Wargaming, Conversions, Paint and more
Old School here once again with the Artist of the Week! This week we are taking a look at the work of James Wappel of http://www.windycityminiatures.com His list of awards counts numerous Rogue Daemons from Adepticon and he has painted for many of the top miniature producers in his career. It is clear why the pros have their stuff painted by him. Just take a look at his work.
Below are his winners from 2010's Adepticon Regiment/Squad catagory and Large Vehicle. Having seen these models first-hand, I have a great apreciation for the incredible amount of work that surely went into these minis and the almost-never seen flawlessness of every facet of the modelling and painting. My hats off to Jim!
Old School here with the Artist of the Week: Scibor of Scribor's Monstrous Miniatures! This week, I am not only going to show off a portion of this artists word, but I will highlight some of the conversion items the artist sells on his web site. Let's take a look. Above is an amazing take on Thunderwolf Cavalry. The rider and the wolf appear to be original sculpts with lots of small-detail sculpting and press molding.
This photo look like a dark twist on the Master of the Ravenwing and is surely an imposing model on the table.
This mini highlights much of what you can find of Scibor's work on Coolminiornot and on Ebay for that matter - his original sculpted models that could make amazing Space Marine. While most of this level work from Scribor is out of control expensive for the average hobbyist, the items below are reletively affordable for those looking for custom stuff to make their army shine.
These side panels look great and are sure to make most Marine players drool!
These Templar shoulder pads are sure to make Captain Obvious for up his $7 for some of these!
And yes, I will be forking over some of my own for these for my fledging 13th Company Wolves
Huge Templar shields!
Smaller, but still large Templar shields!
Now we get into his bases. I have featured some his possessed looking bases, but he offers them in all type and they are all impressive.
Look at that!
mmm ... disemboweled corpses ...
Old School here with the Artist of the Week. Since I am knee deep in converting 2 Tervigons and 2 Harpies, I figured it would be a good idea to show you where the inspiration is coming from. I owe all the great inspiration to an amazing artist called Hydra from the Warp Shadow tyranid forum. His Lictors are simply works of art and reflect not only his graphic mental image of their ferocity, but also his artist ability to render what exists in the realm of nightmares into reality!
The tervigo in the photo above is the inspiration for the one I am creating right now and there is a photo tutorial in his gallery called brood 6, you will find it if you follow the link I am going to provide at the end of this article.
