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[charlesoberonn]

[ilfirinart]

Heralds and Banner of the Army of the Dead 👻

Finally back to painting miniatures! Continuing work on my Army of the Dead, I'm getting really close to finishing all the models from this army list that I currently own. Today I'd like to present both Heralds and the Banner Bearer on foot.

COLOURS

After my experiments with the cavalry and the violet-purple tones on the horse cloths, I wanted to push that idea a little further. This time, however, we're getting closer to the elite ranks and royalty of the army, so I decided to use more saturated colours on the banner and pennants.

I chose purple for the banner to visually connect it with the cavalry and the rest of the force. For the pennants, however, I went with a more burgundy tone. To me, it feels more regal and fits the theme I want to continue later on the King of the Dead miniature 😉

The figures themselves were painted using the same colour scheme as the rest of the army: cold, ghostly blue tones combined with weathered browns and blacks on weapons and armour.

BASES

I had a lot of fun working on the larger 40 mm cavalry bases, so going back to 25 mm bases felt a little restrictive. These miniatures are quite large and cover most of the available space.

That said, after recently adding flower and grass tufts to my basing collection, I really wanted to include them here as well. They add a surprising amount of visual interest, and fortunately I managed to find enough room for them despite the limited base size 😉

SUMMARY

Overall, I'm quite happy with the final result. The one thing I'm not fully satisfied with is the purple banner. I think the colour ended up a little too muddy and lost some of the contrast I was aiming for.

On the other hand, I'm really pleased with the burgundy pennants. They feel aged and weathered, as if they've spent centuries alongside the Army of the Dead, while still retaining a hint of their former royal status.

Do you have any tips or favourite techniques for painting ghosts or semi-translucent effects? As usual, this project was very much a "try it and see what happens" approach. It worked reasonably well, but I'm sure there are more efficient ways to achieve similar results.

[kkoricat]

old art

[sovietnam]

[insomniparty]

[chufff]

daily doodle #9

it's just brian

[byjove]

Resteraunt servers have the funniest and most surreal workplace stories of any profession. They have the job that mean nurses think they have. The entire world is working against them the entire shift. And then you feel terrible for laughing. It’s not funny that you tripped and spilled an entire ice tea all over a toddler and the kid started screaming at the top of his lungs. Nobody was having a good day, thank God it wasn’t a hot coffee. That’s not funny. I did laugh so hard tears started rolling down my face when you recounted this mortifying ordeal though.

[byjove]

whatever you’re going through, you’re not them

[mothcub]

Do it for them.

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

fun fact: pigs can metabolize alcohol slightly better than humans, and they of course enjoy grains. this means that a pig can drink a beer as a treat. Rufus usually gets one a year, for his birthday. and he won't let the label stop him.

[littleguysdaily]

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

i'm also teaching myself to play the banjo btw

[dungeondegenerates]

GARY CHALK - VARIOUS WARHAMMER BANNERS - 1985-1987 - Gary Chalk used to do these banner displays for each Warhammer book. The way that Games Workshop games pulled from Citadel Miniatures & vice versa, how they both were built out of the best the hobby had to offer, from every other game & from the fantasy miniatures world in general can’t be overlooked. They were making soup from a base that was made from the best bits that anyone made. It was like when the sample heavy masterpieces like Paul’s Boutique & It Takes a Nation of Millions came out - they could never be created again because copyright law figured out sampling, Warhammer was the same.

[alphamecha-mkii]

Land Raider by David Gallagher

[queermetalhead]

I love older space marine proportions like look at the silly squat men

[magnetictapedatastorage]

from codex chaos 2nd edition. i love all the little tips and the encouragement to go absolutely wildcrazy

[dungeondegenerates]

GARY CHALK- ENGLISH ILLUSTRATOR - Gary Chalk was the face of English fantasy in the 80s, he produced the majority of illustrations for Games Workshop including art for both Talisman & Heroquest - as well as the Lone Wolf series & Redwall. His chunky, cartoony figures matched the Citadel house style of the time, & they created a synergy that i haven’t seen pop up except in my own projects. His work black & white interior illustrations for Redwall were especially great, i really like how he rendered everything & didn’t get too loose.

