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Showing posts with label Lovecraft. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 March 2018

3D Printing

Ok folks, it's been a long time since either my last post or the last The Hub Systems podcast. The rationale here is simple and a frequent one - there's just bee a whole bunch of other things going on! Work has been busy, our D&D campaign is coming to its climax, I'm playing another campaign on Roll20 and that doesn't leave a whole lot of time to devote to other things. I've also taken a step back from Firestorm, as people involved in the horrible Spartan v3 seem to be quite prevalent on the Warcradle Studios community, and I'd rather not get involved in that whole thing - I'll just wait for what Warcradle do.

On the other side of things I've been doing a lot of 3D printing, and am now an official reseller for prints from the remarkably talented Duncan "Shadow" Louca - a 3d modeller who has worked freelance for several games companies, many of which you will know. he does a much better introduction to himself than me - here his his website;

https://www.duncanshadow.com/

He also has an active Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/shadowminiatures/) and a Patreon site (https://www.patreon.com/Duncan_shadow/posts) - check them out and follow him, and you can always contribute to receive his STL files - they're very high quality and look great when printed.

On that note, I actually sponsor Duncan with a commercial licence, and can sell printed models for those of you that don't have a 3D printer but like the look of his sculpts. I'm putting together a website for this at the moment, but for now I'll just be selling stuff that people contact me about until it's up and running. So if you fancy a moonbeast or Kaiju, some rocky terrain or anything else you see on his sites, just drop me a line through the site or Facebook.

Here are a few of the things you can expect from his sculpts and my printing. First is one of the largest models I've printed to date, the Mother of a Thousand Young (32mm figure for scale purposes)




Next up is the similarly horrific Moonbeast




And then the Corpse Eater Kaiju;



Note here I've not filled any of the joins in these multi-part sculpts.

Right, that's all for now - hopefully I'll be back in the not-too-distant future with the website for the sculpt prints and another update.

Monday, 19 October 2015

The Hub Systems Episode 4 - Strange Aeons & Cthulhu Wars


Well it's quite a picture-heavy post today, first up are some of the minis we've painted for Strange Aeons v2. First up is a Werewolf I put up on Facebook a week or so back;


I also starter this skeleton dude who I've played as an Ancient Warrior...basework done, all the shading and detail to go!


Next is Oscars newest Threshold agent...he's not done a bad job at all!



Plus his rather flamboyant character....


For me next is the Shapeless Thing...though this was actually the last thing I painted...first up meeting Oscar's new Agent!





And then I've a large worm where I wanted to illustrate how easy it is to create a decent looking mini for SAv2. Here's a reaper worm that cost less than £2, primed in auto primer;


Next a basecoat - normally I'd spray this but as the weather has been crappy and it doesn't really make a difference, I brushed this one;


Then it's a coat of Army Painter Strong Tone;


And then drybrushing;



A drybrush around the mouth with pink, then red for the inside and detail painting the teeth...took about 20 minutes excluding the drying time for the Strong Tone.


The we come to the nerdfest that is Cthulhu Wars...


Note the HUGE box...6.3kg (14lbs)! You can see my Threshold character dwarfed by it...

You get lots inside, but I'll lay examples out here in the order we did the unboxing in;



The Great Old Ones...(and some Dark Young!)


Cthulhu...."Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"


Nyarlathotep - love this guy...damned if I can say his name though!


Sub-Niggurath


Dark Young...it's behind you!


Hastur


Night Gaunt


 The King in Yellow....Have you seen the Yellow Sign?


Hunting Horror

Flying Polyp


Fungi from Yuggoth (but suspiciously like a Mi-Go to us!) 


Byakhee


Shoggoth


Star Spawn


Undead


Cultist


Ghoul (not a Ghast as we thought on the podcast!)


Deep One


Some little marker things!

I'll put another post up with more pictures