Random Encounter n°11

Your monthly dose of random fantasy minis!!!

Here’s some old lead and a few more recent resins, even some plastic bits. As sometimes between heavy projects, I simply dig old boxes full of lead, in order to add a few characters and foes to the Project Dungeon. Let see what do we gather this time! Come around, I’ll show you the lot!

For the Lady!

Well, here’s a big one… more than a year in the making. But I finally finished painting my Bretonnia army for Saga! Behold!!!

This is something to sing for the minstrels and bards alike! Here are men and women of great valor… and their villeins! Ready to protect their lands, for the realm, for the grail, for the Lady!!!

Random Encounters n°9

Long time since I posted anything here…I guess there’s times like these. Anyway, I’m rethinking a bit about articles, and since painting is my main activity, I sometimes lack motivation to write about everything who fall under the brushes. So from now on I’m going to talk here mainly about personal projects.

Back to what it’s all about, minis! I’ve achieve a fair amount of an oldschool army, but in between I managed to squeeze some nice additions to the Project Dungeons.

There’s much more out of the family picture, but I’m gonna start with these! If you want to see other tuff, you’ll have to stay with us for a while…

Upper Class Boss

Here comes a big one! But a lonely one. But boy he is big!

This fella was converted by Mahar Prod. You can find more of his work here http://mahar-prod.blogspot.com . It was a bit of fun tryin to work on a piece I haven’t build.

Old grit

I just got the occasion to work on this!

And man it was awesome! I can’t say enough how much I love to paint old lead, even more this kind of monobloc guys. It was an all around fun and pleasing project.

Saxo-Danes

Well, these were painted a few month ago, but due to current situation, I was unable to play them on the field.

An Anglo-Danes force to resist the Norsemen invasion. Being greedy as always, I also think of fielding them as Anglo-Saxons just in case. Also due to the insane amount of miniatures in a Victrix sprue bag (you get 60 minis for around 40€), you can’t go wrong with too many warlords and other stuff. I just regret that the dark ages range of the brand lack some archers/slingers. I still miss twelve of them plus a few javeliners to call this army done. But here’s for the time.

Oath of the Universe

Okay there, lots of new stuff from here. I’m trying to get some better pics by using a tiny lightbox, not easy to get a good hold on that, but hey, as everything it needs practice. Most importantly I’ll now try to wrote my post in english. Not sure I’ll be good at it, I’m a bit afraid of mistakes and misspelling, and mostly not being able to get the same tone as in french. But I’ll give a try.

So here’s comes my latest work. First one to recognize them get a wooden spoon! It’s been a while since I accept a commission, but the idea of this project make me go for it instantly. I’ve recently paint a Skeletor Chaos Sorcerer, so a friend of mine came to this idea of few MOTU barbarians based on the latest Underworld team. Got to be fair to him, it was a really good idea. The plan was to only do the paintjob, no modifications whatsoever. I tried to minimize my contrast for each colors to give this cartoon feel. I’ve think about going full lining but the result seems ok for me just like that.

Conan premier jet (1° session)

Petite avancée de ma part sur le projet Conan, on sait comment ça marche un KS.

On pledge, on est tout émoustillé et on rêve des schémas de peintures idéaux qu’on appliquera amoureusement sur ces ectokilos de figs trotrobellles qu’on à préco. Puis viens l’attente et l’acceptation, on intègre le fait que c’est pas pour tout de suite qu’on va refermer nos doigts potelés de désirs sur le précieux, et qu’en attendant faut bien se mettre un truc sous le pinceau. Alors on prend son mal en patience et on tourne sa palette humide vers d’autres cieux figurinistique. En patientant et désirant la venue d’un age hyboréen dans ma ludothèque, j’aurais eu le temps de boucler les projets Blood Rage, Cthulhu Wars et Dead Man’s Hand, rien que ça.

Au passage je me colle dans Frostgrave et mon projet donjons à donf, et voilà pas qu’en plein millieu du peindouillage d’une nuées de corbeaux (un présage), le barbare défonce ma porte à coup de boîte remplie d’matos et d’heures de jeux en perspective. J’ai craqué, on l’a testé avant d’le peindre, j’le ferais plus, promis juré. Pour moi ça défonce, les approximations de règles se bricolent, et je suis devant un de ces jeux ou je m’éclate même en me faisant passer une branlé. Comme je suis raisonnable, je finis ce que j’ai commencé d’abord (trop de projets inaboutis à cause de nouveaux projets), ce qui nous amène à ce petit retard sur ma production howardienne. Pas grave, il reste bien deux mois et demi, et j’ai déjà fais ça:

Attention, il fait moche alors lumière pourri parce que deadline. Au compteur trois héros, une princesse (en détresse ou perfide, c’est selon), un grogros serpent et cinq torchères. 

La fière compagnie

Depuis que je poste des monstres et antagonistes en tout genre, je parle de vaillants héros au grand cœur qui roulent sur tout ce que je peins et bien plus encore, au mépris du danger et des pertes de points de destin. Il est donc temps de leur faire l’honneur des images, des anecdotes et de l’inventaire des pièces qui les constituent. Je vous présente la compagnie Schmitt.

À tout seigneur tout honneur, le roi des effets pyrotechniques, l’homme à l’origine de la phobie des jets de D10 multiples, l’héritier du scénar, l’étudiant en magie Pieter Schmitt. Ou la flemme de la conversion sur métal.