Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (Rust Monster face reveal)

[beefcake]

The colours are amazing on those. Great work.

[Jagannath]

Very cool - those have worked really well. Love 'em.

[Bloodsbane]

Loving the root people! I gotta say there's something.. cannibalistic about tree people with axes, though

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all!

Loving the root people! I gotta say there's something.. cannibalistic about tree people with axes, though

Yes, I was thinking about that as I tried to figure out some RPG stats and background for them. They're going to be quite tough and wiry (rooty, in fact, without much sap), but axes will get a damage bonus against them. Of course, if they're a fractious, feuding lot, that might explain why they wield axes themselves (just as humans wield weapons designed to damage humans!).

The other idea I was toying with is that they're a sort of organic undead - either corpses or living beings "colonised" by some evil tree. In that case, they'd have the weapons and accoutrements of their previous existence.

[Hobgoblin]

Here are some oddities that I got very cheaply on eBay. I thought they might be from Gremlin Miniatures when I ordered them, but it seems not. Anyway, I dabbed some paint on them today, and they'll work as some sort of henchthings in Whitehack/The Black Hack/Into the Odd. I can see them backing up a wizard of some sort.

If anyone knows what these actually are, I'd be delighted to find out!

[Dr Mathias]

The rarely seen saber-toothed goblins. 

I have no idea who might have made them! I like them though

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

The rarely seen saber-toothed goblins. 

I have no idea who might have made them! I like them though

Unfortunately the sabre- toothed goblins are now, sadly extinct.  They had a habit of fatally impaling themselves any time they bent their heads forward.

[Hobgoblin]

It did occur to me that I might paint the teeth as tentacles! Not sure they'd be much more convincing, though!

Here's a Kev Adams orc from the 80s - one of a batch that I'm doing in the entirely green/brown colour scheme of my Jacks-in-the-Greens. I've had lots of them almost done for a while, but I just started this chap tonight, to see if doing him in one would spur me to finish the others.

[Vladimir Raukov]

Ooh, lovely! I like the green tinge on the chainmail.

[Jagannath]

What a great mini! That green jack-in-the-greens faction must be looking great now.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, both!

The tribe is growing ...

[Jagannath]

I’m buzzin’ on these - love the green tinge, it really gives an ‘arboreal’ feel to them. Makes them seem like features of the woods, as opposed to ‘evil’

[Munindk]

Lovely sculpts and even lovelier paintjobs

[Elk101]

I always like seeing people's take on greenskin skin tones. There's a certain froggish look to those that I really like. Lovely painting.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all!

Here's the first of a new band of dungeon dwellers: an orange, blue-nosed, militaristic ape-man: aka an old-school D&D hobgoblin. I've got some thoughts on the nomenclature here.