[dungeondegenerates]

PROTEUS MAGAZINE - MIKE KENWARD EDITOR - 1984-1988 - Proteus was a UK magazine that published an entire paragraph picking game book in each issue. Being English it was directly inspired by the Fighting Fantasy series however, it seemed to run at the same time & for longer than Fighting Fantasy’s Warlock magazine. Each issue is full of uninspired, not-great, black & white art & included a full color poster. For the issue I have it’s by Les Edwards. I’m just stoked that something like this existed. I love magazines & game books! Imagine getting a big stack of magazines every month & just digging through them. I don’t have to imagine it - I used to do it. We need to build the audience & infrastructure for magazines & other cultural frameworks we’ve lost to the big digital turnover. But look, if the people are sold on magazines again - that builds up a part of what we’ve lost & is part of the necessary reconstruction of humanity that needs to be done.

[dungeondegenerates]

ARTIST MID FROM ENGLISH CRUST PUNK BAND DEVIATED INSTINCT - MID 80S - I interviewed Mid for my zine Die Wurst a few years back - (issue is sold out but I’ll post the interview on the GOBLINKO site today. I feel like Crust Punk followed the lines of Punk (this is all following English Punk) being the apocalypse, UK/82 continuing that & then crust being the post-apocalypse. While there are many who just saw Punk as dead so they did the Post-Punk thing, there were many who continued on as if Punk hadn’t died, because it hadn’t, it just changed, got scruffier, smellier, crustier. At the same time, English Metal was going through the same muck which produced bands that would eventually become Grindcore - but they emerged from the same muddy fields of some music festival for people who like their music loud, fast & distorted. But, this music also played with the contrast & slowed it way down. I asked Mid about if gaming played into Deviated Instinct. Mid - Yeah, back in the early-mid 80’s I was quite into the original Dungeons and Dragons games, I had the classic blue & red box’s. An old school friend was really into being a dungeon master and would plan out games for 3 or 4 of us to play. I was also really into painting little figures, especially the old metal ones, I had quite a large collection of Orcs that were all super detailed painted up. I have no idea what happened to all those, I don’t know if they just got lost between house moves over the decades or if I gave them away. As I mentioned before, all that imagery definitely fed into my art back then. It really only lasted a few years though &!I’ve not played anything like that since. I don’t have the patience. Sometimes I feel like it would be great to really get into RPG computer games or something.

[dungeondegenerates]

WARHAMMER FANTASY BATTLE, FIRST EDITION - BRIAN ANSELL, RICHARD HALLIWELL, RICK PRIESTLY - 1983 - Warhammer Fantasy Battle was originally released as a hybrid role playing & war game. The game was released in the height of the first role playing boom & war gaming was a hobby for the old guys who wanted to push Napoleonic troops or WWII tanks around the table or as chits on a hex map, It was a wildly different time - Warhammer hadn’t become the face of wargaming as it now is. Warhammer was originally designed to use all of collector’s models & encourage players to buy more Citadel miniatures to add to their armies. Warhammer was the first war game to release it’s own proprietary miniatures, something which has become the industry standard, although seems to be unwinding as 3D printing decentralizes wargaming again. The central elements that made Warhammer stand out (from Dungeons & Dragons especially) was that it had an implied setting (which grew into the Old World) & it had a level of humor that was influenced by Monty Python that gave it a cleverer tone than how D&D presented itself. D&D always felt like there was a lot of Bronze Age, Sword & Sandals material lurking under the surface, while Warhammer felt like it was directly dealing with Medieval Europe, in a more gritty way that emphasized the slog of progress that Europe had made as it trudged on from the Dark Ages into the Renaissance.

[ilynpilled]

jensen ackles doing so much in that hanging himself gif he shouldve been a mime instead of the world’s first omega

[ilynpilled]