Lots of WarGods-ish Artifacts

 Lots from Crocodile Games and a couple from elsewhere.

 So I had this extra Sphinx head in my Ægyptus bits and I wanted to do something cool with it. Since I have a crazy dream of one day organizing and finding people who want to play a massive WarGods-based dungeon crawl game someday, I've often made treasure bits that would fit that sort of thing. So maybe it's an Excalibur-like kopesh held tight in the jaws of the Sphinx only to be removed by the true Pharaoh.

 Apis statue, partway painted since soon after it was released.

 Sadly the only part of the Olympus Amazons shipment that is completed so far- the Amazon armor rack.

Another long partially painted piece. I've decided this is the Ark of the Phoenix.

Another good dungeon crawl bit here- an old Ral Partha "research area."

 From Alex Bates' Forge of Ice, a Sleestack Library Skull. I tried to give it a sort of "crystal skull" look but it didn't turn out how I imagined.

100th Post- Lots of Angry Greek Chicks

The WarGods of Olympus Kickstarter Amazons arrived over a week ago. I haven't had time to finish any of the minis yet, but a few are started and I have roughly planned out what my Amazon Warband will look like by units (not too hard since that was part of the Kickstarter.

 2 Hoplite units (one with 12 Amazons the other with 15), a Peltast unit, an Archer unit, a unit of Swords and some characters. Close to 70 minis in all. That's a lot of painting, but unlike with Ægyptus, I am planning this warband out from the beginning instead of my more favored "those minis look cool- let's do a unit of them!" method that somehow led to several viable Warbands for Ægyptus.

I hope to get the Warband completed before GenCon this year... yeah that sounds like it will happen. I've started on a few of the minis that came in my big box of figs.

 Amazon armor rack- it's almost finished as an objective marker with a nice marble floor.

Chris Fitzpatrick is one of my favorite sculptors of female minis because he just makes them look really good. This Demigoddess of Artemis is maybe my favorite female of the Kickstarter minis- but it's a tough choice.

I've really come to love the Demigoddess of Hecate too. She is vying for favorite Kickstarter female mini with the Artemis DG above.

The Helen of Troy mini is also really good. Don't worry, her dress is not going to end up that brown color.

And finally the Oracle of Delphi, another really great female sculpt.

There weren't only these female minis in the box of metal- I didn't get pictures of all the other 9 Demigods or the Automatons back with an extra Bronze Bull. They'll make an appearance eventually.

A Harbinger, an Embalmer, and a Scribe

...walk into a bar.

The first painted minis of 2015!!! A couple of these were going to be included in the previous WarGods Minis Month but the last few months of 2014 were pretty hectic and painting was pretty limited.

First up, The Bobby Jackson Heru Harbinger Dargu-Ra (not the Warband Starter one withe hand hanging from his belt). I thought of the feather as a phoenix feather and the helmet as some special 

 Next up, my weak version of Akori's (Joe from the Crocodile Games Forums) excellent Anubi Embalmer conversion based on an illustration in the WarGods of Ægyptus rulebook. The only thing I did was slap the plastic barrel on his back (presumably full of natron for embalming stuff) and attach a couple other plastic bits to make it look interesting.

 And finally, a scribe by Dark Fable Miniatures. I really like how this guy came out. He's got some writing on his body as practice or maybe some kind of written magic/protection.

WarGods Minis Month '14 Update 4- Paladins of Despair Unit Building

Some delay because of illness and sporadic paintng time, but WarGods Minis Month is still underway!

 The idea for this unit of Nekharu with hand weapon and shield has been an open project for quite a long while. I had already done the first 2 conversions a few years ago. With WarGods Minis Month underway I decided this was as good a time as any to get some more of the conversions together to start filling out a full unit of these nasty vultures...

Most of the figures in this batch are conversions of the  Nekharu with mancleavers, the exception is the taller one that was a Nekharu Coven Witch- he lost his left hand to another conversion long long ago and so I decided a shield would be an easy fix for him. His right hand got a sword from one of the weapon packs.

