A lone surviving member of a small group of soldiers that out maneuvered and held off an invading army 3000 times their size?
Child of the Norsca, sold into slavery then trained to be a successful pit fighter, destined to wear a jeweled crown upon his troubled brow?
A disgraced Legionary General from Estalia destine to change Tilea from inside the Arena?
Who knows. Who cares. He’s a bad ass with rippling muscles, a sharp sword and a giant mowhawk.
The miniature itself is Gladius from Citadel’s 1986 box set BC7 Heroic Fighters of the Known World, sculpted Jes Goodwin.
I went with a classic red for his color. It looks orange in these pictures but mellowed out significantly after a couple of coats of clear. This sculpt really shows off my love for inks. I added a couple of mushrooms to the base for some real old school flavor. They are painted with Vallejo fluorescents so they glow nicely under a black light!
One of the neat little details on this guy is that Jes sculpted a big comb, obviously for his big mowhawk, on his right hip. I painted it brass and it can be seen in the second picture here.
I have a couple other figures from this box set and plan on collecting them all. Ain’t this hobby great?
Great paint job! And those mushrooms are great! What did you use to make them?
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for asking. I made the stems out of paper clips and the heads from “green stuff”. I really like the old skool mushrooms on the bases and I like to take it to the next level by painting them with fluorescent paint.
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