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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #100 on: October 22, 2008, 07:01:15 PM »
I just sifted through the images....


And I had to! I couldn't help myself! They are just sooo nice!!  :ph34r:





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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #101 on: October 22, 2008, 10:02:31 PM »
*screams*

That's so nice!
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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #102 on: October 23, 2008, 09:17:02 AM »
I think it's brilliant Shadowwolf - for a magic article, pictures with the lightening etc really enhances the whole presentation.

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #103 on: October 23, 2008, 09:24:03 AM »
I think it's brilliant Shadowwolf - for a magic article, pictures with the lightening etc really enhances the whole presentation.

More!

Couldn't have said it better myself !
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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #104 on: October 23, 2008, 10:11:00 AM »
I think it's brilliant Shadowwolf - for a magic article, pictures with the lightening etc really enhances the whole presentation.

More!

Couldn't have said it better myself !

Thanks  :blush: I'm not entirely satisfied with the first picture, but I might change my mind or the picture. I just might be forced to do a few more...

The dark picture would be excellent to use in the SUFFER Night Fighting article, as it clearly illustrates magicians Illuminating themselves. With Orcyboy's permission, of course.

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #105 on: October 23, 2008, 02:05:58 PM »
Well if you promise to do more that means I'll have more time to work on the text so I can blame you for any delay in getting the final product out... I like that idea! Yes, give us more!!!  :engel: :::cheers:::
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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #106 on: October 23, 2008, 04:49:53 PM »
Blech.

I only got one or two pictures in my first game of the tourney before the batteries died.

Here's my Arch Lector in Golden AoMI (dual hammers, in the center of the photo) fighting off some Beastmen with troop support



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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #107 on: October 23, 2008, 05:44:27 PM »
Ok, three more  :smile2:



Magic aura! Might change that into something more like white flames...



Magic missile fireworks!!  :happy: A little magic and enhancing of the highlights on the soon-to-be-fried-by-a-halfling-warp engineer! I kept the background already made for them.



Perspective depth darkening and evil eyes!  :-o I erased the bases as well, as they seem to come out of the soft hill so nicely. Surely a burial tomb underneath! Why they have imperial shields, though, is beyond me  :-D

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #108 on: October 23, 2008, 06:27:26 PM »
And just one more before I go to bed!  :smile2:

Beast magic! Bears anger, maybe? A pretty easy modification, a few highlights onthe claws and I tried a new technique for a brown aura. (Or he is using his beastialic smell to scare the ogre away! (Hence the ogre's grim face)  :smile2: )

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #109 on: October 24, 2008, 09:01:44 AM »
I've got momentum now!  :biggriin: Two more!


Not very much on this one, just a little Waaagh! energy :-)




Von Carstein marches his undead host to battle under the clear moonlit sky! Glowing gosts, light aura on all KB weapons, stars, moonlight and glowing eyes. Now who wouldn't die just to be able be THIS awesome?  :Ohmy:

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #110 on: October 24, 2008, 09:53:20 AM »
Dude, they look great! I lvoe the fireworks. Great job man, you're awesome!
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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #111 on: October 24, 2008, 05:08:31 PM »
Thanks, Obi!  :happy:

Well, one last... I decided not to pour more time into this image... It is after all only a low resolution internet picture.

But...


Did someone say IRRESISTIBLE FORCE?!?  :icon_twisted:



This is how Kentucky fried chicken was founded  :happy:

Ok, I found a giant lightning bolt I just had to use, and this was the last good pic to use it in. The mage doesn't seem like a heaven's one, but what the heck! Individual hand-made highlights on everything and some magic aura to mark the caster. And a huuuge lightning bolt!

This looks much more colorful than what you'd normally see in a situation like this (heck, you wouldn't see anything against that incinerated pillar of air!  :icon_eek: ) but bringing the image to such contrasts would ruin it, I'd say.

What are those vietnamese-looking guys in the left of the picture?

Ok, stamina at end and creativity burst satisfied....  :closed-eyes:

I can rest in peace... 


...for a while.  :icon_twisted:

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #112 on: October 24, 2008, 05:38:25 PM »
Righto. I'm right here with a few pics. A pity I didn't get the last wizard of mine (a Privateer Press lady Aiyana. Lovely model) to the shootings, since she's temporarily out of town, but I shot a some scenes of my two witches and the librarian of Arcanschloss. Too bad I don't have my beast army around here at home. I could've done some nice and epic mass scenes with the beasts and Grandbelos claching, or some beast/empire mage duels or something. These eight I took right now, though. I hope they'll suffice.

