Sunday, June 23, 2024

Animated Skeleton Guards (4)

 

These skeletons from One Gold Piece are a great intermediate build for RPGs - no armor or shields, but armed. They are formally titled "Undead General Guards" because they are intended to be fantasy shifted Magna Guard droids for their awesome (and sadly no longer available) Sky Wars line. I couldn't figure out how to stick to the original SW color palate for them, so I went in a different direction stylistically. I love the design, but my support game was weak, and it took a few attempts to successfully print and no break 'em. A few bits here and there were repaired by myself. Not my best work, but they compliment nicely with my other skeletons and will be great on the game table.

I haven't posted many undead here, which is odd because they are heavily represented in my collection. A lot of my early batch painting were of mobs of skeletons; every novice necromancer knows the fastest way to pad your ranks is with the dead. And here I am again, years later, working the same strategy! I noticed my painting goal numbers for the year are low, so I've decided I need to focus on groups of models for a bit to bump my productivity. My major project right now is grinding through The Lost Mine of Phandelver, and this low level module is stacked with the undead. Since most of my skeleton models are older, it is a nice opportunity to have a fresh take.

Monday, June 17, 2024

Night's Cult Leader / Spyron “Moonface”

 

 
This is my evil cult middle-management leader, to go along with the previously posted Night's Cult models. This guy is simple, anonymous, and effective as a cult leader stand-in for most of my needs. Like my other Nights cult models, he was a speed-paint for the table a few years ago.

Monday, June 10, 2024

Ithorian / Hammerhead / Momaw Nadon

 


 I have been enjoying the latest Star Wars drop, so I thought I'd ride that nostalgia and post another of my WEG Star wars models. This is SW36 from the Grenadier Models / West End Games "A New Hope" box set. He is a minor character appearing in the iconic cantina scene in that movie, and was an unnamed character at the time ("scum and villainy"). Of course, all of those vagabonds have since earned well developed backstories. He is sometimes portrayed as having a golden or brass staff, but I chose to go with black at the time  (not sure if it is canon - he never appears with a staff on film) because...I liked it. The character is obscure enough that he would stand in well for any Ithorian; I did my best to make him an accurate depiction of the species.  The cantina is well represented the miniatures line, and I hope to one day have a complete set at some point.

On a 25mm base (inverted).

Monday, June 3, 2024

Night's Cult Swordsman (3)

 


 These cultists are the muscle for the captain I posted previously. These guys really shine as groups of mobs -  it makes them much more impressive and formidable on the table. Only some minor stylistic differences, and a slightly better picture, but this post is much more satisfying than the captain.