SpectreEliteGaming

Woooh! Good idea. I already have them all in metal though. ? I suspect a number of them will look better than the metal version - I'm thinking "avatar" pandora in particular. Good choice on McMourning, Raspy, Hamelin, and Somer - some of the best sculpts you guys have put out.? You can only get them by playing? Boooo... I suspect they will be sold as limited editions later, anyway. ? I'd hate to see the gaming aspect take precendence over the hobby aspect - as it usually does. ? If hobbyists cant get their hands on these models witthout playing or ridiculous ebay prices that would be a shame.

Does anyone have a shiney Somer or Leveticus Henchman card they want to give/sell me?!? PM me! >8)

Cool stuff. Congrats to both - Curtis because he's a dece painter and Mason, mostly because he gives me free shit at every convention. ?

Only question that matters... Will this model be PVC? I dun liek PVC. /poutyface.

My bunny! YUS!!! I guess I can stop begging for that mode now... I figured it was only a matter of time - way too cool of a character to not have a model. Collection complete. And, of course, the top hat makes him sooooo much better. Very excited for that one.

"More Plug-Uggies than Levy Could Ever Need + Ima-Ho Zako: Complete!" I didn't have much time to think up anything too witty for this update so it will be a quick and dirty visual feast, as it were. I'm really trying to bang out my unfinished stuff as quickly as possible because I know that as soon as I start doing Kingdom Death, I am going to be invested in that for quite a while... and I still want to finish up an ultra premium big ass Chaos Dwarf BB display board for the following Adepticon in 2017. Finished off this ugly mofo just because it was sitting there prepped and primed on my to-do table for sooo long that I got sick of looking at it. I still think its just a generally ugly looking boring model so it'll just warm the shelf... especially when I've got a bunch of other, much much cooler options... Here is a proxy Desolation Engine from WWX to use with my eventual entirely proxied Levy (Albous Von Schtook) crew. He reminds me of the last boss from Borderlands 2's Hammerlock DLC - which is obviously super cool. I kept it simple with a typical Frankenstein + "blood, guts, and rust" scheme. His base is quite detailed so I kept him simple to differentiate. Lastly, I found the perfect model that exemplifies my love for taking everything to the extreme (which is probably why KD's "penis-lions and a million boobs all over the place" style appeals to me so much). Clearly, when you have a giant saw and drill arm - you also need two more arms for your laser and gatling guns. Uhhhhh... lets put an extra head on there too, or something = BRILLIANT! I've taken to calling this guy the "Entropic Siege Engine" and it would make a neat proxy thematically, if say - your first DE was killed and then reformed into something more powerful, or something. Otherwise, I was thinking I could easily use this as McMourning's Avatar - hence the simple industrial looking base that would blend in well with many crew schemes and the gold Master/Henchman/Avatar trim rather than the typical silver trim I use to designate enforcers. I loves me the mechanical horrors and I recently found that WWX has a suitable model for pretty much all of Levy's base crew - so an entire Levy proxy crew I shall make for an epic face-off... just because I can, and that sounds pretty sweet. Can you guess who I'd use for Rusty Alyce? >8) Okay fine, it wasn't "finally," because I promised finished pics of this little ol' lady. Math called me on my laziness of taking photos of shiney minis before they were actually done being varnished so I made sure to kill the shine but good this time... then forgot to add my dead grass tufts to the base before taking pics... siiiigh. Well, I'm not taking more pics, so tough. Enjoy. On the next update, I will probably be showing off the remainder of the metal mercenary models I stripped and repainted - and perhaps a few other random things I did. Its crunch time for Adepticon this year - so my main focus is getting that out of the way so I can just dedicate myself to KD soon afterwards. 'Til next time.

Double-post.

Kingdom Death! Yeaaaaaaay - I just got myself a late Kingdom Death pick up. Lucky enough to find someone willing to part with their kickstarter. Thanks for some artistic inspiration - time for some KD (don`t worry, they can be Mally-proxies too, right). Looks great always like your style because it stands out from everything else you see... like I`ve said 10 times before probably.

Okay, so I still really don't like it all that much but the more I look at it the more I feel compelled to paint it up DBZ style with floating balls. It would be a good challenge to actuallybe able to pull it off well. But then again... I have sooo much to do. :/ Too much cool stuff coming out I think.

Sold. Not a very good model for gameplay but will look great warming the tray.

Good catch, yool. I'm indifferent to this one - moar dragons and all that. Not interested personally but it does look good. Need to base that bad boy with floating dragon balls otherwise not worth it imo.

That's a lantern?!?! I thought it was a jar or something... sheeeeeeeeeeeit... too late now. I follow Bohun on CMoN like he is my god and a lot of his skin tones are rubbing off on me... especially the gory messy ones and ones that look rotten or infected. Regardless, proper use of purples and greens seem to be your best friends when shading (no freaking clue how that works - remember I have no real background in color theory or even art what-so-ever) - to get the skin looking almost transparent or membrane-y you need to apply the the absolute thinnest layer of a bright grey-white then glaze in a non-uniform almost speckled fashion to make it look natural. Hard to explain. Her skin is red to separate it from the white face paint but i used the same idea - red is picky and honestly you kind of have to mess around with it again and again to make it work - a step forward and back over and over til its good, as it were. I actually didn't think too much about the color choice - I just wanted to do something brighter because I always do dark stuff. Do you mean that the yellow and pink clash too much because they are both bright? I did a google search for geisha source material and they wear some really bright stuff so I followed suit with that to pull off the funny "surprise" idea. Also, I brought the brightness of the yellow down quite a bit in the final piece... so let me know what you think when I post it. Finally, I wanted the dress, not Ama to be the focal point of the piece... not sure if that makes sense. I love the critique though, thanks. You are correct sir, and boy am I glad I did. Pro Tip: cut the ribbon in half after painting it up fully, just under the armpit location and reattach through the front and back, then touch up as needed. I did some random Asian looking freehand on the ribbon and if it was attached it would have been hell trying to freehand that in addition to the robe. Yikes. I'll be updating with the finished model soon-ish.

"Mini-Update: Ima-Ho Zako" Bumped from Page 1 already? I currently have a large amount of minis on the go and I am also finishing off a major project for Adepticon this year plus I am trying to finish off a "premium" Blood Bowl team before diving head-first into dedicating myself to Kingdom Death minis for a good while. I will, however, be doing Wyrd minis here and there still because I like to shake things up. Pro Tip: If you ever find yourself getting bored of hobby, the best thing you can do is shake it up a bit. I always have a healthy amount of very different minis from different companies in a queue plus terrain elements and a couple of "batch-painting" projects ready to go so that I can pick an choose what I feel like doing... otherwise, if I feel particularly crafty, I will just do scratch terrain or display making until I get bored and move back into painting/gaming. I find it pretty hard to burn yourself out this way because you have so much to do and all of your projects are all very different from each other. Example: I'm just finishing off a wave of Wyrd models I had in a queue - most of which were undead mechanical things. I like undead mechanical things as much as the next guy but it can get pretty tedious. So I went off on a tangent and finally put some paint on this chick. Going for a "Surprise! I'm not a Geisha - SWALLOWYOURSOULSWALLOWYOURSOULSWALLOWYOURSOUL" angle with this one. I really only use her with Daw but she doesn't get much play time at that anyway. I will be proxying her with a KD Watcher on a Graveyard base for my new JD crew anyway so this is just a model I did "for fun" really. The finished model will be in my next full update. I wanted to take a lot more WIP pics step by step but forgot. Thanks for looking.