Community Spotlight: Painting Picks – Sci-Fi Warriors, Shambling Undead & A Monstrous Beast!
August 26, 2016 by brennon
It's been quite the amazing week for us here at Beasts Of War as we've seen some brilliant examples of your painted miniatures popping up in the Hobby & Painting Forum. With that in mind let's take a look at what caught our eye this week...
Undead by dogma2097
First up we have these brilliant Undead miniatures by dogma2097 which look like a great skirmish force led by a deadly 'Horned One' as he has called their leader.
He hasn't just been working on Skeletons however but the Mantic Games range certainly looks good when it has been painted up with such skill.
As I mentioned above he has also been working on some other Undead creatures too as he picked up some of the Zombies from Mantic Games too.
This is a great looking paint job once again and dogma2097 has put together a nice scheme which looks dead, rotting, decayed and most of all fearsome.
Fallen Frontiers by doctorether
Leaving Fantasy behind for a while we're looking at the Fallen Frontier miniatures which just made their way to backers of the Kickstarter. Here we have some of doctorether's amazing work on the ARES characters...
...and their loyal soldiers too.
The green and gold is looking great and with the muted tones across the miniatures it gives them a comic book feel which I like.
He's also been working on one of the Riff characters, Sihlas Fenn, who looks brilliant. I reckon if I picked up this set I'd have to grab this faction for my own.
I think this miniature range is going to be fantastic as it grows. Each of the factions are soon going to be available which means we'll see a lot more of them popping up in our forums hopefully.
Deathwatch by irishsteve
Lastly for the painted section of our forum visit we're checking out some of the Deathwatch Space Marines from the Overkill game within the world of Warhammer 40,000.
As I've mentioned before Deathwatch Space Marines are some of the best miniatures to paint within the Space Marine line-up by virtue of the different Chapters they come from and the more personalised armour you get to play around with.
irishsteve has been tinkering away on his collection with some great scenic bases and loads of effort put into bringing out the detail from each of these characters. Antor Delassio looks fantastic and I don't normally like Blood Angel characters.
I really like the extra effort that has also gone into showing off these characters. The cool sayings from the Space Marines speak to their way of fighting.
Infernal Golem by deaddave
Away from the painting awesomeness we've seen here today there's also some fantastic conversion work going on too. See what you think of this creation by deaddave.
As you can imagine this is a fantastic beast shaped to fight alongside the rest of his creations battling as the Minotaurs.
Now that is a massive mess of machinery and awesomeness that we can't wait to see painted up. deaddave has shown off that he's been tinkering with the undercoating so hopefully it won't be long before we get to see more progress pictures.
Don't forget to get your own work into the Hobby & Painting Forum as we love seeing what you've been working on.
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Well done everyone I look forward to next week.
This week’s pick is amazing !!!
It is getting better and better every week, soon it will just be weekly golden demons ha ha!
The quality is pretty insane 🙂
Huzzah!!!
(Shoulda lit it better in hindsight! 😛 )
Look epic all the same bud 😀
BoW Ben
Loving the paint work on the minis from “dogma -doctorether and irishsteve”, but the “Deathwatch” just pip the other two to the post for me.
Now the conversion piece, is one hell of a mini well done deaddave. As I like to do conversions more than painting minis, i sometimes end up with piles of minis waiting to be painted. Gonna have to start to post pics of stuff I’ve done over the years, once I have dug them out that is.
Those fallen frontiers miniatures are just incredible!!!
Love the colour scheme!!
Cheers. The Riff are coming along. I should have them all done by Monday before I am away on a conference. My also do the Sayx characters too.
Awesome stuff everyone! Thanks for the share! 🙂
nice brush work guys and the conversion is epic.
Some really inspirational stuff here, thank you to the posters for sharing, it makes me want to work at being better
Those are wonderful looking undead @dogma2097 🙂
Thanks, needed some baddies for Frostgrave encounters. The Horned King is a repainted Pathfinder soft plastic blind pack figure (resin, white metal, a Jedi craves not these things)
@warzan @brennon cheers for the shoutout guys, and you’re right Warren, my bass is in need of a new set of strings lol.
I love the intro of community spotlight awards. It’s just one more nugget of motivation for people to get their hobby on! I’m also looking forward to hear about the bootcamps tomorrow. I enjoy the frenetic energy you guys get, and capture with the preamble to the bootcamps. Some day, Jen and I hope to visit and see you guys again!
love the painting folks & the golem is and looks a beast.