Jes Goodwin ogre

The c23ogres (I believe thats is, what they're called) are among everyones favourites... They are simply excellent. A job well done by Jes Goodwin...

I bought this one at ebay some time ago - great miniature. Painting it up went ok I think, though I'm not sure I understand the pants...I think I maybe have painted something like pants that weren't meant as pants... Jes Goodwin, could you please clarify to me, what the loinclothes between his legs are meant to be if not pants? :)

  

The horn emerging form his forehead is a great idea. Love this sculpt!

I would really like to have some more of those ogres... there are some great personalities among them :)

Of course I have bought lots of other stuff, which may turn up here on these pages... - I can mention an ambull, two fimirs, some sort of slann and a totally unknown (to me at least) miniature... and then I couldn't help myself and backed the Mantic dungeoncrawler kickstarter... eventhough I'm rather sceptic with the miniatures from Mantic...and kickstarters... 

Ambull

So, in the end it didn't take that much effort. As strange as it is, it really wasn't that big a deal to paint this iconic old school sculpt.

  

Of course I could have spent more time on it... and will probably add some static grass and fix some minor details.... but for now it does look quite ambull'ish to me :) 

I have to ask though... How about those eyes?! I can't recall ever having seen it with eyes painted before... Is this because they aren't supposed to have eyes or what? And would it be better off with green eyes or red, instead of those almost human eyes I have given it?

I experimented a little with varnish... It looked a little dull after being dullcoted...(!) So I gave it some gloss coate on the scales, claws, teeth and head... It adds something right, I think.

The red on the back of the ambull is supposed to be blood coming from some wounds this particular casting had... In the end it came out ok.

I have always been very intriqued by these strange creatures... and after finaly having painted one, I must admit, I would like to have some more! :)

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And I still haven't heard a word from Otherworld Miniatures...

Ratogre

A ratogre by Jes Goodwin - Actuallly a much better model than it looked when I first painted it some 20-25 years ago.

I like it much more now :)

It seems to me, that the sculpts of Jes Goodwin survives the test of time better than most.

I have bought several new miniatures for the lead mountain - Some very old minis (sorry Squeaks) at ebay and some very new from the Goblinaid campaign. Some of them might come up here one day...

I'm still looking for that limited edition fimir - if you have a spare one, I'll take it off your hands for 20£ including postage, thank you very much.

On the paintdesk

On the paintdesk:

I still haven't decided which project to focus on...

The ambull has long been on my to do list... But especially one thing has been troubling me: Was I to put it on fantasybase or a sci/fi base for use in Space Hulk? Being a fantasy guy, I ended up following my heart. Fantasy basing it is.

The ratogre is one the miniatures from back in the days that I have stripped to repaint. It's a Goodwin sculpt, if I remember correct, and not at all as bad as it looked before getting stripped :)

The Frodo on foot was just an in between paintjob, I did because I missed doing someting with that kind of face... Nothing fancy, but I enjoyed painting it... It's nearly finished, as you can see.

Another Kev Adams goblin - I'm growing quite fond of them! :) And speaking of the Goblinmaster, I'm really looking forward to buy a good deal of those goblinaid sculpts once the whole bunch is up for sale. Gotta support the goblinmaster!

The little one in the back could be part of a new nostalgia project... I'm not sure yet...

Zoat

Old news - Zoat

I have had this old zoat standing almost finished for some years now... I wasn't really happy with it, but today I finished it anyway. So here you are:

I remember spending a lot of time on this one, but in the end I wasn't sure the colourscheme was such a good idea after all. I still very much like the idea of an almost colourless creature with ruby-scales... But then again, plain green zoats are also great...
What do you think?

Nostalgia trip

Inspired by the nostalgia of guys like Dave King I recently bought these two golden oldies at ebay :)

I cannot say, when I will have the time to paint them - but I think it's a great project painting these minis of yesterday with todays standard. I remember these minis from my youth - I didn't actually own any of them back then, but still, to me they reek nostalgia.