Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Cannibal High Priestess of the Shaker Cult



Here is the gigantic high priestess of the bloody Maran Gor Shaker Cult travels in her processional wagon, drawn by six blind cave oxen and escorted by her virgin cannibal cultists.

The Shakers make the barren ground around their temple fertile, by ploughing the corpses of victims into the soil.  They defend their realm by summoning massive earthquakes, and eat parts of their captives to gain their magics. 

All the pictures are clickable.



I built the wagon from the bitzbox and greenstuff.  The oxen are converted from Front Rank.  The chains are silver (strictly should be copper, the cult metal of earth religions).  The queen herself is very heavily converted from a Reaper Rat King model. 


At one stage, my son Jack dropped the completed but unpainted model; did I swear?  Yes I did!


The cultist miniatures are converted from Foundry, Citadel, Shadowforge and Gripping Beast. They were superbly painted for me by Nick Speller; the colours he chose are especially effective!

Tomorrow- the Shaker quakebeasts.

Monday, 19 October 2009

Harrek the Berserk


Harrek in Gloranthan terms is a superhero; the equivalent of JarEel from the earlier post.  His sentient polar bear-skin cloak is the skin of a god.  I depicted Harrek in the act of bursting through a Lunar Phalanx. 

The mini is Lance and Laser.  He has seen a lot of use; in HoTT terms I used him as a Paladin because of his magic resistance, alongside Prince Argrath and Gunda the Guilty (and supported by 5 Riders and a flyer).  The three hero line up proved very effective and helped me win at Berkeley in'05.

Sunday, 18 October 2009

Pimp my Dinosaur


This is Hugg'e Brrr, a Trachodon mage from Dragon Pass.

In Glorantha the different types of dinosaur have different qualities.  The Trachodons, in particular, are highly magical, so this is, surprisingly, a HoTT Magician element.  Hugg'e was thrown together one night whilst I was watching Starsky and Hutch, hence his unusual name and pimp chic.  The miniature is a lightly converted Copplestone dinosaur.

Saturday, 17 October 2009

Sir Ethilrist


In the Dragon Pass Game, the dapper and puissant Sir Ethilrist is the leader of the fabled Black Horse Troop, and once looted Hell.  My model has him riding the legendary Hell Hound that he brought back with him. 

This model was very easy to make; my mate Ian found a prepainted Hell Hound, that needed a minimum of work, and Sir Ethilrist is a nice old GW knight from the bits box.  Needs a pennant.

When I get back to Gloranthan gaming, I'll need to model the black horse troop.  These guys ride on demonic (vaguely draconic) steeds, has to be a suitable model out there, somewhere...

Friday, 16 October 2009

First of the Carthaginians


This is the first of 4 units of Carthaginian levy infantry for the Zama Project.  These boys, along with the Thureophoroi, will form the 1.6m long Carthaginian second line.

These were generously painted by Greg Privat, and retouched (after unfortunately experiencing a good kicking during the crossing) and based by me .

As an experiment I didn't paint the eyes in on this unit.  I'd welcome opinions as to whether they would be better with eyes very lightly dotted in, similar to the Numidians, below.

Werewolves; Gloranthan style


This unit represents the Telmori tribe of Dragon Pass, bursting from concealment in a forest (the picture is clickable).   There are a full tribe of these, and they are invariably allied to Sartar.  Each Telmori is twinned with a wolf brother, and many Telmori are cursed with the ability to magically transform themselves into wolves.  The magic of the Telmori, like that of the Lunars, is cyclical and they are at their strongest during the full moon.  They only use stone weapons.


The big wolves are lovely old Grenadier critters, and the Telmori themselves mostly Black Tree or Foundry Picts.  The fully-transformed Temlori is an old TSR Ravenloft mini.


I'm really proud of this unit; I am ashamed to say they've only been on the table once, at Salute in '06, and this is the first time I've got around to photographing them.

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Storm Walkers


These are sky-clad flying Runepriests and WindLords of Orlanth, and a Sylph, from my Gloranthan armies.

Foundry minis, and a lovely old Citadel elemental.  Click for tattoos!

Looking at these, I find myself thinking how good they would look as a larger unit.  Much of my Glorantha stuff was done as single elements for HoTT, but these days I like units with bigger footprints and may return to expand them at some stage.