Wrath of Kings: Arkazan Greatwing (AKA: Bat-Wing dude #1)

Since these are finally getting shown off by CMoN I can now post about them. And keep in mind that when I get these assignments that no official name has been given to them so I have to make up my own. This guy for 2 years has been only know by me as "Bat-Wing Dude #1." Looking back in my archives this guy was finished on 03/23/2014 so that should give you an idea of how long it's been since I sculpted this guy. The Zombicide figure was included in there for size reference.

Finished painted figure picture by: Cool Mini or Not

Warmachine - Cryx Bloat Thrall overseer Mobius

I did this guy... 11 years ago (I think?) on my own volition as to just do something I thought was cool. This was right about my transition between Greenstuff and Fimo. I can't remember exactly why I decided to do him but apparently I had planned for this a while back as I had the gun from the original Bloat Thrall I did cast up in pewter when I was originally sculpting him. I had nicknamed it the, "Septic Thrall" and I think I had been playing around with the idea of some kind of variant of the original, something to do with leaving nauseating odors that could give the opposing army minuses when in too close proximity to it's launched leavings. The guy on his back was a spotter/range finder for arching fire with the eye-plug in the Bloat Thrall's head a direct feed into the corpse to infer that the Thrall could see through the spotters eyes like an undead targeting system.

He sat near done for nearly a decade when last year I had been asked about it, PP wanted to use it and wondered if I could finish it up with a couple of changes. "Sure!" I replied and set to work completing a figure I had nearly forgot about. Originally the guy on the back was on a kind of extending pole which I got rid of, bought him down close to the Thrall's body and integrated it more. Something that at the time had stumped me was all the wires I wanted to put on him, I really wanted to get tubing spilling out of the back guy and make it look like loose intestines but I just couldn't make it work. I had set aside the figure until I could work it out and after a while, sorta forgot about it. But by the time PP had plans for it I was able to do that key, (at least to me) detail. 

Anyway, been a long time in the making.

Painted picture provided by Privateer Press.

The Others: Pestilence

Here is the last of the three I did for the expansion, Pestilence. Not much to say about this guy as he was pretty straight forward for me to do. Hope it does Mr. Smiths art justice.

Art by: Adrian Smith

The Others: Death

Death was the second of the Four Horseman I got to do and I was dreading it, it's those wings. Feathers. Not a strong point of mine. When doing big figures like this the limbs can end up being like sculpting an entire figure in itself and the wings were pretty involved for me. Mostly because the art depicts them as moldering and sickly and I found out that to get that drooping and filthy look I was pushing dangerously close into hair technique territory and I began to worry that it was looking more like he had hairy wings rather then feathered. Hopefully he looks good to you all. And hey, look! It's those skulls again!

Art by: Adrian Smith

The Others: War

I got to be involved with the expansion for this game and got to do three of the main big monsters for this project. The first was War and here are the pics of the original. The ammo belts ended up being pulled tight into the body to help with casting and the gun gauntlet had to have a lot of back-fill under the barrels and turned into a separate part to help with the molding process. No back detail had been given so as per norm I got to add my own touch to the figure, I included an ominous cylinder sprouting from between his shoulder blades that has a radioactive insignia on it. I kind of figured War to be nuclear capable.
I'm including Adrian's art so you can see how well or poorly I kept to the art, hope you enjoy.

Art by: Adrian Smith

Zombicide: Black Plague - Abominarat

Here it is, literally the last hour of the Kickstarter for Zombicide: Black Plague and I managed to get the last monster I was asked to do done in time for the 4 million stretch goal. It would have been done sooner but the weather and heat where I live has gotten kind of crazy and my work days have been cut in half since I can only work at night when it's cooler. The Fimo I use to sculpt with has almost the consistency of warm butter which is not the preferred firmness I enjoy sculpting with.
I had been contacted again about halfway through the ZBP campaign and asked if I could do another monster, (at this point the zombie troll was about halfway done) and I said, "Sure, what would you like?" And the response was, "How about some kind of rat-thing? That would go pretty well with the Black Plague theme!" Sounded good to me and I got to design another monster which is always fun.
Here are some pictures of the figure, hope it is accepted well.

This has been a fun project for me and hopefully everyone will enjoy the game. I know I will be getting a giggle thinking about all of you fighting the creatures I got to make for it.

And now for a geek-out moment for me, Adrian Smith did the art for my rat. OMG! First Edouard Guiton and now Adrian Smith doing art for my minis?

That is awesome, total nerdgasm.