Community Spotlight: Historic Holland, Superheroes & Villains + A Samurai Clan
September 1, 2017 by crew
We take a look at some more of your epic hobby this week and give out some more delicious golden buttons. They're not chocolate I'm afraid but, they are filled with kudos and goodness!
Make sure to check out the forum links below and add your own work to our Hobby & Painting Forum and maybe you'll get yourself featured!
Historic Holland by piers
First up we're taking a look at what's happening in World War II and Historic Holland thanks to the work of piers. Now, this is a fantastic tabletop showing off a superb recreation of Europe during the period and perfect for some close quarters fighting.
While we've mentioned above that the tabletop can represent Holland it is meant to be generic enough to cover most European landscapes during the period.
It breaks down into tiles which can be assembled to create a 6x4 or an 8x4 landscape and the terrain itself, for the most part, drops on - meaning you could quite easily store this too.
The way that this table has been put together is fantastic and the attention to detail in the gardens, around the streets and into the fields is superb. The difference in flock and texture for the grass also feels very natural and of course, there's plenty of mud!
Now, of course, we need to know what kind of scenarios are going to be played out on this table!
DC Heroes & Villains by mage
With the Batman Miniatures Game getting a revamp soon it seems like mage has been inspired to paint up some of the miniatures from the DC universe. Picking out a couple of them from his thread we start with Batman, themed after the version from Batman Vs Superman.
Going for some ace dark greys and black for Batman is the way to go if you want to make him look intimidating. As it's based on the movie version the scheme is rather fitting. Of course growing up during the 90's there's occasion to like the lighter grey and blue of the cartoon version!
Next up we have the Gotham Butcher who is part of the Court Of Owls. The bodysuit for this particular model looks great and when mixed with that dark bronze combines together to create a fearsome scheme.
The bronze work, in particular, is something we wanted to highlight here as it really makes the miniature pop. There's a realism to the metal which works nicely against the exaggerated features of the Butcher.
Last but not least we have someone away from Batman's main sphere with Deadshot.
Done in the classic scheme rather than what you might have seen from Suicide Squad we think mage has captured the look of this antihero quite well. The details a bit more muted on this figure however and maybe it could do with another level of highlighting to bring it to life.
Either way, it's nice to see more of a focus on these individual models that allow people to focus their attention and look beyond the tabletop standard for units or rank and file.
Okubo Clan by alfonsothetraitor
Last but not least we return to the world of historical gaming and Test Of Honour. Here we have alfonsothetraitor's work on his Okubo Clan army sporting some wonderful bright colours.
The first thing that struck us when we saw this was the wonderful use of banners to denote the different units. Over on the thread above you can get a closer look at what they all mean but it's a beautiful way to present the miniatures.
The scheme as a whole is also really nice featuring some bright blue and yellow across the board and a more muted landscape to help make them pop. It's nice to see more of these Samurai armies coming to life and maybe it will spur Lloyd on to make his own army finally!
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?
Congratulations!
The city board looks amazing. It makes me remember a mission I played in Brothers in Arms, I think it was in Brothers in Arms it could also have been Call of Duty or Medal of Honor.
Anyway it would be ideal for some Bolt Action.
Hey look @piers remember how I said if people could see those pictures maybe people would give it a few more likes… Nah me neither 😛 Congrats man Congrats to everyone @mage I really love that I wasn’t the only one to love your stuff but I was the first one to like it I have video evidence too 😛 ha ha 😀 well done 😀 @alfonsothetraitor you forget how colourful history was when you think period pieces, historicals, and so on you get trapped in a mind set and seeing this well it’s just beautiful 🙂 Well done everyone… Read more »
Thank you very much Caladrors The beautiful colors is why I love the Feudal Japanese period all those bright colors and the beautiful banners and that armor I mean what more do I need to say. Its awesome!
That Holland table looks amazing. I can almost hear the A Bridge Too Far soundtrack. 😀 Well done @piers !
Great DC figures and very interesting Japanese “Test of Honor” figures as well! 😀
Stunning work, and a beautiful board Piers! I suspect there might be a Battlegroup leaving the garden and heading to the market…
Thanks guys. To be fair a big share of the credit goes to my mate Russell who scratchbuilds alot of the buildings.
Wow great job guys and Piers top dog as always !
Congrats guy`s, very well deserved golden buttons.
@piers : Liking the historic Holland table, i can see lot`s of house to house……..garden to garden ………garden to house carnage going on, and having a friend who scratch builds does have it`s advantages.
Thinking on, the Band of Brothers box set would work nicely on that board.
Ah this was a nice surprise to wake up to! Yeah I check BoW when I wake up, I’m awesome like that
Thanks @caladors ! There from the start lol. I like that you weren’t the only one to like my stuff too! 🙂
@piers – that table is amazing bud.
Have an itch to build tables for Bolt Action and Team Yankee at the moment myself…. just need to find some space for storing them….
Absolutely gorgeous projects. Thanks for sharing them, and congratulations 🙂
Wow, thats a table you really want a game on. Very nice!
And since I’m Dutch myself, I can confirm that it gives a very good Dutch feel/vibe. It can be anyplace in Northern Brabant, Arnhem or even northern Belgian for that matter. And thats where all the figting took place.
My compliments.
Yes Warren or @Warzan some Samurai did use 3D Sashimono such as Okubo Tadayo (1531-1593) Now that was his personal Sashimono , If you goto Steel Fist you will find a set of 3D Sashimono ( back banners) for there 28mm line of Samurai miniatures. The 3D Sashimono’s where not common to be honest they are probably rare. I must say the first time I saw this butterfly Sashimono in Osprey’s “Hatamoto Samurai Horse and Foot Guards 1540-1724″ page 51 I fell in love with it and I wanted to make a model with it. Thanks for the thumbs up… Read more »
I want to say thank you to the Beast of War team for awarding me with my second Community Spotlight and the best thing it was for my work on Samurai again, thanks everyone =)
Nice models! I’ve linked this post in my article about the Gotham Butcher, because the individual forum the images belonged to, disappeared –
https://alkony.enerla.net/english/the-nexus/miniatures-nexus/miniature/miniature-figure/raging-giant-gotham-butcher-for-the-batman-miniatures-game-from-knight-models-miniature-figure-review