Originally posted by Penguin
... photos of Lord Castor of Kislev!
Sorry for the photo quality, hopefully soon I will get a new camera (thanks Iain
). He does look a lot better irl (he\'s VERY close up) but I hope you like him
I will add this link to pastor\'s thread when it\'s up.
Well, here he is folks!
I realise the photos are not great (jungle background on a snow base), but I hope you can see him. I plan to enter him for Youngbloods this year, and also pastor\'s competition.
Many thanks to my good friend Iain for letting me use his camera
Anyway, about the mini... After many hours of drilling, I swapped his piddly little sword for a Kislev Halberd (thanks Mark, thanks also for help with the colour scheme). I kept with the original GW colour scheme, but faded it by adding lots of greys, to look bleached and worn by years of hard Northern weather. I added red tones to his face and skin to make him look ruddy in the cold, and there are no golds-all the metals are silver only
I attempted some limited, subtle freehand and am quite pelased with how that came out. I kept the colour scheme as simple as possible, and the browns tonally similar: the leaves on the base (thanks Rune and Albert) have branches the same colour as the shaft of his halberd, the bow on his back, his boots and the beavers.
Yes. Beavers. I hope you like them, they are all sculpted. Castor is the Romance language version of beaver, a nice bit of history there
The base is slate, with real soil and a lot of snow, along with a manky Chaos shield (Kislev are great enemies of Chaos). The blade of the halberd is a tribute to nano of Spanish Team.
I would like to thank some people who have helped along the way: Torstein, Mark, Rune, Albert, Fernando, Banshee, Margo, Hashmallum, mistamick, everybody who has commented on my past minis, and all my friends on wonderful CMON, and all my friends IRL. And of course thanks to pastor for starting this competition, and good luck to all entrants! Thanks again to Iain, sorry to anyone I forgot
I hope you like him
*Don\'t forget I\'m only 13 :innocent:*
Comments and critique welcomed!
~Bill
*edit* I have deleted the votey link, the photos are too bad. Scroll down for pics
thanks for your comments