The Painting Frog

Salve pessoal!

 

Em primeiro lugar gostaria de agradecer ao leitor que tem frequentado este blog ao longo dos últimos anos. O que começou como uma janela despretenciosa para compartilhar as fotos de minhas miniatura spintadas culminou, na data de hoje, em uma página que superou os onze mil acessos! Uma vez mais obrigado.

 

Muitos devem estar percebendo a falta de atualizações aqui. Não, eu não parei de pintar mas escolhi uma nova vitrine para compartilhar os trabalhos de pintura com vocês. A partir de hoje o novo The Painting Frog abre suas portas para receber todos os visitantes deste blog. Tentarei aos poucos migrar grande parte do conteúdo mas vou manter este blog como repositório e testemunho dos esforços no hobby até aqui.

 

Aguardo sua visita!

 

Hello there.

 

First and foremost I'd like to thank the faithfull visitors which kept coming back for more despite the lack of updates here. A modest project which counts today more than 11.000 visits and that's thanks to you.

 

From now on you'll find regular updates on the nem and improved The Painting Frog. I'll wait for your visit there.

 

Cheers!

Salve Pessoal!

 

Quase me esqueço de colocar essa miniatura aqui. Muito embora ela não tenha sido utilizada na lista de exército dos Ultramarines por uma questão técnica (Librarians em terminator armor em tese não podem ter familiares) a miniatura de hoje foi confeccionada como parte integrante do army e por isso merece aparecer aqui.

Quando converti meu inquisidor radical acabei guardando a águia do Torquemada assim para converter uma “Cyber Águia” como familiar do Librarian Ultramarine foi bastante fácil bastando fazer em greenstuff o toco de árvore sobre o qual a águia ficaria.

Gosto bastante da miniatura, tanto que pretendo fazer outras para os Librarians dos meus outros armies.

 

 

 

Até a próxima!

 

 

Hello there!

 

A quick update today to showcase the familiar I created for my Librarian. It wasn’t used on the games as having terminator armor prevented me from using one. It stands a great model to my eyes nonetheless and because of that I intend to convert a couple more for the librarians of my other chapters.

 

Cheers!

Salve!

 

Pra arrematar com chave de ouro a seqüência de artigos sobre os Ultramarines e o Fork of Mork nada mais justo que uma seqüência de fotos dos caras em ação.

 

Além das fotos nesta atualização elas foram adicionadas em uma galeria especifica na seção de fotos.

 

Com vocês os Ultramarines no FoM:

 

Até a próxima!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello there!

 

Today’s update is just a bunch of pictures of the Ultramarines showcased here during the last months in the their “theatre of operations”. Ultramarines in the FoM tournament!

 

See you guys sometime soon!

“The Ork warboss behind the “Waaagh” which threatened the entire system was mighty indeed. Much bigger then the average Space Marine he could easily dwarf one of the terminator armor clad marines. As is his huge bulky frame wasn’t enough he commanded his minions from the back of a cyboar which could only be dubbed a monster, its size rivaling the huge behemoths of the chaos gods known as “Juggernauts of Khorne”. As this hulking Ork advanced towards the lines of the Ultramarines Marneus Calgar issued the order: no one but him would face the warboss.

As Marneus’ retinue charged the warboss’ own retinue the two leaders threw themselves into the fray longing to meet in combat. The warboss cleaved marines in two wielding his huge blade carved out of a large piece of scrap metal. At the same time Marneus blasted orks into oblivion with his bolters. An enormous “clang” resonated on the battlefield as the warboss’ blade met the legendary Gauntlets of Ultramar. Roaring with angst the mighty Ork repeatedly slashed madly with his blade. Thrust and blow were parried and dodged by Marneus which in return managed to grasp the ork’s tusked head with his Gauntlets. A puzzled look crossed the Ork’s face as it realized its life was about to come to an abrupt halt. Effortlessly the commander of the Ultramarines smashed the Ork’s head into a bloody pulp”.

 

Salve!

 

Chegamos à ultima atualização do blog com as miniatures do army Ultramarine para o FoM. É bem possível que você visitante assíduo daqui (se é que isso existe) já esteja um tanto cansado de tanto Space marine azul por aqui não? Acredite eu mesmo cansei um pouco hehehehe.

 

Bom, pra concluir com “chave de ouro” deixei pro final ninguém menos que o Comandante maior dos Ultramarines, o Lord Macragge, ele: MARNEUS CALGAR! :p

 

Muitos vão perceber de cara ao ver as fotos que a minha versão do Marneus Calgar tem uma diferença em relação ao modelo lançado pela GW. É que ao montar a miniatura (comprada de segunda mão) eu perdi a cabecinha que veio com ela tendo de apelar pra uma parecida (olho biônico e “service studs” na testa) mas careca. Pensei comigo: “Que mal tem se o cara quiser raspar a cabeça?”.

 

A pintura da miniatura seguiu o padrão do restante do army, sendo que a capa me deixou bastante satisfeito (a despeito do funesto acidente que a envolveu).

