Black Scorpion Miniatures NPCs

I've been building a fair bit of fantasy scenery recently and I always feel that the buildings are missing something until they have miniatures added to them. The buildings provide a context for a narrative, but the models will create it and of course the most common way for a story to unfold is when a battle or skirmish unfolds amongst the scenery; the fighters going for it against the backdrop of a battlefield. But I also like to include a few npc's in there too, either mixed up with the fighting, or setting a scene before a skirmish or adventure starts.

So I did a bit of shopping and found these lovely npc characters from Black Scorpion Miniatures Tombsone civilian range. I was most keen on the barkeep, patron and blacksmith to populate my (nearly complete) coaching inn and forge, but the doctor character may also provide some ideas for a future project..

They are gorgeous resin sculpts and a real pleasure to paint. I painted the blacksmith and the barkeep first, both with deliberately drab colours and then switched up my paint palette to some more vibrant colours for the patron and the doctor:

I'm now plotting an-depth photo shoot. Be patient...

The Chef

Black Scorpion Miniatures provided me with this wonderful, resin sculpt to add to my growing npc troupe. He'll work in the kitchen of the dungeons (those minions need to be fed and even the prisoners need gruel) and double up as part of my imagined baggage train for a future project. So for now I present the chef, in his kitchen, brandishing some sharp kitchen tools. Fancy pilfering from his larder?: