A good yield

The result of a few weeks...

It's been some time since I posted an update, I've fallen back into the old habit of painting many miniatures at once. Today, I varnished 34 Gloranthan miniatures for our Runequest games: roughly from left to right you can see...

3 nice barbarians, forgot where from

4 Talastaring hoplites in the colours of Daerius

A lunar priestess in the process of hosting a cult spirit

4 Dara Happan guards ( babylonians) to go with the L & L Dara Happan Captain

Fazzur Wideread (L & L) and the Imperial guard (Mad Knight)

Harem girls, bard, tavern wench, barman from Hasslefree

Name escapes me wise guy from L&L

8 big trolls from Madknight

All in all some wonderful stuff, I might fancy them up a bit more, but for now they're ready and well varnished!

 

Posted with Blogsy - (c) Rudy Boeynaems 2012-2013

Fazzur

Fazzur Wideread

Fazzur 'Bookworm' Wideread is the Lunar instated governor of Sartar, currently residing in Boldhome. He's a general from Tarsh, born to the Orindori clan, son to Vostor Blacktooth. He is a Yanafal Tarnils worshiper, and a member of the Scarlet Scimitars, a Yanafali sect striving to keep the blood pure. He was dismissed after a discussion with Sor Eel about how to handle Pavis in 1610, but was reinstated to suppress Kallyr Starbrow's revolt in 1613 and made Governor General of Sartar afterwards. He loves horses and hates Ducks.

 

Posted with Blogsy - (c) Rudy Boeynaems 2012-2013

Music soothes...

A few nice Lance and Laser Trollkin that like their music. I finished a dancer earlier, these are gonna be great for a bit of atmos when the party has to enter the stinking forest to negotiate...

Some musical trolls and the banner

 

Posted with Blogsy - (c) Rudy Boeynaems 2012-2013

Trolls on a roll

Here are some specific Glorantha miniatures to be used with RuneQuest.  In a first time, the first three pictures will serve as a Troll trader, Gunt Leadfinger, a traveling merchant working in the Prax region, and his two very impressive bodyguards, current name Ben & Jerry.  These two specimens are the biggest, meanest great troll around, they have excellent equipment, and the vouch for the safety of Master Leadfinger.

Purple skinned, this fellow will not pas through any normal human size door, which is why Gunt handles all business outside.

Armor made out of scarab carapace, immaculately clothed, and bloodthirsty when not sleeping.

Gunt Leadfinger, Troll Merchant Extraordinaire.

A normal great troll.

Harrek and Friends

Well, technically they're not all friends, but here are a few personalities from the Lance and Laser series I finished this week.  I can only repeat that working 2 or 3 figures at a time is a way more productive way that trying to paint 40 at once.  It may seem like more efficient if you use one colour on 15 figures at once, but progress is too slow, and you get demotivated.  Way better to see one or  two miniatures finished after a good long session.

Harrek the Berserk and Gunda the Guilty

Ibex Moon Initiate and Yuthuppan Buseri

 Brian of the Volsaxi and Prince Argrath

And some Uzzzzz...

These are the Uz I have painted this week.  You can notice the different style between the two pictures, but it's no sweat, they're all good.  I'm working on yet another style of models, from Mad Knight Castings, but these are Otherworld - with slightly depigged noses - and Lance and Laser.  I'm still working on a rational for some female Uz having six breasts and other only two.  I think six is better, because more breasts > less breasts.

Lance & Laser Uz

Otherworld Uz, sold as D&D pig trolls

The rest of last weeks yield

Since a few weeks my production has gone up tremendously.  I have painted quite a lot of miniatures, about 2 per day, with simpler colours, but good enough for the game table...with hundreds of miniatures, one has to adopt a degree of practicalism, rather than taking 2 months to try and paint a unit of miniatures as well as possible.  Here is what I painted / or at least finished between wednesday and today.

Lance & Laser Aldryami

Nice Fire wizard, sold as L&L Minaryth Purple

Some simple mini's I got at Crisis 11: assassin and old man

A nice little goblin archer, I think it was Hasslefree

A band of broo

Another batch of miniatures just about ready: these are a bunch of Lance and Laser broo I painted up recently.  still needs the final touches, but I prefer making pics first and playing with them a bit so I find every spot I forgot.  These were a lot of fun to paint, and I'm happy to say I'm in a good flow for painting, with 2 miniatures a day on average.

