Sunday, October 14, 2012

Halloween countdown pt.2

Okay folks. Few months ago I visited a wargames store in Joensuu, Finland, and I decided to buy those new GW paints. I only bought 2 of them and I felt embarassed because my shoppings were so tiny (finnish mentalitet I guess?). So, I also bought this Vampire Counts Necromancer which indeed is a cool mini, even there's not that much detailing or muscles or spikes or any other annoying things - only the huncbacked black magic expert.

Two days ago I raided my bitz box and found some of the Giant kit's parts, for example the running peasant and that giant's fist holding another peasant. I chopped the excess away and look at that, here we have some zombified peasants! Jolly Good!
 








 As you can see, the corpses aren't rotten yet. Fresh victims of the plague or whatever!
 Eventually I found some use for the tiny mice from the Hellpit Abomination box. Boy they are small critters....

I did this piece in the atmosphere of waiting Halloween to come, and that's why I used retro colours and tried to make this scene a bit funny too. The red eyed mice... Maybe they are the ones who are using black magic there and the hunchback freak who likes skulls was just walking buy and saw this resurrection? Who knows.


I'm lucky to have this size of candle holders - a bigger round base fits there almost perfectly. 


13 comments:

  1. Excellent stuff, your talents grow by the month. I really like all the extras you have incorporated, your mini tells a little story and exudes atmosphere. Top banana!

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    1. My humble thanks to you for your positive comment! It's nice try out new things instead of getting stuck in doing only Chaos or general mess with this hobby. This piece is my first dioarama and I had hard time thinking how to make this size of base big enough to contain all the things I wanted. Next one will be better then!

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  2. I love it I love it I love it! 'nuf said =)

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    1. Thanks man! :)

      It truly is a a nice sculpt, and I see many hobbyists have used this Necromancer for astonishing conversions, as you have done in your blog. Maybe I'll buy another one and convert it into something nice...?

      But yeah, thanks :)

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  3. Nice dank atmosphere about it! Well done :)

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    1. Thanks Laughing Ferret! I hope that the 'joy of painting' can be seen in this piece :)

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    2. Dank - excellent word damn you Ferret ; P

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  4. A beautiful display piece...

    I love the gritty, dark atmosphere of it.

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    1. Also thanks to you!

      As you said, my first concrete display piece. Almost every miniature before this have had the normal bases so you could use them in games or put in regiments or whatever. Here I even painted the little base what comes in the Necromancer sprue, but eventually I swapped it to this bigger diorama-base. It was fun to build.

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  5. You've really brought out the small details the book, the stitching are all wonderfully rendered.

    Great job - clearly your break did not diminish your panting!

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    1. Thanks! Stiches were experimental thing to do, and I'm happy they turned out nice quite easily. Also painting the whole leatherish robe was fun!

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    1. Karmea perse hellalla!

      I mean... Nice to hear that! ;)

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