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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Cubs on October 01, 2018, 03:46:32 PM

Title: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Cubs on October 01, 2018, 03:46:32 PM
I'm told she's going to be available from Bad Squiddo soon (no idea when), but as far as I know, she's a one-off and not part of a range (yet).

(https://myalbum.com/photo/KB6sbWGwEoeH/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/eTgXGZtdqMN6/1k0.jpg)
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Colonel Tubby on October 01, 2018, 06:34:48 PM
That's one nice mini and fantastically painted.

She'd have lots of uses for me - ancient, fantasy, pulp - so will be picking one up!
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Morgan on October 01, 2018, 07:48:19 PM
Yeah, that's a great miniature.
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: beefcake on October 01, 2018, 07:53:43 PM
That is very nice. Great to see an Amazon warrior that isn't scantily clad and more practical.
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: LeadAsbestos on October 01, 2018, 10:14:50 PM
Runequest Glorantha all the way!
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Andym on October 02, 2018, 06:14:42 AM
Fantastic painting! :o The sword and the armour especially! :-* Is that your “paint the base colours with metal paint, but use near white highlights” technique?
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Cubs on October 02, 2018, 09:33:53 AM
Fantastic painting! :o The sword and the armour especially! :-* Is that your “paint the base colours with metal paint, but use near white highlights” technique?

Kind of. I fiddled about a bit. The base colour is a darkish red-brown and then the metal layers were a metal/non-metal paint mix, then going up to the very pale cream and white for highlights.

Runequest Glorantha all the way!

For some reason I can't help but get into a Runequest frame of mind whenever I see anything Bronze Age or early Iron Age.
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Bloggard on October 02, 2018, 01:37:40 PM
incredibly sophiscated painting - together with the quality of the sculpt (at least I assume) - if I'd been told it was a significantly larger scale I'd have believed it.
just something so naturalistic about your faces in particular.
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: wolfkarl on October 02, 2018, 04:28:27 PM
Another great figure from Bad Squiddo! She's very "Xena-like"
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: zippyfusenet on October 02, 2018, 04:59:49 PM
Dagnabbit, I need this. I'm building up a Bronze Age Amazon warband.

Battle on, Xena!
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Annie on October 04, 2018, 04:18:52 PM
Thanks Cubster, you is the best! Knew you were the dude for the job, one of the best yet I reckon!

She's here for those who wanna buy her!

https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Rania-Amazon-Warrior/p/117234724/category=22056044

Thanks for the kind words!  :-* :-*
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: nervisfr on October 06, 2018, 09:42:04 AM
Thanks Cubster, you is the best! Knew you were the dude for the job, one of the best yet I reckon!

She's here for those who wanna buy her!

https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Rania-Amazon-Warrior/p/117234724/category=22056044

Thanks for the kind words!  :-* :-*

May be at CRISIS 2018 then ?
 :-*
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Annie on October 08, 2018, 06:51:57 PM
Of course! :D
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Marine0846 on October 10, 2018, 11:34:48 PM
Lovely painting.
 :-*   :-*   :-*
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: El Grego on October 14, 2018, 11:53:30 PM
Lovely miniature, and lovely paint, but where can one find more figures in a similar style?  I need about 11 more...   ;D
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Cubs on February 08, 2019, 12:12:21 PM
Two more Bad Squiddo Amazons to add to the collection - a large Amazon warrior with Minoan axe and an Amazon (pit fighter?) with dual khopesh. Great models both, with such well sculpted faces.

(https://myalbum.com/photo/6drEQTHR7Xks/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/2lXz9MAiMpHJ/1k0.jpg)


(https://myalbum.com/photo/YGoQc021NRv1/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/kRhE8FsPe4wD/1k0.jpg)
Title: Re: Amazon Warrior - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Blackwolf on February 08, 2019, 06:51:11 PM
Wow! Beautiful painting Cubs,and as Chris says very Glorantha :)
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Storm Wolf on February 08, 2019, 07:46:38 PM
Indeed, very, very well done.

