Boekenwuurm's diorama's and assorted miniatures

[boekenwuurm]

Hello!

I collect goblins, but sometimes I see some miniatures that are to nice to not paint them. I want to paint these miniatures to be some nice display piece. Here I want to keep a log of these pieces.

At the moment I have:
Witches of diskworld: Base assembled/ 1/3trh painted
High elf test minature : Miniature assembled

So to start, the diskworld witches. When I saw Esme Weatherwax on broom in my local game shop, I couldn't let her stay there. SO I painted her:



I learned that the other witches, nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick also have awesome sculpts, so I got them as gifts in December, and the idea was to make a display base on the lit of a q-tips plastic container with cork, sand and etched brass. The container could store the miniatures, that would be fixed to the lid with magnets:



I washed the container and primed it, varnished the box and started pained the lid. Looked really nice. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of it.
Then disaster striked....
The paint cracked, falling of the box and the sides of the box. Tried to respray it, but it wouldn't help.

Bummer.

But I started again, putting the whole lit in a bowl of oven degreaser and after that a bowl of nailpolish remover to saving the etched brass. I throw away the storage idea and made a base from plasticard. I formed a rectangle and two sides, making the roughshape of the base.
I wanted some height, and some natural looking rocks, so I took a slate roof tile and broke it to pieces, filling in the rough shape I made of the sides of the base. Any holes inside the structure where filled with cork, wood filler, miliputt and greenstuff. Then I started making grass with greenstuff, putting the etched brass leaves and ivy in the half cured green stuff.




Looking back, I'm happier with this base. It looks more like how I imagined the Ramtops and leaves more room for detailing. For example, it could really use a Nac Mac Feegle. But to make the little bugger I needed a few iterations to make it small enouch. The smallest one is as large as the shoe of a witch, which is small enough for this goal:


And that is how far the diorama is at the moment.

[boekenwuurm]

Sorry for the large pictures, I had them resized in photobucket, but it looks like it post the unresized pictures?

[Little Joe]

Very nice, it looks good so far. Did you use magnets to keep them in position?

The Nac Mac Feegle tryout line is interesting to see, that should be tough to paint.

[boekenwuurm]

The witches are glued to the tree things on the round game bases. The under that there are magnets, and on the stones there will be metal strips to keep the witches fixed to the stones.

You where right about the feegle, it is difficult to paint . This is how it looks at the moment:

[Daniel36]

Welcome to the Random Logs, fellow Dutchman.

Great start. Love the witches diorama. It almost looks like they are holding a race or are in hot pursuit or something. Really cool work! Hope to see more soon.

[Jormi_Boced]

Those witches look pretty cool!

[boekenwuurm]

Welcome to the Random Logs, fellow Dutchman.

Great start. Love the witches diorama. It almost looks like they are holding a race or are in hot pursuit or something. Really cool work! Hope to see more soon.

Thank you! That was exactly how I wanted it to look.

Those witches look pretty cool!

Thank you.


So, tonight I was in the mood to quickly paint something. Because I participated in the mantic kickstarter, I expect someday soon a small army of elves at my front door. The mantic elves are in my opinion to small for metal ammor. I plan to paint them in leather. To test this look I painted this. The letter looks okay, not yet sure about the golden accents. Just a test miniature, so not my neatest paint job or pictures.

[boekenwuurm]

Back on working on the witches diorama. I added some more foiliage and did a test piece on how I want the water to look:

[boekenwuurm]

Some progress: Finished greenstuff and sprayed black:


And first layers of paint: