Bob Naismith: A diorama

I've completed a little diorama, which is in fact a homage to Bob Naismith's Citadel sculpts. To the right is the familiar and imposing figure of Thrud and to the left is a dynamically posed fighter from the same period of time in GW's history; both painted using a verdaccio under-painting technique.

The always excellent Jean-Baptiste over at Leadplague has set a few "Oldhammer" sculptor based challenges recently and my two miniatures are for the #Naismithery version, presented here on a small scratch-built dioramic base.

Positioned like this, the two characters appear to show that Thrud's fighter friend is battling adversaries who are climbing the stairs whilst our hero considers how to open the door:

Whilst here, he us being attacked by the fighter, perhaps out of frustration! 

Either way to the two wonderful sculpts and poses were a delight to paint (even with a few interesting muscular anomalies) and will possibly be the start of a Brabarian warband for Mordheim or the like.. Here's a few close-ups of the Fighter;

And for completeness, Thrud:

Oh and I took a few photos of my scratch-build for the small dioramic base, using just insulation foam, a few bitz from the box, a couple of cocktail sticks and a mold of a door I had previously bought many years ago:

Thanks for looking!