Nick's Hobby Bloggy

Welcome back for this (circa) Thanksgiving hobby update! Today, I finished out the remainder of my current Masters of the Underearth miniatures for SAGA Age of Magic. 

Hello, everyone! In the last few days, I focused on finishing up my Great Kingdoms Warlord mounted on flying beast. After completing him, my Great Kingdoms army is effectively "done," barring potentially adding a sorcerer and mounted warriors (I'm not sold on the combat effectiveness or need for either, to be honest). Regardless, those are minis for another update! I'm particularly proud of how this guy turned out. I don't consider myself a sculptor and rarely have I attempted to sculpt so much myself, rather than using pre-existing bits (to see the sculpted parts isolated, take a look at this previous blog ). For the coloration, I looked to nature for inspiration. Seeing as the Teutonic knights's heraldry uses a black eagle as its charge, I figured I would use them as reference for the aquiline portion of my griffin. Heraldry of the Teutonic Order   Actual black eagles For the hind portions of the griffin, I wanted do keep ...

Welcome back! Tonight, I continued working on my Great Kingdoms warband, focusing on the flying beast that my warlord will be mounted on. Below are the steps I took.