Two Crocodiliopolis Spearmen

 

So I got to paint up a  couple of the early castings of Crocodiliopolis city dweller spearmen from the recent Kickstarter by Crocodile Games. 

This guy was the first one I got to paint.  I like his crocodile skin shoulder armor. I tried to add some excitement to his kilt with the squiggles of red.

This second guy I started painting in the final hours of the Kickstarter at the Croc HQ. He was finished a day or so later at home. His kilt also got a little design to add some excitement. 

And here are the 'little brothers' with a selection of Sebeki. 

Amazon Attack '22 - Four More Spears

 

The Amazon Spears unit is now up to the basic unit size of 10 with the completion of these four ladies. 

I like the Amazons who have the sleeves but I like the ones without sleeves a lot too- it's an unexpected change of pace. This one has a horse shield that I think came out pretty good. 

Next is a helmetless one with some red face paint because I didn't like how her face turned out.

Another Amazon with a horse shield, this one no helmet and gorgeous curly hair. Her horse shield also turned out pretty good.

Finally, another helmeted Amazon in a green scheme because of her 'Mother of Serpents' style shield. 

Here's what the whole unit with standard and musician and the red-clad captain. 

Amazon Attack '22- More Amazon Spears

 

The Amazon spears unit grows by two more. Only 3 or 4 more to get the minimum sized unit of 10 ready to take to the field. Both of these ladies are "front rank" coming with separate spear arms. I can't help but mention (again) just how great these sculpts are- they're attractive female warriors without resorting to cheesecake (not that there's anything wrong with cheesecake!).

First up is the one with a helmet. 

Then we've got the one without a helmet. Her shield is one of those with a hand nailed to it, but I wanted to do some freehand on it, so that was removed. The eye came out okay, not quite how I wanted it, but I do think it looks good.

Iomeda - Demigoddess of Hephaestus

Sadly there is no Demigoddess of Hephaestus miniature from Crocodile Games. In order to have one to lead an Amazon warband I decided to find an alternative figure. And it needed some conversion work done.

I went with one of the Amazon (more South American style than ancient Greek) figures from Freebooter Miniatures. She came armed with a wooden trident sort of weapon and a net. Both arms came separately so I had to find some replacement arms to make her more Greek.

Since she was meant to be a daughter of Hephaestus she would need a mechanical arm. Luckily I had a few resin cyber arms from Spellcrow to choose from. She also needed a weapon of some kind for the other arm. Try as I might, I couldn't find a big hammer I liked that fit well with her. Eventually a spear arm from a Tethru figure looked right (it was muscular without being too muscular to show her work at the anvil) and on it went.

For her base I wanted the "temple stones" I like to use so I cut a piece of the liner paper I use for that effect to cover the whole base. Then the painting came. I didn't like the left side of her face so I decided to give her the face paint so I wouldn't have to look at the flaws that were probably just in my imagination.

Above, we have Iomeda with some of her childhood friends. Below, Iomeda is lined up with a couple of her Demigod cousins to show how she fits in with some of the Crocodile Games Demigods.

Amazon Attack '22- Outriders

These two mounted archers join the four Female Centaur Archers to bring the total of the Outriders unit to six. Plus I've still got three of the Amazon sculpts to finish. Unlike most of the Raiders unit (link for the magnetization) these ladies were not magnetized because they fit much more snugly to the horses and they don't have big long spears. I have to say, once again, how much I love these horse sculpts and the Amazons themselves.

This is the regular Outrider with her blonde horse.

I decided to give her one shinguard that's kind of silvery instead of Bronze to make her stand out (inspired by C3P0? maybe). 

Here we've got the Captain with her sword, helmet, and slightly fancier bow. 

I left the little metal connection under her raised hoof for more stability. To hide the connection I put a grass tuft right next to it and it seems to do the trick. 

Finally, here's the six-strong unit unleashing a volley of arrows at some enemy.