Wendigo Test Colors

I've had a lot of Wendigo miniatures in a box for a very long time. This Hunter has been primed for way too long. So I decided to clear him out of the painting queue (and also taunt young Jordan to start his own Wendigo warband).

In the past I've seen a few people paint their Wendigo in schemes other than wintry white snow based colors. I found that to be a lot more exciting than greys and whites so that's what I did.

I like how he turned out and I've got some additional ideas when I eventually get back to the rest of the warband. I think loincloth colors will be a nice way to sort out units.

Six Sphinxes

 

From Miniature Building Authority at Adepticon 2023, I picked up these 6 sphinxes because they looked great and sphinxes make good scatter for WarGods games. Plus, four layers of drybrushing turned out pretty good 

The Criosphinx design. There are some very faint heiroglyphics along the base but they are so faint that I decided to ignore them

The standard Sphinx design almost got gold accents but I decided against it to keep all of them the same.

Here we have a couple of Crocodile Games Aegyptians with a few of the Sphinxes to show how well they fit together.

Mummy Kidnapping

This figure has been assembled and primed almost since it arrived from one of the Dark Fable Miniatures campaigns. But now this fearsome mummy and his unconscious hostage have finally been completed. 

It was really just a simple rather quick paintjob once I focused on it. I think it turned out pretty good. The floor tiles are simply drawn on the base with a micron pen and then weathered the best I could. 

Here we have the newest mummy alongside a few of the other Eater of the Dead miniatures I've painted (mostly Crocodile Games figures). I think he will most likely see use as a moving objective marker because a "save the damsel" objective sounds kinda fun.

Knight of Horus and a Revitalized Heru

It's officially Aegyptus April, but I haven't really been focusing my painting on WarGods stuff. But this converted Knight of Horus conversion just needed to be finished. I also came across this Heru with 2 swords who needed some touch-up from a long time in the wild- I thnk this is the first WarGods miniature I ever painted back in the 'aughts sometime. 

The touchup was mainly to a couple of areas that had chipped all the paint away (his toes and an arm). I took the chance to enhance the metallic area and some other stuff.

This is the second time I've  done a Knight of Horus conversion. I had started on him before Adepticon but he was abandoned in the prep. I decided he needed to be finished right away for some possible skirmish games soon. As with most of my Horus-themed miniatures I wanted this guy to rhyme with the first Knight but not be a copy.

Below we've got the new and old Knights of Horus side by side to show the differences. The Knights of Horus have many orders across the land, thus the differences in costume.

And here we have what may be a Horus party for some WarGods skirmishing.

Nekharu Torturer and ToTanem Harbinger

 

Before Adepticon I got these two finished, the Harbinger for the loaner warband I was taking in case someone without minis wanted to play in the "Big Trouble in Crocodiliopolis" game and the Nekharu Torturer for my Isis warband in case I was needed to fill a slot for the game.

Long long ago I converted a Coven Witch sculpt to be a Torturer- it was okay but I've grown to dislike it in that role (he's got a polearm). This Torturer is a very slight conversion of the official mini (I removed the knife from his left hand and replaced it with a feather because I thought it would be cool as a torture tool).

Here's a slightly blurry picture of the Torturer with the converted Flesh Hulk (using a metal Reaper mini and parts of an old plastic Warhammer zombie) I did very long ago.

My ToTanem are nearly "complete" but I have never done a Harbinger for them (I have used a City-Dweller Harbinger for them in the past). But Adepticon was the perfect deadline to force me to focus on the ToTanem Harbinger. The shield replaced his fancy stick because I've wanted to do that conversion for a very long time. I think it turned out pretty good with the sorta marble effect. 

Final Four Asar Slingers

 

Just in time for March Madness (not really, but it IS March) come the last four Asar Slingers to have a full unit!

These guys were meant to be quick and dirty but languished partially painted for a month or so (not long considering the time many other minis have languished in despair) until the other night. I decided to go quicker on them to make them look okay. I think they're a little more than okay. Can't wait to use them in a skirmish or regular game...

And now that the unit is legal (I have some extra Asar standards and musicians I can add as needed) they're all together ready to cast the first stones at the enemies of their Harbinger.

The Talons of the Witchlord - A Nekharu Warband

 

The Nekharu warband I have inadvertently been building up since WarGods of Aegyptus was originally released is  up to a good playable size. There are 3 full units of warriors, a Torturer with Flesh Hulk, 2 Witch Masters with a total of 11 Coven Witches, a Hero (maybe more accurately villain), and the recently completed Witchlord. There's also a chariot and an unused (and shunned because don't like how the conversions came out) Standard and Musician. 

The 14-strong archer unit ('the Cutting Wind') includes a Captain, Standard, and Musician. These guys got their start as reinforcements during the epic Ankharha campaign. I got some of the first castings of these figures because I'm sneaky that way. I had converted one of the Witch sculpts to have a bow and quiver and was very happy that it would not be necessary to convert any more like that. 

Another early unit is the 14-strong Mancleavers. They also have a Captain, Standard, and Musician. These are mostly all standard builds with the only real customization being the heads (they come in a variety of styles) and paint color choices. A couple have had the Mancleaver blade changed to another weapon for variety. 

The recently bulked up Paladins of Despair are 14-strong, again, including the Captain, Standard, and Musician. These are mostly converted Mancleaver sculpts given a hand weapon and shield. These are probably my favorite unit and I've been brainstorming new conversion options for more. 

The official Witch Master with a coven of mostly converted Witches (plus a couple of little GW minis that fit in with the Nekharu) includes some of my first WarGods minis. A coven is only allowed 10 witches so the extra conversions are the start of a second coven. A Nekharu warband should be able to have two Witch Masters because it just seems right.

TheNekharu Hero with battlescythe is a favorite of mine. At times he has led the Mancleavers into battle but now I think he works better as a soloist (or maybe in the "Savage Chariot" that I didn't dig out of it's box for these pictures). 

Early on in my WarGods journey I thought I could convert a Torturer and Flesh Hulk. So I did. I'm not as happy with the Torturer (another Witch as the base figure) as I am the Flesh Hulk (based on a Reaper mini with a GW zombie sticking out of his back). In the background is the Witchlord, the Nekharu answer to a Harbinger, can be seen in all his converted glory here.

There is at least one more conversion partially painted that will join the Talons soon enough. I've also got a lot of Mancleavers ready for assembly and/or conversion to form up another unit. It would be really great to try out this warband in a battle against someone named Jordan and his Heru or whatever he's using now...