Brothers in Art

And here's my latest entry for Brush Slave League 2013/14 - round 5.

For this round I chose to do my two Pickford Artisans. The first one is the Dwarf Artisan commissioned by the Collecting Citadel Miniatures (CCM) Yahoo! Group in 2010 - the other one is the LE Mad Painter BSL Prize miniature I had John doing last year.

The CCM Dwarf Artisan is a stonemason and comes with a work in process Dwarf King bust, but as the Mad Painter comes rather naked, I felt I had to come up with an idea for some "artwork" for him. I decided presenting him as a miniature painter and needed to find someting for his "Golden Demon" contribution. Had to be something Pickford and something small, so I picked a spare Foundry Imp/Familiar from the UND014 - Vinegar Tom pack based on a "plinth".

Brothers in Art

CCM Dwarf Artisan and bust

Clam Minis: BSL Mad Painter

Wargames Foundry: UND014 - Witches Familiar 

And like always, when using scenery bases, they come from awesome Fenris Games.

Bits and bobs

First off, a big welcome to Phil Hynes and 'rampant_goat'. Glad to have you here and I hope you'll enjoy your stay - and find something you like - not many zombies, though ;-) And then again ... I do have some Paul Muller Zombies from Heresy ... hmm! - a new painting project, perhaps ..??

So a new year has started, and things are back to normal. So, there has actually been time to get something done. Played with a few plastic kits, too! My son is now 8 years old - and has a growing interest for wargaming. GW 40K,though - and more precisely Orks. We build a Deff Dreed together - and after that we also did turn a Skaven Doomwheel into something Orkish. Can't hardly blame him. Been there myself - but hopefully he will mature - like Dad did :-)

Back on topic and back to today's update which is a mix of things I've done within the last few weeks.

First thing I want to show off is one of the awesome Sea Demon's Paul Muller did for Andrew Coleman @ Four A Miniatures. The Sea Demons are such wonderful sculpts. Paul did a great job sculpting them and he is one of the best - when it comes to creepy/weird/evil/cruel stuff.

Paul has done four Sea Demon for Andy (3 Warriors and a Sea Hag). All showed at the Frother's Unite Forum - but only two off them are up in the store, for now. Nagged Andy a bit, and he was so kind to let me have all 4 - plus a 5th Paul Muller Sculpt called a Piranahboy - not sure if he is an official part of the Sea Demon series, but the name surely indicates that. All the other 4 are now primed white, and will probably show up here in the weeks to come.Here is the first one:

Four A Miniatures - Sea Demon

Next, we have another Grenadier Demon. Some might remember that I entered a Grenadier Demon into the 'Paint a Classic' @ Miniature Heroes - but I've also painted a second one - as a test piece to improve  highlighting reds.

So, first we have the MH 'Paint a Classic'-entry and then the new 'blood demon':

Grenadier Models/Mirliton Demons

Last, I want to show you my entry for the newly founded Otherworld Miniaturs Forums Painting Challenge . Have had these miniature standing on my desk primed and ready for painting for quite some time, now. Been wanting to paint them for a long time - but always got distracted and did something else. But now was the perfect time - and rather speed painted them too. Took me about 4-5 hours to do - and think I came up with a rather decent result. So here they are - my two new Otherworld babies:

Otherworld DM18 Rust Monsters

 

 

The Rust Monsters are another John Pickford creation. John has done an awesome job on these metal eating creatures. They are like a 3D version of the artwork from the 1st ed TSR Monster Manual. These here, from Otherworld are very close to those Citadel did in their ADD range back in 1986 - but are much bigger and have a lot more details added - so if you are into Original AD&D Miniatures these two Otherworld babies are a 'must'.

And speaking of size. They are based on a 40mm display base (bevelled base). The inner base itself is a Post Apocalypse resin "topper" base from Ian Brumby's company: Fenris Games