#epic miniatures

[vivsemporium]

These two Ankheg minis are printed from a high-quality resin, so are more flexible and sturdy compared to your average mini fig! This means that there are intricate details that have stayed during the printing process and will withstand constant handling whilst on your battle maps.

Created by Epic Miniatures Printed by Pluto Minis Hand painted by me, alongside a custom epoxy clay 50mm sand base.

[dvandom]

Okay, so I guess Epic Miniatures has to go on the boycott list. ETA: A resolution has been reached with which @bogleech is satisfied.

Mortasheen plagiarized by a gaming brand for the first time!

https://linktr.ee/epic_miniatures

Didn't realize it'd be hidden under a readmore in my previous post, thanks Tumblr; this company Epic Miniatures is using one of my designs without permission, and despite me approaching them with the good faith that it was an honest mistake of some sort, they only responded by blocking me and anyone else bringing it up. My art and their miniature:

Banned!!

[titanomancy]

The spooky season is a time for creepy crawlies.

[just-here-with-my-thoughts]

by the way i also paint dragons :)

Steamforged Games Epic Encounters: Lair of the Red Dragon box set Supplied partially assembled and unpainted

more stills below the cut

[catbatart]

UMMMM Hey guys!

Doing another miniature shelf clear out (I've got two kickstarters coming in and BOY HOWDY I need the space.)

I'll be listing more here, but I wanted to put this one up right away. A few months ago, I finished completely painting the Epic Encounters Goblin Chief box. I love it. I love the minis (the froooogs T_T) but I just don't see myself using it in the future.

The box includes 20 fully painted minis as well as a battle map and a booklet with stat blocks and story hooks. Honestly the Epic Encounters boxes are an AMAZING product!

So if you want a fully painted box of miniatures, check it out!

[mercurys-minis]

Much to my annoyance, I found I had missed a dreadnought in the pile of loose epic minis. The previous owner had sort of painted it (either a rush job or perhaps simply the work of a kid) and I decided to sort of work on top of what was there instead of redoing it.

Before and after:

[betuspaints]

First real structure for Legions Imperialis/Battletech is done.

I'm really really happy with how this ended up but there's no way I'm going to be putting this much effort into every building if I need a whole cityscape.

I think the key to getting buildings at this scale to look right is to sprinkle little details that give a sense of scale- like the flyers on the wall or the little resin roof bits. It helps anchor it in my head as not just a big grey block

The recipe for this ended up being pretty straightforward: a mix of grout, craft glue, water, and a little paint made a great primer for the XPS foam I used without melting it as spraycans will. After that I hit it with a brown oil wash, a coat of thinned black acrylic, and finally a lighter grey drybrush.

[stanleynopines]

Miniature for the animatic on YouTube

[weirdaucrossover]

A dino miniature I painted.

[zorbans-house-of-horror]

ZORB WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!?

smol

[vivsemporium]

Here we have three Death Knight minis printed from a high-quality resin, so they are more flexible and sturdy than your average mini fig! This means that there are intricate details that have stayed during the printing process and will withstand constant handling while moving around on the battle maps.

Sculpted by Epic Miniatures Printed by Pluto Minis Hand painted by me

The mounted mini stands on a 50mm base, whilst the other two stand on a 25mm base.

[tinygiantplasticmonsters]

Some 6mm scale rhinos I got 3d printed from Sebs print shop, and a GW razorback with molded on stowage, painted up by me as salamanders space marines.

[titanomancy]

I suspect that today's preview was originally intended to be the big reveal of the Mechanicum Battle Group, but with that preempted by the leak and subsequent official reveal for the re-inaugural Heresy Thursday, there was a distinctly Mechanicum-shaped hole in the schedule.

Which is really just a great excuse to move up the reveal of the forthcoming range of Dark Mechanicum kits. Not quite as degenerate as the daemon engines of the 41st millennium, the brand new Serperos Heavy Stalkers still manage to look fundamentally unwholesome without being completely encrusted in baroque barnacles.