The first three picture a clash of warbands, where the ulricans don't like the presence of a mage in their forests, no matter how registered in the Imperial offices she might be. The Witch Hunters in Drakwald don't suffer the witches around, and the warband of mercinaries are trying to protect the magical embassador. With the aid of the witch's magicks they actually might prevail against the strength of the native ulricans, and even rout the mighty Ogre the wolfkind brought with them.
www.cabal-ostium.net/Kraus/Kuvat/Wizard1.1.jpg
www.cabal-ostium.net/Kraus/Kuvat/Wizard1.2.jpg
www.cabal-ostium.net/Kraus/Kuvat/Wizard1.3.jpg

These ones illustrate the forces of Grandbelos taking on with the forces of Chaos, dark folk, natural wielders of the winds of Magic. With the famous lantern of power the Imperial forces stand with a flexible magical defense and offense, depending on the situation. How would there even be a hope of prevailing against the magical creatures of Chaos without a skilled sorcerer with adept knowledge of the arcane?
www.cabal-ostium.net/Kraus/Kuvat/Wizard2.1.jpg
www.cabal-ostium.net/Kraus/Kuvat/Wizard2.2.jpg

This one shows how the Witch hunters of the Empire have to depend on the powers of the Wizards when confronting the daemons, beastmen and other sorts of foul creatures in their work. The mist makes for a perfect opportunity for an ambush..
www.cabal-ostium.net/Kraus/Kuvat/Wizard3.1.jpg

And, of course, some wizards work as librarians, and on many occasions the Imperial generals need the support of their scrolls of dispelling. Welcome to the wizard academy!
www.cabal-ostium.net/Kraus/Kuvat/Wizard3.2.jpg

Even mages have to be careful not to wander around on their own. Without decent support of the melee forces they are very voulnerable to enemy attacks... Better watch out.
www.cabal-ostium.net/Kraus/Kuvat/Wizard3.3.jpg

Not the best ones, I know. If you'd like some refining of the pictures or had some ideas what I could shoot next, go ahead and hit me. And I do have the original and non modified pictures on my computer, so if some modifications don't suit your taste (like a few being a bit too dark), please do tell. I could work that out.
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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #113 on: October 24, 2008, 06:13:28 PM »
Nice GIMPing, Rune! I really like your models! That female sorceress is fantastic!  :eusa_clap: I like the library!  :-D

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #114 on: October 25, 2008, 06:27:43 AM »
@Shadowwolf: Holy crap man, that's awesome :Ohmy: The Orcs vs Empire one is now my desktop background! :biggriin:

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #115 on: October 25, 2008, 09:33:07 AM »
Awesome Rune and shadowwolf. They're absolutely fantastic.
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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #116 on: October 25, 2008, 10:32:57 AM »
So, Perambulator, the pics are done :-) How is the writing going?

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #117 on: October 25, 2008, 11:44:10 AM »


My favourite of your pictures. Something that would make it that little bit more excellent in my opinion would be giving the necromancer glowing purple eyes showing that he is controlling the skeletons.
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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #118 on: October 25, 2008, 09:09:40 PM »
Hmm, I thought of that, but since he's a vampire he would either not need it, due to already being animated, or he would have blazing eyes much brighter than his minions. I figured he wouldn't need that, since he just is too powerful!  :happy:

But after all, he's a nechrach, and wouldn't need to hide in humanity. I think a pair of burning bright ees has been ordered!  :biggriin:

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #119 on: October 25, 2008, 09:32:04 PM »
Great work Shadowwolf, and now Rune too! Rune, where did you get the female wizard?
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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #120 on: October 25, 2008, 11:11:43 PM »
Great work Shadowwolf, and now Rune too! Rune, where did you get the female wizard?
Reaper Miniatures.

I'd also have the Privateer Press lady Aiyana as another wizard. I now have two witches and two sorceresses, so I'll have no trouble getting all the magic I need if I want to. A lovely miniature, but as said before, I lent her to another guy in town some months back. I actually forgot he had her. :-) I'll be getting her back very soon though, I hope. I'd like to try out how the mistress of Arcanschloss will do against other opponents than Vampire Counts, where my 5 magic levels didn't work well against the opponent's 9... Well, anyways. A lovely model.

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #121 on: October 26, 2008, 02:11:29 AM »
So, Perambulator, the pics are done :-) How is the writing going?

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #122 on: October 27, 2008, 08:21:59 AM »
C'mon Perambulator! We all know you are finished, but too lazy to upload it  :wink:

I updated the tomb priest with a better aura. The last one stunk.  :icon_redface:

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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #123 on: October 27, 2008, 08:26:07 AM »
The last one stunk.  :icon_redface:

Don't worry about it. So does the Tomb Priest....
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Re: Empire Magic in Action - Call for Pictures
« Reply #124 on: October 27, 2008, 02:52:36 PM »
Necromancer: *sniff, sniff* "What's that smell? Oh... Just troops..."  :biggriin:

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On the right only red, to your left all is white
Ev'ryone's holding, stay in the fight!
White to the right side, left only red
Run like the others, or you'll end up dead!
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