Honour

Dear readers,

i am very proud to announce that Xyston Miniatures published a gallery in which my Thracians have found a place. Thank you Guys!

http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Xyston/index.php?main_page=page_2

Regards

Basic Impetus Fantasticus Giant WIP

Hey Folks, this time i have just an older WIP picture for you. My study keeps me on edge at the moment. The picture shows my association of a giant. Tall, big body, small brain but when he strikes there will be nothing more than dust left over. The miniature is Harry potter plastic kid toy which i bought at the bay for just a few pounds. The toy was able to move legs, arms and his head but i glued everything in the position shown on the picture. I will need to fill the gaps, paint him in a human flesh tone (although the blue flesh looks cool too) and will add some gimmicks ad his belt like a dead cow. And he will get a pulled out tree in one of his hands. But enough words - here is the picture:

I love his facial expression :) ... For scale comparison i made this pic:

The Helbardiers look really tiny compared with him! This modell will be the eye catcher of my army and i can't wait to paint him!

Does anyone of you have a nice idea where to buy or to find a dead cow modell?

I hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are welcome too :)

Basic Impetus Fantastikus Charakters

This time i have done two splendid characters. On the one hand an evil looking character. A witch, riding on broom, looking for a victim to cook & eat :D ...

.. a WIP pic...

... and on the other hand the good charakter. A glorious, honourable, magnificent Knight, riding his battle horse with a huge magic lance called "Dragon slayer" - Yeaaah!!!

I painted the Knight in 2001 and the witch in 2000. Now rebased, they will serve as powerful elements in my Impetus Fantasy army. Overview:

Comming soon on derFigurenschieber: Knights on foot element for Impetus! The current status:

I hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are welcome too :)

Basic Impetus Fantasticus again...

Next elements done! Bowmen and hellbardiers. Enjoy.

First the WIPs of the bowmen...

...and the hellbardier WIP...

... and the done elements:

At last some impressions about the current status of the project:

Now the kingdom is strong enough to clean the land from evil creatures (in the background of the pic) :)

I hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are welcome too :)

It's getting HotT in here..

Hey folks, had some time for rebasing old models to new systems. This time for Hordes of the things. I have a lot of old 2007 painted High elves which will serve in my Elvesarmy now. The army will consist of the following elements:

1x Magician
4x Spears
4x Shooters
1x Beast
1x Riders

I started the rebasing with 3 of 4 spears. At the moment the Elves fight withput shields. I have now idea how the shields should look like. Do you have an idea?

Instead of my normal basing i have added some green gems to the bases. Do you agree that they apply to the base or will blue gems be a better contrast to the "green" base and cloth of the elvish spearmen?

Next is my magician base, painted in 2004?. I have no idea were the wizard is from but his attitude looks pretty nice to me. Always with him, his little helper "booky" :) First WIP Pic, then the finished pic.

Next are two earth elements. A beast element, but just WIP. Models are from Ral partha. I tried first OSL= Object source lightening in order to demonstrate the magic enery of these but i am not pleased with the result. But watch yourself :)

When the base is finished i have done half of the army = 24AP. Damn - light velocity for me :D

I hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are welcome too :)

Trees, trees and more trees again

In adddition to the pictures yesterday i made some of my trees too. All tree are made of real branches & wood. In my opinion the most realsitic way to create model trees. For foliage i used NOCH foliage dark & bright glueing them on brown coloured steel wool. For scale comparison on every picture is a 28mm Foundry miniature. I am very pleased with the result but take a look by yourself:

This one is made of a small dead bonsai tree. My favourite.

Every tree is based on a compact disk in order to be used as movable terrain like i did for my 15mm DBA armies. For example take a look on the wood on the right:

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask via comment.

I hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are welcome too :)

Wheat fields and bushes

Not having much time at the moment i try to fill the gap with making pictures of stuff i did long time ago. Today: "Wheat fields and bushes". Both are made more than one year ago. For comparison there are some 28mm Miniatures from Crusader and Foundry.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask via comment.

I hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are welcome too :)