 

 

 

 

 

Até a próxima!

 

 

Hello there!

 

The last but not the least is none other then the Lord Macragge: Marneus Calgar! None other then the supreme commander of the Ultramarines would lead my small force into battle.

 

You’ll probably notice the different head. Let’s say that after I misplaced the original one the Lord Macragge decided to shave his head for battle!

 

Cheers and see you again sometime soon!

“He felt the scent on the air long before the pawns of the enemy descended from the skies. He didn’t need his enhanced senses to detect a putrid, acrid smell around them: The smell of Chaos. Screaming down came the Raptors pouring fire over the Ultramarines and the Vindicator tank nearby. With a roar of shear rage he advanced towards them thrashing madly against the foul warriors with his lightning claws. It was a matter of seconds before they laid dead on his feet, black ichors dripping from his terminator armor. He turned to face the oncoming demons spurring his battle brothers into a frenzy with his litanies of hate. It seemed battle never ceased”

 

Salve!

 

Devagar vamos chegando ao fim das miniaturas do army Ultramarine o que me faz pensar que devo voltar a pintar logo se tenciono que vocês continuem a visitar este espaço. Desta feita trago a vocês o Capelão Lemuldus.

 

Essa foi sem dúvida a miniatura que mais causou estragos aos exércitos inimigos. Dono de uma carga devastadora muito pouco sobreviveu a seus ataques. Se tivesse que escolher a “miniature of the tournament” definitivamente ela seria este cara!

 

Digno de nota é o fato de que os braços da miniatura são presos por imãs permitindo assim que eu use-a com o par de lightning claws ou com o crozius arcanum e storm bolter (ou ainda uma combinação destes).

 

Com vocês o Lemuldus:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Até a próxima!

 

 

Hello there!

 

One of the last models left to showcase here I bring you today Chaplain Lemuldus.

 

I said above that if I had to chose a “miniature of the tournament” it would definitely have to be this guy. He packed a hell of a charge often decimating all enemies before the other terminators even had a chance to strike.

 

The one interesting thing about it is that its arms are held in place by magnets allowing me to use the depicted pair of lightning claws or the crozius Arcanum and storm bolter arms supplied with it.

 

Hope you like the model. See you soon.

“The armored squiggoth was huge, by far the biggest he had ever seen on the planetoid ever since the Ultramarines had come to quell the rising Ork Waagh. The beast’s masters laid dead and dying all around and without them the squiggoth reverted to its feral state running berserk through the battlefield killing friend and foe alike heedless to the destruction it was wreaking.

From within the armored cockpit of the Vindicator “Vigilus” Brother Enon waited, still obeying the orders not to engage the huge behemoths until all greenskins were slain, watching while the monster ahead of him crashed head on against the ruins of an old building and tearing apart the howdah, and the weapons carried in it, on his back. Suddenly the voxcom came into life and the orders issued were clear and simple “Bring them down” sounded Captain Valius. The Vindicator tank kicked in almost instantly rumbling towards the squiggoth. The beast was still regaining its balance when the first round impacted against the exposed belly on its right flank. A huge chunk of the creature’s body was torn away blasted into a million pieces raining noxious meat and blood around it, and still the creature stood. Roaring of pain and angst it charged towards the approaching tank aiming its tusks and preparing a devastating blow. The tank didn’t swerve, stepping onto the accelerator Enos drove the tank towards the monster head on. “BOOOM” sounded a second shot from the demolisher cannon, this time impacting squarely onto the beast’s left shoulder throwing it off balance. As is came forward crashing down on it’s knees Enos swerved to his left one of the beasts tusks inadvertently tearing apart one of the adamantine plates that covered the vehicle’s hull. The squiggoth tried to rear back up but the blasted shoulder made standing up impossible as the ensuing explosion had left his front leg dangling by a few threads of muscle and tendon. The monster roared again, the sheer power its frustration shaking the battleground and the Space Marines that had gathered around the fallen creature and now peppered it with bolter fire. It still roared and vented its fury as the last round fired by the vindicator impacted on its head”.

 

Salve!

 

Desde o começo a falta de armas pesadas me preocupava na concepção do army Ultramarine. A escolha de levar uma unidade de comando (HQ) tão cara em pontos como a unidade do Marneus e seu retinue de terminators me deixou com bem poucos pontos para investir em tanques. Muito embora as duas unidades táticas contassem com armas pesadas e seus transportes também estivessem equipados com elas (Razorbacks com twin linked lascannons) ainda assim eu me sentia “desarmado”, principalmente contra exércitos rápidos e de horda (como os Tyranids e Orks). Depois de alguma ponderação decidi incluir no exército um tanque bem pouco usado por aqui: O Vindicator.

