Community Spotlight: Sylvaneth, Infinity Soldiers & A Beastly Dwarven Army
June 26, 2019 by crew
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.
Sylvaneth Creatures by chis
We're starting off with a selection of painted miniatures from chis. I have always wanted to make a Sylvaneth force but never took the plunge. However, the work from chis is seriously pushing me towards ordering some!
The first of the miniatures that caught my eye was the work on this Branchwych. The colour scheme chosen here looks wonderful and really gets across just how good wood can be! I love the shading and the addition of those spots of colour across the model which help give it a bit of life too.
The Sylvaneth have also got a seriously 'wild' aesthetic going on and so I like when we see a link between these animated guardians and the world around them. You can see that here with the pink matching the grub behind the Branchwych and the pink flowers chosen to build up the base.
Things get even cooler when we see this addition to the force. I love the look of the Kurnoth Hunters in Age Of Sigmar and I think this paint scheme, once again, does a really good job of bringing them to life on the tabletop.
The warm wood matches well with the brighter colours that are dotted around the model and I think the fresher greens help to give additional accents to the model. I think it's great choosing green for the bow as it immediately hints towards why it's so bendy, a young sapling used to craft a mighty weapon.
I cannot wait to see just what's coming up from chis as this project develops!
Infinity TAK Squad by jockjay
We're wandering into the world of Infinity again this week as we look at the work by jockjay. This was a painting project fuelled by a love for an entirely different Infinity faction. So, these TAK soldiers have been painted up with a hope of selling them on in order to fund the addition of ALEPH forces to jockjay's collection.
This set of miniatures is looking rather bloody awesome I think you'll agree. I love the bright greens here which match really nicely against the tan. Whilst this is a Cyberpunk world, these troopers have been painted as if they are getting down and dirty on the battlefield with the rest of the front line soldiers.
Whilst it feels like a quicker paint scheme I think you'll agree that this works really well. The details have been picked out and the guns have had that extra level of attention. I paint mine and they always look like toys!
The impressive work continues as we look towards this fellow too, armed and armoured for a big ol' scrap. The lighter green here is a good choice as it helps to make the walker stand out on the battlefield.
I mean, this is a pretty massive model so it does that anyway...but this is a very cool way of making it pop. The use of choice metallic spots across the model is also a nice way to draw the eye to the deadly weapons and such.
Hopefully, this set gets sold and he can move on to ALEPH in the future!
Beastly Dwarves by aurorainbag & halfmileduck
Last but not least we're coming to the work by not one community member, but two! You might have noticed that Warren is getting some cool Dwarves for use in his SAGA: Age Of Magic games and they have been supplied by both aurorainbag and halfmileduck.
The Battle Of Skull Pass proved to be the focus of their work over the first couple of weeks as they painted up the Dwarves from this old Warhammer Fantasy Battles set. Both the painting from aurorainbag and halfmileduck has been included in the project you can see linked above and they've done an awesome job of making sure that they both stick to a similar scheme and level of detail.
As I've sid before on other shows, as long as you get the beards right on a Dwarf you're going to get a good looking miniature at the end. I think that I can safely say that both painters here have done an amazing job on this army so far. We're seeing a lot of work on war machines, heroes, regular soldiers and more.
With folks working away on armies for Lloyd, Warren and Gerry they clearly need to get a game of this on camera now right? With armies coming out from the nooks and crannies it would be great to see them clashing on the battlefield so we can see the work of our community put to the test!
I have this set of miniatures and it was a great way to get stuck back into Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Purple is a great choice here as it helps give this force a royal feel whilst also being a nice colour which stands out on the tabletop, especially against all that steel and bronze.
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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!
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Oof, cheers for the nod, realy appreciated. Love the sylvaneth here.funny you mention the aleph, managed to finish them about 10 mins ago. Will pop em on now, if my poppy phone let’s me
Those Sylvaneth tree people are out of this world, i like how the browns and greens come together. Then we have the addition of the bright colours, which IMHO really finish of the mini
s and give them that finishing touch. Well worth two golden buttons..............
The Infinity Tak squad look amazing, i like the way the colours blend together and work well with the sand coloured bases…………….
Lovely painted Dwarves and painted by two different people, nicely painted and nice to see some old mini`s given a second chance……………..
All round, three very well earned golden buttons.
Thanks! <3
love the work folks.
Great job all!
Nice Infinity painting!
Thanks bud. Comments like this keep us all going. Wish everyone all the best in their gaming endeavours
@chis those creatures look amazing !
Well done everyone =)
Well done people. Beautiful work.
@halfmileduck I am seriously impressed with your work. I had it easy, I just picked colors. The fact that you’ve been able to color match your batch so well is just incredible. Thanks so much for working with me on this project. It’s a joy and an inspiration.
Thank you @aurorainbag I have always been a massive fan of your work and was honoured that you let me work with you on this collaboration. I can’t wait to see how the whole force comes out and would love to see them on the table in their glory!
You know Tony…we have to go visit OTT and get a game of Saga in ourselves at some point. Would be fun trying to play with our army. It might even be big enough that we can do some kind of 4 man game, with you and me playing the dwarves.
That would be amazing, definitely up for that at some point although I hate to think how much it would cost for you to get there!
Maybe I can hide in the box o’dwarves when I ship that one 😀
Wow, thanks for the kind words! It’s a great motivator.
New post with more pictures going up shortly 😀