#trollslayer

[domjordanillustration]

gotrek and felix

[music-addiction-disorder]

@canadianviking 🍻

[ratscullion]

Man, I knew Dance of the Axes would slap so hard. Almost a month of listening to it and it's still a banger.

[balonatee]

Wind Rose Official Cover For New Album Trollslayer Wall Decor Poster Canvas

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[gbhbl]

Album Review: Wind Rose – Trollslayer (Napalm Records)

Dwarven warriors unite! Wind Rose have returned and with them comes plunder of epic proportions bearing the name of Trollslayer. The power metal band are back, sticking exclusively to type, and delivering a thoroughly enjoyable blast of head banging anthemic fun.

Italian dwarven power metal army Wind Rose returns to the forge with their new album, ‘Trollslayer’, out October 4, 2024 via Napalm Records. Dwarven warriors unite! Wind Rose have returned and with them comes plunder of epic proportions bearing the name of Trollslayer. The power metal band are back, sticking exclusively to type, and delivering a thoroughly enjoyable blast of head banging…

[leegpoetry]

Back when I was originally on Instagram, there was a troll who would leave nasty comments on my poems. I decided to just block and ignore -- after, of course, dismissing them with this poem.

[spangledmystars]

Wind Rose dropped another banger

[niokitties]

So retro

[kharrneth]

Seductive Daemon Prince of Khorne number 2

[adrasteaeydiate]

TODAY MY BELOVED METAL DWARVES HAVE RELEASED A NEW MV AND IT'S A CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 SERIOUSLY I'M BLOWN AWAY 🔥🔥🤘 GO CHECK IT EVERYONE ALSO WE HAVE NEW ALBUM - TROLLSLAYER - ON OCTOBER 4TH ( CAN'T WAIT AAAAAAAAH)

[metal-album-of-the-week]

Powerwolf in Hamburg 4.10.24

Absolutely insane kickoff for the tour, the guys outdid themselves once again! Gorgeous, dynamic stage design, the new costumes look amazing. I've heard a lot of people not being as hot on the new album but even the songs I don't like as much (We don't wanna be no saints....) are absolute bangers live. The crowd was also very good and despite arriving fairly late because of work I ended up in like 4th row behind the fanclub who came in costume. (I do have a costume that I will wear to the next show but I got my ticket literally the day before the show from a private reseller and it needs to be reworked anyway.)

The setlist was a good mix of old and new stuff. Bless em With the Blade is a fantastic opener even though I wasn't convinced when I heard it on the album at first. My favorite from the new album of course is 1589.... They burned Falk at the stake. It did things to me.

I did miss My will be done, it's just such a good song. And where the wild wolves have gone, but Alive or Undead is still an insanely emotional experience to hear live. Attila has such a ballad voice it's unreal.

Attila was once again in great shape. He's one of the few power metal vocalists that actually sings most songs as he does on tape, i.e. he does all the hard parts too. Even Joachim Cans, who I consider a very good live singer, tends to leave out some of the trickiest high notes on occasion. (Attila did fuck up a single one of said high notes, but well, that's why it's live. We love him anyway.)

Wind Rose and Hammerfall were both bangers but I didn't take many pictures. Francesco of Wind Rose was kind of quiet in the beginning, but they improved the mix over time. I thought the set was kind of short tbh, which was sad because they're very fun live and it was the release day for their new album Trollslayer. Overall an incredible show, super fun, 10/10 as usual.

[agbpaints]

How To Paint: Canopy Glass Pt. 3

After a catastrophic absence (I was taking care of a very nice but grabby dog) the series is back! So far we've done cockpits an easy way with normal paint and an easy way with contrast paint. This time around, we'll be looking at the way I do some of my more complex colored cockpits. I apologize for some of the photography on this one- not all of the steps were properly recorded.

Paints I used:

For the Starslayer I chose to go with a orange/yellow tint for the glass, however you can easily adapt this to any dark -> bright paint gradient you like. Make sure your darkest color is something neutral- I usually like deep browns for hot colors and a deep sea green like incubi darkness for cool colors.

Army Painter Matt White (whit)

Citadel Yriel Yellow (bright yellow)

Citadel Trollslayer Orange (bright orange)

Citadel Ratskin Flesh (orange)

Citadel Mournfang Brown (brown)

Citadel Dryad Bark (dark brown)

Citadel Lahmian Medium (acrylic thinning medium)

Once you finish the rest of the model area around the canopy, begin by base coating it with your dark brown paint with two thin coats. Once this is applied and dry you're going to paint one of the bottom corners of the canopy glass in with your brown paint.

Now unfortunately this next section is both the most fiddly part of the process and the one past-me forgot to take any pictures of. We're going to use a glazing method to build up a color transition from one side of the canopy to the other. First, we'll make a mixture of about 2 parts of our thinning medium with one part of our brown. Then we'll load the thinned paint onto a medium sized and dab off most of the runny excess on our palette- you want the brush to still be damp and have a little color but not leave a visibly wet trail if you drag it across your fingernail. Then with our brush we're going to gently paint in this very thin brown over the dark brown everywhere but the top corner opposite our brown bottom corner. Give the paint a few minutes to dry and then repeat, except this time paint even less of the upper corner area, leaving some of the previous thinned brown layer exposed. Continue this process multiple times, painting less and less of the canopy each time to build up a smooth transition of brown.

I have done this process with just water before and while it does work I find thinning medium works way better.

Next, we'll apply the same technique again but covering an even smaller area using our orange. Mix it with our thinning medium in a 1:2 ratio and repeat the glazing process, focusing just on the lower corner of the canopy. Make sure to leave a small border of brown showing on the bottom and side of the orange. You should have a soft gradient from dark brown to burnt orange across the canopy.

Finally some finishing touches. Take your bright orange paint, thin it, and sketch an 'L' outlining the orange you just glazed on. Then add a dot of yellow in the corner of the 'L' and dot the upper dark brown corner with a little bit of white.

And here's the finished product! This is fundamentally a similar technique to the method I used on the Firefly with some extra tricks and it inherits the strengths and weakness of it- as a flat painting technique this works easiest on models with simple cockpit geometry and straightforward sight lines, but because it's a more labor intensive technique it's best used on models where you want to draw the eye to the head.

[cultofthewyrm]

Trollslayer by Lorenzo Nuti

[decahedrones]

idc if I've already made a separate post about trolls cause these guys are the highlight of the Witcher series. The Vergen troll was so normal about Geralt's "relationship" with Letho (lol), perhaps same-sex couples are widely accepted in troll society.

I have a deep and abiding fondness for the trolls in Witcher 2. They're so great, I love them.

[balonatee]

Wind Rose Official Cover For New Album Trollslayer All Over Print Shirt

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[phantastische-illustrationen]

Trollslayer (Nicolas Delort)