Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (ogre bodyguard for Mordheim)

[LCpl McDoom]

And it seems a very timely cinema release at selected places:

https://www.cineworld.co.uk/films/exhibition-on-screen-the-curious-world-of-hieronymus-bosch#

[Hobgoblin]

That looks very interesting indeed! I shall have to arrange babysitters sharpish ...

Here are the next couple. All these paintjobs are really quick and simple: the aim is to get as many as possible done in the next week or so. I think I have enough finished for four horde bases so far, and enough primed/started for at least eight. I hope to finish another element's worth tonight. Eventually, I'd like to have 12 done, so that an army can be fielded with 12 hordes, 2 behemoths and a hero or magician general. I'll also have some fliers, blades and warbands as options.

[fred]

The colour really helps bring out the alieness of the creatures. With the normal mundane human parts, then strange mutated animal parts in brighter colours.

These are coming along very well. Looking forward to seeing the whole army.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks! I was thinking of a toucan for the bird man:



That said, I think he also looks a bit like Breughel's Dulle Griet:

[Steve F]

That said, I think he also looks a bit like Breughel's Dulle Griet:

Do you know LAM's Mad Griet figure?
http://www.lead-adventure.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=63

[randycarter]

Ever better every week, great work!

A possible inspirational hint: what about the Berserk manga?

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks! I don't know the Berserk manga but will investigate ...

Here's another idea.

[randycarter]

OK, that's really weird!

Thanks! I don't know the Berserk manga but will investigate ...

Here's another idea.

[DeafNala]

Now you're cooking! The new Bosch stuff is BRILLIANT...BEAUTIFULLY & IMAGINATIVELY converted & painted. OUTSTANDING WORK!

[fred]

OK, that's really weird!

Too right!

Thanks! I was thinking of a toucan for the bird man:

Yes, I thought that when I saw the beak. It reminded me of Guinness, but when checking out the old posters, their toucans were much simpler colours.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all! And Steve F, thanks for the pointer on Dulle Griet!

Here are a couple of more conventional beastmen. The old Asgard one reminds me of Moorcock's Poliv-bav; indeed, I found in the archaeological strata of my old miniatures boxes another version that I had begun to convert to hold a whip - doubtless to serve as a Poliv-Bav-style chaos charioteer.

Also, another shell-based idea ...

[Totleben]

Art!

And now I have to read 45 pages ...   

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

Here's a slightly better, if over-lit, shot of the two beastmen. One point I'd make about these is that there any great difference in quality between an early-80s Asgard beastman and a contemporary GW one. I like them both, but I think that whatever the Asgard one loses in 'clean' sculpting, it gains back in dynamism of pose. But by and large, one is as good as the other.

[kaiser]

I'm doing something similar with my beastmen, as I really don't like the idea, that a child of the chaos gods comes out the same (goatman, bull man or small goat man) every time. Your motley crew looks fantastic.

[Hobgoblin]

I'm doing something similar with my beastmen, as I really don't like the idea, that a child of the chaos gods comes out the same (goatman, bull man or small goat man) every time. Your motley crew looks fantastic.

Thanks! I couldn't agree more. I don't even like the distinction between "chaos warriors" and "chaos beastmen" (in Moorcock - the main source for the GW vision - the beastmen are sometimes described as "chaos warriors").

Here, in an interlude from beastmen, is a hero element for the Chaos army: