Conan: Baal-Pteor

Today I present to you the strangler Baal-Pteor.  To be honest this is my least favourite sculpt from the Conan range and I'm not really happy with the paint job however he's done now so I can move on to the next paint job.

Conan: Kushite Witch Hunters

I managed to finish up the Kushite Witch Hunters over the weekend, again these are to a decent table top standard and took around an hour and a half each on average.
I was actually dreading painting these for some reason but once I found the concept art for them it gave me a good starting point and I ended up really enjoying working on them.

Next up on the block is Baal-Pteor who just had his first base coats applied this morning, all work in progress photos over on instagram https://www.instagram.com/crucium.giger/

Instagram activity and Conan sneak peak!

Just a quick post to say that I've started posting my day to day work in progress pictures over on instagram again, https://www.instagram.com/crucium.giger/, though I'll still be posting the finished results on here as usual.

Here's a quick peak at today's Instagram post, the first of the Kushite Witch Hunters (just in need of a matt varnish):

Hopefully I'll have them completed and up on here soon.

Conan: Dragon

Another day and another post, today's miniature is the Dragon from Monolith's Conan game.  The design was based on one from the MMO Age of Conan and is supposed to reflect the fact that traditional dragons don't exist within the world of Conan so this takes the giant armoured lizard approach.

As per the rest of the Conan range this has just received a quick table top job so didn't take any time to knock out.  Unfortunately the lack of natural light has robbed the images of some of the subtle colouring on the Dragon but I'm happy enough with how this has turned out.

This morning I started on the next miniature, and one of the more interesting ones from the Kickstarter, Yogah of Yag:

"Conan stared aghast; the image had the body of a man, naked, and green in color; but the head was one of nightmare and madness. Too large for the human body, it had no attributes of humanity. Conan stared at the wide flaring ears, the curling proboscis, on either side of which stood white tusks tipped with round golden balls."

     –Robert E. Howard, The Tower of the Elephant 

Conan: Sabretooth Tiger

Two posts in two days and it looks like a third may even be coming tomorrow (though more likely Thursday)!  I've obviously hit my stride when it comes to the monsters in Conan as I've managed to knock out the Sabretooth Tiger now, again a decent table top standard done in around two hours all told.

I took the photo this morning so the lighting wasn't the best but again I tried to match the box as best I could within the restraints I've put on myself.
After I snapped this chap I started on the Dragon and pretty much got it finished within an hour (not sure what's in by breakfast cereal these days), I just need to give him a couple of sprays of matt varnish to finish.

Conan: Crossbowmen and Demon of the Earth

Well it's been longer than I planned since my last post put Papa Nurgle deemed me worthy enough to receive his blessing on Christmas Eve and I've been out of action since then.  However from mid last week the wind was back in my sails so I cracked on with the Crossbowmen that had been sitting on my desk for far to long by that point.

Again these were just a "quick" table top job to get them ready to play, not exactly my best work but far better than bare plastic.

After the length of time those fellows had been on my desk I felt like getting through something quickly so I opted for the Demon of the Earth, a nice miniature we've not used yet but hopefully will do soon.  Again I wanted to stick as closely as possible to the art but I went slightly more brown on this one as the Swamp Demon is quite a lush green and I wanted them to stand apart.

For an hour's work I'm quite happy with how he turned out.

I've now moved on to the Sabre-tooth Tiger and managed to get most of the ground work done on it this morning so I'll hopefully have some finished images soon.

Conan: Black Dragons, Giant Wolves and The Black Ones

After the completion of my Ork army I decided that I wanted to get stuck into the Conan add-ons as we've now played through the box scenarios and are going through the campaign at the moment plus the Book Of Set is due early next year.

These miniatures will not only be used for the Monolith game (which we're really enjoying) but also the RPG from Modiphius, which is due later next, and of course Dragon Rampant which I'm personally really looking forward to.
There is nothing special with the paint jobs, just quick and easy table top standard so we can get them on the table sooner rather than later.

Next up on the painting table are the crossbowmen but I probably won't be able to make a proper start on them until next week due to festive preparations this week (and Star Wars on Sunday!).

Conan by Monolith Games

The finally arrived when Conan (wave one) landed at our doors and oh what a day.  The box was large and heavy and it contained some fantastic miniatures which will not only be used for the game itself but will also be used for the RPG by Modiphius and due to the amount of miniatures received games of Conan Rampant are not out of the question.

I'm keeping the text to a minimum and will let the photos do the talking so without further ado (I've kept the photos larger than usual so you can hopefully see a bit more)...

The Big Box

The game box and contents 

 

 There is another tray of 'minions' which in my excitement I forget to photograph

The stretch goals box and contents

The add on boxes

The guest artist boxes

As you can see that is quite the horde however this is not it all and a second wave of miniatures is due next year which will comprise all of the expansions, I can't wait!