Return to the Okroi Caravan Project

 

It's been some time since I worked on minis for the Okroi Caravan. It started with these two excellent miniatures from Forge of Ice. They spurred a search for more minis to man the caravan as well as a need for more of those delightful Okroi. Now there has finally been a return to focus on getting the caravan populated. 

First up is another female caravaneer from Dark Fable. This lady has a spear that I added a plastic flag bit to help her stand out from the other spearwoman minis in the line. I almost forgot I added a plastic pouch bit to her back to help give her a more characterful look.

Then came this young Okroi from Forge of Ice.

And finally, for this batch, is another member of the caravaneers a Nubian adventurer. His banded armor is a little too subtly colored to show up well in the pictures but I like how he turned out.

Let's  take a look at the current state of the completed caravan figures.

Upcoming will be another Dark Fable caravaneer and four Okroi pack animals. There should probably be even more members- I need to go through some boxes of minis to see what else might fit.

Aegyptus August 4- Sebeki and Asar With Axes

 

These two both have big axes- the Sebeki event mini from Crocodile Games and an Asar female from Dark Fable Miniatures. 

This Dark Fable figure is going to end up as part of the Okroi Caravan project but she's also good when you need a chick with an axe. Her base got a little bit of the stone texture liner paper I've used in the past. 

I feel like this Sebeki is a bit more evil-looking than the rest of the line. He came out okay but not as good as I hoped for. I thought about adding the texture paper to his base too but he was already on the base and it would have been too much trouble to get it under him. I do like how he looks with other Sebeki, though. 

Aegyptus August 03- A New Priest of Aten Revealed!

 

Long ago there was the Akhenaten Heresy WarGods World Campaign. SPOILER ALERT the Priests of Aten were revealed to be S'syth agents. It was an unexpected and most excellent plot twist. I have one of these rare conversions from that finale and I've made a conversion of one in the past. I've still got a few of the custom cobra heads that Chris FitzPatrick cast up for his personal use and I've been pretty stingy with them. 

But it's Aegyptus August and instead of painting stuff that is already assembled and primed and even sometimes partially painted, why not do a few new conversions? So I did. I've got an unconverted Priest of Aten, but I've done that before. I searched for a base figure that would be unique and nicely fit with the cobra head. It was a Dark Fable eunech captain or something. It just felt like the right figure for this new conversion. 

He doesn't have to represent a Priest of Aten Revealed, he could simply be a Uraei priest or Master of Words for games of "Aegyptus 30k."

Here's the new conversion with the original official conversion (next time Alex is in town he'll need to bring his and we can get a group shot). And below we have Young Shefdu in a spot of bother with the Priests of Aten!

WMM '20 - More Spears (Part 2)

Some Children of Bes (Daneg), the dwarf god of ancient Egypt, and the first Amazon Raider as WarGods Minis Month 2020 rolls on. Again, the WarGods Minis Month is not based on a calendar month but is a more amorphous measurement of time fit for the gods...

The Children of Bes (Daneg) are Swamp Goblins from the old Chronopia line of miniatures from before the turn of the century. I decided to use some that I already had painted up as Asar stand-ins for a warband to be used in a WarGods World Campaign. The unit of spears was filled out nicely but there was a single spearman left unpainted at the time.

Then I decided to do up a unit of the Swamp Goblin Blowpipes to use as either archers or slingers (since there are no rules for blowpipes in WarGods and the options give some points flexibility). I only got a few of the missile unit painted up, this guy was lucky enough to be with the spearman when I started the WarGods Minis Month. He started out as a loading blowpipe pose- I added the top of a Crocodile Games Asar standard. It looks almost natural.

Finally, the drummer is from a Swamp Goblin heavy unit that I just thought would do well as a generic musician for either unit o the Children of Bes. The bone armor is from some unknown source.

These newest additions to the Daneg units needed to match the originals that were painted over 10 years ago. I think the drummer's look let's him easily fit into either of these units.

Below we've got a couple of the Crocodile Games Asar Spearmen to show just how tiny these Children of Bes are, but they're feisty.

From Crocodile Games, FINALLY one of the Amazon Raiders is done! She'll act as the unit captain. She's the only one that wasn't removed and given a magnet (she's on there really tight, I don't know how I got her to stay so well, but I'm glad).

I wanted a light grey for the captain's horse and the rest of the unit will have darker colored horses.

For the lance blade I used some color-shifting blue metallic paint because I've come to really like how it looks. The warpaint was a last minute decision because I kept messing up her eyes when I tried to fix them so I said "screw it!" and went with the red line.

The shield turned out okay, not quite what I was going for but it will do. Of course the rest of the unit will probably have totally different shield colors because I often cant'stick to a uniform color scheme.

Here we can see just how big that monster skullpig is from Forge of Ice. My money's on the Amazon.