Wednesday 10 December 2014

From SeanS - Rum, Bugbears and the Brush (8 points)

Well the seal has been broken by me, finally.


For your pleasure I submit two Splintered Light Miniatures Bugbears from their 20mm Fantasy range.



I really struggled with waffling on how I wanted to do these guys. I feel like I need to explore better ways to do fur, as they're okay, but just not really grabbing me. I felt really good about my work on building up the flesh using brown, orange and yellow. I did until I tried some Reaper Oiled Leather that looked almost exactly like my painstakingly mixed and layered flesh straight out of the pot. Sigh!

All paints used were craft acrylics except for GW Bolt Gun Metal for the iron bits and the aforementioned Oiled Leather and Ruddy Leather, by Reaper, for the leather belts and pouches.

These little guys have a lot of character which was enhanced by dropping the guy on the right several times, bending his left ear.

I hope I can maintain this blistering pace of two figures every five days.

It's going to be a looong Winter.

From Curt: Sean, welcome aboard - these guys are excellent! They remind me of the old school D&D miniatures that Ral Partha and Citadel produced during the mid 80s (and  right there I've just hopelessly dated myself). I particularly like how you did the hide shield of the fellow with the sexy topknot (and frankly the guy with the bent ear is rather fetching as well).  I'll have to score some of that Reaper Oiled Leather and give it a shot - thanks for the tip.

21 comments:

  1. Nice work on them! Lovely little sculpts too.

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  2. I have not come across this company before I shall have to give them a look-see.

    As for the figures I like them. It is good to see diversity and back in my D&D days bugbears were a favourite. I wish I was some 30+ years younger now that I have seen these.

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  3. Great stuff, not seen bugbears in an age.. I am with the Snowlord there.. Takes me back to early Citadel days

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  4. Nice bugbears Sean and well done on breaking the seals to get on the points table :)

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  5. Ooh, I like these. A lot. Great sculpts, and your paintjob has brought the best out of them, IMHO.

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  6. Thank you all, I'll refrain from my usual habit of responding to each individual comment. Splintered Light is a nice little company and the have nice sculpts with a classic feel. The only caveat with the bugbears is that they are about the same size as other 20mm, 1/72 figures. For me true D&D bugbears should be 9' tall. Oh, I should also mention SLM is having a sale. If you want the code just let me know.

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  7. I too struggle with fur but I think you did well, I like these a lot.

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  8. Nice job Sean and welcome to the bottom of the board!

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  9. they are fluffy :) great job and freehand

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  10. Great work on these fine dungeon dwellers!

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  11. Nice one Sean. I really like the gaping maw effect on the shield.

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  12. Classic D&D dudes. Great job and nice figures.
    cheers

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  13. Thank you. As per usual, I had no plan for the shields and was just trying to make them less boring before I slapped varnish on them. I figured Bugbear art must still be in it's geometric stage and did the gaping maw as an homage to their characteristic underbite. I want to work harder at free hand on shields this year, I think I've got the "painted by a brutish monster" look down.

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  14. Lovely work on these grim fellows. They look suitably grubby.

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  15. Great work overall--if you hadn't told me they were 20mm, I never would have guessed. Love the vintage feel of the figures, and I'll echo everyone else in calling out the shields in particular!

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  16. I like the natural colors and sheilds. I'd never known the bent ear was an accident, both figs have a lot of character!

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  17. Lovely figures! I hope you manage to paint more of these, as two figures in five days sounds a bit less!

    Greetings
    Peter

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  18. @ Moiterei: I douse all my figures in washes. Mostly what I call my grunge wash. 4:2:1 Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Black. It gives them that lived in look.

    @ David L: Thanks. Yeah the sculpts are really good.

    @ David B: Thanks. The bent ear worked out well. Almost like I meant to do it.

    @ Peter: Thanks. Two in five days is pretty good if you consider they've been sitting on the table primed for 2 years. ;)

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