Amazon Attack '22- Start of Spearwoman Unit

For far too long I have neglected the WarGods of Olympus Kickstarter Amazon minis. They suffered because of my insecurities about how well I would paint them. Hopefully that insecurity has faded with these first four spear-chicks. 

This first one was partially painted for a couple of years, she was meant to be the test figure for a paint scheme but I was afraid of 'messing her up.' It took just a small push to get her done and she serves as the model for the official color scheme for the rest of this first unit of spears.

Next up was the standard bearer. She follows the basic scheme but since I can't easily stick to a strict color scheme for such good sculpts. Plus she's the standard bearer so she gets to have some personal flair. Her shield had the hand nailed 5o it removed because I like variety of shield designs. 

Third up was another rank-and-file chick. I forgot that some of the spearwomen didn't have sleeves. I like the sleeves a lot but I kinda like the ease of this sculpt's bare arms and I think she turned out pretty good.

Finally we've got a possible captain for the unit, I tried to give her an older/more veteran look. Of course, her colors are totally different from the main blue theme of the others so far. This ties back to one of the two bodyguards painted up for my 2019 GenCon event warband. My overall plan is to have one unit of spears in mostly blues and another in mostly reds. So this one fits nicely into that plan and she looks good. I like how her right eye came out looking a little blind- she'll stab you with her spear and one eye because she's that grizzled a veteran.

Last year, for Olympus October, I finished up the Amazon Musician so I thought it would be nice to see how the unti looks with her in the mix...

More of the Amazons are on the painting table because I've got a little bit of courage to tackle them now.

Amazon Champion with Polearm

 

COuld this be the start of actual focus on building up more of my meager Amazon Warband troops? Maybe. I've finished the Amazon Champion with polearm because she seemed like the best place to start.

I love the scale-mail that Chris FitzPatrick sculpts on both the Aegyptus and Olympus figures. It's just so satisfying to do fun stuff with.

Her helmet has one of my favorite color-shifting metallic paints (the blue flash) on the crest. Her painting went pretty quick once I just focused on getting her done.

Here we've got the Champion taking on a couple Corinthians, not a fair fight for them...

Automatons- Brazen Bull and Men of Bronze

More great ancient robot minis from Crocodile Games! I've been holding off on painting the Brazen Bull and Hoplite Automatons because I didn't plan on making a Hephaestus warband for Olympus. That is until a certain 'Banisher of the Undead' wore me down enough to consider it.

The sword-armed Man of Bronze has a black metallic color shifting shield and his helmet has blue metallic color shifting paint, because I find it difficult to make things match too closely. I really love the bright trim on his helmet. 

The spear-armed Man of Bronze is more straightforward with the shield matching his body metal. But this guy has a fancy Crest on his helmet and a metallic face that stands out from the helmet. 

Finally we've got the Brazen Bull. This multi-part chunk of metal is so nicely sculpted and a pleasure to paint. He may be used for a bull chariot but I've not yet decided if I want to do that conversion. If he does go with a chariot He'll keep his own base that will fit onto the chariot base.

I really like how the metallics came out. It was a mix of different darker undercoats with metallic paint on top and then washes and strategic dry brushing of the metallic on top of that.

Above we have the Men of Bronze with a Tragic Hero. Below is the Brazen Bull with a couple of Corinthians.

A New Titan Slave to start 2022

For the first finished miniature of 2022 I wanted to finish something that had been around on the painting table for far too long. This Reaper Bones mini that I've drafted into my Titan Warband for WarGods of Olympus fit the bill nicely. 

I've got this crazy idea to have each Titan in this warband be a totally different mini. This is going to be tough and it's not something I've really been focused on much throughout the years. I think I've got maybe half a dozen Titan slaves painted now and the big Reaper Bones Cthulhu to act as the Overlord. It's been slow going but I'm sure it will eventually catch my imagination. 

This guy has a pretty simple color scheme that turned out okay. I'm happy to have him finally done and ready to bulk up the monstrous warband.

Below we've got the new rock wielding guy with an actual Crocodile Games slave and an olde RAFM (or somebody else) demon thing that is weird and big enough to be a Titan Slave for the Warband.

And above is the new guy going up against the 'Surfer Dude' Demigod while below he's next to the ginormous Cthulhu mentioned earlier...