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

[Damien]

What. The. F ? That is AWESOME! The painting is incredible, the conversion is insane (is the head of the beast from a king kong toy?), what I really like is the level of detail on the saddle; jaw droppingly good. I am at a loss for words. Great thread, fantastic painting, awesome conversion/diorama.

Damien

[OSHIROmodels]

Pure genius 

cheers

James

[Bugsda]

sorry

F ME

That's exactly what I said, more or less 

Genius 

[Mason]

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BLOODY HELL!

AMAZING!

[Admiral Benbow]

What. The. F ? That is AWESOME! The painting is incredible, the conversion is insane (is the head of the beast from a king kong toy?), what I really like is the level of detail on the saddle; jaw droppingly good. I am at a loss for words. Great thread, fantastic painting, awesome conversion/diorama.
Damien

First a big thanks to all for your very nice comments!

The beast conversion was based indeed on two main components: a resin body from an "Orc carnosaur" by Grendel's Leviathan range, still available today from Scotiagrendel.com, and a head from this guy:



This is the 1/6 scale "Neil Andrythal" by Mark Newman from Newmanoid Models. Of course I didn't buy this really expensive collector's kit and used the head for a conversion, but a friend of mine had it years ago and had a mould built for some castings of the head just for conversions; luckily I've got one.
 

By the way, I just changed the pics of the miniature for a better quality set, in case you're wondering ...

[xpalpatinex]

Love this...a properly mental conversion and an amazing centerpiece.

[Limaike]

  just 

[Faber]

Hey Michael.... !
This thread is superb. A real pleasure to see your work, mate!
oh, that Steelcruncher..........
Keep going, I'd really like to see more wonderful barbarians!

[Pil]

Wow, I just stumbled in this thread and what a treat this is! Great conversions and the Steelcruncher is amazing! I love the banner too, I want to build an undead battle standard bearer and I just didn't know what to do with the banner pole, this is very inspiring! Great use of parts (and the real bone) so thanks for sharing!

[Funghy-Fipps]

May I add my voice to the chorus of praise?

HOLY S**t, THAT IS AWESOME!

I've just come home from work and am sat, beer in hand, marvelling at your artistry. Cheers!

[Admiral Benbow]

Many years ago I bought six nicely painted Grenadier barbarians from Dave Thomas at a game show. They were not too costly and were painted in a high standard I couldn't achieve in those days. I don't know who was the painter, maybe someone will recognize them now. So they were re-based, painted over a bit here and there and their skin tone adjusted to my existing horde; here they are:










As with my previous batch of barbarians I wanted to create a scenic movement tray, magnetised and serving as a small vignette in my display cabinet. It was built in three layers as you can read about some posts back, painted, flocked and detailed:










And this is the complete scene: War Council at Skull Spire









 

[Mason]

Absolutely splendiferous, Admiral!
 


I had a couple of those back in the day and they are another example of great sculpts that stand the test of time.

[Funghy-Fipps]

The coolest thing I've seen so far this year. Not for the first time I bend my knee to you, sir.

[Damien]

Great tattoos on the Shaman, but the skull spire.. pure art. I love all the groundwork, the flowers, plants etc. I recognize the skull pile but where did you get the skeletal warrior and the large skull?

This is great stuff,
 Damien

[beefcake]

Awesome stuff. Love that base you made for them. I have that shaman, I must get around to painting it. I sold off all my old stuff about four years ago and that was one of the few things I kept. Can you purchase that one anywhere nowadays?