There's some great design direction that ties them in with elements of the Vulturax and Vorax automata (both of which will be available in the Legions Imperialis battlegroup, and are on my short list for future Age of Darkness releases)

As an aside, a lot of what we've seen from the plastic range to date has been broadly of the "early" Heresy aesthetic, when there was little aside from color scheme and insignia to differentiate traitor from loyalist. It's only a matter of time until the really wild late Heresy stuff starts to make its way through. These proto-daemon engines are just the start.

[lewdcookies]

Picture 1: Hugin & Munin, paired Sicaran Battle Tanks of the Raven Guard. Their machine spirits seem to be linked to each other in ways the Tech Priests can't fully explain, as every attempt to split them up has led one vehicle refusing to operate unless their companion is close by.

Picture 2: Amarok, Kratos Battle Tank of the Space Wolves. The vehicle has gained a reputation of preferring hunt by itself, seemingly ignoring or shunning other Legion vehicles in the need to kill.

Picture 3: Fides, Kratos Battle Tank of the Ultramarines. The name stemming from the vehicle's steadfast loyalty to its crew and pulling them through thick and thin without failing.

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More tanks! Tiny ones too!

Not much to say, they're a bunch of 3D printer Epic/Legions Imperialis scaled tanks I managed to win a couple of months back.

One of two annoying parts were probably trying to magnetise the Kratos'. but that was mostly because I first glued in the turret plugs and then changed my mind after I noticed how much they scraped the inside of the mounting socket. The second one were the autocannons on the first one, both of those snapped off at a point during magnetisation, but thankfully I had spares so I could just glue those on instead.

Otherwise they were very nice to paint and got done in a couple of hours each.

The Raven Guard transfers are technically from the Thunderbolt sheet, because I didn't have any others in the right scale. And for the Ultramarines I was lucky the Intercessor sheet that came with the ETB ones had small enough emblems I could use.

[fiendishneko]

Hobby Update: Full Spectrum Dominance

"Security forces of the planet cracking company "Plundr" clash with the workers of the 322nd Miner's Union and their repurposed machinery."

(More pics below)

I'm fast becoming FSD's biggest fangirl. I've still got some more terrain to do as well as all 12 bases of infantry for the Union army but, unlike some other projects I've started, it's never felt like a drag.

I've enjoyed how each faction has their own distinct visual style; the Conglomerate models being sleek and futuristic while the Union models are crude and chunky, which really helps characterise them.

Well that's me done simping for tiny trucks and tanks for the day, I've got some 6mm scale lads in hi-vis jackets that need painting!

[magistralucis]

Miniature Painting Retrospective (2023)

2023 has been a hell of a year, but it had one upside to it, namely that this was the year I got into miniature painting. The downsides are money spent on plastics and paints and my ever-increasing piles of shame, but what mini lover doesn't deal with that 🤣

I'm a relatively new painter. I began painting in the second quarter of this year, and I haven't exactly done it every day or even every week, though I think I've improved greatly nonetheless. This is a retrospective post with some examples I've painted this year, what I learned, what I'd do better, and goals for the future.

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April 2023

Despite the many pages of ramblings on my blog, I did not actually get into miniatures because of Warhammer 40K, it was Dark Souls that got me to pull the trigger 😂 I love, love, love Dark Souls, when I realized there was a boardgame and people painted the plastic figures that came with them I had to get me some of that. I've actually posted these before on my DS sideblog, so if you've seen them around somewhere else 'twas I who was responsible, but these are the very first minis I've ever painted.

Siegward of Catarina was painted almost entirely with contrasts and metallics. I wanted to give him the really rusted look like Catarina Armour has in DS3. Solaire was painted similarly, except I didn't really get how to 'paint white' or 'paint yellow' or to use ink to fill in the sunface, so his chest is woefully incomplete. I thought of stripping him to start over, but have since decided against it; what I'll likely do is to get another Solaire and do the better job with that one. It's good to see where you began. Gives perspective.

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May 2023

I began properly looking up painting tutorials around this time. Coincidentally, this was the first time I began to really feel like I knew what I was doing 🤣

Eygon of Carim was painted almost entirely with drybrushing, save for the brown cloth, which was my first attempt at wet blending + adding wear and tear and scratches to simulate realism. He was drybrushed with a gunmetal grey then tinted with Black Templar for the majority of his dark armour, then drybrushed with silver to highlight the edges. His shield and mace followed the same procedure, except they were sponged with bronze later.

