It's good to be king

One of the things that initially really sold me the blightkings kit was an image from the GW Stockholm facebook page:

https://m.facebook.com/GWStockholm/photos/pb.155246067871111.-2207520000.1420268600./787125864683125/?type=1&source=42

 I was just completely blown away by the sense of weight and general rotting grandeur this mini and realised I had to buy the box to recreate that very image, or at least something similar. Here's my take:

This guy will be painted as straight up warhammer piece - there will be no 40k-ifying of this one. 

Though all the parts come from the blight king box its still a conversion as the kit is pretty inflexible. The peices can only fit in one way and only fit one of the five kings - any swapping of parts between them requires some cutting and greenstuffing. This is perhaps my only gripe with the models. It would have been easy to make  at least the heads, arms and weapons more interchangeable. 

On the other hand splicing this guy together didn't take wery long and the kings unconventional construction makes for some very strong and varied poses.  

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Back with a quick progress shot of the mini. 

This guy was/is a blast to paint and I've come a long way just work with washes, letting them do most of the heavy lifting. This is the blight king at the four hour mark. 

Ring out wild bells

"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,

The flying cloud, the frosty light

The year is dying in the night;

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new"

From Tennysons In Memoriam

First mini of the new year. Not my greatest work perhaps, but good clean fun none the less. 

Hells bells

The new standard bearer has acquired a little bell-ringing friend. 

Jingle away shorty!

Happy new year everyone!

Nurgly standards

Had a rummage around my, these days waaaay to big, bitzbox. I've reached the point where I actually have so many bits it's become counter-creative. Partly because it's hard to find the piece you're looking for but mainly because knowing you could potentially build anything somehow makes building just something less fun. 

Anyway. I did manage to tack together this nurgly standard bearer out of an old half-finished conversion and some new blightking bits. 

He needs some greenstuff work - filling and belly-boils and suchlike but apart from that he looks pretty complete. 

The december issue

This is admittedly old news by now, but I finally managed to pick up the latest Warhammer Visions. 

Besides the rather lacklustre and just appallingly uninteresting 50 or so pages devoted to new-ish tyranid models the december issue does have some really nice features. A great, though rather short, showcase of blightkings, lots of GD entries and a bunch of cool army features.

There's also the first installment in what promises to be a series of Blanchitsu articles about John's "sump" board and the quite spectacular inquisimunda game we played on it this summer. This months feature is about the amazing board itself plus John, Pete and Neils characterful NPCs and unless you use a magnifying glass its hard to make out any of my minis. However, further articles will focus on the various gangs and the game itself - so stay tuned. 

 

Fly paper

I havent done anything miniature related lately - between concussion, work, writing a book, work and then, of course, the flu - there´s simply been no time.

In the warm, soggy embrace of Father Nurgle I did however manage to crank out some of these funky heraldic pox fly designs. 

Reality check

Whenever you think modelling 28mm plastics is fiddly work this guy provides something of a reality check:

elegant-nanosculptures-fit-comfortably-inside-the-eye-of-a-needle

Like my facebook page please... I SAID LIKE IT!!!!

As you might know my day job is as an illustrator (and reluctant writer).

I just set up a new public facebook page to display new and old art, promote events like signings and such.
If you like my minis you might very well like my art, so head on over and start clicking thumb shaped buttons!

Here you go: johan egerkrans public

'Eavy IV

Finished! This guy took his time but he turned out okay methinks. 

I'm really pleased with the base - been experimenting with cork to build up the terrain instead of the usual plasticard. It works really well - the features becomes more random and grainy which feels more naturalistic. 

'Eavy III

Work in progress shot of fat bastard. Playing around with washes which is always an interesting process - you never really know what the end result will be...

Papas boy

Here's the latest of Papa Nurgles minions in color. Turned out browner than planned, I was aiming for a dirty off-white, but I'm still quite happy with the armour. 

Here he is next to the gunslinger for a sense of scale (he's mounted on a round 30mm base).

It's nice to be back painting after the concussion - even if I had to paint it slowly with a lot of breaks. 

'Eavy II

More or less done with this guy!

Shortened the barrel quite a bit - perhaps too much. But it did result in a weapon with a pretty interesting profile.

Filled up the giant boils on his belly as well - I'm going for a slightly more subtle nurgly look with this guy. 

'Eavy

There's something about Nurgle... 

The imagery can feel a bit overdone at times, but working on the models completely blows away all such thoughts - it's just so much fun!

Here's a heavy I'm tinkering with. Might change the gun to a heavy bolter as the size feels slightly over the top - even by 40k standards. The question now is wether to keep him nurgly or to turn him into a big servitor/mutie/random fat bloke.