Captain Blood's very titchy (15mm) barbarians. P.25 - the armies assemble

[Jagannath]

Absolutely lovely job - looking forward to seeing your pics, they're my favourite of the range. I might be able to help you out with the poses, I'll take a look this evening.

[Captain Blood]

Thank you Arundel. And thanks too, Rory, that’s kind of you. I did get an offer of help from Divismal in Germany, but if you’re able help from within the UK that would be easier I’m sure. Happy to send you a few swapsies and / or PayPal you for cost and postage. Cheers.
Richard

[Jagannath]

Sorry - only just had the chance to peak at my spares and don't have those poses. Boooo!

[Captain Blood]

No problem. Thanks for looking Rory. Hopefully Florian will be able to find the missing links in his lead mountain 

Meanwhile... Here are my first Picts.

Interesting these, for someone like me who spent his teenage years engrossed in Hyboria...

Robert E Howard’s ‘Picts’ – the denizens of the Hyborian ‘Pictish Wilderness’ have very little to do with the Dark Age inhabitants of Scotland, and a lot to do with native Americans.
In the stories like ‘Wolves beyond the border’, the 'Picts' wear war-paint, eagle feathers in their hair, moccasins, live in tribes called things like ‘Beaver’ and ‘Hornbill’, and are pretty clearly primitive Woodland Indians.

Copplestone, interestingly, has pushed them in a slightly different direction.
Although Howard’s Picts are described as dark-skinned, short and stocky, and are stone tool / weapon users, Copplestone has turned them into mini-Neanderthals. Perhaps he was inspired by the Frank Frazetta paintings of Conan beset by teeming, squat and muscular minions and ‘apemen’ (not the same as Picts in Howard’s Hyboria, but never mind… ).
These little miniatures seem to be a cross between the two. (With a bit of ‘Lurz’ style Uruk-Hai thrown in). Anyway, whatever they are, I like them.

I’ve given them a more coppery skin tone than the Cimmerians / Northmen, liberally splodged them with blue clay war-paint, and with clay-washed dreadlocks… Well, it’s a look…



Pictish bottoms...



And against foes...





And here, with a 28mm plastic Fireforge figure, just to show the scale...



And in case you missed them earlier on page 3, the assembled Cimmerian / Aesir so far - with a sprinkling of Hyperborean evil wizardry and witchery in the mix...

[Jeff965]

Lovely work Richard

[Mason]

Bleedin' gorgous!
Loving the 'clay' idea.
 

[Jagannath]

Brilliant - you've absolutely flown through those. That lot would take me at least a month.

[Mr.J]

Very nice! What do you use for your bases?

[Funghy-Fipps]

Very nice indeed. I kinda regret selling my Barbarica stuff when I see work of this calibre - it really is a great range, which Mr. Copplestone shall hopefully get around to completing one of these days!

[Arundel]

Beautifully done. The way you've handled the stone on the spears and adzes is inspirational.

As for the Picts, doesn't the word originally mean simply "painted one"? So in that sense its being applied to American Indian types works pretty well, I think. I've always thought East Coast Indians, Iroquis, Mohican types, would probably be the best figures to represent Howard's Picts, though I must admit to being partial to Monolith's sculpts, steroided up as they are. They look like some mean fellers.

Keep up the great work! Any chance we'll see them in a game setting?

[Captain Blood]

Keep up the great work! Any chance we'll see them in a game setting?

That’s the plan, eventually!
Thanks for the comments 

[ShortscaleDave]

These are absolutely stunning paintjobs on beautiful copplestone sculpts! So gorgeous, love the warpaint effect and colour palette you used. 

You might be interested in a couple of sculpt comissions I did for Crom's Anvil. They were designed to fit right in with the copplestones and are a shaman and cheiften.  I'm not as good as Mr C but hope I did a fair tribute to his minis. Here's the link:

http://cromsanvil.co.uk/

[Andym]

Nice one Richard!

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Andy.

That shaman is great, ShortscaleDave. Will you do any more?

Very nice! What do you use for your bases?

15mm washers 

[Hammers]

Gorgeous, Richard!