Runequest, fantasy Bronze Age and D&D

[Muddypaw]

Those Harpies are extremely disturbing!

Yep! Creepy…That’s why I love them.

Love the duck where is he from?

They’re both from Fenris Games. One has a helm added from a Bronze Age miniatures accessory pack, also Fenris, and the archer has a hat added from an old Perry ECW musketeer.

[Muddypaw]

I’ve finally finished a model I’ve been slowly working on for a couple of months though only started seriously painting maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago. I broke it up with a couple of other minis so I didn’t burn out. It’s the biggest thing I’ve done since probably a Warhammer Empire general on a Pegasus maybe 25 years ago. The wings are stolen from the same model! It’s a conversion with roughly 12 bits from a variety on minis. I wanted to keep the colour scheme simple as there’s so much going on I didn’t want to overwhelm it too much.

[Hobgoblin]

Wow - that's astonishingly good!

[punkrabbitt]

That is amazing!

[Bloggard]

fantastic conversion work and painting. What a great collection. 

[Hobgoblin]

Guessing at what it is: a Storm Bull rune lord and mount?

[Dean]

The whole project is just stunning mate, love it!

[Muddypaw]

Thanks guys, I’m really pleased with them 

Guessing at what it is: a Storm Bull rune lord and mount?

Spot on! Though it may, or may not, be Argrath on the white bull.. They’re all for my Runequest (aka Glorantha) project. I’m planning a few more personalities of the Herowars. Someone on a chariot as the next big piece.

[Muddypaw]

I’ve started on my next big centrepiece model, a chariot. Spear lady ordering she be driven closer so she can hit stuff with her spear. If I can find the right model, I’ll have a chariot runner alongside. The chariot is based on a famous Etruscan chariot, the model by Gorgon studio who I think have packed up shop which is a shame

[DalyDR]

the model by Gorgon studio who I think have packed up shop which is a shame

Have they?  Drat. 

[Bloggard]

just looked right through the thread once more - again, what fantastic figures / conversions and painting. 

gosh RQ1st edition - such a strong formative memory. From the UK side, Oliver Dickinson's Griselda stories made such an impression, doing his Runyon-esque thing with the setting ... wonder if they'd still seem so good now ...

*inspired putting that ECW hat on the duck-eteer

[Muddypaw]

Thanks for the kind words. Griselda is a big part of why Runequest (the world and game) have stayed with me all these years. Right from the first short story with Russ Nicholson art to ‘The Lady of Alone’ which Oliver Dickinson wrote just a few years back.

Here’s another one, a follower of the god of killing stuff and making sure it stays killed! I do love a good mix of historical and fantasy 

Edit. She’s a new release from Bronze Age miniatures, start of a lovely grey elf range.

[Waffles_vs_Tacos]

Very lovely! Where is that model from?

[Muddypaw]

Very lovely! Where is that model from?

She’s the start of a new range of grey elves from Bronze Age miniatures in the US. You can pick them up from Fenris Games in the UK/EU. Their broody, demon sword carrying leader seems slightly familiar…..

[Muddypaw]

One more for the fantasy pile. She’s covered in feathers and phoenix heraldy, but I wanted something different from the usual red/orange/yellow. A paladin maybe, or perhaps an anti-paladin with those almost funereal colours. It’s fun picking up whatever takes my fancy whether it’s part of a project or not. The chariot is trundling along in the background in between little ones like this.