"Doom Serpent Idol - I painted something!" Topic

I haven't painted anything in a long, long while! So, when I felt inspired to paint a few days ago, I rode that wave until I finished one of my new terrain pieces, a Doom Serpent idol sculpted by Dave Cauley:

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

I've got some painting commissions coming up soon, so it felt good to do this as a warm-up.

-Alex in Alaska

It looks good; I really like the eyes.

Awesome!

@Terrement – I was initially going to just paint the eyes like stone like the rest of the model, but even with the gold neck ornament, it looked a little plain.

I thought that gemstone eyes might make for an extra incentive for adventurers to pillage the statue (as if adventurers ever needed incentives to pillage!), and eyes are natural focus points. I never really thought of trying anything other than green or red.

The lizardman is one of mine, it's a Histath warrior (actually a serpent man, but, that's a fine line to parse).

I'll eventually have an entire tribe of them made.

Alxbates, do you know if John Dennet sculpted any more of those Histath miniatures? Idol looks really nice as does the serpent dude. :)

@Der Krieg Geist – Sadly, John was unable to commit to sculpting any more of the Histath.

That's a main reason for my delay in making any more of them… I want to find another sculptor who can match John's quality!

Kind of a shame. I have loved John Dennets sculpts for decades and bought all of the Grenidier minis he did and still have a great many of them. I still have the Terronus Queen of Dragons, he gave me at a gaming con. I was asking him how I could replace or sculpt a missing piece because the one I bought at a store was missing the end of the tail section. I was a teenager then. Almost fifty now. I don't tend to forget good people. :)

Wow!!!!!!!! Those look incredible.

I love it, love it, love it.

Dan

Did the link go missing? I see nothing.

Fantastic!! I had a flashback to my child and the TV show "Land of the Lost" when I saw those alien guys!

They look like the Sleestack! Is that what they were originally sculpted to be?

Tried 3 different browsers. I still see nothing, except there was a brief flash of an image frame.

Who makes those sleestack

I make those Sleestacks – they're Forge of Ice miniatures, too.

Sorry that the images aren't showing up – they're hosted through Imgur, it should be good.

But, if you can't see them – I do have more photos up on the Forge of Ice FB page:

facebook.com/forgeofice

Oh, hey Alex!

I still see no link, but I've seen the Sleestacks by now elsewhere and they're very cool!

-JmC

It looks very good! Very tempting for Conan & Co…

Always love to follow your work. I painted up some of your mutant terror birds for my vulture Dwarf army.