Showing posts with label Glorantha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glorantha. Show all posts

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Euglyptus the Fat and Fazzur Wideread


In this Gloranthan HoTT element, Fazzur Wideread,  the veteran Lunar general, is remonstrating with his superior, Euglyptus the Fat, during the Battle of Building Wall.  Due to Euglyptus' incompetance the Lunars went on to be soundly defeated; I rather regret not adding the barrel of eels in which Fazzur subsequently drowned him! 

I am pleased with the Euglyptus conversion, which is from a GW 40K scribe.  Some figures I actually painted myself, for once!  Not something you see every day.

Saturday, 10 October 2009

Baboon Troop


This is one of my old Gloranthan units, the Baboon Troop.  They are one of the smaller tribes that roam the plaines of Prax.  

It is composed of the old Citadel 25mm baboons.  I'd really like to redo it sometime, with the newer, larger Lance and Laser baboons...

Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Jar-eel the Razoress



 Jar-eel the Razoress is the principle super-hero of the Lunar Empire, and incarnation of the Red Goddess.

Another Gloranthan mini from around 5 years ago, this is a Hordes of the Things "Hero" stand.  Although the painting is not the best, I'm really pleased with the composition of this piece.   Jar-eel was built up on a dolly.

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Oldie but a Goldie


Over the next few days, I'm going to post a few shots of miniatures from my pre-ancients obsession; Glorantha.  These were some of the first 28mm minis I painted, around 6 years ago, and depict battle mages of the Lunar Empire, summoning Lunes (madness elememtals).  Essentially Gloranthan artillery.  If this inspires you with nostalgia for Runequest, have a look at Greg Privat's site: http://gloarmy.free.fr/

The minis are Eureka cultists with an old, converted Citadel Mage.  They aren't bad (I'd do better today).  I used to use the ghastly Miniature Paints acrylic matt varnish, which gives the minis a slight bluish tint and leaves them a bit glossy.  Unfortunate...

Sunday, 6 September 2009

The Eponymous Bat


I realised on Saturday that it is exactly 5 years since I launched the Bat that gave me its tag name, and I thought it might be fun to give him an anniversary outing on the blog.


"Batty" was built (over a period of 3 months) for the Berkeley HoTT contest in 2004. He represents the feared Crimson Bat, Weapon of Mass Destruction of the Lunar Empire.

The base he flies over is 6x10 cm. To keep him upright, I cast the core of the burning cottage of solid lead; a hundred or more little lead men gave their lives to keep Batty in the air. The crewmen are mostly Ral Partha 28s. His illuminating eyes were LEDs taken from MacDonalds toys.

The photos are hurried, and not the best, but are clickable. If you look closely you may be able to see the swarm of bats on the magus's staff, and the victim wrapped in Batty's tongue.

He doesn't get out much, but has featured in a number of games at Salute over the years...

Friday, 3 July 2009

And now for Something Completely Different...

Long before I painted elephants, small and large, I knocked up these Lunar War Triceratops for the Dwarf Mine game I put on with Greg and others, at Salute.The Triceratops are really nice models (from Schleich), that cost around £6 each. They are roughly similar in size to the Empire Modles beasts. I partially repainted, added the howdahs and gave them Foundry crew and Gripping Beast mahouts.
They were cheap, very quick to complete and unfortunately always died far too early in the game!