I was pretty happy with how the WarCry Catacombs Bridges turned out, so following getting those done back in September, I decided to paint up some of the gates in a similar style. First up were the “Skull” gates. Ok, sure, I realise that each and every one of the gates in this set could easily be called “Skull gates, but work with me here a little, willya? These to be seem to the the skullingmost of the various Skull gates. They come in the flavours of “open” and “closed” and feature a significant amount of real estate that reads as metal, yet has cracks – as though through stone.
As you can see, I simply disregarded the stone element and painted the edges as metal. The skulls also feature the same skull-cracks across the two… sculpts? So I simply painted them as two pairs – open and closed. One with metallic red insets and one with a more brassy finish.
I also really liked the effect of the bluish, verdigris-looking gates as shown on sceencaps from a video by a YouTuber called Tabletop Skirmish Games, so I had a look at his video and did something similar, though mine turned out a bit bluer which I’m still quite happy with. When I get a bit more time, I’ll undoubtedly check out some of his other videos and see what he’s got up there.
When I get a bit more time, I’ll undoubtedly check out some of his other videos and see what he’s got up there. In the meantime there’s a link to his channel and also to the video that spawned the Google Image Search screencaps.
So that gave me another six pieces of terrain for September’s bounty. I’ve only got another four of these gates to go – 2x two more sculpts, so hopefully I’ll have time to work on them in October with everything else going on…
And finally, here’s a scale shot. I’m featuring some Slaves to Darkness-era followers of Slaanesh today since the size models have been pretty Khornate lately.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Fantastic work on the gates mate, your additional weathering on the large skulls give them a real aged look.
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Thanks Dave! It’s a bit more subtle in the pics as the camera kind of washes it out.
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Great work again Az. Like Dave I like the weathering, and always a sucker for pale blue!
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Same! It’s a lovely colour that can fit nicely into a lot of “unlikely” places like these.
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Beautiful – nice job dude! 🤘
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Thank you, Alex! 🙂
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These are really nice! 🙂
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Much appreciated, John!
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Very nice! I like the brass and red metallic accents. The blue skull ones look fantastic! Gives a really ghostly feel to the piece and I can almost imagine those skull shapes eerily moving around!
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Yeah, when I saw some shots of TSG’s gates I decided that was definitely going to rip them off! 😀
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Looking great! (Or should that be “looking grate”?) I had a lot of fun painting these up myself. There are so many potential directions they can be taken in.
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Badoom-Tish! 😀
I need to get to the rest of the WarCry stuff at some stage. I’ve got a box of those spiky walls that I’ve been putting off working on for some time now – and then I need to work on the larger stuff…
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Awesome. I love that blue
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Thanks IRO – it was ceretainly nice enough for me to steal! 🙂
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These are skull-tastic, mate! Perfect for Warhammer games (and others besides I’m sure). What impresses me is that you have a nice balance of realism and fantastic colors on the gates. That seems perfect for the forces of chaos to me 🙂
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Thanks, Kuribo! I guess you could look at them as a pretty severe case of verdigris – which I think is what the guy I ripped the idea off was going for, though I kinda like the ethereal/magical ethos to them myself…
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