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Post by Tim on Feb 3, 2013 21:48:13 GMT -5
Looks pretty sinister with that cape and sickle.
Another thing I've learned when taking photos of minis is you can never get close enough so don't try. Take a nice photo at about 12-18 inches away and crop. It's the Internet so you are uploading huge hi res photos either way so cropping is fine.
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Post by Dr Carnivean on Feb 4, 2013 22:03:01 GMT -5
February 4th[/u] Little background here, since the Beast has been stalking about my campaign world for the better part of 20 years now. I created the character for a Ravenloft scenario I wrote for the Dire Consequences gaming convention way back in 1996. The scenario was called "The Beast of Blackbark Ridge" and involved a killer who always struck on nights of the full moon in the Blackbark Ridge community. The inspiration for the look had come from a story in Batman comics where the Scarecrow was sending gift wrapped boxes to random citizens of Gotham (it was around the holidays). The boxes contained a death's head mask, which was coated with one of his chemicals that basically made the person go nuts. They would then don the mask and start committing random acts of violence. At the end of the scenario I wrote, the Beast is revealed to be a supernatural monster acting as copycat killer by donning the clothing and mask used by the original killer, who had been dead for years. He is destroyed at the end of the story. The nice thing about masked killers in horror stories is that anyone else can pick up the mask and continue on where the last guy left off, so the Beast has continued to pop up here and there in my stories over the years since. In 2002, when I started using miniatures in my campaigns, I made a mini for the Beast by converting a Heroclix Joker figure. It was servicable at the time, but I was never really happy with it, and so had intended for his latest appearance in the House on Blackbark Ridge game I was working on to sculpt a new one from scratch, since my sculpting projects had become more ambitious in the decade since I last took a crack at him. Here's the finished product. I'm pretty happy with how he came out. I gave him a maroon shirt and yellow gloves (nod to Stephen King's Storm of the Century) to give him a little color. The one downside to me sculpting from scratch is that, while I can get exactly the look I want, there isn't a whole lot I can do with the painting, because I'm just not near as talented at sculpting as the people who do it for a living, and so the details just aren't there. With stuff like the Masters of the Universe guys I've been working on, that classic He-Man musculature and the fur loincloths leave some pretty good opportunities for painting them up nice, but here there just wasn't a lot of that, so ultimately I had to kind of make a choice between having the exact look for the mini that I have in my head, or having the kind of paint job I can do with a Malifaux or GW mini. Still, like I said, I'm happy with how he came out, and who knows, in another ten years, perhaps the Beast will rise once again in newer, better sculpted incarnation
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Post by Tim on Feb 5, 2013 4:41:23 GMT -5
It make sense that your sculpt has so much character, he has so much character!
The touches of color really add a lot to the model. I don't think you give yourself enough credit, but do understand what you are saying about sculpting detail. I've found a few extra layers on those area really help to give the model the appearance of detail through paint.
Bravo on another sculpt painted!
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Post by Dr Carnivean on Mar 2, 2013 21:21:19 GMT -5
March 2nd[/b] More denizens of the House on Blackbark Ridge have been completed. When creating a haunted house in any kind of gaming medium, you want to have a whole ton of undead inhabitants with which to torment the heroes, and the easiest way to do that is to have the obligatory conga line of dumbasses who decide to live in the house after the first half dozen residents have been met horrible ends. And so with that, let the pants on head parade begin! First up (not in chronological order, but the order in which they got painted) are Ares the Ram and his band of thieves who had the awesome idea to have their hideout in a place everyone thought was haunted because, hey, it worked for the thieves in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. Or at least it did until this happened.. Although to be fair that only happened because the Sheriff of Nottingham, having just had to spend the whole of Die Hard acting opposite the guy from Moonlighting, was not about to be intimidated by something as mundane as a haunted forest. Your "ghosts" are no more substantial than your British accent, Locksley So anyway, in this case unfortunately for the thieves, the house actually did turn out to be haunted, and they all went crazy and killed each other, and now they roam the halls as flesh eating ghouls. I was going to represent them with a few of the many zombies I have in my horde, but then seeing Tim's Nurgle pics got me in the mood to make some new zombies, so I dove into my bitz box last week, using parts from the zombie kit along with some ghoul parts and some empire and chaos stuff to make these guys. It occured to me while I was building them that the zombie kit is the first modular plastic kit GW put out for WFB and the oldest still in print (I think it came out in 1998). The other two that came out that year were the clanrats and chaos warriors, and both of those have been retired. After that I think the next oldest are the Empire free company that were recycled from the Mordheim boxed set. Both are probably still around just because they're such great kits with so many uses. Since these guys all slaughtered one another, I want to have the cause of death incorporated into the models, to show how violently they died. I went for the gruesome and borderline absurd, with huge warhammers sticking out of people's heads and a guy with long spears sticking out of his chest. I was thinking about the movie Stardust where the princes were all killing each other off and then their ghosts were walking around with axes in their heads and stuff. From left to right we have: death by dagger to the heart, death by warhammer to the brain, death by battle axe, crazy paranoid SOB that murdered all his mates, death by footman's flail to the head (who is eating his own intestines by the way), death by machete, death by short sword through the chest, and death by a pair of long spears, also though the chest cavity
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Post by RodTheCid on Mar 7, 2013 22:38:40 GMT -5
hey! good to see you back in zombie paint frenzy again
are those in the last picture just painted models?
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Post by Tim on Mar 9, 2013 2:10:09 GMT -5
Death by flail, eating his own intestines, now that's my kinda model! As always excellent working converting and painting up these guys.
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Post by Dr Carnivean on May 21, 2013 12:41:17 GMT -5
May 21stWow, it's been over two months since I've actually finished anything. I know I have been doing a lot of painting though, it's just been that I'm kind of painting a bunch of stuff at once and these are the first that actually got to a completed stage. Anyway, here they are, the Skaven poison wind globadiers. I've been working on rat ogres and a huge plague monk unit at the same time, and I'm hoping at least one of those two units is completed by next week.
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