'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.

[Cubs]

Some more Runequest adventurers from the 'Runequest Boxed Set #1: Humanoid Adventurers'.

First is the Waha adventurer. He should have been with the last batch, but his axe was broken and needed to be rebuilt. The 'horns' of the axe have been rebuilt with greenstuff and the hatf is brass wire covered in greenstuff and then textured. Waha is a cult of nomads (which makes you wonder why he has a tower design on his shield!), so I've painted him in natural colours and animal hides.

Second is the Humankt adventurer. Humankt is an honourable warrior cult of war and death, so his shield shows the 'truth' rune associated with the cult and his colour scheme is based around red and black.

Third is the Seven Mothers adventurer. Seven Mothers is a moon cult, defenders of the Lunar Empire. As such his shield (and helmet) display the moon rune prominently and his colour scheme shows blues, blacks and dark greys.

[Hobgoblin]

Amazing! The runes on the shields are superbly done - and the Seven Mothers guy, who I always thought of as a slightly bland figure compared with the others, has come to life really well. Bravo!

[Grumpy Gnome]

Great work mate!

[OSHIROmodels]

Sublime 

[Cubs]

Thanks dyoods, very kind. I've just been reliably informed that what was labelled as the Waha adventurer in the boxed set, was in fact the Pavis adventurer, and vice-versa. Bugger. To be honest, I suspected it might be the case, because of their respective shield designs, but I doubted myself. Now I'll have to repaint it (pain in the arse, although I wasn't over-happy with it if I'm honest) or buy a replacement and repaint that (meh ... more money and more work).

[The Dozing Dragon]

Wonderful!

[Timotl]

Perfect marriage of characterful sculpts and masterful painting. One of the best threads on here.

[Blackwolf]

Lovely painting on some of my favourite miniatures 

[gamer Mac]

Stunning paint jobs 
love the weapons and the shields are amazing

[Severian]

Excellent work on these.

[Captain Blood]

Ah, I had the last two of those. Not the first one though - must have been in a different set.
I only shipped them on on eBay a couple of years back, having sat in a box for 30 years 

Great work on those shields 

[syrinx0]

Lovely work.

[Cubs]

Ah, I had the last two of those. Not the first one though - must have been in a different set.
I only shipped them on on eBay a couple of years back, having sat in a box for 30 years 

You filthy filthy liar! No, they're all from the first 'Humanoid Adventurers' (I wonder why it wasn't just 'human'?) Boxed Set #1, but the first one often has a broken axe these days.

[Cubs]

Thank you all. They are lots of fun to paint, but as with all the pre-slotta stuff, they need a bit more clean-up than modern figures to get rid of casting crap, and you often get some odd lumps in 'dead space'. The trade off is the wonderfully characterful sculpting. I really do think sculptors (or maybe just them darn Perry boys) were way ahead of the general standard of our painting back then and a lot of their subtlety was never brought to life. These days we can all improve our painting with any number of tips online and inspirational pics to help us old dogs learn new tricks.

[DeafNala]

That is quite an array of WONDERFUL old treasures, all BEAUTIFULLY painted & based. VERY WELL DONE!