Community Spotlight: Desert Vehicles, Tyranid Monsters & A Medieval Castle
August 11, 2017 by brennon
A new set of awesome models for you to gawp at this week from the Community Spotlight. Here we have delved into the Hobby & Painting Forum once again and picked out some of our favourite projects for you to check out.
Take a look and let us know what you think...
Afrika Korps Vehicles by suetoniuspaullinus
Leading the way this week we have some more amazing miniatures painted up by the masterful suetoniuspaullinus. Here we have a selection of his Afrika Korps vehicles for battles in the sands of North Africa.
These models have been painted with the same care and attention that he always puts into his models and with added doses of character here and there drawn out through his techniques. Special attention should be given to the weathering that has been done to these vehicles which helps to give them a grounded place within the tabletop world of the mid 20th Century.
You can see more of his work here below showing off another tank as well as some more infantry figures and that wonderful truck.
Hopefully, we'll see more from this painting machine in the weeks to come as this Afrika Korps force takes shape. We're sure he would also be welcome to share any tips you might want to get out of him for getting the most out of your modern models.
Tyranid Carnifex by lawnor
Next up we're turning our attention back to Warhammer 40,000. As you might have heard it's having a bit of a resurgence at the moment thanks to 8th Edition and here we have a Tyranid Carnifex painted by lawnor.
The model is looking suitably terrifying. Whilst there's very little character in a Tyranid force, it being a swirling mass of angry limbs, you can see a sense of scale here in this model that would terrify the enemy as it approached. We liked that it's positioned as if roaring at the enemy, ready to smash its foes to pieces with those talons.
You can see a few more angles of this beast above and then over on the forum thread as well. It truly is quite the monstrous beast and these massive monsters are the reason you collect Tyranids. As focal points for your army, you don't get much better than this.
Motte & Bailey by hutch
Last but not least we have this Motte & Bailey which was built by hutch who has been showing off a number of different projects. This is how it looked in its raw state, cobbled together from plenty of wood and a healthy mound of foam.
From there it took on a dreary and suitably Medieval tone to its design and you could just imagine this sitting on a rainy moor after the events of 1066 in the Early Medieval period.
As quite a packed and closely defended piece of real estate this would be a fascinating piece of terrain to drop into your skirmishing games. You could have a bit of fun assaulting this with marauding mercenaries trying to get their hands on a noble's gold.
More images of this terrain piece can be seen over on hutch's blog HERE giving you a sense of its scale. It's great that it has the working drawbridge and that small space near the front for some combat inside the walls as well as out of it. Now hutch just needs to build the village that springs up around these castles and we'll have the makings of quite the impressive gaming table.
Show Us What You’re Made Of!
Every week we’re absolutely blown away by the incredible topics that are put into the Hobby & Painting Forum, it’s getting more difficult to choose Community Spotlights! We love your work and we hope to see a lot more of it in the future!
If you fancy getting your hobby fingers out and showing off your newest paint job, terrain piece or even greatest gaming achievement, we want to know about it!
We don’t mind if you’re a newcomer to painting or a veteran of the brush, everything you do inspires us to create more and more content together!
What do you think of the entries this week?
Well done everyone!!!!
@Lawnor !!! I hope they show off some off your work how you have shown the whole project from start to finish!
@suetoniuspaullinus when is your name going to become pronounceable?! Well done I think you may have the most community awards of any one know that takes some doing!!!
@hutch Love seeing you up here after asking about it 😀 that is awesome man!!!
Congratulations you deserve it!!!
Well done all round
For me the standout is the whole thing. The many parts as much as the assembled piece. I think its that that makes it interesting.
Well done all.
Keep posting, I love the WAYPN forum and seeing everyone’s efforts.
Nice work Andy. Loving all your DAK project.
Epic Afrika Korps armor. 😀 😀
Motte & Bailey by hutch = drool
well done guys cracking job.
Thanks @brennon and all for your kind words, best motivation ever!
I’ve got another Panzer primed and ready for tonight!
Need to start catching up with the infantry soon tho..
@hutch
Awesome castle..makes me want to leave the desert and paint Norman Knights man 😎
Loving the DAK
Need to dust off my Bolt Action stuff… but tempted by FoW… oh the curse of wargaming 🙂
a superb week everyone.
Well done to all the winners. I love seeing scratch build terrain going from unpainted to painted.
Absolutely amazing work. I really love that terrain piece. I shall have to try my hand at making one.
Wow I am stoked to be lucky enough to be picked for the community spotlight. Thanks for all the nice comments.
Don’t worry suetoniuspaullinus, a crusader castle is on the way to keep you very much at home in the desert. Fantastic paint job on the WW2 stuff, its like looking at the real thing.
Love the colour scheme on the Carnifex.
Grats to all! Fantastic work!
That castle is amazing!
Great work everyone! Got to say that Motte & Bailey is truely awesome! Very inspirational indeed