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Jeremias Papi

 

from https://www.artstation.com/kd428/albums/95461

 

from https://www.artstation.com/kd428/albums/71954

 

some different interpretations of Grashrak’s Despoilers from https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/25/the-colours-of-beastgravegw-homepage-post-3/

"Ben G



I decided to create some supernatural-looking forest denizens of Ghur for my Grashrak’s Despoilers. I liked the idea of these deep-pink, weirdly coloured creatures stalking around in the depths of the forests hunting and picking off the unwary.

The most you might see before they’re upon you is a lilac blur in your peripheral vision, just enough to make you turn your head as you’re struck on the back of the neck and dragged off into the lush, green depths – never to be heard from again. Be careful where you wander, adventurer, malignant eyes are watching. Always."

[...]

"Rhu



Despite dalliances with Chaos Knights, daemons and hammers, Beasts of Chaos remain my first and dearest Warhammer love. I had the privilege of playtesting Grashrak’s Despoilers for the new season of Warhammer Underworlds, so jumped at the opportunity to finally paint them. This experience was so intensely exciting it caused me to have a small but significant dissociative episode!

Top tip – if you’re working on organic models like Beastmen with lots of warm tones, adding a cold colour, potentially via warpaint, works wonders."

[...]

"Frank



My warband represents beastmen who are on the brink of being converted to servants of Nurgle. You can see a subtle touch of corruption in them, but they are not quite in the loving embrace of Papa Nurgle… yet. I started out with a base coat of Wraithbone and shaded all the fur and skin areas with Cassandora Yellow, followed by a drybrush of Eshin Grey. This was followed up by a shade of Carroburg Crimson and a drybrush of Dawnstone. A wash of Seraphim Sepia ties the colours together and hides the infection that is waiting to break out."

 

some more different interpretations of Grashrak’s Despoilers
from https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/17/warband-focus-grashraks-despoilersgw-homepage-post-2/



and from https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/25/the-colours-of-beastgravegw-homepage-post-3/

"David



I’ve had the idea of painting up some snow-themed Beasts of Chaos for a while, and Grashrak’s Despoilers gave me the perfect opportunity to have a go. I painted the majority of my models with Contrast paints, which are an absolute godsend when painting various shades of brown, as they make it easy to differentiate leather straps from dirty cloth and bone.

The only areas that don’t use Contrast are the metallics – and the lashings of Blood for the Blood God on the Bray-Shaman’s dagger and the Bestigor’s axe. I like the think they’re in the middle of a pretty grisly ritual with one unfortunate Kurnothi as a sacrifice."

[...]

"Nick



I asked around to hear what people were doing with their Grashrak’s Despoilers miniatures and there was a running theme. Frank was going for Nurgle and Ben was doing a Slaanesh theme, so I was inspired to do something similar. They had to be blue and gold,* so Tzeentch-themed it was! Luckily, the Tzaangor kit made minor conversions easy – I made a few weapon swaps and added a shield to Draknar to give a hint of the Tzeentch theme and, of course, the paint job! For the skin, I used the ‘Eavy Metal painting guide from @WarhammerOfficial on Instagram and I’m really happy with the result."

 

Ramen by Erik Halsey

 

some different interpretations of Skaeth’s Wild Hunt
from https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/18/warband-focus-skaeths-wild-huntgw-homepage-post-2/



from https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/25/the-colours-of-beastgravegw-homepage-post-3/

"Joel



The Kurnothi models appealed to me immediately as the sculpts are beautiful and I love their energy. I usually base my models with snow – working my way through many pots of Valhallan Blizzard – so I’ve done my best to theme them around the spirit of winter, using pale colours and softer textures, sticking to a cold palette of blues and purples. I love the idea that they almost become one with the environment and that even their eyes and hair adapt to the changing of the seasons."

[...]

"Louise



Painting this warband was really good fun! I love the dynamic poses and the variation of miniatures you get in the kit. It was also a great excuse for me to get a bit more practice painting eyes and facial features on more human-like miniatures and try to work out a clean paint recipe for skin.