Dark fury heading your way

Lance & Laser mistress race troll

The Lance & Laser mistress race trolls from Lance & Laser look great, sadly the same blueprint was used for all other troll races as well, all the L&L trolls have the long snout, even the trollkin.  In that respect Mad Knight Casting did a much better job making miniatures that look like the Troll Types Explored page in Trollpak.  Still, it's not a real problem, as so often more miniatures is a good thing, it means variety, and with about 30 trollkin you can't go wrong!

Baboon pack

In Glorantha, monkeys can talk!  Or at least, baboons can.  They talk, they use simple tools, and their spiritual leaders are powerful shamans.  Here is a new set of miniatures I painted for RuneQuest, featuring the Lance and Laser Baboon miniatures.  These are some of the best detailed mini's I have been able to put my hands on lately.

More RQ miniatures!

Another batch of miniatures, mostly from former L&L, now Armorcast, finally got painted and based properly, so here they are:

Kallyr Starbrow, the leader of the Sartar Revolt and heir to Sartar.

A lunar Warrior

Holay Warrior

Aggar Warrior

A healer of the Esvulari

Finished some RuneQuest miniatures

The holidays have started, and I since we are not going abroad I am having a lot of free time that I can spend on clearing some of the waiting projects on my workbench.  Today I finished a part of the Lance and Laser (mainly) miniatures I have been painting for RuneQuest.  One thing I learned is that painting several miniatures at once is a good thing, but doing batches of 50 numbs the brain.  I finally got through these, and I can now start on the other 90 or so I have still lined up for RQ.  But I'll be doing those in smaller batches, 8 to 10 at most, in order not to make it a drag.

Here's a healthy grizzly that's about to be disturbed by a non-suspecting party member.

Two dragonewt demibird riders on patrol.

A dragonewt patrol with some beaked and some crested dragonewts.

An Orlanth Rune Priest casting a spell.  It looks like lightning :-)

Babeester Gor Maider taking issue.  Blood is going to flow.

This is a Reaper miniature of Fhafrd, but I think he will do sterling service as the personal bodyguard of Kangharl.

Some stuff on the workbench

 Some gobbo's on wolves that will have to act up as Gloranthan Tusk Riders.

 The Otherworld centaur Patrol looks great.

Two dragonewts on demi birds, currently getting some base color on.

The workbench

Not a lot of updates lately, and funnily enough that's not because I haven't been busy, quite the contrary.  Between visits to the game club, DIY sessions in the new Club House, I managed to continue the painting of a lot of Lance and Laser Glorantha Miniatures, as well as finally base some of the cheapo minis I got at Crisis 2009.  Here's a gang of skeletons, as well as some BTD Babylonians that'll become Dara Happans and some Greeks, both mounted and on foot, about to become Lunar troops and Yelmalio lords.

Werkbank

Zodra de Kelten afgewerkt zijn, en de recente terreinstukken, staat er een kolonne figuurtjes klaar om aan te beginnen: trollkin, dragonewts, allerlei Lunarezen, centaurs, skeletten en nog veel meer.

As soon as the Celts are finished, and the work on the new terrain pieces is finished, there’s a miniature mob ready and waiting to be painted: mainly Lance and Laser stuff for RQ, including trollkin, trolls, dragonewts, Lunar from many different places in the empire, skeletons, centaurs, and lots more.

Gagarthi gang members

A nice pack from Lance and Laser (now sold by Armorcast).

Lunar soldaten

Hier zijn nog enkele Lunarezen, met de scharlakenrode uitrusting ter ere van de rode maan.  Nog een paar Lunarezen afwerken en ik begin aan de eenheden voor HOTT.  Ik ben ondertussen ook aan de Sartar warbands begonnen.

Here are a few more Lunar troops, wearing the typical crimson red attire in honour of the Red Moon.  A few more to go and I can start working on the HOTT Lunar units.  I also started work on the Sartar warbands.

Lunar Patrol

Hier een Lunar patrouille met verkenner, krijger en magier.

Here's a Lunar Patrol with pathfinder, warrior and wizard.

De Jack-o-Bear

Een chaotisch wezen dat zijn tegenstander demoraliseert en zo gevaarlijker is dan dikwijls verwacht wordt.
Here's the Jack-o-Bear, a chaotic creature that demoralises their enemy, often making the encounter a lot more dangerous than initially expected.

Walktapus

Deze walktapus komt van het ter ziele gegane Lance and Laser. Ik heb hem gekocht via Armorcast in de States. Ik ben voor een slijmerige lok gegan, en dat is prachtig gelukt.

This walktapus is from the HeroQuest range made by Lance and Laser - who went out of business recently, so I purchased this one from Armorcast in the US. I painted him as slimy as I could, and it worked out well.