My Painting Blog... Ostermark-ish! (BSB on demigryph WIP, Feb 29, 2024)

[anvalous]

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]

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]

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

[King]

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]

Ooh these are very nice  :eusa_clap: Looking forward to seeing both your Hochland army and this one progress

[Ulricsberg]

Superb painting skills.  :eusa_clap:

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

[spite]

Thats a Lion on a Dragon, thats awesome.

[Sandor]

Superb painting skills.  :eusa_clap:

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

I didn't Even noticed that he doesn't have wings  :icon_eek: Im getting old or need new glassys 

[anvalous]

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]

Great technical skill and awesome points.

How many lion chariot box sets have you bought ?

[anvalous]

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]

You must really like lions.

Brilliant stuff!

[GamesPoet]

Outstanding concept and very well painted! :icon_biggrin: :icon_cool: :eusa_clap: :::cheers:::

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]

WOW!!!! :Ohmy:

[noibn]

Amazing!  :Ohmy:

[anvalous]

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]

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

[anvalous]

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

[Zak]

wow realistic paint job dude!! :biggriin:

[Porkix]

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

[anvalous]

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

Swordsmen of Hochland

[DariusZero]

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

[Auberoun]

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]

Thanks guys!

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

[Kirgan]

I like that but change a pic's  :biggriin: