CRC’s Crazy Compendium 2; Eclectic Boogaloo
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About the Project
Welcome to the next season of the "most vaguely inconsistent extravaganza that no one really thinks about but if they did they'd be mildly misanthropic about it"! Following along from my last project, here you will find an array of things I'm working on from various games and companies. Hopefully we can manage a bit more variety than last time, but I have been slowly working through a significant backlog, so we get what we get. We think we finally got away from Spiny Norman, but we can never be too sure, so strap up and buckle in for the most ambivalent ride of someone else's life! For those who missed it, the last project can be found here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1533345/
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Updated paintjob for a big...kitten?
Not sure if a Puma counts as a ‘Big Cat’…it’s a big vehicle…and is named after a cat… Who knows; not I! Anyway, the old paintjob I had was a bit bland with no colours to really break up that slightly dulled down dunklegelb colour… It looked a tad bit boring…
Very dull... the colour was really more of a pale brown than a beige...The paintjob itself isn’t great. Realistically I should have done a full strip and repaint (and maybe I will later), but a nice update was something I’m happy with for now. The camo pattern here was just some Waaargh! Flesh stippled on to give a bit of a diffuse contact. It’s not perfect, but it works great for an ad hoc camo application in the field.
The rear ‘license plate’ (not sure on the technical name in English…let alone German…) may not be correct, but it sort of works for my purposes. Like I said, not a perfect paintjob (if you look closely you can see gaps and the underside is just awful), but good enough for now!
I kind of hate subassemblies sometimes...
Finally got my Victrix Honour Guard finished (after having them for about 2 years)! I built them as subassemblies so I could get the lining of the cloak and the legs painted relatively easily. Downside there is that it meant the shoulder over the shield arms had to be fixed on afterwards…and the seam shows… I did my best to ‘hide’ it by making sure that the gap wasn’t too visible, but I didn’t succeed very well…
I might need to drop some shade into the gap between the U and the laurel on the bottom of the shields just to break them up a tad...
A little blurry in this pic... Once I'm in a place with better lighting then the pic quality will improve...
Mainly stuck to 'canon' colours with a few tweaks. Added a red trim on a knee pad to tie to the 3rd Coy, and I painted the Crux Terminatus as stone because they should be stone!
And the Lloyd shot.A boring 'normal' Churchill without all the gubbins.
I’ve had this Churchill lying around for a while, so I thought I’d get it done. I have it marked as 4th Tank Battalion, Grenadier Guards, B Squadron. I was going to add a name, but I couldn’t actually find the list of names that are available for the other battalions in the 6th Guards Tank Brigade, so this is what we have. Went with plenty of mud, because that’s what an Infantry Tank SHOULD have!
The snowspeeder from the box beneath might show up soon, we’ll see. Hopefully these updates can get a bit more regular, but we’ll see.
"The Red God has his due, sweet girl, and only death may pay for life."
Jaquen H’ghar is next up. Didn’t take me too long to get him finished, but I almost forgot about his hair until I looked up what colour it was supposed to be in the books. Pretty pleased with the contrast between the more dour colours of his clothes and the brightness of his hair.
Not many details on HOW I painted these, but I’m just updating what I’ve been working on. Hopefully things can calm down a bit and I can get back to doing this properly… A possible pause on Game of Thrones stuff, though; I stored most of it at my parents place for a bit while I move flats at the end of the school year.
"The North is cold and hard, and has no mercy."
Been busy with schoolwork, but the next few posts are projects I’ve been doing on the side when I just need to stop looking at papers and numbers, so here’s the first; another Glover Outrider, now with more sword! He’s painted the same way just with a few changes to where some colours are used to give the impression of uniformity with variations.
The first mini I painted in 2022. Doesn’t look like it’ll be a productive year for getting stuff painted… More to come!
Been a while...I repainted a decal...it's something, right?
Been a bit tumultuous the past few months for me, and I haven’t got much hobby done, but this evening I got bored and decided to go back to the decal on the last mini I paints; the House Glover Stark Outrider. I swear it’s be more logical to actually name the factions after the regions…but I realise why they did it the way they did. Anyway, this is what the shield looked like before I started.
Just an old Imperial Fist symbol (or maybe an Imperial Guard tank?) I had lying around, but it's not a perfect approximation of the House Glover badge...
It should look more like this...so I improvised a repainting.
Started by dotting and dashing some Corvus Black (GW) into the palm area to give the impression of a mail glove beneath the actual gauntlet.
Then moved to picking out the gauntlet itself in Leadblecher (GW). I was hoping I could leave it at this, but the gaps between the fingers and other parts just looked too stark (no pun intended).
So to fix that I went back to Corvus Black to line in the segments of armour, which looks much better, I think, and cleans up the edges of the rather old decal.
And then added a few dots of Stormhost Silver (GW) on the metal to give a bit of pop. Not sure how well it shows up...And that is the total painting I’ve done for 2.5 months…I’m bad at this whole efficiency thing. Hopefully I can get more done soon, but no promises; uni is mild chaos right now…
'The wolfswood is full of danger; your last ride should have taught you that.'
Another mini down! Today is a Stark Outrider from CMON’s A Song of Ice and Fire Miniatures Game. Typing that out I can see why people use acronyms for things… Anyhoo, I made one modification to this chaps which was to remove the sculpted Direwolf from the shield so I could replace it with the fist emblem here so I could paint the chap up as a Glover. Technically I should paint the white portions of the decal in silver, but for now I’m leaving it as it is. This is also why the tabbard is scarlet. I like mixing it up and bit, and a medieval-based setting like this is a great opportunity to add heraldry in here and there. I like heraldic things.
As a small note, I had to mess about with the brightness to try and match the colour it ACTUALLY looks in person, but the lighting in my flat is terrible… I tried…
Beyond the heraldic colours, I tried to keep things a little more dour for the Northmen without resorting to blacks and browns on everything. While there are knights in the North, they are not that big on the whole idea, and even when they do get knighted they are usually not as affluent as the Southerners.
I went for the same colour pallette for the banner as I did with my Sworn Sword banner bearer because that's a good way of tying everyone together even when I go a little off-piste with the colours dotted around the force. Each tray of infantry will be tied together as an army by the flag if nothing else...minus the Umbers...but I'm pretending that I'm making sense here.
I also went for a bit of bling on the banner points just because they were looking a little too drab for a possible Ser. Went for a darker gold that is likely just a bronze or copper (though not really orange enough for pure copper and copper would make a terrible point). It's a nice spot colour, I think.
And the Lloyd shot! If you look carefully there is also the dreaded 'foot on rock', as well!No immediate plans for what’s coming next, but we’ll see what I have time for; school is getting a bit busy at the moment with it being midterm season… Happy Hobby, everyone!
Meet Elskling; She's NOT a Marine!
Her glorious hair wouldn’t fit in the helmet, for a start. But here she is! GW gave a name like Morgwaeth, or something like that, but Elskling is a character name I keep using in Warhammer Total War when I play it, so that’s the name I’m going with for this one. I have a Sorceress mini in the same colours called Cosmic for a similar reason…though I can’t type her original last name here… Anyway, silly names aside, this completes my Shadespire team for the Murder Girls which has taken a fair bit of time to paint 5 minis… I don’t recall if I started them in this project or last year’s project, if I’m honest. Anyhoo, here she is:
I really like the red and purple combination for colours on these ladies. The red is Khorne Red shade with Agrax Earthshade then layered back with Khorne Red and highlighted with Wazzdakka Red. The Purple is Xerus Purple shaded with Druchii Violet (approriately) then highlighted with Genestealer Purple.
The rocks on the base are something I'm aiming to make look like weathered obsidian, hence the vitreous lustre (see 'shiny') on there. It's a fairly simple basing and will eventually have some grass tufts put on once I get more of them.
She would have been a little easier to paint had I not fixed her hair in place before starting to paint...but I thought a snap-fit kit would be easier to pull apart once I'd put it all together and it wasn't...
And the traditional Lloyd Shot, with a modest covering of massive hair!
And that's the whole team finished. Now all I need to do is actually play Shadespire again...or get more Murder Girls for an AoS game...but the Shadespire game is more likely...
