Da Green Horde

I managed to finish another two miniatures for our Dungeons & Dragons party, which are also my last entries for Dave's "Paint What You Got" challenge : The Tiefling warlock Skormus , accompanied by his pet imp. For the warlock I used another miniature from OrcQuest Warpath, namely the human wizard Lothar the Enchanter . I wasn't able to find out who did the sculpt, but the artwork was done by Daniel Zrom. Of course Tieflings need horns, so I drilled two small holes in his head and added horns made of paper clips and greenstuff. Painting-wise I wanted to make it clear that he's an evil character, who is able to summon demons, so I opted for red and black as the main colours and added a (poorly drawn) pentagram to his book. Since an imp is able to transform into either a raven, a rat or a spider - and most of the time in our adventures it was a rat - I decided it would be a great opportunity to use one of my old Warhammer Quest/Fantasy Swarms rats to represent...

My first entry for Dave Stone's "Paint What You Got" challenge 2024 is an Elf Archer from OrcQuest Warpath. Like last month's Heckarr & Jeckarr , this miniature was sculpted by Gael Goumon . The miniature was quite fun to paint, however it had some nasty mold lines that were difficult to remove without damaging the head. The model is going to get used in our D&D games as well to represent another member of our party, the Wood Elf Ranger Setarcos . Here's a group shot of the currently painted party members - two more to go.

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...