Community Spotlight: New Stormcast, Ancient Leviathans & Magical Potter Students
July 6, 2018 by brennon
Come and join us for another delve into the Forums and Projects to find the best of the best from the last week or so. We're going to be getting stuck into lots of great looking pieces this week...
...make sure to always let us know what YOU have been working on and share it across the site.
Stormcast Eternal Sequitor by brushstroke
We've got some great stuff to kick things off from the talented brushstroke who has been getting into the Age Of Sigmar spirit with this Sequitor model that he painted up for a local painting competition.
I think that the painting here is awesome, really showing off what you can do with the new Stormcast Eternal models when you branch out from gold. The new models, with all of their robes and such, really do allow you to get to grips with a lot more.
They might not be quite as easy to paint as the traditional Stormcast from the first edition of the game but they are a nice step up for hobbyists. All of the work on the armour, the robes, the shield, and the way the weapon has come together screams out that this is a top-notch job.
I like the little touches to the highlight on the cloak at the back. The more 'over-the-top' look to the Stormcast Eternals has been shown off here, giving them an almost comic book hero/cartoony edge which is interesting.
The base work is also great, showing off what you can do with a sculpted base. The fallen leaves give you the sense that she is wandering through a long forgotten part of the Mortal Realms. A superb job from brushstroke.
DreamForge Leviathan by hearne
Next up, we're looking at this hulking walker converted up for use in Warhammer 40,000 by hearne.
This is one of the DreamForge Leviathans that has had a bit more tender love and care put into the design to make it useful for your games of Warhammer 40,000. I like the battered and bruised torso and the weathering that has gone into that. Even the cream/white skull has been done fantastically so it almost looks like an actual skull rather than just part of the machine.
Posed as if it is striding forward it does look a little odd, but I think with a model this scale you can be limited in the options. I personally think I would have had the guns down low and pointing off in different directions as if it was providing a bit of covering fire onto different targets.
Oh, and fantastic work on the expended cases from the massive cannon lying on the ground. I wonder if those are proper bullet cases? The additional work modifying this to turn it into a piece for the Inquisition to use has to be commended finally - talk about bringing a gun to a knife fight!
Harry Potter Students by volleyfireandy
Last but not least we're looking at the work from volleyfireandy. He has put together a wonderful project showing off how to paint the different uniforms from Knight Model's Harry Potter Miniatures Game.
This tutorial takes you through painting the different outfits which are pretty tough considering they're a mix of greys for the most part. I think the little touches here and there have done enough to separate them up into their various Houses as you can see above with Ravenclaw and the like.
You can see it more on the members of Slytherin House below with the tinge of green around the robes.
A lot of attention to detail has gone into the faces here too which I think it great to see. You can really pick out their expressions. Once again, a lot of highlighting and focusing attention on the robes takes these fellows up to the next level and makes them pop on the tabletop.
Make sure to go and give the project some attention as he has gone to a lot of effort to show off the preparation of the models and the painting of them too. I can't wait to see more!
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Sweet stuff. I’m not a real fan of the stormcast models overall, but I like the rather conservative look on this sculpt. It has mor of a ‘standard’fantasy paladin vibe, which I quite like. And the paintjob is fantastic, wonderfully smooth colours.
The Leviathan is ace. Considering one myself for 4k as well. Eventually. Would’t go for the skull, myself, but it’s well executed and works very well for an inquisitorial machine.
The Potter mini’s. Yeah, well that queality of paintjob is just bad for my self esteem,, Bravo.
Dreamforge announced they have ceased production on ALL their plastic kits including the leviathans. If you want one better order before the remaining stuck is out.
http://dreamforge-games.blogspot.com/2018/05/where-to-go-from-here.html?m=1
I’d just heard that. I found that the weapons for their 15mm line of Leviathans works with the Imperial Knights. They make a good change of look if someone wants that. The 28mm models are just beastly huge.
Thank you… I wanted a clean and simple look. I do agree about the standard all gold scheme, really off putting
Awesome well deserved winners. Congrats.
Excellent work all around! Beautiful stuff.
Some really lovely blending there!
Wow! uh… wow. Thanks for the spotlight! Compared to the work out there, I’m more than a bit humbled. 🙂 And gee, there Ben, guess I will have to look at a possible repose for it! 😛
Thank you Ben, really appreciate the spotlight medal this week. Painting Sigmar Stormcasts was something a bit different for me and although I didn’t like the time constraints of the comp, I did enjoy painting the mini.
I can see me doing more Sigmar for sure.
Should find out the comp results today, so fingers crossed the voting public liked it too
Thank you gang, I’ll do some more guides on the project when I get the chance, might even try and do a quick and easy basing one today!
Fantastic work folk’s love the paint guide for the potter figure’s the other projects are brilliant aswell.