Call of The Age of Conan-thulu pg 2 Shamblers and neanderthals

[Dr. The Viking]

I finished a unit that will do as neanderthals/cromagnon or whatever primitive humans you have. Not very good sculpts, so I will admit that I didn't spend too much time on it... especially the eyes just refused to work for me.



I also rebased a cultist and a pair of dimensional shamblers to use in the project. I've got several more cultists coming up but I want to paint their robes in stars and mystical symbols. So this will be a leader of some sort instead I think.

[OSHIROmodels]

The cavemen look alright to me mate 

cheers

James

[Centaur_Seducer]

All look great mate!
But where do you find all them horrible miniatures?

[FramFramson]

This is getting better and better...

By the way, what's your old Conan from? That's one of the best renditions I've ever seen - full of character and not just a dumb and brawny take on Frazetta.

[Bloggard]

I finished a unit that will do as neanderthals/cromagnon or whatever primitive humans you have. Not very good sculpts, so I will admit that I didn't spend too much time on it... especially the eyes just refused to work for me.

by gum, missing the love for some classic Nick Lund 'Chronicle' miniatures (that's what they look like to me, at least) 
I love 'em - remember buying a load of wargs and riders from the man himself at a UK gamesday many, many moons ago ... wish I still had them!

anyhow - you've done a nice paint job on 'em - look good to me.

[Bloggard]

This is getting better and better...

By the way, what's your old Conan from? That's one of the best renditions I've ever seen - full of character and not just a dumb and brawny take on Frazetta.

your comment surprises me (although I'm probably misunderstanding it ...) as the first thing I thought when I saw the mini, was 'oh, straight out of a frazetta painting', what with the helmet an' all ...

[Dr. The Viking]

by gum, missing the love for some classic Nick Lund 'Chronicle' miniatures (that's what they look like to me, at least) 
I love 'em - remember buying a load of wargs and riders from the man himself at a UK gamesday many, many moons ago ... wish I still had them!

anyhow - you've done a nice paint job on 'em - look good to me.

It was unwise of me to blame my own short comings on the miniatures,  you are right.  Very cool with the ID of the figures too!!! It turns out I have a few more Nick Lund minis lying around. Notably the Mother Crushers.


Next from me on this thread will be more cultists and some qol. I suspect I will also paint some ruined Temple bits I have lying around.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

I especially like the neanderthals, good choice of figures. Keep it coming.

[FramFramson]

your comment surprises me (although I'm probably misunderstanding it ...) as the first thing I thought when I saw the mini, was 'oh, straight out of a frazetta painting', what with the helmet an' all ...

The outline matches the conventional Conan, but he's more characterful in terms of the face and build.

I quite like Frazetta's original work, but most of the subtleties of Frazetta's Conan paintings (especially in the expression of some of them) are lost when translated to miniatures. In the paintings you can see that Conan's not just a dumb thug, but you have to look mostly at the eyes to see it and most sculptors can't capture that.

Not that the old GW Barbarian Dr. Viking is using managed that, but instead the sculptor used a different pose and attitude to express what 28mm eyes couldn't.

For a different look, see this much more recent Conan:



It's otherwise sculpted to a high standard, but he looks like a hunchbacked neanderthal. The sculptor missed the forest for the trees.