Old school D&D - August 25 - Pig-face Orc Shaman

[Cubs]

Really liking this thread. Such a great blend of imagination and skillzzzz!

[Mister Frau Blucher]

Just read this thread from the beginning. Most of the superlatives in the English language have already been deployed, and rightfully so! Your painting is just awesome.

25mm is still my scale, and I have most of the dudes you have shown on this thread (not nearly as pretty, though!) Love seeing the old figs painted like this. In particular, I'd love to see what you do with more Custom Cast! The elven archer is fantastic.

Great stuff!

[Hobgoblin]

That giant's absolutely splendid! A great addition to a terrific thread!

[Admiral Benbow]

Brilliant work on that giant! 

[Arundel]

This is an inspiring thread! Your giant looks wonderful. Any chance we might see your painted mushroom men?

[gibby64]

That giant is amazing! Love the facial features.

[warlord frod]

Just found your thread. Its glorious  I have  many of these figs in my collection but have not used them in some time. You almost inspire me to run a old school dungeon crawl using chainmail rules and this part of my collection like I did back in the mid 70's 

[Daniel36]

I am completely in love with your collection! Such amazing and wonderful figures!! Keep up the AWESOME work!!

[tjgreenway]

Some increiblr work in here, both your painting and sculpting skills are a joy to behold - you've inspired me to pull the painting bench out into the living room and get some serious work done on the critters and adventurer's for my homebrew ACKS campaign   

[Spooktalker]

Thanks all for your kind words! It is so great being here on LAF among fellow enthusiasts of this vein of fantasy.

25mm is still my scale, and I have most of the dudes you have shown on this thread (not nearly as pretty, though!) Love seeing the old figs painted like this. In particular, I'd love to see what you do with more Custom Cast! The elven archer is fantastic.

Nice to make acquaintances with a like-minded collector! As it happens, I don't know when I will get to them, but look at the windfall I just picked up at a convention flea market... many Custom Cast among them, including elves!




All I can say for now is that they are on the "will paint some day" list in my head.  I need to strip them first, and it will probably take a Simple Green pass and then an acetone pass to get them clean. With my stripping backlog and aversion to acetone, I would put them out at least a few years.

This is an inspiring thread! Your giant looks wonderful. Any chance we might see your painted mushroom men?

Thanks! Regrettably, probably not soon.  I run a sandbox campaign, and My D&D queue is dictated by player choice and what is needed for the upcoming games. I can say, though, that myconids are one of the main underground races in my milieu and wherever the campaign leads, they will show up at some point.

Just found your thread. Its glorious  I have  many of these figs in my collection but have not used them in some time. You almost inspire me to run a old school dungeon crawl using chainmail rules and this part of my collection like I did back in the mid 70's 

This is music to my ears, and something I hope for in the back of my mind when I share my stuff online. Few things would make me happier than to hear news you've gone ahead and done it, even a one-off! If you do, please drop me a note, it would make my day. 

you've inspired me to pull the painting bench out into the living room and get some serious work done on the critters and adventurer's for my homebrew ACKS campaign   

As above, hearing this makes all the work of sharing online worth it. If you put your own stuff up, please drop me a link! 

[Spooktalker]

Here are some rustic folk of the sort the players in my D&D campaign are encountering in the borderlands. They'd also work for historical or even Oldhammer, in a pinch.



Denizens of the Borderlands

Another shot with a different backdrop and some other borderlands NPC-types from my collection.


And these old glory peasants are the first of a more than a hundred I got mainly for historical games, but that will probably show up in fantasy games. These two in particular so matched my vision of my borderlands denizens, though, that they rose to the top of the queue.


Old Glory Peasants Carrying Boar


And a few adventurers who fit the theme. Not happy with the base on the thief here, and the ranger was languishing in a WIP box for years, seeming to need some special tweak or another to make the figure "sing" but finally I said, be done with it.



Grenadier Thief from the 2007 Females Box Set


Grenadier Ranger, also from the 2007 Females Set

More words and pics in a blog post: https://belchedfromthedepths.blogspot.com/2018/06/d-npc-borderlanders.html.

[Hobgoblin]

Those are lovely - and look tremendously useful for RPGs!

[Metternich]

What wonderful nostalgia this thread brings to mind.  We had many fine sculptors working back in the '80's - Grenadier sets being among the particular high points (although most suffering from the telephone pole spear shafts that alloys of the time made necessary).  What you demonstrate that has certainly improved from that time is the level of painting that hobbyists have since mastered. 

[Mister Frau Blucher]

Holy cow, that's a great find at the flea market. Maybe I should start cruising a few!

The Grenadier ladies look great. That bow conversion on the ranger looks so much better than the original bow. Nice color for the thief's leotard.

[Hobgoblin]

Whoa! I missed that shot of the flea-market haul: superb! Those carrion crawlers will slot into your D&D collection nicely, I'd imagine.

(My seething envy at your securing that Tom Meier giant troll champion is only mollified by this morning's fortuitous acquisition of a bunch of Citadel orc wyverns: the preslotta, Fantasy Tribes sort!)