Da Green Horde

Some months ago, I decided to paint some miniatures for our Dungeons & Dragons group. Up until now, we used simple tokens for the heroes and enemies, so I thought it would be nice to have some painted models instead. Also, I was sure that my friends would be happy to get miniatures repesenting their characters. In the last blog post, I already presented my character, the Half-Orc Barbarian Zango . Next up is my mate's Dragonborn Paladin Levioth . Since I do not own any Dragonborn miniatures, but I own a large amount of different Warhammer kits, I decided to create a kitbash using a Stormcast Eternals Knight-Vexillor as the base. I replaced the banner with a Vindictor shield and the human head with a skink head from the Stegadon kit. The tail is also from a skink, while the wings are from an old Warhammer Quest bat. I based my conversion on the following drawing that my mate made of his character. Finally, here's the party at the current state - three heroes are still missin...

I originally planned to paint this model for Orctober, but was only able to finish it last week. It's a Savage Orc/Orruk Big Boss and definitely one of my favourites of the Bonesplitterz range. I decided to put the miniature on a square base, since I'm planning to use it in both OrcQuest and DnD to represent my Half-Orc barbarian "Zango the Madman". The next post will be another member of our DnD party - a Dragonborn - which I also finished last week. In case you missed it: Dave is hosting the annual "Paint What You Got" challenge again which runs from today until the end of February. Since this (and the following) miniature were done before the challenge, I won't submit them as entries. I hope to finish my first entry at the beginning of the new year.

These two miniatures are my (late) entry for Keith's Dwarvember challenge. They are from the boardgame OrcQuest Warpath, which is basically HeroQuest, but you play as the bad ones. Technically Heckarr & Jeckarr are not dwarves - the game calls them gnomes, but if you ask me they very much look like dwarves. Their design seems to be somewhat inspired by GW Chaos Dwarfs - from the tusks to the large hats to the blunderbuss. I did a bit of research and found out that the concept art was created by Helge C. Balzer ( concept art of Jeckarr ), while the sculpting was done by Gael Goumon (sculpts of Heckarr & Jeckarr ).  I really like the models, but they lack detail in some places, especially if you compare the plastics to the aforementioned digital sculpts. I guess that has to be expected from boardgame plastic miniatures. Apart from that they were really fun to paint. I decided to embrace their Chaos Dwarf look, so I went with a caucasian flesh tone instead of green and used...