Friday 14 February 2020

The start of a Barbarian Warband

This is all going to be about musculature and flesh-tones. To help me with this project I have gone full method acting; last night I re-watched Schwarzenegger's "Conan the Barbarian", I've started reading Robert E. Howard's titular book (not enjoying it so far), I had a protein shake this morning for breakfast and I'll be hitting the gym tonight (maybe). Oh and I've [carefully] looked for different skin tone painting techniques that I can try out on so many scantily clad Barbarian models.

You saw my Bob Naismith Thrud and friend and here I've gathered a couple of his friends that I have previously from Hasslefree Miniatures as well as a Citadel "fan" and a Reaper Bones leopard:



To add to these, I've captured a couple of very cheap old Citadel lead Tribesman from ebay (£1 per model!), Big Momma and a Dwarf beserker, also from Citadel, another Hasslefree model with a nice dynamic pose and a Red Box games (which I've head-swapped) model too. Additionally a plastic kitbashed model to create a Shaman and another Reaper Bones wolf. I'll share these next time if I can find time between my gym and protein shake routine.

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  1. Great looking warband Stuart, great use of the Dark Eldar captive

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    1. Cheers Dave, she looks like a newer version of one of Thrud's fans and fits in with a bit of the Frank Frazetta style

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  2. Looking good man! As for training keep it up...you will look like Thrud before you know it. ;)

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    1. Just without the pinhead hopefully. I may need to step up my regime a bit then

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  3. I love how they're all so different and yet fit with one another !

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    1. I'm trying out quite a few different skin tones too so glad to hear that they're looking homogenous

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  4. Superb painting and basing, well done!

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  5. Metal. Good work on the skin tones and a very entertaining selection of figures!

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