Amazon Attack '22 - Raider Standard and Musician

 

More mounted Amazons gallop off the painting table. These two are minor conversions to get a Raider standard and musician because they would be useful additions to a larger unit.

The musician was given a plastic horn from an old GW High Elf kit. I thought about a more elaborate conversation with her blowing the horn with either the shield or spear on her back but in the end decided simply stowing the horn on her back would work best.

For the standard I though about chopping off the spear tip and using one of various devices to make a fancier standard. But I like how the spears look so I went with some plastic bits that seemed like they would work better for the no-nonsense Raiders. It's simple, but they know what it stands for.

Here we have the Standard and Musician with the recently finished Raider Heroine.

Amazon Attack '22 - Kylissma Raider Heroine

I've wanted to do something with this Amazon heroine model since I first saw the greens. Well it finally happened and I think it turned out pretty good.

She got chopped in half (which was way easier than I expected) and combined with the legs of one of the Raider minis. I then magnetized her and the horse because her long spear will make storage and transport a little dangerous. 

Her spear arm came from some other Crocodile Games figure (maybe a Spartan?) but it looks right. Her shield was smoothed out and became a  stumbling block because I couldn't figure out what I wanted to freehand on it. I tried some teeth but they just looked too orky. So she sat untouched for weeks as I tried to get some inspiration. 

I was searching through some old plastic bits and came across an old High Elf musician with a lion's leg fur part. And there you go. I drew the swirls in the background of the shield with a micron pen. I thought maybe they would represent some tentacles or maybe just some design. 

The horse needed a little something more to show that it's also part of this heroine. I have various plastic GW feather bits and decided these looked best. When I was almost done I realized I didn't like how the left side of her face came out so I gave her some fierce half-skull facepaint. 

She is able to sit on the other magnetized horses (even though I just randomly put the magnets in- they luckily matched how I'd done the originals). I really like her pose and I feel like the colors help her stand out as a heroine. 

Olympus Character Kleon

 

A really quick paintjob for this WarGods of Olympus (Kleon) figure that was available as a pre-release at Adepticon. I wanted to paint something a little different than all the awesome Amazon minis I've been doing (not because I'm intimidated by the cool mounted Amazon Heroine conversion I did recently and can't get her finished how I pictured in my head).

I like how he turned out overall. His eyes are a little bit of a disappointment, but I just couldn't get them to look right so I went with the darkened suggestion method.

Armor and Casualties

 

I wanted a little painting change of pace from recent miniatures and chose some of the little extras from Crocodile Games. 

The Spartan armor rack but with a plastic helmet since I snipped the original off for a base or some terrain piece.

The Corinthian armor rack was a nice time painting the cape purple.

The Amazon armor rack has been painted before (way back when the Kickstarter minis arrived) so now I have two. The color scheme for this one is different from the original. 

Aegyptus Asar casualty. 

Amazon casualty. 

Amazon Attack '22 - 'Night Sister' Outriders

Two more mounted archers (Outriders) for my existing unit assembled and painted.  These two were somewhat inspired by the Night Sisters from Star Wars (I've been watching the Clone Wars and really want to start another Amazon warband with a Demigoddess of Hecate).

I went with a nice pale horse for this one. The "socks" came about as an attempt to see how they would look on these horses. Not bad so it might happen on future horses.

For this darker horse I thought an almost white mane and tail would look good. I really like how they came out.

So these two make my official Outriders unit 4 strong, 8 total with the Female Centaurs. They performed really well in the latest game. 

Amazon Attack '22 - Amazon Manhunter Conversion

 

For the current "Death and Discord" WarGods campaign June reinforcements I rolled up an Amazon Manhunter character. Cool, she will be awesome. But there's no miniature for her yet. Luckily I'm a lover of converting minis so I sifted through a metric ton of bits to find stuff to use for it. I'm happy with how she turned out and can't wait to see what she can do on the tabletop. 

I decided to use an Amazon Peltast figure for the body mainly because I liked how she was holding her javelin out. I found a nice stand-in bit for her mancatcher.

The discus on her belt is just a slice of plastic rod that I whittled at an angle to make it look right. I got her left hand from a Basti skirmished and added a couple of Wargames Factory Amazon slings to act as her bolas.

Tragedy struck while I was doing the basing- gravity is a harsh mistress. The mancatcher was bent but the pin held. Sadly the front bola broke off and is lost so I attached another and reinforced it with some UV resin, hopefully. 

Finally, here we see Clio the Manhunter confronting the Sleazy Merchant and his guard. This won't end well for those guys...