 

O Vindicator tem uma arma fenomenal, o demolisher cannon (STR 10; AP 2; 24”; Ordnance) cuja única desvantagem é o fato deste ter um alcance um tanto curto (24 polegadas) o que obriga o tanque a perder alguns tiros enquanto se movimenta para chegar a distancia mínima ou aguarda que os inimigos se aproximem. Uma vez dentro do alcance o tanque brilha. O fato de sua arma ser “ordnance” implica em algumas regras especiais (desvio do tiro) porém quando o canhão consegue acertar uma unidade é muito difícil que alguém sobreviva.

 

A performance do tanque nas partidas me surpreendeu. Embora seja um tanto vulnerável ele conseguiu devastar diversas unidades nos jogos onde não foi destruído de cara, sendo responsável por destruir diversos Orks na partida contra o Silvio, boa parte de uma unidade de Bloodletters contra o Lustosa e duas unidades com um único tiro em uma partida contra o Topa.

 

A pintura do veículo seguiu a premissa aplicada aos soldados do exército. Um tanque já bastante avariado pela longa campanha e bastante sujo (quem lavaria seus tanques em batalha constante?).

 

Pra representar a pintura, após a pintura do tanque ter sido concluída, empreguei algumas aguadas (washes) bastante diluídas de preto e marrom, bem como generosa aplicação de giz pastel para emular poeira e sujeira.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Até a próxima.

 

 

Hello there.

 

Not wanting to be the one who brings a knife to a gunfight it downed on me pretty soon I needed more heavy weapons in the army if I was to do any better than offer a fighting resistance to other players’ victories on the tournament.

 

The disadvantage of using expensive units in small games is that they drain on the already somewhat scarce point allowance we have. Thus using the uber expensive unit composed by Marneus Calgar, a retinue of terminators and accompanying chaplain and librarian left my “point pool” depleted.

 

But I still felt I needed a tank over some more troops, specially because of the heavier punch they pack. I was torn between a regular Predator (not the lascannon totting version) and a seldom used Vindicator tank. Well this was supposed from the start to be different. I had already experimented with so much new stuff that it felt incoherent not to give the Vindicator a chance.

 

Suffice to say I was not disappointed by it!

 

See you guys soon.

“The huge armored form walked towards the hillcrest. Using a long ornate staff he seemed weary as if the carnage and bloodshed had finally taken its toll on the centuries old warrior. Around him the reinforcements brought down by the Thunderhawk gunship mopped up the last few remnants of the now scattered Eldar strike force. From the hill top he could see the burnt soil where Marneus and his retinue of warriors, himself included, had wiped the eldtrich commander and the accompanying warriors on jetbikes from existence. Flames could still be seen burning among the wreckage as he unclasped the psychic hood attached to his terminator armor.

As a cannon round impacted on the central structure of the battlefield on the distance, certainly trying to weed out the elder hiding within, he crouched down and scooped up a bit of earth from the ground, grinding it on his closed palm as he stood back up leaning heavily on his staff. He saw one of the so called banshees, an exarch as they called their leading officers, decapitate three marine brothers with one single sweep of her gracious blades as she somersaulted in the air, just to be torn apart by bolter fire as she landed on he feet. He had seen a thousand battles before and he’d see a thousand more before his end, but he felt something different about this one. Something… out of place, as if someone peered over his shoulders or hid on the very brinks of reality watching as the two forces butchered themselves. He outstretched his palm and blew the earth, now ground into fine dust. Some of the particles defied the laws of gravity and hung mid air shaping into the form of an eight pointed star. “Lord Calgar…” he said over the closed communication channel he shared with the chapter master “… we’be been tricked. The true enemy lies ahead and once more we face the traitors of mankind” informed the grim faced Tiberias as he walked down clasping his psychic hood back in place. There was still more war to wage before the day was over”.

 

Salve pessoal!

 

Mais um marine, desta feita ninguém menos que Brother Librarian Tiberias! Logo que essa miniatura saiu, por ocasião do lançamento do novo codex Dark Angels, eu sabia que ela seria uma excelente adição ao army. De alguma maneira algo nela evoca bem o “espírito” de um librarian, possivelmente a mão aberta e o braço esticado como se ele estivesse fazendo uso de algum poder psíquico. A miniatura anterior de librarian em terminator armor (que pode ser conferida aqui convertida e pintada pelo “Ultra”Marcos do CPT&P) era um tanto estática pro meu gosto e esse novo lançamento foi sem dúvida uma das melhores miniaturas de Space Marines dos últimos tempos.

 

Assim, bastante empolgado com a peça me atirei com afinco na execução da pintura da mesma para o FoM, o que acabou rendendo resultados posto que a mesma foi laureada com o prêmio de melhor miniatura individual do torneio.

 

Sem mais delongas as fotos do cara:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Até a próxima.

 

Hello there!

 

Today’s update brings you the photos of Brother Librarian Tiberias which was part of the army I took to the FoM tournament back in may.

 

This model completely blew me away back when it was released a while ago alongside all the new Dark Angel models. I knew almost instantly I had to have one in the army.

 

My efforts on painting it were rewarded when it won the best painted model award on the FoM!

 

Let me know what you think of it and do come back for more.