Looking for "evil" Fantasy Soldiers

[Theatralic]

I have an Orboros Army myself and had thought about them but decided I didn`t wanna paint the same models for different projects. But those last 5 look great , haven`t seen them before but they are probably Nyss Warriors from the Legion of Everblight. I could change the arms to give them a more relaxed Pose standing next to a Throne as Guardians etc....

So many Ideas, thanks Guys!

[Sybou]

I have several ideas for you:

first:
from Mirliton miniatures

Then:

Plastic vikings from gripping beast miniatures:


Mixed with teutonic knight from fireforge:


Then finally you can add some heads from Maxmini like the evil heads or use chaos warrior helmets from whick you removed the horns.

Hope I gave you cool ideas.
Cheers.

[Lowtardog]

Like those everblight geezers

[Von Trinkenessen]

If your 'good guys' are basicly dark age to medieval look at the historical manufacturers
El Cid -moorish forces especially Andalusians,
Eastern Europeans -early Russian to Alexander the terrible.Walachians ,Vlad's army ,the black army etc.
Mongols,Khitan lao,Tibetian.
Byzantine in full scale armour.
Late medieval foot nights with halberds and full plate armour War of the roses, early rennaissence swiss?
Medieval Chinese or Indians.

Back in the early '80s pre Warhammer these were some of the figures we used as fantasy armies.
Good luck and think outside the box ,mix up weapons etc.

Guy

PS Historical plastics with resincast fantasy heads looks good.

[Spooktalker]

Oooh this sounds good. Julie Guthrie is easily one of my favourite sculptors.

Got any pics?

You're in luck as I have an OCD compulsion to do my shopping via Picasa, which means I download whole catalogs of pics:

evil warriors:










evil clerics:




others in the range that aren't necessary evil would blend in well if painted similarly:





and a shot showing the general "scale" of the range - nicked from the Under the Mountain blog, if I remember right:


I really like Guthrie's take on Chaos as it has plenty of fantasy flourishes like the dragon face helms and scales, etc, but they aren't as outlandish as the Tom Meier ones done for Ral Partha. That said, I do have some Partha guys from another sculptor that serve as underlings to these guys and fit in pretty nicely.

Don't expect to be paying $1.50 a piece anymore if/when they are available again, though. Center Stage is charging 3-something each.

[Garanhir]

They're not exactly rushing them out, either.  Ten were released in October and so far that's it.

[Theatralic]

Awesome Guys, thats why I love this Forum, this Thread has become an awesome Ressource of "Evilness" . Thanks alot!

[Franz_Josef]

Also look at Reaper's Warlords range.  Their Overlords figures should fit the bill (and most of them look like their weapons and equpment came out of the same armory - which should be the look of soldiers vice tribal warriors):

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Overlords

[Theatralic]

Yeah those where allready suggested by commissarmoody, and some of them look really cool, but sadly I am yet to find a shop in Germany that sells them.

[Faust23]

Its from the "Legend of the Seeker" TV Show which was sadly cancelled after two seasons, like a lot of people I didn`t like it in the beginning but it grew on me and after a while I was hooked, easy digestable fantasy-action-entertainment while you paint your minis

I watched all of Legend of the Seeker back in December and loved it.  Shame its only 2 seasons.  The Dragon Corps was tasty and I would love to find comparable figures.  My old school Ral Partha project has carried over into Iron Wind Metals range and they have some really cool bad guys.  Unfortunately, they are 25mm and don't really scale well with 28's.

[FramFramson]

Woo, thanks for the pics. Some neat stuff there for sure!

[HerbyF]

Look at Late Byzantine figures. A lot of them have this kind of look to them. Especially the elite or guards types. Look at the Varangian guards too. They are Rus in the employ of Byzantium. Spangin helmets, cloaks, heavy armor, just what you are looking for. Just paint dark & forboding.

[beefcake]

Hordes skorne could look quite cool too. They look evil enough already. The heads may need swapping though as they look quite vampiric.