Caffeineforge

After such a long pause, you could think this blog was dead. I mean, it isn’t, fortunately, but some here come the scavengers anyway! Big, fat charnel grubs are crawling all over caffeineforge… and no, that’s not a baby joke 😀(posting by Antonia)

As I wrote last week, we took a longer break as anticipated, and time will tell if we can keep up with a less tight schedule. Below you’ll see the new list of minis, feel free to add comments!

This week’s mini was painted by Dirk, still in 2016.

He chose a greenish-rotten color scheme, inspired by D&D’s “carrion crawler” including pale tentacles which fit the theme. I like the overall look, especially the shiny surface. Dirk thinks about adding some gloss varnish or glue for extra slime, I think that would work quite well!

Jim’s grub is brightly green:

He went in a similar direction as Dirk, but much brighter – the color really gives us the right idea about the hostility of this critter. I find the choice of grey for the tentacles interesting – is it not to divert the attention from the main green color, or did you have some real-life inspiration for that color scheme, like a caterpillar or reptile?

 

Arjen sent in not one, but two versions of the grub:

He wrote he started the left one some time ago, but didn’t really like the result, therefore he started a new one for the Mini Monday (right one).

I love the opportunity to compare his two approaches – he said he likes some details on the first attempt, eg the color gradient on the mandibles, which he’d like to repeat some time on the second grub, but overall prefers the second one concerning the color scheme.

I think both have their merits, the second one look a bit more like an actual grub, with the pink and fleshy parts.

 

After our announcment of continuing Mini Monday, William got excited and painted his charnel grub too!

He said he chose a certain color triad, organge, purple and bright green to have the grub resemble a poisonous animal, e.g. e tree frog, and I must say: Well done! This crawly really looks like some tropical insect whose colors scream “danger” towards anybody coming too close. He even painted small streaks of green slime, oozing out of the lateral pores! Great idea  🙂

As a new thing he treid turntable photography and even ent in a gif! I hope it works for you readers, I think it’s a neat way to show off a mini.

William, how much time did that cost and what kind of equipment did you need?

this week’s gallery:

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Since several readers requested it and to give all of us a chance to get back on track, next time we will have a show of your recent projects – what do you want to show?

Aftre that we’ll go on with the miniature menue as chosen before and meanwhile think about more options. Any suggestions are welcome  🙂

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02/27/2017 Show me your projects – what did you paint over the winter break? Minis, terrain, or more?

Want to participate in the next post? Email the pictures of your minis until 02/24/17 to

MondayMiniature@fantasymail.de  (It’s a .de domain, in case emails are bouncing)

–> Attention: The submission date for photos is about three days before publishing date, to give us a bit of time to actually write about your pictures  😀

This way you’ll have two weeks/one weekend to paint, and we have one weekend to write (which is the only time of the week where we have some ope minutes).

You can of course send in pics later, but to take out a bit of the stress (most pics arrive here rather last minute) please consider the three day deadline. Later pics will show up in an update and won’t get as much spotlight, I suppose  😉

03/13/17 Anti Paladin, Core Set

03/27/17 Burrowing Horror Vers. 2 (aka Bulette/Land Shark) Core Set

04/10/17 Dwarf Cleric (aka Father Christmas/Dwarven Santa  😉 okay, I’m kidding here) Core Set

04/24/17 Tick Queen, Core Set

05/08/17 Sqoug Warriors (Swamp Invasion Part I) Core Set

This entry was posted by Antonia & Dirk Vogel.