Hello wolfpack, I painted the orc for Orctober 2022. But I noticed that I never showed it to you here. Here it is... Mezgob the scrap boss modeled by Mezgike.

Keep on happy painting!

Sebastian

Hello Jungle, i painted the bust of Roman in the course of the challenge. Unfortunately, I didn't get to take pictures. I hereby make up for this and do not want to withhold it from you. Here it is. Hope you like it...

Keep on happy painting!

Sebastian

Hey all,

welcome back to another look at a recently finished mini. This is a special project for me - a slight diversion from my usual historical stuff. I painted it for a little miniature exchange with Maartje "MaGie" Giesbers. I have always been a great fan and admirer of Maartje's wonderfully lively, colorful and clean paintjobs, so I was super-happy when she agreed to do a little mini swap with me.

At first, it took me a little to find the perfect miniature for the swap, but since her preference for painting strong female miniatures is well established (well, she even wrote a book chapter on that...), it was clear to me that it needed to look for a nice - and ideally playful - female sculpt. Add in that Maartje is a PhD-carrying marine biologist, and voilá: the idea to build a little scene of a female Deep One (Lovecraftian humanoid dwellers of the seas) taking a leisurely walk at the beach was born. And, of course, it had to be done in my favorite small scale of 1/72nd!

The original miniature is from the Fantasy Pin-up line by Artizan Guild and was slightly resculpted and printed by my jungle brother Andy (THANKS, man!). During painting I aimed to recreate the color scheme of white sharks and also emulate scaly, irregular skin. Pics were taken by Maartje - who, I am very happy to report - really liked the mini! :-)

The project is also on Putty&Paint, if you feel like leaving a vote.

Talk to you soon. All the best,

D.

 Good Morning Jungle,

it's been a while since I finished this framed miniature diorama, called "Cadia Stands!" and I just saw I completly forgot to show it here on Massive Voodoo. Here we go! It is a really intense diorama, filled with emotion. I created a video that gives insight and explains a lot about it. You can find it here.

Beside the words I explained in the video it does not need much more explanation. It is and was a painful project and was composed to transport this exact emotion. If you are interested in an in depth look of the build you can find a step by step tutorial here.

Cadia Stands!
2023

Hey all,

welcome to the first part of my project diary in which I show an actual miniature. If you're wondering what this is, please check the prologue, in which I explain the idea and goals of the diary. At the bottom of that post, you will find a link to all parts of this series (constantly updated as soon as new parts are published).

Today, I want to highlight two figures that I have shown on the blog before - and which I painted long before thinking about that whole Bornhöved-themed project series. I will not go into much detail - historical or related to the miniature, as I have shown them before. But I thought they should be shown again to make sure that the project diary is "complete".

Knight of the City of Lübeck

The first one is a knight bearing the arms of the City of Lübeck. I painted that one a long while back some time in 2020... While the City of Lübeck mostly deployed citizen troops, I read somewhere that some cities also "hired" noblemen to fight on their side. I have no idea whether those knights would actually have worn the colors of the cities, but I liked the idea and wanted to practice my freehand skills a bit, so I decided to give this knight a livery sporting the Lübeck coat of arms. If you want to read more on this mini, and see some more pics, please follow this link.

Otto I, the Child

The second mini is a portrait of one of the protagonists of the Battle of Bornhöved, Otto I, nicknamed 'the Child', the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He was a nephew of King Valdemar II's and fought on the Danish side during the 1227 battle. You can actually see Otto's relationship to the Danish crown from his standard: blue lions on yellow ground with the red hearts were Valdemar's royal coat of arms. During the battle, Otto was captured and had to spend one and a half years in captivity of Heinrich, Count of Schwerin, before he was released in January 1229 for a hefty ransom. Again, please follow the link if you want to learn a bit more on Otto and the mini project.

Both projects are also on Putty & Paint if you feel like leaving a vote: Lübeck Knight and Otto the Child.

Thanks for your interest. Talk soon!

D.

Hey all,

this is David, and today it is my great pleasure to share with you some pics of my most recently finished miniature: Bu, the Goblin. The mini is a wonderful little sculpt by Tre Manor (Red Box Games) - and it has been the first 28mm mini I have painted for some time...

