Golgotha's Fantasy

[Golgotha]

Hi all

Herewith my recent fantasy miniature additions. These are Trolls to accompany my orc army manufactured by a Russian company called Tehnolog. See: http://www.tehnolog.ru/product.php

I think these are some of the nicest Troll miniatures I have seen and are excellent for the price. Ordered mine on Ebay for as little as £6.08 with postage for all four miniatures. Also ordered their Minotaur miniatures. I think their Dwarves will make good statues.



Trolls emerging from the deep dark woods. 



Many people seem to dislike the second miniature here from the left. He looks like the commander and I am pleased the way he came out.



The miniature on the far right here is my favourite.

These will certainly add some weight to my orc army. I will still be basing these.

[Cait Sidhe]

Nice work, the cheap Tehnolog 54mm stuff really paints up surprisingly well, been tempted a few times myself.

[Bloggard]

anyone got a link on ebay / amazon for these - searching with 'technolog' hasn't brought anything up.

[Golgotha]

I got mine from these two sellers on ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/sincopa69/m.html?item=173925191834&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/erinaceus_primus/m.html?item=324018497163&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

I am not sure why it is but ebay is often useless at providing search results. Hope this helps Bloggard.

Cait Sidhe give 'em a go, they are well worth the price and long wait for delivery. Most fantasy players I imagine can always do with a few Trolls.

They apparently come in two types, hard and soft plastic. These were soft plastic, which I washed and undercoated with grey spray paint. They did paint up nicely in the end. Detail is lacking in parts. They had a few join lines, nothing serious - which was easy to get rid of with sharp knife and needle file. Indeed, I sharpened and shortened the axe and sword blades slightly. Adding also a bit of "battle damage" here and there.

[Elk101]

I have those primed and ready to paint. Somewhere. I really like them. You've made a really good job of those.

[Grumpy Gnome]

Wow! You made those look great! I will have to revise my opinion of Technology now.

[Bloggard]

I got mine from these two sellers on ebay:

Cheers Golgotha 

[Gunner Dunbar]

Great minds think alike, I have ordered these and the minators as well, hoping the pandemic doesn’t interfere to much with postage from Russia.

[Golgotha]

I look forward to seeing yours Elk.

Good luck with postage Gunner and Bloggard.

I ordered the Minotaurs on the 14th March and they should have arrived two days ago but still waiting. Tracking suggests they are en route. I think they would be good for a number of things including maybe additions to a Beastmen type army.



Thank you Rick. Think it proves yet again that one does not need to necessarily splash out lots of cash in order to find suitable miniatures.

[Golgotha]

Herewith another example of taking what was ostensibly a toy and converting it to a wargame miniature. This was found in my garden buried in the dirt. A wrestler toy of some sort that I thought would be fun to resurrect into some sort of giant barbarian sort.



'orrible shiny toy wrestler - some green stuff and weapons added. The spear method here I do regularly as a conversion get steel rod and or bristles from brushes work depending on scale, drill a hole and weapon done.







Added a shoulder pad and cheesy horns etc. Mask become a helmet. A lick of paint. The shield was a button I painted on a design of a dragon by hand. Which I am rather happy with. Overall effect is a huge improvement I think. I have added some more detail and flocking since these pictures.

see more here: https://frictionbmcminiatures.blogspot.com/2020/04/golgothas-fantasy.html

[Swordisdrawn]

Lovely trolls. Did you just prime them as normal? Really smart

[Golgotha]

If I recall correctly I sprayed them with Humbrol grey spray paint or Tamiya Primer. Then gave light wash and dry brush to highlight some of the details and then painted. I had some paint chipping issues on one face and one weapon so I painted these areas with a thin coat of Mod Podge. On handling them now, they are fine and the paint has remained intact. I am used to painting soft plastic 1/72 miniatures and these are a similar plastic so no issues. On retrospect I would have not sprayed them as the above issues would then have been avoided.

[Golgotha]

Herewith two scratchbuilt Ents. Made from wire and clay. as well as the roots of ivy plants.

See: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ents



I  wanted Ents that looked like a tree and could easily hide among other forest trees. Ideal for surprising the enemy and smashing anyone wondering into their forest.



Sense of scale, GW Elf. I tend to use these Ents as allies for my Elven army.



Here one can see the face of the Ent he has a long branch like nose.



Wanted roots to become the legs without looking like a humanoid biped. Imagine it shambling along.



Wanted the ground on the base to look churned up, having either had the roots rip out or shamble over...



More pictures available here: https://frictionbmcminiatures.blogspot.com/2020/05/golgothas-ents.html

[Grumpy Gnome]

Absolutely brilliant Ents mate! I love how you have done the roots. Genius!

[Golgotha]

Cheers Rick

Herewith, the Minotaurs alluded to above by Tehnolog.









This one is not by Tehnolog, but he is a toy Minotaur, which I repainted, he like the ones above still needs to be based. He came with some knights and other fantasy miniatures and he is like a miniature version of the Schleich toys.

 

This one in my mind is rather "classic" looking indeed I may well use him for a game against some 1/72 Greeks.



Size comparison. I am happy with the Tehnolog Minotaurs and feel I have now filled what I saw as a gap in my collection. Also I think the Trolls are better quality and looking miniatures. Still if one wants some cheap large monsters these certainly fit the bill. and are fun to paint up.

For more pictures see: https://frictionbmcminiatures.blogspot.com/2020/05/golgothas-fantasy-minotaurs.html