Love on the battlefield

Love and death, actually.
Such a deep topic in art compositions of the past, being it poetry, painting, writing.
My much humbler view is the one I'm presenting today:

It will work great for a unit filler in a bunch of frenzied witch elves, maybe taking the place of the champion aswell.

I had a leftover Morathi model, for the pegasus was so trendy with the past armybook.
Also I got her on ebay for a bargain price, hence the black strips and bits.
She's also missing the left nipple. I have no words for describng such a shameful decision to remove it from previous owner. May Slaanesh get his soul! :P
Missing a bit of GS all around to fill some gaps and create a cleaved neck for the poor high elf.
And re-adding the nipple!

Hope you like it!

What bugs me more?

 Using the same technique for ooze of the previous post, I did a couple of bases for the bigger bugs of the swarm.

 Painted bases, without the glue.

Final results for the Canifex.

Final results for the Trygon Prime.

 RAWR!!

Enters the Swarm

After a day of rest, the slime on the bases got solid enough.
So i proceeded with glueing the rightful owners of those bases: the Tyranid Warriors and their Alpha Leader!

No tyranids were harmed in the making of these pictures. Few humans were slain, instead.

Tyranid bases, mud, water and a sparkle of a mage.

Over the weekend I've been experimenting a bit.

I went for a walk with a friend and, aswell as some fantastic pics like the one above, I ended up with some more gifts from mother nature. :D




So I decided to try and use some larch budlings.

I carefully (hehe.. yeah) removed them from their twig and glued them on a base, with not a proper plan in my mind beyond pure experimentation.




Next step was the addition of scenic sand but, while doing so, I realized what I was about to do: tyranid sporelings.
I was also planning to try some glues I bought a while ago, in order to achieve a muddy effect. So I had the epiphany: tyranid sporeling secreting ooze!

I approximately painted what was about to become the pit of the ooze puddle with a green mixture, then proceeded with the use of the bicomponent glue.

So I prepared a green/brownish mixture on a tinfoil, adding the binding glue to the mixture once the colour was of my liking.
Then I poured this "solution" on the greenish puddles of the bases, trying to cover the most of them up to the borders.
Finally I added the hardener part of the glue and mixed thoroughly, until the solution became slimy and sticky.

Before of that I added some silica gel spheres, in order to achieve a gas-bubble-about-to-explode effect.

Et-voilà! I'm rather pleased with the result.

Next: Trygon and Carnifex bases. ;)





While waiting for the basecoat to dry, I tried if such glue could be used for a non-slimy effect.

I think it does, with some more experimentations and further trials might work.

Needless to say, my mind is planning thousands of different uses for this effect. More will come!

Oh! But the most important thing: wooden mage has gotten a few colors. Still WIP, tho. ;)

 It's autumn!

Summer has come and passed,

the innocent can never last.

Wake me up when September ends.

It's halfway October and none came and wake me up!

So, instead of getting pissed, the other day I went for a walk and ended up gathering some rocks and tree branches on the way back home.

I have been planning an Eldar Exodite army since ages (pics will come soon, it's part of the reason of this blog's existance) and because of that I have some Wood Elf leftovers taking the dust.

But why start the actual Exodite Project when I can take a huge detour and start an High-Wood-Oriental-Elf themed army, postponing again the start of a cool work?



I have an old High Elven Mage, cheaply bought from a friend 6 or 7 years ago, sitting in the Wardrobe of Doom (TM) waiting for a better future.

 
Having another of these pretty-pretty-oh-so-feminine models painted with the traditional High Elven colours (on the right: I'll repaint her face sooner or later, I promise!) there was no reason to paint a copycat of the previous one.



 So, after a bleaching bath, I made her shine in her full pewtery glory once again.







I then decided to take her elemental base away -for a future project-
and make her stand on a tree trunk for a more dynamic stance.




 Next step consisted in adding some leaves on the floor.
I got inspired and put a twisted wire in order to achieve a kind of magical wind enveloping the caster.
Other small leaves were glued on the wire, trying to place the big ones close to the base and the small ones on the top of the wire.

There we go!

Painted pics hopefully coming soon!

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

There we go.
I finally decided to start my own blog.

I have not a clear idea about what I'll be writing, publishing or even how often I'll keep it updated, but in the mist of the future I can see a good presence of miniature painting and conversions, especially those belonging to Warhammer Fantasy Battles and Warhammer 40.000 game systems.

See you, until next time!


(and you call this a first post? meh!)