Mini Exchange 8

Sent to "TAB Studio" (Florida):



Gabrielle and Xena (Ground Zero), Bruder Gustav (Ilyad), Midori Monk (Reaper), Crested Felldrake (Chainmail), Nurgling (Games Workshop; not shown)

Received from "DrEvilMonki": Nothing :(
After his repeated inquiries whether the package had arrived... it did not. It just vanished somewhere between GB and here :( Such a shame. So instead I'm going to paint something sent to me in a previous exchange by Valloa.

The King
40 mm

"And slimy things with legs did crawl, upon the slimy sea"

Great Cthulhu
65 mm



If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings... It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence...
— H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

I only pray that when the Old Ones return, this insignificant tribute is recognized and I am one of the first to be devoured, and thus spared the witnessing of the world consumed by insanity.

EDIT: My fellow blogging painter Javi is clearly trying to curry favour with the Old Ones too...

Old School

More eBay goodies, these babies date back to 1988 or so. I guess I'm a sucker for oddities...

Dirty Fighter

Nurgle Champion



Beneath a sky of maggots I walked
Until those maggots began to fall
I gaped at God to receive my gift
Bathed in maggots 'til the planet sh*t
- GWAR, "Maggots"

Nurgle is the Chaos God of disease, contagion and decay. His followers wallow in a lethal miasma of filth and infection, spreading death and hideous plagues everywhere they go. Over them all, Lord Nurgle gazes lovingly, bestowing his vile "gifts" upon his favoured Champions.

(a companion piece to my Chaos Space Marine of Khorne)

Nurgle Champion WIP

I'm actually close to done this guy:


Cheeky bastard!
I need to finish all the brown leather and bone highlights, and fix my initial attempt to paint a "rusty" sword with sharp, shiny edges.

Here's my test piece for that rusty sword, using this 9-step method:

Armour

I forgot to post this when I finished it...

SdKfz 231 Armoured Car
60 mm long



A German heavy armored car for my bro's Flames of War army. I have to get back to doing MY miniatures some time...

Small offering

WW2 Russian Army Commissar and bodyguard
15 mm



Commissars were political officers responsible for maintaining loyalty in Russian Army units. Their methods ranged from shouting motivational slogans in battle to purging "counter-revolutionary" officers and machine-gunning troops who retreated against orders. Not one inch of Russia to the Fascists!

I'm still alive...

Green-Yellow
6"x6"

Working...

A few things I'm working on right now:



Nurgle Champion and Cthulhu. I might enter the former in the Toronto Golden Demon competition in May if he turns out well.

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Some more 15 mm WW2 stuff: a German 8-rad armored car and an Allied Universal Carrier.

Lord of Rot

Chaos Champion of Nurgle
35 mm



Got this guy on eBay, his tab says "1988" so he's a little bit vintage. I'm painting him as a devotee of Nurgle, the Chaos god of contagion and decay, and I've sculpted a plague base similar to this one.

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Also, some 15 mm bailed-out vehicle crew markers for Flames of War.

No Guts, No Glory

Chaos Space Marine of Khorne
32 mm



The last advance
One final chance
It now shall be... no guts, no glory
- Bolt Thrower

The savage warriors of the Chaos God Khorne seek only to kill and destroy in his name. No quarter is given and no retreat is possible, only merciless battle to the death appeases the Blood God.

Fun guy to paint :) As mentioned below he is from the bits box at the gaming store, the only thing I added was the sculpted skull on his shoulder pad.

Chaos Marine Update

Did a bit of work on this guy:



Metallic paints are just great. I don't think I will ever switch over to exclusively nonmetallics, no matter how good I get at using them to render "shiny" metal surfaces.

More Eeeeevil

Chaos Space Marine
32 mm



One of two Chaos Space Marines I assembled with stuff I dug out of the Kitchener game store's "bitz box" of spare mini parts. He cost $1.50 total (plus tax).

Tiger, tiger, burning bright... (and Cthulhu)

Tiger 1E Tank
70 mm long



I painted up a Tiger tank for my brother's German army. What a beast, probably the most dangerous tank of WW2. Named "Lucil", probably after the tank commander's girlfriend (well, actually I named it after the musician Lederhosen Lucil).

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Cthulhu



Added some more colour to Great Cthulhu. Pink and green are not easy to use together, they just feel wrong. Which is why I'm using them together on this guy :D

Cthulhu Update

Well I got the colour I wanted:



Basecoated with "Rotting Flesh" (pale greenish grey) and washed with green/black for that vile gelatinous look. This mini has a bounty of fine surface detail, I want to use subtle coloured washes to differentiate some of the swirls etc. around his skin.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Mummy
28 mm



All done, a quick and fun paint job.

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Cthulhu
65 mm




Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

"The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight."
- H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

Grr Argh!

Just a little something I'm working on... A mummy from the 80's Citadel board game "Curse of the Mummy's Tomb". He was supposed to have a cat... >:(

Dwarf - finished

Dwarf Second-Storey Man
28mm



OK, he's finished now. This guy was a lot of fun, he's a really cool character with all his thievin' equipment and aviator-esque goggles and the nifty rooftop base. Definitely a little different from my usual subjects.

Larcenous Intent

I got this guy in December, but I haven't really worked on him much until this week. I quite enjoy painting with earth tones, they can be so warm and varied, not "just brown". This paint job uses five different brown hues as well as dark green for the trousers.

Hot damn!

Cowgirl Sophie
30 mm



Just finished...