I was having trouble deciding on a colour scheme for my Retribution. In the end I decided to take my friend Eve’s suggestion and paint them all black with different gem colours. Here’s the Griffon:
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I got the All-in-One Retribution of Scyrah Army box. I adore elves and the deal was just too good to resist. I’ve just finished up the Chimera as a test model.
I’m having trouble getting the black to photograph well. It’s also tricky to paint black because if you highlight it too much it looks grey and if you highlight it too little it looks like you only undercoated it! I think it looks awesome in natural light, and less awesome under my lamps.
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It’s done! Despite the setbacks and losing my enthusiasm for this conversion, I finally finished my converted Throne of Everblight:
I originally nicknamed it “The Monster” but hubby has talked me into renaming it “The Horror” as a nod to Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror” (since the beastie bears a resemblance to Yog-Sothoth). One of the reasons that the conversion has taken so long is that I designed it as a series of micro-assemblies to make painting easier. This means that I constantly needed to make sure that the parts were aligned.
I received a lot of love for this conversion on the forums and on the Legion of Everblight facebook page. It was even mentioned on the Blight Makes Right podcast. It really inspires to me continue attempting these sorts of ambitious projects, so thank you!
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Here are my finished Strider Blightblades.
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I wanted to use the Blighted Bather as an objective marker. I decided to make her elevated on some sort of platform so that she wouldn’t be confused for a model in my army. That’s when I remembered that I still had some of the Throne’s body leftover and with a little cutting and greenstuff filigree on top I created this:
Here’s the finished objective marker. In hindsight, I regret making her so tall and I also think I went overboard on the blood. Ah well…
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I did a small conversion on my Nephilim Protector. I was never a fan of the original halberd as I thought the blade was just too large.
So, I shaved a little off with my scalpel blade and repositioned the weapon’s head. Now I’m much happier with the result:
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Here are my Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew. I experimented with their skin by basecoating it with grey, followed by a purple wash and highlighting with grey.
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Doktor Grym approached me regarding painting one of the Orange Crush Legion models for the Foodmachine charity event this year. Some of my favourite painters such as Meg Maples and Matt DiPietro are already involved and one of my Legion heroes Charles Arrasmith helped write the lists. I’m excited to be able to join with these guys for a good cause so I will be painting up Fyanna the Lash for Orange Crush.
The painting instructions were to include orange so I wanted to make it a focal point. I didn’t know what colours the other artists would be using so I thought a safe bet would be to paint her in traditional Legion colours. I did not realise until now how ridiculously overcomplicated that scheme is! Anyway, she’s done and I love her but now I have to ship her off to America.
I figured I might as well paint my own Fyanna at the same time, so here she is in my regular tabletop quality.
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I just finished the largest unit I’ve ever attempted to paint in one sitting: the Gatorman Bokor and Bog Trog Swamp Shamblers.
That’s 21 models including the Bokor! There are only three different sculpts of Bog Trog so in order to break up the unit I painted each a different colour. The Minions models gave me an opportunity to break away from my traditional palette and if my opponent happens to get distracted by my colourful undead I consider that a bonus!
For these guys I experimented with a new way of basing: I used GW’s crackle medium, painted it thick to get large cracks and sealed it with pva before adding bones to make it match my Legion. I think they look pretty good!
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Kallus’s attrition play-style appeals to me but his model didn’t. Specifically, I disliked his oversized shoulder pads and enormous torso. Even these pictures don’t do justice to the scale of that thing!
I decided to remove the torso and turn Kallus into a chick to better fit in with the rest of my sexy Legion girls. I was planning on removing the shoulder pads altogether but then I became worried that I was skirting a little too close to the 50% original model requirement for legal PP conversions (as of reposting, this rule is no longer a requirement). That’s when I noticed that Kallus’s shoulder pads are effectively two sectioned armour plates and I decided to try removing the larger one of the halves.
I’m quite happy with it; I think it retains the original’s aesthetic but it will be much smaller and more feminine. As I was discussing my ideas with the hubby it annoyed me when I had to refer to my model as “Kallus”. My model isn’t Kallus any more so I needed a new name to reflect my incarnation of the Warlock. So Kallus, Wrath of Everblight became Kallyse, Rage of Everblight. Here’s my first attempt at horns, using my last spare Eiryss3 head as the base.
Here’s a shot after I’ve started joining it all together and sculpting the hair.
And here’s the finished conversion. I’m really, really happy about how she turned out. She might be my best yet.
In addition to the original Kallus model, I used Eiryss3’s head and a succubus arm for this mod.
And here’s the finished model. She gave me a bit of trouble… I had to reassemble her (include resculpting and attaching a new horn) and I repainted her when I wasn’t happy with my attempt at OSL. I’m still not completely happy with the light effects but it’s a skill I can work on in the future.
I was going for an Angelina Jolie look with her face. I also gave her slightly different coloured blight spots than my usual Legion. It’s a little easier to see from the back view:
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