Anubi Assessor Conversion

 

This is a conversion that was made a very long time ago (I have ideas to make him better if I were to do this conversion nowadays) . I started painting it but then hit a wall of doubt. He was removed from his tiny plastic cell to get a well-deserved finish to his paintjob. 

I like to make my Anubi purple skinned to be different from the standard black that most people use. It's a little more exotic and stands out a bit. 

Assessors are something like an Inquisitor or secret mystical police in WarGods. There's not much said in the rules but I've always thought they might make interesting characters for use in skirmish games. This guy has a fancy axe (with vaguely drawn hieroglyphs on the ribbon) and what is likely an Embalmer's dagger, so he's got some power against the undead. I need to make some skirmish rules for him. 

Spined Thresher Monster

This big thing was a nice surprise at a local game shop earlier this year. It was marked down so much that I couldn't NOT get it- and there's a different posed one that I haven't assembled yet. I want to eventually have a totally chaotic warband of Titans which either means a ton of conversions of the available miniatures from Crocodile Games OR going outside of those for other monsters. This find should fit in as a Titan Overlord or something.

It's a nice chunky plastic figure that went together pretty easily. I think there was only one obvious mold line that needed to be sliced off.

The base was completed first- it's a 60mm mdf base. I put some scraps of my favorite temple floor stuff down and slapped on some texture paste so it was obviously a ruined building of some kind. It was a series of drybrushes and some target washes to make the stones pop and give the rubble some more definition.

For the Thresher itself, I went with lots of drybrushing and a bit of targetted washes to make his muscles and other nice details stand out more. It was a pretty quick paintjob- probably only a couple of hours altogether. I think he came out good for a giant crab/demon/scorpion monster.

Above we have the Thresher with a copuple of unfortunate Corinthians. Below, a Beloved of Sobek is enthusiastic about the challenge this big thing represents.

And here's the Thresher confronts the Amazon Raider Heroine Kylissma. An epic battle that they'll write songs about ensues...

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.