After painting many Darklands barbarians and Confrontation barbarians I decided to paint something completly different. After looking in my figure stash I decided to paint Kurgan the barbarian from Black Forest Miniatures 🙂
The figure is made of grey resin and the quality of the cast and details is very good (comparatible to Mierce Miniatures ones).
I did not use bright colors, except for blood on his axe 🙂
I promise you that my next mini wil be really sweet and will have nothing to do with barbarians!
It’s really refreshing to try something new, my choice went for 15mm miniatures from Blue Moon Manufacturing . The made a game called Chaos in Carpathia. The producer describes this game as …
Chaos in Carpathia (CIC) combines fast-paced,
skirmish-level miniature-battle action with a detailed
campaign system. The game is designed to simulate
clashes between men and monsters in the Victorian era.
Following in the tradition of classic tales like
Dracula, the Werewolf, and Frankenstein, CIC allows
players to fight epic battles pitting heroes against
villains.
Here is some progress I am making on painting my little, 15mm war bands. So far I’ve got some vampire slayers and werewolves ready. Next will be vampires and zombies.
Chaos in Carpathia, 15mm, Miniatures from Blue Moon ManufacturerChaos in Carpathia, 15mm, Miniatures from Blue Moon ManufacturerNuns, full with faith and holy waterSir Alfred, Vampire slayerWerewolf pack leader
To rest from painting brutal barbarians, I decided to paint something sweet and innocent – Anwyn, female bard from Reaper Miniatures. However I didn’t escape completly from the drunes, as I painted her in similar colors – such a habbit…
The mini was sculpted by famous Werner Klocke – you can see his style clearly.
Do you remember the Emperor’s Children chaos space marines that I have been showing in various WIP phases for the last few weeks in various places, like my facebook page, Chest of Colors fanpage, or my Instagram stream?
Now they’re done!
Emperor’s Children, Chaos Space Marines of Slaanesh
Though I must say I am very happy with the results, the road to this point was quite long and bumpy. Still, I am glad I finally made it! 🙂
Emperor’s Children – working on bases
As you surely know, I tend to think about my models a bit in a storytelling way. There are no random poses, every model I am building is representing something – a situation, a state of mind, an image I’ve seen… So while building this squad I had some interpretations for every model forming in my mind.
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Maybe you remember that I initially planned to paint the unit in metallic variant of its color scheme, which unfortunately didn’t work as well as I expected, so I needed to start over and try some alternatives as far as concepts and color schemes go.
Emperor’s Children – early concept version
But finally I have something that both I and their new owner are happy with. 😀
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Decisions… decisions… decisions – choosing style for Emperor’s Children
There were quite a few conceptual debates and choices, but with two defining guidelines I knew I would use freehand paintings similar to those used on my Decimator Engine, that can be seen in my gallery of Warhammer 40.000 models. Of course these would have to be smaller and more subtle, but this tip was enough of inspiration to make me know in which direction to go.
Emperor’s Children – almost done
The other suggestion was to use the sticky slime/gore/goo/blood technique that I used on my Contemptor Dreadnought. The technique is based on what CUKIERas showed in his tutorial about creating sticky blood effect, but I use it also for things other than blood. At this point I didn’t know what it was going to be, but I was nearly sure it wouldn’t be blood. We’re talking sci-fi here after all, so we can use various alien or demonic substances of various colors.
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After adding the slime it was all about testing a few color options and interpretations, and finally I chose to go for white, spiderweb-like substance. Now they’re fighting their way through a dangerous alien or demonic world, which is not a hospitable place even without its inhabitants.
I have some individual photos of the models, so I hope to share them with you pretty soon, but in the meantime let me return to working on a group of Daemonettes of Slaanesh… 😉
I hope you liked the results of my works.
Thanks for your attention. 🙂
