Author Topic: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (Rust Monster face reveal) (Read 401468 times)

Jagannath · « **Reply #1425 on:** February 08, 2018, 12:14:22 PM »

That's a cracking group, lovely shield - is the tiny chap still intended as the boss?

Hobgoblin · « **Reply #1426 on:** February 08, 2018, 12:47:46 PM »

Thanks!

Oddly enough, I was thinking about the gobliny types as a little SoBH warband last night. I reckoned the hobgoblin might be some exiled prince, with a pair of burly orcish bodyguards, the troll as a heavy, the assassin as a specialist to do the dirty work, and the angry lesser goblin bumped right down to the bottom again!

But his time may come again ...

Severian · « **Reply #1427 on:** February 08, 2018, 01:23:38 PM »

Yes, grand work on the recent guys. I rather like the notion of an exiled hobgoblin prince - lots of narrative potential.

And I noticed that your blog is now up and running - good news!

Hobgoblin · « **Reply #1428 on:** February 17, 2018, 01:16:58 AM »

Thanks!

Before going on holiday a week ago, I gave myself exactly an hour to paint a brace of ratmen, using black undercoat, block colours, silver-grey drybrushing and washes. That got them to the stage in the first photo. Tonight, I gave them another hour and am calling them done. So, an hour apiece: but I think there's room for cutting that time further, by keeping the clothing darker and more painting it in even more rudimentary fashion - thus increasing the contrast with pale flesh and glowing eyes.

The aim is to have a good fifty or so were-rats on the table in some forthcoming RPG sessions - much to the PCs' discomfort. Nine down ...

Severian · « **Reply #1429 on:** February 17, 2018, 05:12:04 PM »

Excellent work! Fifty rat men is a proper horde.

Keep us posted on your technique refinements, too; that's a remarkable time to table.

Hobgoblin · « **Reply #1430 on:** February 28, 2018, 01:08:38 PM »

Thanks! Not much progress recently, as a result of taking holidays, fashioning a Chinese New Year dragon and watching - and celebrating - the Calcutta Cup. But I made a little headway yesterday. I've long admired - nay marvelled at! - Spooktalker's tremendous pig-faced orc conversions. Yesterday, I chanced on Mike Monaco's, which used one of the old Battlemaster orcs that I have lying around (and have painted up various versions of earlier in this thread). So I decided to have a go at adding porcine snouts to a few goofy GW plastics. I hope to get some of them painted tonight. More thoughts on my blog.

DavyJones · « **Reply #1431 on:** February 28, 2018, 02:23:59 PM »

The orcs are looking great. Can't wait to see them painted up.

Jagannath · « **Reply #1432 on:** February 28, 2018, 04:20:06 PM »

These look great and I love the Skaven too, haven't mentioned.

Weirdly I can feel the call of Shadespire at the mo, even though it's basically everything I don't go for, and I'll rip this method off for the Skaven warband if I do them, really works.

Hobgoblin · « **Reply #1433 on:** February 28, 2018, 09:57:38 PM »

Thanks, both!

Jagannath: Shadespire's a lot of fun. More boardgame than skirmish game, I'd say, but tense and exciting.

I'm just about to start painting, but here's another brace of piggy conversions:

beefcake · « **Reply #1434 on:** March 01, 2018, 07:16:32 AM »

Very nice conversions there.

Severian · « **Reply #1435 on:** March 01, 2018, 05:44:00 PM »

Great work on the snouting! Looking forward to seeing these painted.

I've always struggled with pig-faced orcs as orcs (Tolkien goblins, that is) but they're fine as generic evil henchmen (cf, as you've mentioned before, the Gamorrean guards). I rather like pigs, myself, but somehow man-shaped pig-beasts work in the evil henchman role. Just not sure I'd call them orcs, though...

I hadn't made the Disney connection - well spotted!

Hobgoblin · « **Reply #1436 on:** March 02, 2018, 12:17:24 AM »

Thanks!

After walking miles in the snow to work and back today, on top of a long day, I had little energy to devote to the pig-orcs tonight; school cancellation meant that the kids were up late too, which didn't help (on the plus side, the snow makes our joint bedtime reading of The Dark is Rising especially vivid). But I got most of this chap done. He needs a lot of touching up here and there, especially around the teeth, and some more details. And some better photos ...

Quote from: Severian on March 01, 2018, 05:44:00 PM

I've always struggled with pig-faced orcs as orcs (Tolkien goblins, that is) but they're fine as generic evil henchmen (cf, as you've mentioned before, the Gamorrean guards). I rather like pigs, myself, but somehow man-shaped pig-beasts work in the evil henchman role. Just not sure I'd call them orcs, though...

Yes, I know exactly what you mean. When I run games, I generally don't give the creatures species names, just descriptions and tribal groupings. So these will be the Bloody Tusk (plagiarising Glorantha for all I'm worth!).

Oddly enough, the last time I made green-stuff snouts was about 27 years ago - and that to make a Chronicle ogre and Grenadier Minotaur into Gloranthan trolls.

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I hadn't made the Disney connection - well spotted!

Not an original observation, I'm afraid - a fair few have made it before me! But I confess to grave disappointment when the children told me that Malefiicent's goons didn't feature in her eponymous film.

MagpieJono · « **Reply #1437 on:** March 02, 2018, 11:28:35 AM »

These look really effective. Well done.

Little Odo · « **Reply #1438 on:** March 03, 2018, 09:24:41 AM »

Great conversion, set off nicely with a fabulous paint job.

Sunjester · « **Reply #1439 on:** March 03, 2018, 09:33:14 AM »

These are looking really great!

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