In fact i can almost hear the lady with the twin blades shouting "Are you NOT entertained?!"

Excellent stuff

Glen
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Annie on February 08, 2019, 09:08:31 PM
They're incredible, every time you knock it out the park!

Oh look they're for sale  ;) :D :D

https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Ancients/c/21735095/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Cubs on February 08, 2019, 09:12:02 PM
Shameless!
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Annie on February 08, 2019, 09:43:27 PM
And I made a pretty picture

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dy6T9bdWoAEfzd9.jpg)
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: nervisfr on February 11, 2019, 10:34:55 AM
What lovely figurines  ;D

Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Annie on February 12, 2019, 08:03:00 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzMKTdiXcAA2vmw.jpg)
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Matakakea on February 12, 2019, 05:11:38 PM
I'd love to see the rules for this figure  :D
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Gibby on February 12, 2019, 05:21:12 PM
This scale creep is getting absurd! :D
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: pacarat on February 12, 2019, 08:04:00 PM
It’s a Trojan something...something...

Back on topic, order placed. :)
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Annie on February 13, 2019, 07:55:20 PM
Thanks Pacarat!
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Cubs on September 19, 2019, 05:20:06 PM
There's a whole bunch of new recruits for Bad Squiddo's Amazon army.

(https://myalbum.com/photo/nwFVJE5HWj9k/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/bvwnxfXeme3K/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/fPYrifD7RLcH/1k0.jpg)


(https://myalbum.com/photo/pTRMcDnFV5qa/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/GpLmgsHWf68L/1k0.jpg)


(https://myalbum.com/photo/AByE4oLPtv8g/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/rshQfrao2dm5/1k0.jpg)


(https://myalbum.com/photo/Uq3Lwxw68ufg/1k0.jpg]http://)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/z68TqsffnZhv/1k0.jpg)


(https://myalbum.com/photo/7pethQ8ijp9C/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/kr6TqjXkHbz5/1k0.jpg)


(https://myalbum.com/photo/JVWbcfD4EvbP/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/PpaNkx6EroNK/1k0.jpg)


(https://myalbum.com/photo/cGAAt6CcN4Y7/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/xq9zgwrfvADo/1k0.jpg)


… and for no apparent reason, a Pixie Paladin riding a guinea pig. It's based on a 1p coin, to give an idea of scale.

(https://myalbum.com/photo/MGR69dxjXJg6/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/zyedQdYQgFzx/1k0.jpg)
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: McYellowbelly on September 19, 2019, 06:21:08 PM
Awesome work, but now I want a whole unit of guinea pig riding pixies.......
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: syrinx0 on September 21, 2019, 12:30:26 AM
Amazing work as always.  Where in the world does one acquire a Pixie Paladin riding a guinea pig?
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Cubs on September 21, 2019, 11:45:49 AM
Amazing work as always.  Where in the world does one acquire a Pixie Paladin riding a guinea pig?

Bad Squiddo. I've just found out, the Amazon holding her sword aloft has the guinea pig mounted Pixie as her scout, so they're a double-pack. Who knew?
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Captain Harlock on September 21, 2019, 04:33:14 PM
Very nice minis and realy good painting :-*
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Coenus Scaldingus on September 21, 2019, 07:53:29 PM
Bad Squiddo. I've just found out, the Amazon holding her sword aloft has the guinea pig mounted Pixie as her scout, so they're a double-pack. Who knew?
While I could ask "why?", I have instead decided to ask myself "why not?", found myself lacking an adequate answer to this query, and may thus well find myself in the previously unexpected ownership of a guinea pig mounted pixie scout before too long. What a time to be alive.


Also, lovely brushwork.
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Cubs on September 22, 2019, 08:33:15 AM
While I could ask "why?", I have instead decided to ask myself "why not?", found myself lacking an adequate answer to this query, and may thus well find myself in the previously unexpected ownership of a guinea pig mounted pixie scout before too long. What a time to be alive.


