Author Topic: My Painting Blog... Ostermark-ish! (BSB on demigryph WIP, Feb 29, 2024) (Read 90993 times)

anvalous · « **on:** April 29, 2010, 04:30:01 PM »

This is more of a place holder for me. I've got 10 swordsmen sitting on my desk and a relatively open weekend. I also have that empire general to paint.

Scheme is going to be red and white dominant with green accent. Definitely a woodsy feel. Imagine a fortified logging camp at the edge of the wilderness and a similarly fortified manor of a little-known baron.

Pics coming soon, I promise!

anvalous · « **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2010, 04:36:44 PM »

Figured I should post something so you could get a feel for my 'style'. Here's some stuff from my lion/Narnia Beastmen army which is also in progress, though somewhat stalled due to a lack of motivation caused by a hard-to-like army list...

Also, I guess, my first real attempt at NMM, though I certainly don't intend to paint my Empire in this fashion - too time consuming!

Lion guy riding a dragon... yeah... Why not?

Rank and file Lion-O-Taur with GW

My Doom-lion as a WIP:

Painted:

Sandor · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2010, 04:51:17 PM »

Very nice conversions and paint job. Really like guy on the dragon

King · « **Reply #3 on:** April 29, 2010, 05:31:13 PM »

Cool and very original concept. I have never seen an army with this concept. Crisp & nice paint job too. Please show us more.

Immovable Object · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2010, 05:39:54 PM »

Ooh these are very nice

Looking forward to seeing both your Hochland army and this one progress

Ulricsberg · « **Reply #5 on:** April 29, 2010, 07:33:16 PM »

Superb painting skills.

But.... were are the dragons wings ?!?

spite · « **Reply #6 on:** April 29, 2010, 07:37:53 PM »

Thats a Lion on a Dragon, thats awesome.

Sandor · « **Reply #7 on:** April 29, 2010, 07:40:31 PM »

Quote from: Ulricsberg on April 29, 2010, 07:33:16 PM

Superb painting skills.

But.... were are the dragons wings ?!?

I didn't Even noticed that he doesn't have wings

Im getting old or need new glassys

anvalous · « **Reply #8 on:** April 29, 2010, 08:59:16 PM »

You know, its the kind of dragon that likes bounding through tall grass and leaping from rocky crag to rocky crag...

Thanks for the comments, guys! It is a fun army to work on. I have 3 lion-o-taurs with 2 hand weapons, 3 with great weapons, 3 razorgors, 2 of the big dragon riders, the doom-lion, 1 WIP razorgor chariot and 1 WIP ghorgon. It is the core units which will kill me... I am sculpting all of the gors to be satyrs. Means torso swaps and a lot of green stuff and filing down anything chaos-y...

I hope to be able add something Empire this weekend/early next week!

Finlay · « **Reply #9 on:** April 29, 2010, 09:13:27 PM »

Great technical skill and awesome points.

How many lion chariot box sets have you bought ?

anvalous · « **Reply #10 on:** April 29, 2010, 09:34:24 PM »

Thanks. I have purchased 4 HE chariots (all the chariot parts will eventually morph into Tuskgor/razogor equivalents) and 6 white lions in bitz form from Battlewagon Bitz.

The local Hobbytown owner thought I was crazy... "Why all the chariots? It is all you buy..."

Turns out I had the old metal minotaurs to hack apart for the bodies...

rufus sparkfire · « **Reply #11 on:** April 30, 2010, 12:45:04 AM »

You must really like lions.

Brilliant stuff!

GamesPoet · « **Reply #12 on:** April 30, 2010, 02:33:38 AM »

Outstanding concept and very well painted!

I noticed the dragon being wingless, but it looks good that way, and I'd call him a drake.

So is this army going to be run as Beasts of Chaos?

Looking forward to seeing the swordsmen.

Zak · « **Reply #13 on:** April 30, 2010, 12:35:15 PM »

WOW!!!!

noibn · « **Reply #14 on:** May 10, 2010, 07:27:17 PM »

Amazing!

anvalous · « **Reply #15 on:** May 11, 2010, 09:50:59 AM »

Thanks for the positive feedback, guys! I appreciate it!

A bit of a status update:

My wife and I are now proud owners of a new puppy. Good little dog, actually, but not quite trustworthy enough to allow him to romp while I paint. That said, I've made some decent progress on the swordsmen. I have a final highlight, or two, on some green ribbons, a top highlight on the skin once I figure out the tint it needs from the completed model, and my brown series applied (to boots, belts, etc.). All in all, I'm guessing about 3 hours of desk time remain.

Then it is on to get my greatswords on magnetized bases and ready for work... Exciting, isn't it?

I love this hobby....

Siberius · « **Reply #16 on:** May 11, 2010, 10:56:24 AM »

I notice there are no pictures of aforementioned puppy... I hope this shall be remedied in the very near future

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anvalous · « **Reply #17 on:** May 11, 2010, 11:35:24 AM »

Behold. Charlie! Adopted puppy, mostly schnauzer... we think...

Zak · « **Reply #18 on:** May 11, 2010, 01:35:28 PM »

wow realistic paint job dude!!

Porkix · « **Reply #19 on:** May 11, 2010, 04:44:02 PM »

I find the glow in the eyes a little bit unrealistic but it's still a beastmen army so I guess it's ok

anvalous · « **Reply #20 on:** May 18, 2010, 02:03:54 AM »

Sorry for the poor pics - babysitting my recently eunuch'd puppy...

Swordsmen of Hochland

DariusZero · « **Reply #21 on:** May 18, 2010, 07:29:45 AM »

Even in this poor pic they look very good: you don't usually see highlighting on rnf troops, nice!

Auberoun · « **Reply #22 on:** May 18, 2010, 08:00:09 AM »

Wow, lionmen, dragons, and empire in one thread...I thought I died and went to heaven. Ok, not quite, but your stuff is very inspiring. I can't wait to see more of each.

anvalous · « **Reply #23 on:** May 18, 2010, 12:23:38 PM »

Thanks guys!

@ Auberoun - See my monkey face standard bearer? Yeah.

Kirgan · « **Reply #24 on:** May 19, 2010, 10:31:11 AM »

I like that but change a pic's

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