Community Spotlight: Animal Priests, Piles O’ Corpses & Shipshape Sloops
June 29, 2018 by brennon
Come and delve into some awesome forum topics and Projects from the website today. Make sure to check out the links for the various winners as they allow you to learn a lot more about their work.
What are you working on right now?
D&D Tortle Cleric by lightsout1985
The first piece we're going to look at is this awesome D&D character created by lightsout1985. Here we have an animal-based Dungeons & Dragons character, the Tortle Cleric.
The model stood out for me because of the wonderful way that the skin has been painted on the model as well as the awesome shell scheme too. That is all without looking towards the awesome seaside base that has been crafted for the model.
It's nice to see that someone has gone outside of the box when it comes to designing a character for use in their role-playing games. We have seen a lot of Elves, Dwarves, Humans and the like but it's often a good idea to expand and homebrew your own characters too.
The miniature is from the Dark Sword range and it is very much worth delving into the rest of the collection to see if something catches your eye.
Corpse Piles by moji
From something quite fantastic we have the rather grim Corpse Piles by moji here.
The Project has been focusing on showing just how these piles of corpses have come together, introducing the skeletal remains as well as more grisly looking parts like dismembered legs and arms. There's even a bit of blood slopped onto the ground there too.
This is very much an interesting prospect for your bitz box. They are being used as markers for the Shadows Of Brimstone game but you could use a similar technique if you were looking to expand on your range of bases for a particular chaotic force in your Fantasy games.
Blood & Plunder Sloop by danny
Last but not least is an awesome Sloop which has been fully painted and rigged by danny here.
The finished miniature is superb with intricate rigging, wonderful sails which feel like they've just been freshly attached, and the flag fluttering in the breeze behind the mainsail. You can see some of the early stages of painting behind the rest of the ship down below too.
The rigging has come across very well and I think it ties the entire ship together well. The big bright colours on the sloop very much set it off but I think this photo above shows off how a wash will indeed tie the whole thing together.
We love the aesthetic and world of Blood & Plunder because it truly is one of the best games for living out that much more realistic piratical/privateer fantasy on the tabletop.
This is a very cool project and I hope to see more of his painting as he works through some of the other models for his Blood & Plunder collection.
What Are You Painting Right Now?
Every week we’re absolutely blown away by the incredible topics that are put into the Projects, 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?
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fabulous work folks loving all the extra details in the projects now the sloop is looking brilliant danny.
A great variety this week, and some great skills on display – well done everyone!
Great entries as ever. On the ship, the rigging takes it way above “tabletop”
I agree that this ship is beyond ‘tabletop’ standards. Beautifully done!
I’ve thought about doing the same to a couple of my ‘Blood & Plunder’ ships, but always stop myself as all the extra rigging will make moving the minis around on deck and absolute nightmare, “at lest for me and my usual players”.
More great painted minis, well done guys. The Turtle Cleric by @lightsout1985, is a very nicely painted D&D mini and the beach base finishes of very nicely. The Corpse Piles by @moji could be used in many different games, The Walking Dead…..40k…Warhammer…D&D to name but a few. Very well done. Im loving the Blood and Plunder Sloop done by @danny, its a nicely painted and the rigging must of taken quite a while. Its one of the things thats always put me of doing the old sailing ship`s, but seeing the Sloop i may consider looking into giving it a… Read more »