New mythology range - Acheron

 After a few months of beavering away I've achieved a good grasp of 3d sculpting in Zbrush, and 3D printing using the Mars 2 Elegoo pro.

I need to figure out the best place to retail the STL files next, but for now: a preview.

These are 30mm on average, historical style and size (not games workshop size like my sci-fi stuff). All multipart with separate heads, arms and shields.

Thematically these people live on the threshold of the underworld, I'll do a follow up with some of the lore at a later date, along with the terrain I've made for them, some of it also 3d printed.

Low quality iphone pics for now

Wraith Hoplites

Can't recall if I ever posted these...

 

Atheros Strategos

Had this guy for a while, unpainted and unreleased. 

He'll be part of a bundle deal going up at Edinburgh Miniature Company soon.

Frostgrave Witch

 Stereotypical witch, reminds me of Grotbags... for those of us who grew up with 80s UK children's tv.

Space Platform Security

 These are conversions based on the Tox Trooper scouts. There's a paint tutorial for them in the works.

Mantic Ogre Paintjob

Had this set for a while and it's finally made it to the top of the painting queue.

This will go nicely with my Arabian fantasy collection.

Haradrim/Arabian Cultists

These conversions were proof of concepts for my own fantasy Arabian style range. 

They're plastic historical's from Gripping Beast, with a fair amount of sculpting.

Wheel of Time minis

Finally got round to painting these conversions...

 

Cyclops paint job

 

Cyclops Shepherd

I've made several Cyclops minis in the past, none I was ever happy with... I'm happy with this one I made digitally.

It's almost finished painting it and it works really well. The 3D printer is burring away in the background printing more.

Oh, and this hero mini is the baseline for the rest of the ranges to come in terms of style and size. 

Tox Trooper scout conversions

 

The heads are prototypes that I wanted to do a paint test on, so sticking them on the Tox Trooper scout miniatures seemed like a quick solution. 

It got a bit out of hand and turned into half a days sculpting, adding extra bits all over the place in grey putty.

LOTR Ranger conversions

 I've been building my LOTR collection for about 10 years now and hopefully it continues for another 10!

The scale and size is important to the cohesion of my collection, and unfortunately the plastic Rangers miniatures are too big and chunky in comparison to the plastic warriors of Minas Tirith. 

Luckily it was a simple head sculpt and a random knife glued in place to make the warriors of Rohan into something passable as a ranger.

And quick and rough sculpting turned a warrior of Minas Tirith into a suitable captain miniature.

Harpies, Scorpions, Ghosts

 

Few more shots of test sculpts/prints. 

I'm not sold on the colour schemes yet but they paint up nice none the less.