These next two are from the same base model. I snipped the long handle of the mancleaver on the first one and gave him an Asar round shield on the right arm leaving the rest of the mancleaver in the left hand. Then I carefully trimmed down the curved top of the mancleaver blade so his sword was a shorter straight weapon.

For this one I took the mancleaver off altogether and gave him a shield on the left hand and a plastic GW axe in his right.

 The musician is sporting a Wood Elf plastic horn and arm- not the best conversion ever but it's not bad. He's also got one of Alex Bates' Egyptian shields.

The standard bearer kept the handle of his mancleaver and I pinned a pre-ragged Tethru backbanner to the end. Other than the little skull scarab on his base (thanks again to Alex!) to help him from tipping over, that was the only change to him.

And here we have the 7-man strong unit waiting for at least 5 more to join them before the Paladins of Despair will be a worthwhile unit on the tabletop. But for skirmish games...

WarGods Minis Month'14 Update 3

WarGods Minis Month 2014 has officially been extended to sometime in September because of a lack of painting time on my part. Plus then I can get the finale to coincide with the 100th post celebration...

 This time we have 3 Asar characters and a resin ruined obelisk!

 First up, Dark Night, a vigilante from the city of Pharos. He strikes fear in the hearts of criminals and others as he fights to make the streets of that corrupt city safe for the innocent residents.

 Next is Tebbi the Priest (no relation?), a small conversion of the male Asar Master of Words. The top of the staff had a skull in a box and this guy is supposed to at least appear to not be evil at first glance. So I got a plastic bit of some sort and put it on the top of the staff. Another plastic bit with the dagger and trinkets.

 Next is the Asar Knight of Horus conversion. Simply a Warhawk with the weapon from his right hand removed and a shield and quiver added.

 I'm seriously thinking about converting a whole unit of these guys (hand weapon and shield) but they'll have to wait until a few other conversion units are done.

And finally, from GenCon at the Iron Wind Metals booth they had these resin Obelisks. After I grabbed a few pounds of lead from the by-the-ounce bins I decided to throw one of these in because another Obelisk never hurts.

WarGods Minis Month'14 Update 2

Finally more painting and some completed minis for WarGods Minis Month 2014!

 The Eater of the Dead gets some attention in this update. It's been quite some time since I've painted any figures for my already impressive Eater of the Dead warband (it's size is probably closer to 2 Warbands at this point).

 From Reaper, it's a Nefsokar Mummy Standard Bearer (officially Mummy Standard 6). The symbol I painted on the standard first was an Ankh which I then mostly covered with what I can only guess is some horrbile Eater symbol that means something really bad.

 And from Crocodile Games is a Heru Crypt Lord. I've decided to name him Shamutanti. I think he'd make a good Dark Harbinger too.

WarGods Minis Month'14 Update 1

 The now annual WarGods Minis Month has finally begun. Not really a calendar month, I will paint up as many WarGods (Ægyptus, Olympus, etc) related minis as I can. This one will go to mid August- around the 17th or 18th.

 This first batch has been almost done for quite a while but finally got matte coated (some problem with my matte sealer caused some white areas that I'll be cleaning up soon). This update is mostly Dark Fable Egyptian Harem Miniatures from their 3 Indiegogo campaigns.

First up- a Dark Fable Bodyguard who will most likely see service as an Asar Champion or an 'Empty Palm' thug in skirmish games.

 Next we have 2 of the Dark Fable Eunuch Harem Guards. Both took the most of the matte sealer issues- they have areas of crusty looking white that should not be there and will eventually get cleaned up.

 Here we have an olde i-Kore Celtos mini. This guy is also part of the Wizards '14 project. I've wanted to paint this thing up since it was first released- I'm glad I waited until now.

 Another Dark fable mini- she's meant to be a harem girl or handmaiden but I decided to add the Crocodile games cat and paint her up as a sorceress or witch. I've decided to name her Kawet and she is also part of the Wizards '14 project.

 Finally we have another Dark Fable miniature. This is the Vizier but again he's been drafted into the Wizards '14 project. He will likely serve as a Master of Words and has been dubbed Dasuwentep. He's also probably evil.