Nekharu Bell Ringer Conversion

This little freak is a headswap on a Dark Fable mini giving him an altered Nekharu head. He could be a musician or a Witch or even an assistant to one of the Priest of Aten Revealed miniatures. 

I needed to sculpt a little bit on his neck to cover the joint. The 'growth' on the right side of his neck was a happy accident that he should probably get a doctor to look at (the Nekharu are supposed to be diseased with boils and stuff so I though it was fitting).

Here we see the lil guy with various other Nekharu- above he's hanging out with some witches while below he's joined a group of the Paladins of Despair.

And here we see the lil guy with the Priests of Aten Revealed!

WarGods Minis Month 2020 - FINALE Skull Pig 2, Basti and Snake Priestesses

We sadly come to the end of the 2020 extended WarGods Minis Month. If there had been a physical GenCon I would've gotten a bunch of stuff finished up in time for whatever event Crocodile Games would've put on. We end where we began with a humongous Skull Pig (Entelodont) from Forge of Ice, but first a couple of character minis...

First up, the Snake Priestess from the Olympus line of miniatures from Crocodile Games. She helps make the Dionysus Amazon warband I used at the 2019 WarGods event more complete. I used a great Forge of Ice mini since I think this miniature was first available at last year's convention. She was a little flat with the snakes facing off to the sides, so I thought I'd make her a little more cinematic by carefully turning the snake heads towards the front a bit. I painted her back to sort of look like snake scales because there's something not quite right about this chick...

Above is the Snake Priestess with Absynthia, the Demigoddess of Dionysus from last years WarGods event. Below we have the Snake Priestess with the Sleazy Merchant from Forge of Ice.

Next up is a character for some WarGods skirmishing (or she can be a plain old priestess), Ashara 'Voice of the Dawn.' There will be stats and some background for her on my WarGods Skirmish Blog soon. She was given the bow and quiver on the ground behind her because she's a known archer (and after she died she was part of Shefdu's Grand Warband at the Battle of Ankhara as a Crypt Lord. In life she was known to travel with the renowned Nile Blues legend Big Bukka (as we can see below) and was likely the inspiration of his song "Her Arrows Were Poison."

Finally we come to the second of the two Forge of Ice Skull Pigs. This guy was a lot of trouble but he survived a couple of drops to the floor while painting without coming off his base or losing his head. I wanted to add something for him to be trying to gobble up on the ground and a skull seemed fitting for a Skull Pig!

And here we have both of the Skull Pigs rampaging through the desert wastes in search of some grub...

S'syth Lord Muusmahtua Winged Serpent

From a time long before Aegyptian civilization comes the S'syth, ancient malevolent serpent beings seeking to regain lost glories as rulers of the Antediluvian world- at least in the fluff of WarGods. Ever since the mind-blowing reveal at the end of the Akhenaten Heresy World Campaign I've wanted to do some S'syth. This slight conversion (really just the addition of the wings) has been sitting partly painted for quite a long while.

The wings come from an old Celtos Dwarf Valkyrie mini. I wanted to have this monster evoke images of the Wedjet (winged cobra) but in a more disturbing way. 

The miniature itself is an old Ral Partha figure. It has a solid base that proved too difficult to remove so I used a chariot style base (50x100mm) with some textured paint and chunks of ruined temple bases to hide the original base. You might notice the slight slope around the S'syth now that you know what to look for.

I thought it would be fitting to show Muusmahtua with one of the "Priest of Aten Revealed" event minis from that awesome GenCon Campaign Finale.

And here we have Tebbi and Blackclaw getting mixed up with the S'syth Lord- that would be a pretty interesting fight.