All of the models so far remain unbased to this day... I am not very good at remembering to base my models

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June 2023

Got into 6mm historicals (Anglo-Saxon/Vikings) during this period, which I don't have a picture of as those are currently in a storage box we stashed away for the Christmas holidays (guests staying over 😖).

Had another go at painting an Onion Knight, however, this time of Catarina Armour than Siegward specifically. Siegward has a longer Zweihander and a more detailed look. I wanted to give this version a clean look, and he was painted in a much more traditional style, following the base + shading + highlights + edge highlights method. No contrasts nor drybrushing, though the shield was mildly sponged with black. I'm proud of this one.

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July 2023

Got into Warhammer during this period. Had a break from painting as I tried to read and digest WH40K necron lores/novels, then became attracted to some of the full-size models, as well as building an army for Epic Armageddon. Shown above are some 6mm necron warriors, Immortals, Flayed Ones, and pariahs I painted as an example at this time. They are very, very small and very delicate and I love them your honour

I'm especially happy with the Flayed Ones. I'm actually using those to make a small Twice-Dead King diorama atm, I'll get some more made for the actual army. The pariah models have that warscythe design with a hole (?) in the middle but I... don't??? like the hole??? so I just filled them in with milliput and painted them up similarly to glaives instead

I also obtained a larger Dancer of the Boreal Valley model. She is in the pile of shame. I am afraid to begin painting her now that I've been staring at her for so long 😖😖😖

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August - September 2023

I............. ghghgghgghggg

The pile grows. At least I gave Orikan his green marble interior design???

Started doing 28mm historicals in early Sep. When it comes to the actual gaming aspect of this hobby, I have played way more historicals than I've ever played Warhammer or the Dark Souls Boardgame; I play SAGA with my sig. other, and he got me into Chain of Command, though I'm playing solely with the models he painted for that one (since he has been in this hobby for many, many more years than I). Here's a berserkr I painted and based up. NMM chainmail and glazed fur detail, the rock/ground based with cork.

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September 2023

Still doing historicals. My Viking warlord, rock based with foam, need to add some grass on there or something. Otherwise very very happy with how he turned out. I keep going back and forth between giving him a shield, since I love painting shields, but I also don't want to obscure the main details of his body. All metallic details are NMM.

Note the scabbard and the glint of his sword. I'm not super good at NMM yet, but I can do tiny glints and details like these.

An example of general warriors, huscarls, etc. I have about 50 men in varying states of completion. These are all Victrix models. Every one of those shields are freehanded. They make for very good practice because they're a nice, well-defined flat surface. I'm really proud of those.

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October - November 2023

My beloved Tea Space Marine brothers 😂☕ I've posted about those before (x, x, x) - the Arizona Tea dude is not yet done because I actually need to give him a banner and paint up his base, and during December I was too occupied with other creative activities to work on him. They are the first Space Marines I've ever painted and tbh I don't find them the easiest to paint (???) but they're some of the best fun I've had so far!

I want to make a whole series of those, not just of Space Marines or even the Imperium. I might do more porcelain, they're really fun to pose next to tea-things. The teacup Marine was painted a gloss white (after being primed not-white 😨) then freehanded with royal blue, with Retributor Armour being the gold. The Arizona Tea Marine was painted emerald with pink edges, tinted in places with Magos Purple, then freehanded with various shades of plum blossom-esque colours. Still wondering what design his banner ought to be.

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That's it for 2023. Next year I want to do the following things.

Finish up the Epic Armageddon necron army, complete with vehicles (300-400 points).

Finish the Dancer of the Boreal Valley statuette (because that's what she is at that scale, she's the biggest model I have, it's part of why I got intimidated lmao).

Get better at NMM.

Apply aforementioned NMM techniques to necrons on the pile of shame that are not painted.

Learn how to airbrush.

Obtain at least 6 points' worth of guys for a SAGA Viking army, then paint them up and base them properly.

Base my minis properly, full stop 🥴

Looking forward to some fun painting sessions next year!!! 💖