Benbow's Barbarians (New Horses, now with riders ...! Update 19.11.17 p12)

[Admiral Benbow]

Many years ago I met a guy at a convention who fielded a Warhammer chaos army using barbarians, mainly from the Copplestone line. I was absolutely impressed by Alex' army and wanted to create my own, so started collecting barbarian miniatures (amongst many others, of course!). The years went by, and when we met once a year, I told Alex that I would start soon ... Well, now the time has come at least, but I have agreed with myself that a warband will do; don't know yet how big it will be in the end, so we'll see.

The miniatures will be mainly from the great Copplestone range plus a couple of convenient more modern ones. Whenever possible I will replace the rather bulky weapons of the Copplestone guys with more realistic ones, and will include the one or other conversion and vignette. I don't take this project too serious but like to focus on some more whimsy aspects of these folks ... So, on to the pics with ...

Queen Caitriona the Red











Well, she is the Queen of the Wild Sons, and actually deciding all important issues, BUT as we all know, a proper barbarian tribe must be lead by a man, a real man like ...

Connor the Egregious, Highking of the Glorious, Guardian of the Realm, the Exterminator well, you know what I mean ...





... and his bodyguards:







To be continued ...
 

[Captain Blood]

Gorgeous Michael. Queen Caitriona in particular 

Can't wait to see this army grow

Richard

[beefcake]

Nice work. Great skin tones and I like the leggings on that bodyguard

[OSHIROmodels]

Wow 

Fantastic work on those, I particulary like the tiger  Looking forward to the progress on this 

Any chance of a run on which figures that aren't the Copplestone ones?

cheers

James

[Helen]

Love the lion, well done.

Helen

[Driscoles]

I love Connor and Queen Caitriona and her cat  
Wonderful miniatures and great painting.
The basing is great too !
I am so curious to see more !

[stone-cold-lead]

Looking great so far. Nice to see that old Thrud model again. Mine's knocking around in my meagre display cabinet. Look forward to seeing more.

[Doomhippie]

What is it with barbarians that I like so much? Can't do anything wrong with them, especially such nicely painted ones. I love all of them. Though Thrud might be my favourite (for old times sake). Cool minis. 

[Thantsants]

Yup - I'm with Doomhippie here. Love Thrud in particular!

That tiger though... 

Is Thrudella going to be making an appearance? 

[Heldrak]

Great! (I particularly like the "nip-slip" on Queen Caitriona...!) 

[LeadAsbestos]

Love the Queen! More please!

[DFlynSqrl]

These look great and it's a really fun project idea!

[Blackwolf]

Lovely painting Admiral,very 'gnarly' which suits these figures to a tea,and the giant Catamount/Puma/Lion is fantastic! Looking forward to more

[aggro84]

Very nice work! 

[Bugsda]

Excellent!    I can smell the testosterone from here, even from Caitriona 

I'll be waiting for the next addition with baited eyes