The project was a quick and fun paint-job, which I painted as a present for a good friend's son. In terms of the color scheme, I definitely knew that I wanted something else than the standard "green-skin" goblin. So, I went with a nice, warm ochre-base tone. The base was an easy affair, as well: just a gaming base, some cork, a little Milliput and a couple of grass tufts.

BTW, if you're wondering: the name "Bu" is a little hommage to a RPG character I played a long while back. :-) I am looking forward to painting another Red Box goblin some time soon! As always, feel free to drop me a line or two in the comments section, below, or through my email at

david [at] massivevoodoo [dot] com

All the best, talk to you soon!

D.

Hi Jungle,

earlier this year I finished a comission that was based on my client's wish to recreate a diorama that I have already done in the past. Cats was a super joyful diorama to create and I was looking forward to create a second, new and fresh version of it.

I was really happy to know that this would be a surprise gift for a birthday and really enjoyed tackling it as working on a diorama with animals, especially cats is always great.



After finishing the project I prepared it for a save journey to its new destination and was really excited to hear back from the birthday party. This photo made me superhappy and I thank you both for your trust and joy in my creations:

Here are some more photos of the diorama:

 Hey Jungle,

I realized I really need to catch up with some long overdo posts here on the blog.
Time goes so fast these last couple of months and I have been very busy with many, many things.


Roman NEWS:
I decided to seperate my work "romanlappat.com" even more from this beloved Massive Voodoo blog. The MV blog should be a place for the MV-Team and not a mixture of my work and the Team's work.
Therefor, I will write all future posts about Workshop and Coaching Reviews via an area of my homepage www.romanlappat.com.

Also older ones will move there in a good overview of reviews. The organisational aspects for all my workshops will also move there. At the moment I am reconstructing, updating and doing a big overhaul on the page to get all this ready for 2024. Besides that I am also launching a Patreon soon (November 1st 2023) where you will have chance to support me as an artist in the form of a classical patronage.

I will do only my own hobby posts here and speak about miniatures that I have painted and just become a normal part of the MV-Team, not a main focus for this blog. All I can say is that it is lovely to see the Team so active lately.

More about this all soon!

Here is my version of Connor!
A great bust sculpted by Ivan Mata.
Guess what? Can you see the small scars? They are made from my beard hair and matte varnish, then painted. Yak! This bust is sold and in private collection.

Hello everyone,

It's Andy, again. Today, I want to show to you my finished project “Tokyo rain”.

First ideas - Street fashion

The miniature is from NutsPlanet called Agent Aida (1/35). As soon as I saw her, I had a scene of street fashion walking on the pavement in mind. Of course, the pistol in her right hand was too much, so I decided to cut it away and did a slight repositioning of the fingers of the right hand.

I started the project with priming black and white and some Grisaille underpainting. To get the first impression of my idea, I tinted the different parts with GW Contrast paints. 

Refining the idea – Tokyo by night

The plan was to finish the lady at the MV-Family-Meeting from this point on in a cool comic style with bold black shadows.

At some point during the Meeting, Roman came up with the idea of a strong atmospheric light to create an additional punch and I really appreciated the input. The idea of rainy Tokyo with all the neon lights arose. Just google „Tokyo rain“ and you’ll see it :)

To paint such strong athmospheric OSL effect, I usually start with a darker tone and continuously define the effect with increasingly brighter tones the closer I get to my imagined light source.

The easiest way to do that is with an airbrush. Grab your color of choice, dilute it to have more control about the opacity and shoot it from your preferred angle, just as simple as that. 

With a brush it’s a bit more challenging but also doable – paint a small mark at your base in the preferred angle to save the perspective and touch every surface visible from this angle with the color of your choice.

Tokyo Nights – in the rain

Working on the OSL and neon atmosphere I had another idea to make the project a bit more interesting. How about adding rain to the scene? The effect of raindrops was on my bucket list of things to try for years and this was the perfect project for it. I painted some circles on the ground and used the icicles tutorial to create the water-drops. 

Final results

And here are the pictures of the final results.

Thanks for reading and your interest. Feel invited to comment in the section below.

Andy