The Legend of Vox Machina - Critical Role - Steamforged Games

Hello Everyone!

To celebrate the ending of the first season of the Critical Role animated show "The Legend of Vox Machina" I decided to finally paint the remaining two miniatures from my Vox Machina set I got from their Kickstarter some years ago.

I only had Keyleth and Percy left to do, but those were probably also the most challenging of the lot.
Yesterday I stayed up to 4.30am to get Percy finished and some pictures taken, ready to post for the release of the last 3 episodes of the show, and also happened to be at the time of the live stream, so that was quite fortunate.

Overall it was a lot of fun painting these, even though I would have wished for them to be cast in a better material than this soft board game plastic, as it doesn't hold detail too well. But nevertheless, I'm really happy with the result I was able to achieve.

During my painting sessions, I spent a lot of time scouring the internet of other people's versions to get some inspiration on how others had painted certain parts of the miniatures, but I couldn't find too many good pictures of all angles of the model. So I hope the pictures below might be able to help others out in the future :-)

Grog Strongjaw

Keyleth

Percy

Pike Trickfoot

Scnalan Shorthalt

Vax'ildan

Vex'ahlia & Trinket

That's it for today, I'd highly recommend checking out "The Legend of Vox Machina on Amazon Prime if you like Fantasy and/or DnD

Until next time
Chris

 

Horus Aximand - Lux Thantor Miniatures

 

Hello everyone!

Two posts in two days!? that's just madness! But it's true I assure you :-D
So while painting the Forgeworld Praetor I also worked on this custom sculpt by Lux Thantor of Horus Aximand, based on the book art of the Horus Heresy book "The Either" by Graham McNeill.

Together with a few other enthusiasts in the community, we commissioned this model and had it cast in a very limited quantity afterward (with permission of course), so this model is not available for purchase and probably never will be. This is not a 3d designed model but a traditionally sculpted model (proof) and it's absolutely fantastic.

It was such a joy to paint up and I only did minor alterations on the miniature before I started painting it. Painting wise there isn't much to report, as I painted it exactly like I did on the FW Praetor I posted about yesterday.

Anyway, I really hope you like it as much as I do :-) here are some more pictures of the finished model.

Until next time
Chris

Sons of Horus Praetor - Forgeworld

 

Hello everyone!

It has been a while since my last post, so first of all, I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Newyear!
Even though its been a while since I posted, I have been doing quite a bit of hobbying over my Christmas break, working on some new version of some already existing characters in my Sons of Horus army. So first up is my second version of my own character Anaxis Pythees, which was actually the first HQ model I painted for my army, if you go back through my posts you'll find it somewhere in 2017 I think.

This model was actually gifted to me by a guy on Instagram, for the sole reason that he wanted to ensure I got around to painting it. Never had that happen before, but it was really generous of him.

I did some minor conversion work on the mode, primarily on his right arm which was cut into several pieces and then pined and green stuffed together again, to get a better angle for the sword (which is from Conversion World). The model is painted in my usual scheme, but like I did with Maloghurst I did some more brush highlighting in the end instead of just a simple edge highlight. I'm overall rather happy with how this one turned out and I'm really looking forward to painting the Terminator Praetor!

Anyway, enough talk here's a little 360 view.

New vs. Old

Until next time
Chris

Carcharodons Tactical Squad - #Badaboner

Hello everyone!

I just noticed I had completely forgotten to post about this project on the blog, but I semi-recently did this squad of Carcharodons for a community Badab War project.
Nothing really special about them, other than I tried using some Tortuga Bay Truescale bodies which were very fun to paint as the proportions and size are a lot better than some of GW's older Space Marine models.

Also tried to practise using Chipping Fluids as I was planning to use that on my Secret Santa project as well, so this seemed like a good place to test.

Anyway, enough text here's some more pictures.

Cheers
Chris

Sons of Horus Praetor - Model Swap with Simon Elsen

Hello everyone

So recently I did a little collaboration with Simon Elsen on Instagram. He wanted something like Falkus Kibre in Power Armour, so that is what I tried to do. I used some of the new Chaos Space Marine bits, a few 3d printed bits and some Heresy bits to create this model.

I haven't had the time to take some good pictures of the model he sent me, but I'll have to do that soon.

Anyway here are some more pictures.

Until next time
Chris