For the colours, I wanted to go for a spring theme, with lots of vibrant pinks and greens whilst also throwing in a few ‘Saturday-morning-cartoon’ aspects by adding vibrant glowing weapons and, of course, a pink lion. It totally made sense at the time, trust me!"

[...]

 

"John



I’m really excited to play the new season, so I got my own Skaeth’s Wild Hunt painted as quickly as I could, giving them a nice autumnal theme. Contrast paints did a lot of the heavy lifting here – Nazdreg Yellow for blonde hair was a revelation, while Darkoath Flesh for skin saved me a lot of time as well. I also challenged myself to not use any green on these miniatures and that helped tie the look of the warband together, while Aethermatic Blue created some vivid accents on a couple of models as well."

[...]

"Ben B



I snatched up the chance to paint the Kurnothi, as I can’t wait to venture into Beastgrave and wanted to get the new season off to a great start! I used mostly Shades and Contrast paints over Grey Seer to paint the complete warband in under two hours. I can always go back and do extra highlights to take these from Battle Ready to Parade Ready at a later date, but this will definitely be my first stage on all the warbands to come out this season so I can play with my painted minis in the savage environs of Beastgrave."

 

In the Walls of Eryx by ValhaHazred


"Add this one to the list of things Avatar suspiciously resembles. It's a tale of humans going to Venus to steal the crystals that the Venusian Reptile Men worship and one prospector learning that maybe the supposed savages have the right to their own planet. It does end a little more fatally for the prospector in this one. It's still pulp horror after all.

This is actually one of my favourite Lovecraft stories. It's not exactly one of his best but I think it's neat. It's also notable for being one of his few "maybe xenophobia isn't so great" stories."

 

Porus of Pauravas by JFoliveras

"After making an alliance with Ambhi / Taxiles, raja of Taxila, modern Punjab, Alexander and his Indian ally marched together to the banks of the Hydaspes / Jhelum river, to face a more formidable raja known by the Greeks as Porus of Pauravas. The two Punjabi kings had been in hostile terms with each other for a while before the arrival of Alexander. With Alexander crossing the Hindu Kush with a considerable force of Greek and Asian men, Ambhi saw an opportunity to turn the scale in his favour and defeat his enemy Porus once and for all. Porus was a fearless warrior of great stature, considered a giant for the standards of the time. At the battle of the Hydaspes, Porus led a vast army of infantry, cavalry, 1000 chariots and 200 war elephants. Alexander and Ambhi on the other side commanded an army of Greeks with their Balkan auxiliaries, Persians and other Asian contingents, and Indians. It was the most horrific battle of Alexander’s whole career. The Indians wielding two-handed broadswords that could cut a man in half, scythed chariots cutting limbs, hundreds of elephants crushing skulls and impaling enemies with their tusk swords, the Macedonians throwing javelins to the eyes of the elephants and their mahouts, and the beasts going out of control and crushing friend and foe alike. Both sides had a lot of casualties. Porus even lost two of his sons in the battle. After seeing Porus defending himself so bravely, Alexander ordered to capture the raja alive. Porus seemed determined to fight to the end. Ambhi, the other Indian king, approached his rival and tried to convince him to stop fighting. When Porus saw his old enemy approaching, he threw a spear to him with fury without listening to a single word of his proposal. After several failed attempts of negotiation, Alexander sent a messenger that was a friend of Porus. This one could finally convince Porus to listen to Alexander. It was only after seeing the number of Indians among the dead, including two of his sons, that Porus made peace with Taxiles and accepted to see Alexander in person. It was then when Alexander asked Porus how he wished to be treated, and Porus answered “the way a king treats another king”. Porus could keep his kingship, and Alexander sent him some military assistance to conquer new territories to the south-east. Alexander founded two cities in the region. One was Nicaea (Victory in Greek), located at the place of the battle, and the other was Bucephalia, named after his horse Bucephalus, who died in India after having accompanied Alexander since his childhood. Porus was murdered years later by a successor of Alexander.

