gatorman Witchdoctor
The client wanted his trolls green. I wasn't too keen on it initially but I found a good color scheme and it finally warmed up to me.
One of my favorite sculpts, Borkha Kegslayer and his little keg carrier. The commision was to be tabletop quality (as seen later with other models) but I gave these guys a little extra love.
I also did Calandra, though it is for another list.
Next, the Dire Troll Mauler (the old metal sculpt).
The Dire Troll Bomber is one of my favorites from this commission. A last minute experimentation after some discussion about a future Mountain King project, I decided to experiment with some water effects to have some spewing beer from one of the kegs.
The Pyre Troll and Storm Troll.
Here's where it really became a grind: The units. Boomhowler and Co, a good deal of Trollkin Champs, and Stone Scribes
Friday, December 6, 2013
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