Community Spotlight: Sci-Fi Siege-breakers, Fantasy Adventurers & Magical Horrors
September 23, 2016 by brennon
We're diving into the Hobby & Painting Forum once again to take a look at what you've been painting up over the past few days. Without further ado it's time to explore the world of Sci-Fi first off and some Horus Heresy-era Space Marines.
Horus Heresy Iron Warriors By olliep
Olliep has been working away on these siege-breakers from the Horus Heresy. Equal in quality at blowing stuff up to the Imperial Fists they are a force to be reckoned with.
I really like the dark foreboding scheme of the Iron Warriors and it's highlighted here in a mass of metal and bronze. The touches of red across the armour help make the models pop as do the hazard markings across their shoulder pads.
A fearsome group of Terminators indeed. He has matched these up close and personal warriors with some siege weaponry worthy of any Legion. A trio of Vindicators are ready to blast holes in walls.
Once again we have a simple but effective paint scheme to take in here. It will look good on the battlefield, especially with those bright hazard markings popping up again, facing towards the enemy. I admire the neatness of it all and it's come out very well indeed.
D&D Adventurers By onlyonepinman
It's always been a dream of mine to actually get the time together to paint up my friends D&D characters for the tabletop. Well, onlyonepinman has done that for a range of D&D adventurers from a range of different sources.
Onlyonepinman has gone into detail about how he painted each of these heroes and the choices he made when deciding on colours and techniques. You can find his run down of the painting of the Rogue on the link above.
I think he's done a great job on these bringing out each of their individual characters. Mix that with the red tying them all together as a group and you've got a set of Adventurers that I would be proud to have sit next to my character sheet.
The Elf in the middle of the group with the bright cyan armour immediately caught my eye as I was looking through the forums. I love the contrast between the dark and the light - something that you can see throughout the group in actual fact.
Pink Horrors By caladors
Rounding things off for this week we return to The Silver Tower and look at some more of caladors work as he brings a selection of Pink Horrors to the tabletop for this dungeon delving adventure.
Some real effort and attention went into these miniatures to make sure the pink skin has plenty of depth to it. It looks very realistic even though you've got the additional cartoony edge to their presentation with the bright yellow as the secondary colour.
You can see it more here as we close in on a few of the Pink Horrors looking at the little details like the fire brewing inside their bodies - leaking out of their fingers. The bright blue tongues act as a nice spot colour too.
There's been plenty of amazing painting on offer here once again and you can, of course, share your own work by heading over to our Hobby & Painting Forum.
We love seeing what you've been working on each week so keep the projects coming and don't let those paint brushes dry!
What do you think of this weeks offerings?
"...you've got a set of Adventurers that I would be proud to have sit next to my character sheet"
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Wooh! I finally made it.
You guys like me you really like me 😛
Also I told you @onlyonepinman adding that colour to the base would pay dividends, and well done to @olliep as well 😀 Well deserved front place 😀
They look great mate. The bases add that extra bit that pulls them all together.
Thanks man 😀
It’s been a while since I’ve been featured lol. I think that partly to do with a huge slow down in the amount of painting I’ve been doing over 2016.
Congratulations to you as well onlyonepinman. Nice work and well deserving
Nice work caladors, Congratulations
Ah fame and fortune awaits…
Cheers guys 🙂
Congratulations =)
awesome stuff all 🙂
Cool D&D Adventurers! I may have to poach your blue armour colour scheme for one of my Zombicide heroes. 🙂
The Iron Warriors look like they mean business. How about some Emperor’s justice for the Xenos? No? Anyone want to fight for Chaos? Yay!
And speaking of Chaos, the pink horrors are one of my favourite Daemons of all time. They ain’t your average cute gribblies, no sir. They look epic. 😀
Thanks man, I am not sure if people picked up on it, but the ones that are shown in the close up are all conversions 😀
Beautiful work on those conversions @caladors. Had to look at the actual retail models to pick it. Very impressive.
@spaced2020 – these IWs are actually a loyalist faction from the Heresy, so more than happy to crush Xenos 😀
Well that’s alright then @olliep 😉
Congratulations everyone, well and truly deserved!
@caladors
Well done matey! Your ST stuff is really sweet!
Well, I’ll have to wait for my chance a little longer it seems 🙁
I am sure you will end up here soon 😀
Thanks for the complement on the Pink Horrors/Silver Tower stuff 😀
You need to put up more GW stuff as it seems to feature predominantly here
I think that’s just a product of GW being the most popular miniatures company. None of my miniatures are from GW.
The actual percentage of badges given to GW projects is about 33% at present.
Thanks? Ha ha.
I have a shop locally, there isn’t any Brick and Mortars that are near me that do anything else, but hopefully in a month or so from now I will be working on another board game 😀 Massive Darkness 😀
they all looking great folks job’s well dun.
At the risk of being modest, I think I was helped significantly by tbe quality of the actual miniatures. The Rogue, the Elf and the Paladin are all from Darksword Miniatures and they are nothing short of superb, some of the finest miniatures I’ve ever had the pleasure to paint. If you’re looking to buy Fantasy Character models either for an army or for an RPG I would say these are the go-to guys, even ahead of Reaper (and they also have a Miniature Finder similar to the one Reaper have so you can find the models that beat suit… Read more »
A very fine set of community pics, all of them worthy.
@caladors
Can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with for MD mate!
Nicely done @caladors !!
Thanks @wildchevy I am sure you will be here soon enough 😀
Well done everybody!
@olliep Yours is one if those paint schemes that makes me want to find out more about a faction.
@onlyonepinman It’s been a pleasure watching these develop.
@caladors Well done mate! That much pink could’ve finished up as an angry blancmange but you’ve brought them to life beautifully.
Thanks man, @seldon9 I know I was pretty done with monocoloured models after that ha ha. And now I am kinda missing them with how much work I have had to be putting into the recent Silver Tower models ha ha
I will have to try out that blancmange now 😛
Thanks mate, always good to inspire someone
Congratulations guys!
Very well deserved
Really like that this has become a regular feature, so much inspirational work