After the battle of the Hydaspes Alexander planned to keep advancing into India, but his fellow Greeks had seen enough. At the banks of the Beas river, the army mutinied, demanding to go back home. They had not seen their families in ten years, and they had heard rumours of the existence of a large empire further east, the Nanda Empire, which had giant armies with thousands of war elephants waiting for them. And the monsoon rains made the situation even worse. Alexander’s empire had reached its height."

 

comic by sandarac

"This is something very much out of my comfort zone for me... sequential art!

The story and text used here verbatim, is by user/shrewdDis on reddit, you can read it here : www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/com…

I cannot write to save my life, and wanted something short and self contained I can use as practice."

 

Venusian Man-Lizard by Spearhafoc

Venusian Fauna/Races: Man-Lizards from In the Walls of Eryx (c. 1936 - 1939) by H. P. Lovecraft, With Kenneth Sterling.


"Sometime I’ll urge the wiping out of these scaly beggars by a good stiff army from home. About twenty ships could bring enough troops across to turn the trick. One can’t call the damned things men for all their 'cities' and towers. They haven’t any skill except building—and using swords and poison darts—and I don’t believe their so-called 'cities' mean much more than ant-hills or beaver-dams. I doubt if they even have a real language—all the talk about psychological communication through those tentacles down their chests strikes me as bunk. What misleads people is their upright posture; just an accidental physical resemblance to terrestrial man."

" I got them all by sweeping in a circle with my flame pistol, for even though their colour blended with the jungle, I could spot the moving creepers. One of them was fully eight feet tall, with a snout like a tapir’s. The other two were average seven-footers. "

"The resemblance to reptiles was perceptible, though I knew it was only an apparent one, since these beings have no point of contact with terrestrial life. When they drew nearer they seemed less truly reptilian—only the flat head and the green, slimy, frog-like skin carrying out the idea. They walked erect on their odd, thick stumps, and their suction-discs made curious noises in the mud. These were average specimens, about seven feet in height, and with four long, ropy pectoral tentacles. The motions of those tentacles—if the theories of Fogg, Ekberg, and Janat are right, which I formerly doubted but am now more ready to believe—indicated that the things were in animated conversation."


Farnoth-Flies by Spearhafoc

Venusian Fauna - Farnoth-flies from In the Walls of Eryx (c. 1936 - 1939) By H. P. Lovecraft, With Kenneth Sterling.

"Soon the hateful farnoth-flies would begin to cluster about the corpse."


Sificligh by Spearhafoc

Venusian Fauna: Sificlighs from In the Walls of Eryx (c. 1936 - 1939) By H. P. Lovecraft, With Kenneth Sterling

"The corpse was a rather bad sight—wriggling with sificlighs..."

"Now and then one of them would brush away the farnoth-flies with its limbs or tentacles, or crush a wriggling sificligh or akman, or an out-reaching efjeh-weed, with the suction discs on its stumps."


Ugrat by Spearhafoc

Venusian Fauna: Ugrats from In the Walls of Eryx (c. 1936 - 1939) By H. P. Lovecraft, With Kenneth Sterling.

"I was always slashing ugrats and stepping on skorahs, and my leather suit was all speckled from the bursting darohs which struck it from all sides."


Akman by Spearhafoc

Venusian Fauna: an akman from In the Walls of Eryx (c. 1936 - 1939) By H. P. Lovecraft, With Kenneth Sterling.

"Not another living thing higher than the wriggling akmans and skorahs, or the flying tukahs of the other continent—unless of course those holes in the Dionaean Plateau hide something."

"Now and then one of them would brush away the farnoth-flies with its limbs or tentacles, or crush a wriggling sificligh or akman, or an out-reaching efjeh-weed, with the suction discs on its stumps."


Skorah by Spearhafoc

Venusian Fauna: Skorahs from In the Walls of Eryx (c. 1936 - 1939) By H. P. Lovecraft, With Kenneth Sterling.

"Not another living thing higher than the wriggling akmans and skorahs, or the flying tukahs of the other continent—unless of course those holes in the Dionaean Plateau hide something."

 

Боярский свадебный пир - A Boyar Wedding Feast
by Konstantin Makovsky (1839–1915)

 

Carol Danvers
from Weapon X (1995) #3

 

from Infinity Countdown: Captain Marvel