05 March, 2012

Hobby thought - an ecclesiary parade

Hobby thoughts. So many. Thousands of ideas and so few hours dedicated to actual modelling and painting.

The other day I imagined something that I would love to see done. A parade of silent, parading, ecclesiary figures. Just a selection of plastic heads with suitably depressed or stern facial expressions, some arms including the odd autopistol or stubgun, and lots of greenstuff. I imagine the models on gaming bases, but at the same time I see them as s blurr of colours and movement. Like a background corner of a John Blanche illustration turned into gaming models. Red robes, black and white check-patterns, pale faces, and blackened steel weaponry.

I would like to see this parade some day. To create it and try to be as expressive and bold in the creation process as I have imagined it. That might prove a challenge though.

10 comments:

  1. This sounds like a wonderful idea and I would love to see you achieve it!

    Cheers
    Dave

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  3. I would very much love to see that group of miniatures someday...

    I have always wanted to see more of the characterful "incidental" figures that are seen in and around my favorite pieces of 40k art brought to life...

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  4. I'm sure you've seen this many times. There are plenty of good options in the background of this picture.

    http://bloodofkittens.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/john-blanche.jpg

    Also some neat stuff in the top center of John's Black templars piece from the cover of 3rd ed. 40k

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  5. The "Sisters of Battle" cover is such a GRAND piece of art. I saw the original artwork at the "Art of Warhammer"-exhibition in Nottingham Castle back in Summer 2006... Such rich colour and such fantastic details and textures.

    I really feel like having a bold and expressive go at the project. Just modelling away and taking chances...

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  6. Now Jakob that sounds like a project and a half. I'd love to see it. It would make for a spectacular squad entry for GD.

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  7. ...or diorama maybe? Very interesting subject indeed. It could work out pretty well as one of those old school 2D'ish dioramas, couldn't it?

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  8. I was thinking of that Classic Late 80s Citadel painting guide with the undead vs dwarfs. The aim for the group, however, is not GD but rather Quick expressive painting.

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  9. I thought about this project all day, yesterday. I saw it passing under a mini Imperial style Arc de Triomphe, laden with holy images and aquila. I also thought about reliquary bearers or carts and masses of wailing penitents in barbed shackles. But I guess the subjects are endless really, such is the scope of 40k.

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  10. Why not try to revolutionize GD concept by bombing their cabinets with masterly yet passionately painted expressive entries? That would be something - Dirty Painted squads and impassioned montages decorating gaps between entry after entry of beautifully blended/blending minimen.

    Yes, Blanche's Dwarfs vs. Undead (March of the Undead, was it?) popped in to my mind at the same second I read your post. That and the ones illuminating 40k universe on the pages of Rogue Trader and Fantasy universe in Heroes for Wargames.

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