Greetings Terrans, here’s another post about the never-ending tide of Conan ‘minis’ that I find myself strangely obsessed with of late. This time, and in a pleasant change from the massed rank and file, it’s a couple of characters, creatures & critters.

First up, we have this three-armed lump of weirdness – a Bone Golem:

This mini seems to have no golden angle, and is a bugger to photograph as a result. However, it looks better in hand (fnar fnar), and I kinda like it! He was a piece of cake to paint using Contrast paints & drybrushing, and I can see this cropping up in various settings, including Ghost Archipelago and Frostgrave.

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Next we have this natty little demon type. He’s supposed to be an ‘Outer Dark Demon’, but I went for a more fiery colour scheme than the one suggested:

This was a fun little thing to paint using Contrasts and basic highlighting, and I’m happy to say that he has gone to a very good home with my Brother-in-Lead’s Son – hopefully inspiring the next generation!

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Next I have a couple of gribbly critters painted up:

Nothing much to say here – nice simple paint jobs using mostly Contrast paints. These are super-useful in a range of settings, and I’m happy to have them painted!

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Ok, so on to some characters – firstly, a rather grim-looking Necromancer:

Apparently, this guy is called Skuthus – a named ‘baddie’ in a draft Conan story from back in the day. Monolith had some eagle-eyed researchers that found reference to him & lifted the name for this character. He was lovely to paint – plenty of Contrasts used, plus highlighting in a more traditional sense. I also added some blood to his ‘skirt’, to make it look like flayed skin. He’ll be a nice leader for the Skellies & Mummies from the last two posts.

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Next we have this crazy witchdoctor type:

This guy is another named character – the rather catchy ‘Zogar Sag’! I painted him with red skin to match the Picts that I shared with you back on the first post in this series – I used the same process as for them, i.e. a Contrast base coat with a more traditional round of highlighting. I also added some white warpaint to this dude, just to mark him out a bit from the burlier rank and file. As with Skuthus, I see this guy making a nice leader for the Pict faction.

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Here is the whole group together(to give you an idea of scale:

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In addition, (and after the photo above was taken), I finished up these rather fab hyenas:

These were lovely and easy to paint, and were finished in less than an hour with Contrast paints only. Again, these are a really useful bestiary item that will see a lot of use in many settings.

Anyhow, that’s it for another week – it’ll be back to more rank & file next week. Stay safe out there!

Greetings Terrans, I hope this finds you well! Sorry/not sorry to report another round of low quality mooks completed since my last post – still in the undead camp, but in more of a desiccated, bandage-wrapped, leathery sense… Yup, it’s the Conan Mummy parade!

Fair warning, if anything these models are even worse than the skellies I showed last week, (I know, I didn’t think it was possible either), but hey, they are cheep & they look better for being painted. Here we go – first up we have ten in this pose:

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And then we have five each in of these poses:

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Interpreting the models was a PITA – I couldn’t decide if certain bits were bandage or not, so I fudged bits here & there. The paint job was about as good as the minis deserved – the only point of interest really was painting the flesh & experimenting with a blackened ‘bog man’ type skin tone. I’m not sure how successful it was, but it works ok against the paleness of the bandages I think. Here they all are together:

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That’s it for another week chaps & chapesses! I’ll post some characters & bits next time – I need a break from mass paint jobs, and I’m sure you do too 😊

Greetings Terrans, how goes it? Just a quick post this week, and as you might’ve figured out from the title, it’s about more long-neglected & underdoggy minis. Again, this bunch are from the Conan KS from Monolith back in 2015ish, but this time, we’re looking at the less ‘alive’ & more bony corner of the mook stereotype… it’s skellybobs!

Now, as a few of you will know, I’ve painted many many skellies over the years. The quality of skellie model varies by quite a lot, but the Conan skellies are a whole new level of shite… the plastic is poor, the moulds are horrible, the detail is soft and the poses are janky… They are nowhere near as good as the skellies that came in Monolith’s ‘Mythic Battles: Pantheon’ KS for example, though MB:P was a couple of years after Conan, so maybe they fixed up the production issues.

Regardless, these are poor minis… but to be fair, even if you just count minis and ignore the broader game, the whole KS worked out at less than a dollar per model, so I’m really not worried at all. They look better for being painted, and that is the main thing.

So, we have 15 of this pose:

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And 5 each of the following:

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They all received identical paint job at about the level of care and attention that they deserved – the whole job took about 5 hours, so very fast and loose using contrast paints, metallics, shades and corrosions. I reckon they look ok en masse!

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So there we go, another batch of cheap, low-quality general purpose mooks to die (again?) ingloriously for my twisted entertainment… More to follow on the same theme!!