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they/them, a blog for things I like. Archeology, history, literature, scifi, fantasy, rpgs, video games. Mostly.

[thewenglishwarlock]

A big ol space friend off for a wonder

[battletechdruid]

Everybody fucking look at it's big beautiful orb

[thewenglishwarlock]

The NMM on your Nurgle models always looks so weathered, how do you get that beaten and matte finish while also retaining the “metal” look? Because when I’ve done NMM I’ve never quite managed it. For example my Shaman Foulhoof and Pestigor champion, both have NMM steel and gold, but I don’t find it looks particularly dirty.

Have a nice day! Your minis look lovely.

Thanks so much!

So alot of it for me is trial and error, but this is generally how I end up doing it :)

For me, a lot of it for the is using paler colours as the highlights and smoothing the transitions between the dark and light, this helps get across that they're not as shiny as polished metals. This is particularly the case for brass and bronze, although bronze still often retains a richness to it.

An example is this helmet where the ive tried to pick out the highlights in pale colours which are blended down to meet the mid point of the armour, that means it looks like there's less of a drastic shine like you might get if you were doing nmm for polished metals.

The other thing ive found helpful is to work scratches into the highlights which helps suggest that the light is catching at odd angles because of irregular surfaces.

Like the lines painted into this axe give it some additional worn-ness while indicating light. Which means you have to work less hard at adding in dirt or weathering.

Also, i wanna say I love how you've done the cloth on foulhoof. You've captured the light on the fabric folds wonderfully, particularly over the back leg!

Thanks for asking!

[maureen2musings]

Vallirana, Cataluna, Spain

monica.s

[japo-orbo]

When I saw the Fokker biplane sticking out from the pile of toys at the second-hand fair (selling price: 1€) I realized that my evil sunz clan had finally found their dakkajet attack plane. It may seem strange, but this project has kept me busy for two weeks. Soon I'll post the space orks evil sunz street gang with all the vehicles painted so far. Without further ado I present to you "Barun Orko Von Krumpfhotten"

[hyydraworks]

Something about little guys, packed up for travellin' 🤌

[postcard-from-the-past]

Town hall and court in Pionsat, Auvergne region of France

French vintage postcard

[memories-of-ancients]

The Snartemo sword, discovered in a burial near Snartemo in Agder County, Norway, dated to around 550 AD

from The Historiska Museum

[wanderthewood]

Scissor Arches at Wells Cathedral, Somerset, England by bingleyman2

[ymutate]

Shufu Miyamoto (b.1950)

"Snowy Day,"

woodblock print

[oldschoolfrp]

Legendary fantasy artist John Blanche has died. He is known mostly for his long association with Games Workshop, where he served as art director and created many of the iconic images that shaped the Warhammer and 40K worlds. He was capable of working in diverse styles, but much of his art and his own creative miniature conversions made his name synonymous with the "grimdark" aesthetic, mixing elements of moody gothic architecture and body horror with a limited color palette.

He also contributed to GW's UK edition of Dungeons & Dragons, Fighting Fantasy and Sorcery! books, and other books and album covers. Wombat Games recently published an authorised biography, Blanche: The Rise of Grimdark. A skirmish game, John Blanche's En Garde, is in development with a setting and visual style based on his art.

[kairosrhys]

Which one is your favourite? 😊

[slithergaunt]

This is painful. John Blanche has passed on.

Games Workshop and Warhammer would be nothing, and I do mean NOTHING, without him.

He was the beating heart of GW's worlds, made theses little toy games feel like they had a whole universe behind them.

His body of work is STAGGERING, and the amount detail he packed into each piece truly dwarfed the game itself.

One of the Lords.

Farewell.

👑

[dungeonlust]

Art by • John Blanche

[sandmandaddy69]

JOHN BLANCHE

[thefugitivesaint]

John Blanche, 'The Sea People' (date unknown) lifted from “Fantastic People: Magical Races of Myth and Legend” by Allen Scott & Michael Scott Rohan, 1980

[metallianvalidor]

- John Blanche -

[vividplanet]

fairy glen, scotland