St. Cranium’s Reformation pt3: Ruined Cathedral

I painted a ruined church (sorry “cathedral”, la dee dah) and some walls while I was painting other St. Craniums and  EXACTAMUNDO pieces a while back.  The ruined church is a surprisingly bucket list item for me.

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St. Cranium’s Reformation pt2: Church

It has been a few years since I put together my St. Cranium’s graveyard terrain set.  Last year I decided to expand it out to cover a 6×4′ table, starting with a lot more gravestones. This church was the next step.

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The Lost City of Exactamundo Pt 9: Magewrath Throne

The final part of the Exactamundo project (for now) is what I think is the daftest terrain piece of them all, to date.  Which so far has meant that my gaming group uses the Throne more often than any other Exactamundo landmark.

You don’t have to be crazy to Magewrath here, but it helps !!LOLZROFLZ!!1!!1 Squee!! KTHXBY

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Compsognathus

Cute, man-eating dinosaurs, straight out of Compsognathon.  Maybe Continue reading

Marauder Flagellants

One of the many and varied reasons to love White Dwarf #127, these (mostly) Marauder Miniatures flagellants have been on my MILP list for a quarter of a century.
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Shardwrack Spines

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A very short post today.

Five Citadel “Shardwrack Spines” painted to look a little like space cacti.  I like the visual that these have, it’s nice for photo backdrops in addition to game terrain.  The paintjob was super rapid: spray cans, drybrushing and washes, with a little bit of blobbing on “Nurgles Rot” onto the bulbous areas.

The Ratskin shown will be posted in more detail with his buddies in a future post.


EDIT:  I have been asked for a description of how I painted these, so I am adding it here.

After assembling the pieces fully, the bases were sprayed with GW Mournfang Brown spray, while the models were held by the tips of the spines.  Little or no paint got further down the length of the spines than halfway.

Then the top two thirds or so were sprayed with GW Death Guard Green spray.

After that approximately a third of the top ends of the spines was sprayed with Army Painter Greenskin spray.

Once dry, almost the entirety of each spine was rapidly drybrushed with Citadel Eldar Flesh followed by GW Tyrant Skull (IIRC).

A few washes of Army Painter Green were added towards the top of the spines.  GW Niblet Green was drybrushed here and there, focusing on the vaguely shell like shapes that appear on the sides of most of the spines.  A little bit of an acid yellow colour with a bit of green in it was drybrushed on to those areas too.

The areas of bulbous growth were painted with watered down GW Blood for the Blood God, which dries with an appropriate, glossy, sticky-looking finish.  When that was dry a couple of coats of GW Nurgles Rot were added to the larger spherical growths.

The tips of the spines were painted with GW Agrax Earthshade a couple of times, focusing on less length of the spine each time.  The same thing was done with  GW Nuln Oil closer to the tip, until finally some thinned down Army Painter Black was used at the very tip.

A few brown tufts were added to the base to ground it further.

I hope that someone out there finds that useful.

Additionally Thomas at High Times on the Eastern Fringe put up a great tutorial on painting these before I painted mine.  Definitely worth a look if you have Shardwrack Spine painting in mind.

 

Choose Your Own Adventurers #15: Rex O’Thermic, Squat Engineer

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Assuming possession of two functioning hands, only a weirdo wears a single glove.

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The Lost City of Exactamundo Pt 8: Dragonfate Dais

Possibly my favourite piece from the current Age of Sigmar terrain range is this levitating sacrificial altar.

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The Lost City of Exactamundo Pt 7: Arcane Ruins

“”Allo [YOUR TOWN NAME HERE], ‘ow you doin’ too-niiight?!!!”

A versatile piece of slightly older Citadel terrain suitable for, amongst other things, miniature concert stage props.

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Rackhir the Red Archer


I started painting an Elric model earlier this year, but managed to finish his companion Rackhir first.  Elric still broods on my painting table, appropriately enough.
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