For such a tiny model, it was surprisingly easy the paint. I stuck on my short range specs and painted it up in a couple of hours start to finish. The detail is crisp and directs the paint where it needs to go.
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: N.C.S.E on September 22, 2019, 10:33:47 AM
Stunning. :)

Putting in my request for a troupe of more "generic" Hoplite Amazons. I have in mind the contingent of Amazons (12 if I recall correctly?) that Penthesilea brought with her to Troy after the events of the Iliad. The array of "generic" amazons from other companies lean toward the opposite of what "believeable female figures" might stand for.
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Coenus Scaldingus on September 22, 2019, 11:55:24 AM
For such a tiny model, it was surprisingly easy the paint. I stuck on my short range specs and painted it up in a couple of hours start to finish. The detail is crisp and directs the paint where it needs to go.
Having just looked up the size of a 1p coin (barbaric foreigner me), I won't deny the sculptor must have been a bit of a wizard, but to paint such a tiny figure in such a manner is not just down to the quality of the subject. I don't believe you typically paint much in, say, 10mm scale? It's not so much your experience I wonder about, but mainly interested if you approached these little ones similarly to how you would normally paint a 28mm figure, given the far more limited space for colour gradients and the likes.
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Cubs on September 22, 2019, 12:23:03 PM
Having just looked up the size of a 1p coin (barbaric foreigner me), I won't deny the sculptor must have been a bit of a wizard, but to paint such a tiny figure in such a manner is not just down to the quality of the subject. I don't believe you typically paint much in, say, 10mm scale? It's not so much your experience I wonder about, but mainly interested if you approached these little ones similarly to how you would normally paint a 28mm figure, given the far more limited space for colour gradients and the likes.

My wife asked how I managed to paint the details in the face - I told her I didn't, I painted around the details in the face, which did the same job. By leaving eyes, mouth and under the nose as the base colour, then stroking in the forehead, cheeks, nose and chin with the highlights, the facial features just appeared. It was standard 3-stage colours for the most part, plenty of deep shade left to help give crisp delineation and a focus on bright colours, with a little pile of slate and relatively dull colours to the base so as to help the little fella be visible. The shiny bits on the black eyes were a tiny spot of beige underneath and a white blob on top - an effect I completely robbed from one of my daughter's story books, about woodland animals.
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Annie on October 06, 2019, 03:10:55 PM
Thanks Cubs!

I'll post some crisper photos in the week too, with my fancy gear :D

The Kickstarters are shipped so next week....... they should all be available at retail, I'll bump when they are!
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Cubs on March 16, 2020, 07:14:05 PM
Now, Annie isn't sure if this latest addition will be an Amazon, or a Shieldmaiden, or just a random fantasy female type, so I'll show her here with the caveat that she may end up belonging to a different category. Since she's all new and such, she lacks a name as yet (Hooty McHootface is already taken), but I reckon she'd make a great 'Priestess of Athene'.

(https://myalbum.com/photo/WuDHaDzPnP2b/1k0.jpg)

(https://myalbum.com/photo/7HwvcKb49TxN/1k0.jpg)
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Dervel on March 16, 2020, 08:13:10 PM
fantastic miniature!  Great paint job too!
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Sir_Theo on March 16, 2020, 08:21:01 PM
I like this range anyway, and obviously your paint jobs are incredible.. But that last one is just great. I might need it pick one up!
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Burnin Coal on March 16, 2020, 09:45:12 PM
 :-* Really interesting figure and superb brushwork....could see her appearing in Mortal Gods
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Zopenco on March 18, 2020, 05:45:40 PM
Any chance of Bad Squiddo producing amazon figures inspired by the frieze of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Amazonomachy_from_the_Mausoleum_at_Halicarnassus_(British_Museum)

Or the Bassae Frieze?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Amazonomachy_in_the_Bassae_Frieze
Title: Re: Amazon Warriors - by Bad Squiddo Games
Post by: Cubs on March 18, 2020, 07:40:27 PM
You'd have to ask Annie, I'm just a brush jockey.