Greetings Terrans, thanks for swinging by! I have the final two heroes from Cursed City to share today – it’s the bashy-hitty-tanky ones.

First up the ‘not a Paladin honest gov’ warrior ‘Emelda Braskov’:

Emelda is a lovely mini – great pose, lovely detail and a really characterful face, and that eagle’s head is a really nice touch too. She has more than a hint of Brienne of Tarth about her & that is an excellent thing in my book. I painted her armour to look tarnished & worn, but there is no doubting the sharpness of that sword!

Finally, it’s the big fella, Ogre mercenary ‘Brutogg Corpse-Eater’:

Brutogg is another absolute belter of a mini… THIS is what Ogres should look like in my opinion – big & heavily muscled, but not run to fat, and certainly not naked, moustachioed, and riding around on woolly rhinos! (looking at you GeeDub…)

There is so much lovely detail to pick out – various trinkets and doodabs from across the Mortal Realms, just like you’d expect for a Merc… I really enjoyed painting the amphora up as glass for example, and that shoulder armour was an absolute delight! Now, obviously I’ve taken some artistic license on the skin colour, but he looks so much like Ragnarök Hulk that it seemed a shame not to just go with it… I think it looks really cool, and that’s the most important thing (obviously), but if anyone really needs a rationale, we can blame it on the corpse diet 😊

Here’s a fun pic of all the heroes together:

Oh, and one last thing to close out the project – I wanted to give my Cursed City minis a home to be proud of so I bought a bespoke storage system from Feldherr. I’m really pleased with my purchase – It all fits in the original game box, albeit with an extra 2 inches of height when closed (necessitating an elastic strap for the box). Here they all are, snug and safe:

Would recommend…

And that’s it for the Cursed City set! I’ll be taking a bit of a step back for a few weeks as I deal with some boring life stuff, but I will be back soon with some Fembruary offerings. Stay safe dudes, catch you all on the flip side.

Greetings Terrans, I have another brace of heroes from the Cursed City game to share this week, but before we get to that I want to let you all know that I will NOT be running Fembruary this year. I’m juggling too much at the moment, with work, studies, family, home renovations, hobby and fitness all competing for my attention, and honestly I just do not have the bandwidth to coordinate another thing at the moment. That said, please do go and paint some fantastic female figures from your collections & tag them as Fembruary! I will be doing the same, but I just don’t have time to do all the wrap-up work at the end of it all. Maybe it’s time Fembruary just ‘was’ rather than it be something led and curated, but that’s for another day – key thing now is please do go for it, but don’t expect me to do an end-of-month summary 😊

Right, back to the Cursed City, and a pair of balanced characters that look equally effective at range as they are in melee. First up, it’s ‘Jelsen Darrock’:

First things first, let me get the whole ‘Can you smell what Darrock’s cookin’?’ guff out of the way. There is no way that is ever getting old in my immature little mind, so I just need to get it out there & move on. Second things second, what a model… Jelsen is an absolute cracker of a mini with a great pose, a lovely level of detail, and a real understated quality to him. I think this is another one of the top tier of minis from the set, and was a joy to paint. As with the Dorf, I’ve corroded the metal to imply entropy and decay, while the leather is worn and cracked. The overall feeling is one of the character being worn and tired, but still ruthlessly effective and dangerous.

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Next up is the rather fabulously named ‘Glaurio Ven Alten III’:

He cuts a fine figure, striding forward with his pistol drawn & hand resting on his sabre – again, another top-tier mini in my opinion. I wanted Glaurio to look quite grand, even if that grandeur is somewhat faded & tired looking. I gave him a slightly darker skin tone to imply a touch of the exotic, and I picked out his jewellery & buttons in gold to really push that angle, (although the more mundane metals still show corrosion & wear). I think the mirror is a nice touch, and I loosely painted a hint of reflection in there. As a side note, this is another mini that I would like to bring into the 40k universe – he’s crying out for a las pistol & pith helmet if you ask me!

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Anyway, that’s it for another week – next post will be the final two heroes & then Cursed City is done. Laters Potaters

Greetings Terrans, how goes it? I have another brace of heroes from the Cursed City game to show you this evening. Again, these kinda-sorta follow well established dungeon crawling tropes, with both of these being solid support-type characters.

First up, the Dwardin, the Duandin, the bloody DWARF Dagnai Holdenstock:

I really wasn’t looking forward to painting this Steampunk Dorf, but boy, did I misjudge – this stocky little bugger was a joy and a pleasure to paint! There are loads of fun little details to pick out, but nothing that was too tricky or irritating. I’m really happy with the colour scheme, and I enjoyed the chance to paint that glass flask on his back-pack furnace thingy. I also tarnished up a lot of the metal – not very Dwarven perhaps, but I want to suggest that a) Dagnai has been adventurin’ for a good long while, and b) the Cursed City takes its toll on everything…

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Next up the Alf, the Aeilf, the shitting ELF Qualthis the Exile:

This was a really nice mini to paint up, though the model itself was a pain in the bum to handle – I managed to snap her off at the foot, so that had to be pinned and repaired before I could do anything. Once I actually got down to the painting, I knew I wanted to do something different to the standard Elven-green studio paint job. I remembered reading something somewhere about using a seasonal palette to set different tones for elves, so I went more Autumnal in my choice of colours & tones. I also stuck with gold for the metals, and, unlike the Dwarf, I didn’t use corrosion to suggest decay. Instead, I rely on the naturalistic Autumn tones to get the same message across, and I’m really pleased with how she came out.

And that’s it for another post – we’re on the home stretch with this project now, and I hope to catch you all next week for the penultimate Cursed City post 😊