'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.

[Captain Blood]

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.

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Well, that’s a mystery...
It was a purple and pink box IIRC, and had 10 figures in it, in a grey sponge tray... but that first one with the axe was definitely not one of them... To be fair, I’m pretty sure I picked them up in a swap (this was like, the best part of 40 years ago  ) so I guess whoever I got them from could have substituted a figure or two...

Here are a few of them before I sold them on a couple of years back... painted in Humbrol enamels by my teenage self. Isn’t age wonderful? 
As you see, there was a figure with an axe - but he had horns on his helmet. Not the same as yours...
Also it definitely included the swordsman with the shield on his back in the Corinithian helmet. Don’t know what became of him...
Hmmm. Now I’m intrigued 

[Cubs]

Right, okay, here's the one incorrectly labelled as a Waha adventurer (a plains nomad cult), repainted as a Pavis adventurer (a city, not a cult). On second inspection, none of the adventurers in the boxed set have a design that fits with Waha, so I'll just swap round the Waha and Pavis models (as labelled on the box) and smooth out the rune on the Pavis guy's shield (which doesn't fit with either Pavis or Waha, so Jehovah only knows what was going on in the studio back in the day). Back to this fella though, just a quick repaint on the tunic, to make it less rustic and more refined looking (although still mucky ... he is an adventurer after all) and ditto with the shield. The metalwork was brightened up and polished as well and his crest brightened up to match the tunic. I prefer him this way to be honest.

[Cubs]

Here are a few of them before I sold them on a couple of years back...

That guy on the left shouldn't be there, he's not in the boxed set, which might explain matters.

Dude with the horns is a Storm Bull adventurer (anti-Chaos berserkers, see earlier on in this thread for him), the girl is Chalana Arroy (healing), the big fella with club is Issaries (trade and commerce), the guy on the end with scimitar is Seven Mothers (lunar cult, as seen in this batch). The original boxed set had the picture of the bikini-clad girl with a big bronze shield fighting a big lizardman on the front.

[Mister Frau Blucher]

That is a fantastic paint job, as always, Cubs! love the darks, it makes the white tunic jump.

[Cultist of Sooty]

Right, okay, here's the one incorrectly labelled as a Waha adventurer (a plains nomad cult), repainted as a Pavis adventurer (a city, not a cult).

Glorantha nerdery incoming! (Nerdery, on a gaming forum, who could have predicted that?  )

Pavis is both a city and a cult. Pavis, who is now worshipped as a god, founded the city. There is a ziggurat temple to him in New Pavis, which would make a nice shield image, and an older temple in the Big Rubble. I suppose the symbol that adventurer is using depicts one of the defensive towers in the city walls.

Pavis is primarily associated with the Man rune, though his cult also displays Earth, Harmony, and Stasis runes.

I love these old RQ miniatures. I never owned any myself as they went out of production around the time I first got interested. You've done a cracking job on them, I must say.

[Cubs]

Pavis is both a city and a cult.

Ay carumba, no wonder I used to get so confused with it all.

[Elk101]

Belting work Cubs!

[Swordisdrawn]

Excellent painting

[thebinmann]

Love the minis!

Glorantha nerdery incoming! (Nerdery, on a gaming forum, who could have predicted that?  )

Pavis is both a city and a cult. Pavis, who is now worshipped as a god, founded the city. There is a ziggurat temple to him in New Pavis, which would make a nice shield image, and an older temple in the Big Rubble. I suppose the symbol that adventurer is using depicts one of the defensive towers in the city walls.

Pavis is primarily associated with the Man rune, though his cult also displays Earth, Harmony, and Stasis runes.

I love these old RQ miniatures. I never owned any myself as they went out of production around the time I first got interested. You've done a cracking job on them, I must say.

Um, perhaps we crossed paths at Convulsion...

[Cubs]

  A couple more lads from the Runequest Adventurers (#1) Boxed Set.

  First fella (with axe) is mislabelled as Pavis (city cult) on the box (probably a mix-up between the Pavis and Waha adventurers) but he had the wrong shield design so I've done him as Waha (plains nomad). I've added a slight dome to the shield and painted it as bronze covered in animal hide with a Death Rune branded onto it, (as befits a plains nomad type) and leather vambraces.

  Second fella is the Yelmalio (sun and sky) adventurer. I've done him in bright colours with a white cuirass (painted bronze or linen, you takes your choice) and sun design, with matching shield.

  Only two more to go until this boxed set is complete!

[Hobgoblin]

Stunning! I remember the Yelmalio guy from the days of yore, but the axe-wielding chap had quite escaped my memory - possibly because he looked fairly unassuming in the lead: no longer!

Do you have other Runequest stuff up your sleeve after this box is done? Trolls? Broo? Dragonewts?

[Cubs]

Do you have other Runequest stuff up your sleeve after this box is done? Trolls? Broo? Dragonewts?

There's the second boxed set, Humanoid Adventurers (with a couple of trolls, duck, morocanth, baboon and dwarf as well as a couple of other humans) and then the Trolls boxed set.

I forgot to say, I'm replacing the spears and slimmer weapons where necessary with wire ones. Even the original spears were often awful, without any sort of spearhead, just thin sticks in the hand. Runequest was quite big on long spears both in the rules and on the mins.

[Little Odo]

Lovely work again there Cubs. You are certainly doing these miniatures full justice with your fantastic paintjobs 

[Duff]

Fantastic work Cubs, you're inspiring me to paint the olds RQ figures I have, at least the ones that are still in serviceable condition.

[Melnibonean]

It's been a while since I last looked in on this thread and it's great to see these old runequest figures. I use to have this set and I remember how good the figures were and they still look fantastic by today's standards.