Month: March 2025

Gnome Greenskeeper

Gnome Greenskeeper riding his piglet, with two gnomes on foot
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Fun little side project this week. Somebody in a local group chat mentioned the upcoming Hairfoot Jousting game coming out sometime in May. That reminded me of this cool little “cavalry” model I had primed and ready to paint: the amazing Gnome Greenskeeper, sculpted by Tom Mason. Tom is a really cool dude. I’ve been a fan of his sculpts since the Mercs days. He has been a big inspiration, and ressource, for my own sculpting with his tutorial video channel and online sculpting hangouts.

Back to the gnomes at hand. I painted a couple gnomes for Tom during his Kickstarter project, as previews. You can see them in the featured photo at the top. I still had a bunch more to paint, received after his successful campaign, including the Greenskeeper, that I had already prepared a while back. This little mounted fellow will be perfect to lead my jousters, or any other whimsical projects I get into. He was a blast to paint: bright colours fit so well on them, and the piglet offers a nice change in the palette.

Of Void and Sky

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I’m slowly adding variety to my Carnevale gangs. This time a couple models for the Doctors: a Doctor(ess) of the Firmament, and a Hollow(wo)man. The first one will give me a magic user other than my Leader, and the second one is a cheap support model that will help to fill up my Madmen willpower batteries.

The colour scheme is pretty much set for my Doctors now, so this part was pretty easy. The only thing I had to think about was the emptied glowing orbs on the Hollowman. The studio used a bright red for their orbs, that contrast well with the blue they used for the model with the Nexus orbs, like the Madmen. I used magenta for my own nexus orbs instead of blue. My first though was to use a bright green to get a good contrast, but that would have been too close to the teal of the straightjacket, so I went with orange instead. It doesn’t stand out that much, but I think it still looks good.

Doctor of the Firmament

Hollow(wo)man

And as usual, an action shot to close out the post, against some members of the Guild.

Combat scene between the Doctor of the Firmament and a Hollowman against members of the Guild

The children of Ptah

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I got interested in Wargods of Aegyptus by Crocodile Games a while back (that is a trend…). I traded a small lot used, and played a test game or two. Sadly, other projects got in the way, as well as a lack of interest in my gaming group, so it was put back in a box to wait for a better time.

This time has arrived! Other players in my local group have started collecting, in the past year, and my painting speed and focus have also gotten better. I painted a starter warband around the children of Ptah in the past month, of about a 1000 points. I got some more models that I will slowly add to it, but this give me a good core to  start playing and try out the game again.

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