Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (undead warband for Mordheim)

[JollyBob]

I love Boar Face, and not just because he's dancing like Bez from the Happy Mondays. 

[Hobgoblin]

Gah! Clearly a missed maraca-based conversion opportunity!

[fred]

The whole lot together look great.

And those two new ones are cool too - the giant heads work well. The Bez idea is very fitting, in fact both look like they are dancing!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

In a brief interlude between HoTT elements, here's a quick savage orc. The colour scheme is based on this chap:



I'm planning to paint a few of these up to use as primitives in Mutants and Death Ray Guns and Rogue Stars. For the latter, Andrea advises that they'll need exploding arrowheads or psychic powers. I found one with a missing forearm; he's getting a bolt gun to act as a leader with salvaged high-tech gear.

[Hobgoblin]

Here are a couple more shots. I might do a bit more to the shield (maybe a wash to deepen the red bits).

I don't know if anyone else finds this, but when painting old Citadel orcs, I find the faces of the Perry ones to be infinitely easier to paint than those of the Kev Adams ones. It nothing to do with a preference for either style, but something to do with the detail on the faces. For some reason, I find that the wrinkles and details of the Adams faces tend to "defeat" washes and highlights; the recesses always seem to be too dark or not dark enough. Getting the face of the horned-helmeted guy below done took an age, for example.



Some of John Dennet's Grenadier sculpts seem to pose the opposite problem: the detail's a bit shallow, so rather than being too effective, washes are often ineffective means of shading. And then the detail gets lost under the paint. Again, this is nothing to do with the quality of the sculpting - I love a lot of the Grenadier stuff - but is just a question of how "sympathetic" certain styles are to the brush.

[beefcake]

Nice. I like them.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

Here's a grubby old orc who'll form part of a HOTT warband element. I've got a fair few of these Fantasy Tribe orcs kicking around, and I already have an abundance of individually based orcs, so these guys will be multi-based for HOTT and DR.

I'm going to play around with a variety of skin colours for these chaps: some pale ones, some dark ones and maybe - just maybe - even one or two green ones.

[Hobgoblin]

And another ...

[Hobgoblin]

And here's the third occupant of the warband base:

[Hobgoblin]

And all three together:

[beefcake]

Your output amazes me! More great work.

[Sir_Theo]

What an inspiring thread! Love the Bosch inspired hordes and those Orcs are fabulous.

[fred]

Good stuff. Is the Orc with the two handed axe and hood a conversion? I have a similar figure in a helmet - who is one of my favourites from this era.

[Hobgoblin]

This guy?

No, the hooded version is just one of endless variants. All those Fantasy Tribe orcs had lots of different versions. Some seem to have been much more widely available than others, though. So the version with the horned helmet seems to have been in production much more than the others. If memory serves, he showed up in some of the early catalogues/compendiums/journals when the other variants were - presumably - no longer in production.

[fred]

Not quite although I do have the hobgoblin stood next to him! The one I have has a plumed helmet, with a slung shield with a huge skull on it.

I knew there were variants of these figures, but hadn't realised there were quite so many as shown on SoL!!