Lenihan's 2021

[inchmurrin]

Suitably sandy looking mummies I should find mine and get them painted.

 

[lenihan]

Glad people liked the mummies! I don't often paint undead, but when I do I do find it fun.

Latest thing I've finished is the Lord of Chaos sculpted by Tony Yates, which I bought from Foundry at BOYL. This is a chunky fella! I enjoyed painted him but I found it more challenging than expected, mainly because I think it requires a comic book style that's not generally my thing. Still, he'll make a fine Sorcerer for my Nurgle army!

 

[symphonicpoet]

^Oh, he's lovely! That's one of the most spectacularly octopussy sculpts I think I've ever seen. (Please forgive the James Bond reference. Purely coincidence, of course.) And I love where you've gone with him. That's got to be a fun miniature to paint!

 

[Golgfag1]

Looking Good, you have an interesting collection, which is always interesting to meet over the table top.

Paul / Golgfag1

 

[lenihan]

^Oh, he's lovely! That's one of the most spectacularly octopussy sculpts I think I've ever seen. (Please forgive the James Bond reference. Purely coincidence, of course.) And I love where you've gone with him. That's got to be a fun miniature to paint!

I think in this sculpt Tony Yates has discovered the critical mass of tentacles, the very point at which you reach the maximum tentacleness and any additional tentacles would end up distracting from the tentacles that you've already sculpted. And yes, lots of fun to paint.

Looking Good, you have an interesting collection, which is always interesting to meet over the table top

Likewise, always a joy to see what part of your collection you've brought out to play with!


I realised there are a couple of things I painted earlier this year that I haven't yet shown off on this thread, here is one: it's a facebook monster that Scibor gave away to celebrate reaching 10,000 likes. I got it free years ago when I bought some shields from them but only recently got around to painting it up.

 

[symphonicpoet]

^Oh, that's fun! Cute and alarming at the same time. Which makes it a quite telling caricature, assuming you can even call it that. Portrait? Aha, I think I have it: editorial sculpt! We need more editorial sculpts, I think.

 

[lenihan]

^Oh, that's fun! Cute and alarming at the same time. Which makes it a quite telling caricature, assuming you can even call it that. Portrait? Aha, I think I have it: editorial sculpt! We need more editorial sculpts, I think.

Editorial sculpt, I like that!

Given that it's a resin promo from a company usually known for its quite up-to-date aesthetic, I think this is very much in keeping with the satirical humour of the 80s that Oldhammer harks back to.

 

[symphonicpoet]

^The satirical pieces of certain politicians, both from the 80s and rather more recently, would most definitely qualify as editorial sculpts. Archbaron von Drumpf, say. Or some of the sculpts and games from BOYL. (The MXGA hat and Kulo's general aesthetic, or the last ferry out a year or two earlier.) While people do seem to be more easily bent these days there is absolutely room for editorial sculpts. On every point of the political spectrum.

 

[lenihan]

This was my project for Orctober... obviously got a bit delayed!
Citadel FF65 Goblin Children crying to their FF64 Goblin Mother about having been thrown off the seesaw by Warmonger Orclings!

(Background painted by my son - he said to credit him if I used any of his paintings for such a purpose )

 

[Painters Tongue]

That's superb Lenihan, great to see those FF64 figs & have them given life, lovely compliment of the warmonger figs too. Very nice back drop by your son, will we see more of them over time now that he has the online deserved Kudos of 'Backgound Maestro' ?

Always interesting to see what the Greenskins get up to in their day to day when they are not being vicious, brutal, murderous scum . A visual life lesson, that we are pretty much all the same behind the scenes.

 

[lenihan]

That's superb Lenihan, great to see those FF64 figs & have them given life, lovely compliment of the warmonger figs too. Very nice back drop by your son, will we see more of them over time now that he has the online deserved Kudos of 'Backgound Maestro' ?

I need to commission him to create some more I think! I definitely need some more cool background art and can't for the life of me find the smaller postcard-sized ones I produced myself...

Anyway, more classic Citadel sculpts here (although the one on the left is technically a Foundry re-release) - another one of the White Dwarf monthly challenges I realised I'd forgotten to post on the blog or here. A suitable note to end that challenge on: the creators of White Dwarf themselves, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone!

 

[twisted moon]

love the goblin diorama and these two figures.

 

[symphonicpoet]

It's hard to argue with a good pirate. Well done!

 

[lenihan]

love the goblin diorama and these two figures.

Cheers! One of the few things that has been an upside of the time at home due to the pandemic and relative lack of gaming has been a shift in my painting strategy to focus on more of these fun projects and figures that aren't necessarily for an upcoming game. Previously I think everything has been too focussed specifically on what I need for the next game, but now I'm open to a bit more of the randomness that makes oldhammer what it is!

It's hard to argue with a good pirate. Well done!

There are not enough pirates in Oldhammer! (Although I guess RT has its fair share) - need more Sartosa armies! (not that I'm volunteering to start one...)

 

[lenihan]

After posting completed miniatures in ones and twos on this thread, it may seem rather perverse to suddenly spam it with a whole army... but I wanted this to be a record of everything I painted in 2021, so here we go! This is my BOYL 2021 army, the Brotherhood of Public Sanitation!

The Brothers Spiritual - Fenris Miniatures Plague Cultists with CP Miniatures Night Terrors:

The Brothers Militant - from White Knight's Miniature Imperium and Perfect Six Miniatures.

Brother Pyramidhead - an ogre from Dark Art Studios

The Brothers Fulminant - evil hooded minions from Pulp Miniatures tending to an OOP undead cannon from Fenryll miniatures

and finally the Brothers of the Flensing Shame - rank and file old citadel Knights of the Cleansing Flame (lots of them!) led by a bishop from the old citadel C03 series and a Mari Lwyd style figure from Oakbound Games

More on the army, its inspiration, and links to most of the miniatures I've used, over on the blog:
http://wheretheseapoursout.blogspot.com ... ation.html

 

[Golgfag1]

They certainly did well for you at BOYL2021, what's next in queue?

Paul / Golgfag1

 

[Fimm McCool]

It certainly is a glorious sight!

 

[lenihan]

They certainly did well for you at BOYL2021, what's next in queue?

Chaos!
But also, the neverending quest to paint High Elves. They were my first army and the one that I'd really like to build, but I've struggled to manage to paint them in a way that pleases me since I've got back into the hobby.

It certainly is a glorious sight!

Cheers! I think over time, you learn what you enjoy in this hobby, and the thing I've discovered that I enjoy is: painting unusual concept-based armies that combine figures from 9 different old and new suppliers

 

[Fimm McCool]

the thing I've discovered that I enjoy is: painting unusual concept-based armies that combine figures from 9 different old and new suppliers

Sounds like the best thing to me.

 

[symphonicpoet]

That's a creative army you have there Lenihan! Did Brother Pyramidhead come with that crazy helmet, or is it a conversion? Love it all!