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More great work and sculpts Inso.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
More great work and sculpts Inso.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers .

With the eventual release of the new Squats from GW, the motivation to create/sell/buy "Old School" sculpts may reduce... I am hoping that it isn't the case...

The new "League of Votann" miniature, if it is what the range will be styled after, is quite a departure from the old miniatures...

I will continue to support Old School Squats. I'm not a terribly big fan of everything that GW has 'modernized'.

Cheers .

I am in a bit of a "sculpting free mood" at the moment so I've sort of run out of mojo for the time being... so I dug out the army and have been painting the base coat on all of the faces that need it. I use three different skin tones so I needed to get the whole army together so that I could spread the different skin tones fairly. Now I've done that, I can just paint the army, unit by unit without having to make sure the faces are the right colour.

It had been a while since the army has seen ANY paint...

I also decided to convert one of my spares into an Ordnance Officer... I am basing his general demeanour on an angry man ... I think I'll be calling him Angry Dave... just because Daves don't tend to be as angry as other people .

The close combat squad has stalled... as has most of the hobby... but I suddenly had an idea about an Ordnance Officer as an advisor. A little conversion later and I had exactly what I wanted :



There is a myth about archers showing two fingers to prove they had them... I thought that pushing a button only takes one finger so that's what I went for. It's a one off (not going for casting), mostly because it's a bit offensive... but it is, what it is .

Occasionally, I paint things :

This is my painted, army command unit (with advisors):

Solid HQ section, always nice to see you getting paint in Also appreciate the range of skin and hair tones in your dwarfs, which can be particularly monotone as a sci-fantasy trope.

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Solid HQ section, always nice to see you getting paint in Also appreciate the range of skin and hair tones in your dwarfs, which can be particularly monotone as a sci-fantasy trope.

Cheers .

I chose to use different skin tones for a few reasons... 1)I had duplicates of the same sculpt so painting different skin tones would make them appear different 2) so many armies have uniform skin tones that they look odd and 3) I like the idea of having a happy bunch of troops from a variety of backgrounds . I think it certainly makes a big impact, with all the different skin tones .

First platoon's command squad:







I've started on the first infantry squad too .

 Inso wrote:

 Captain Brown wrote:
More great work and sculpts Inso.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers .

With the eventual release of the new Squats from GW, the motivation to create/sell/buy "Old School" sculpts may reduce... I am hoping that it isn't the case...

The new "League of Votann" miniature, if it is what the range will be styled after, is quite a departure from the old miniatures...

I will hope along with you... the new sculpts seem bland and bizarrely proportioned. I'm sure some flavor will come with the fluff, but the new hardware has yet to inspire me. Yours, on the other hand, continue to impress! I love the Ordinance Officer. I converted an Empire Gun Crew for a Fantasy army that had the gunners giving a kilted moon to the enemy in the manner of the scene from Braveheart.

Inso,

Be just like White Dwarf, paint up your Squats and place them in pretty terrain and the demand for them will continue.

My two cents,

CB

Love the command teams!

I've got a fair amount of your pieces now and plan to purchase more through the website. Having seen the excellent results of blending different skin tones throughout an otherwise homogenous unit I'm going to try to do the same- love the look, it just never occurred to me to try that before (using different hair colors was tres adventurous already for me!

These are seriously nice pieces and much better than anything else passing current. Bring back the 80's!

@ Captain Brown - Cheers . Once I have my army painted, I will be making a nice display board for them... obviously in the far, far future (especially at the rate I paint ).

@ Meer_Cat - Thank you . I'm glad that you like them enough to get some of your own.

I usually try to mix skin tones; especially when I am using multiples of the same miniature. Changing hair colour works quite well but changing the face colour really adds that extra bit of variety.

I decided to sculpt the close combat troopers individually... and have now finished the first one of five :



I was failing dismally; trying to sculpt them all together so it just made sense to cut things down a bit. I've started on the second one and hope to have him finished by the end of the week .

Your sculpting talent is properly incredible. Although the new Votanni are certainly different, I think they would fit alongside each other well with a unifying army scheme. Your superb older style Squats would fit in well as a group of sappers and scouts.

Great sculpting as always.

I love the OG Squat aesthetic and find the new one bland and tame somehow. I really don't get the 'astronaut' kind of thing the new guys have going.

Cheers .

I think that GW have taken the "asteroid Miner" part of the Squat background and ramped it up into the main theme... it's OK... it's not padded flak jackets and long beards but at least they have chosen a specific direction, rather than a shotgun approach .

I'm happy ticking along with my old-school Squats for now and maybe, once I've seen more of the range, I might get into the Votann... but I'm keeping my cards close to my chest... for now .

Another one finished :



I expect the third one to be finished today .

More great sculpting Inso.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers .

Here's another one :



Just two more to go now .

Only one more to go now ...

Good stuff...although I am a little concerned on the last one...he does look like he is tracking the fall of a shell that is about to hit him...

I assume he is leaning back to roar over his fallen foe and that when painted the eyes will be closed.

Cheers,

CB

Or he's shrieking "Khaaaaaaaan!!!!"

Cheers .

He is a bit inspired by an old Citadel Giant Slayer... leaning back to shout at the giant, towering above him... but equally, he's yelling Khaaaaaan! .

The last one should be finished over the next couple of days... and that one is very much inspired by a certain movie ...

I remember that giant slayer- you've captured it well! Great piece!

Cheers ... it was one of my favourites .

The last squad member is now finished:





The next sculpt to get some contact-time, will be the DJ ...

Fantastic work! Love the mighty Dwarven boot. Is there any greater weapon (except perhaps the mighty 'ead) ?

 Olthannon wrote:
Fantastic work! Love the mighty Dwarven boot. Is there any greater weapon (except perhaps the mighty 'ead) ?

Cheers ... There COULD be... it depends on whether you've brought ear-protection . This is a DJ. It will proxy for a standard bearer :

The last batch, all packed up, ready to be sent for casting :