Conan [Monolith Boardgame] - KS over and funded

[axabrax]

+1

These are masterpieces. I'd kill to have half his skill

I think it's a very skillful style of painting - perhaps not to everyone's taste because it's got such a distinct 'flavour' to it - but superbly executed.

[PanzerKaput]

I love the style and those figures look so good, just a pity I have t wait for them. I wish I could see a couple of WIPs for his painting style or a tutorial on how I paint.

[Connectamabob]

Conan looks like a corpse that's been left somewhere humid for a few days, and the NMM on his weapons is all random and weird. That figure is luridly horrible, and I don't know how anyone could think it even looks competent, regardless of the target style.

Rest are Ok to good, depending on what the goal was. Skulthas doesn't "pop" despite the aggressive highlights because he's got a bad combo of busy and low-contrast going on. Baal Peotor looks well done, just not a style I like, but IMO the best of the bunch in terms of skill on display. Zelata's face looks horribly wind-burned instead of like a high-contrast stylization, but otherwise the figure looks good. Wolf looks okay. Don't think the brown shadows were the right call, but it's well done.

Skeleton warrior and mummy are my favs. Mummy has the best contrast and definition out of the whole bunch by a wide margin IMO. I absolutely love the colors on the skeleton warrior. Wish it was less "fuzzy" but it still looks very cool due to great color choice and great shadow/highlight placement/strength.

Biggest problem (apart from all the random light source and colorblind gradient weirdness on Conan) is the blending on all of them is too indiscriminate in general, so they all have the sort of pervasive fuzziness I associate with beginner airbrush paintings. Secondary problem is the colors are a bit wonky ("spray tan orange" seems to be the painters preferred flesh tone), and often contrasty in bizarrely non-complimentary ways.

Overuse of white highlights just looks terrible to me as well. I know it's supposed to make things "pop", but when it's done too indiscriminately it lust looks like either everything's been worn down to white primer from handling, or everything's painted to look like it's being overlit from all sides by really harsh lights.

[Braxandur]

Interesting, you indeed sum up nicely what i don't like about the paint jobs, even though  I still thinkt it's a painted with a lot of skill.

It might also be the lightning on the pictures. They can look better if seen under different lightning

[Admiral Benbow]

Overuse of white highlights just looks terrible to me as well. I know it's supposed to make things "pop", but when it's done too indiscriminately it lust looks like either everything's been worn down to white primer from handling, or everything's painted to look like it's being overlit from all sides by really harsh lights.

Completely agree. Especially the Conan is terribly overpainted or photographed under very bad lighting. The painter is definitely a very good painter but his style don't complement the great sculpts. For me, that is.

[Elbows]

When I first looked, my first thought was that he took a non-metallic metal approach...to all the surfaces on the figure.  Skilled, just not a fan of that look.  Mine will be painted suitably sub-par and shall escape any criticism. 

[Eithriall]

The Pledge Manager will be going live on Saturday the 25th of July !

Pledge Manager goes live Saturday July 25th.  It will be open for one month.   It will be open to non backers.
If you missed the Kickstarter Campaign, you can still buy in at the original prices and get all the free stretch goals.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806316071/conan/posts/1282262

[Pijlie]

So the reward for us backers that have handed over their cash at the earliest possible moment is ..... that we started waiting earlier? We could simply have paid next weekend?

Hmmm. Am I being negative? Or is it just the heat...?

[Devoted of Slaanesh]

I hope that this is not a prelude to a significant delay...

[Braxandur]

So the reward for us backers that have handed over their cash at the earliest possible moment is ..... that we started waiting earlier? We could simply have paid next weekend?

Hmmm. Am I being negative? Or is it just the heat...?

Yes,
yes,
yes,
and defenitly... YES 

We early backers allowed them to start working on the game much earlier. anyone who joins in later makes the chance of the game becoming a big succes much higher, so I don't mind anyone joining in.

[Duke Donald]

So the reward for us backers that have handed over their cash at the earliest possible moment is ..... that we started waiting earlier? We could simply have paid next weekend?

Hmmm. Am I being negative? Or is it just the heat...?

Fundamentally I don't mind ... but it is still a bit odd that there is no benefit to have supported the kickstarter

[Tactalvanic]

So the reward for us backers that have handed over their cash at the earliest possible moment is ..... that we started waiting earlier? We could simply have paid next weekend?

Hmmm. Am I being negative? Or is it just the heat...?

Actually it sounds a like a pre-order  pledge-manager combo...

Welll, ok, don't exactly mind, as long as I get what I payed for.. sooner being preferable to later though... 

[Pijlie]

Oh never mind me. It's just the heat 

[Duncan McDane]

but it is still a bit odd that there is no benefit to have supported the kickstarter

If we didn't there wouldn't be so many stretch goals as there are now  .
I don't mind people jumping on the band wagon later on, as the more money Monolith gets the greater chance we have they can deliver and won't cut costs on anything. And they might be more eager to start on their next KS-quest.

Which makes me wonder. When they finish this mammoth project, what will be next?
Cthulhu has been done, but I missed that, so... Marvel maybe? DC? Tarzan?
The Hercules/Xena universe would be quite interesting too.   

[Eithriall]

Thaug : the birth of a monster...

http://gangeekstyle.com/2015/07/thaug-naissance-dun-monstre/