Wilbur & Sal

Here's a couple more muties from Eureka's brilliant (and reasonably priced) Chaos Army range by Mike Darpa. First up is Wilbur the Wild. He's more beastman than Bosch, but I think he's a great little sculpt.

Joining him is Unstoppable Sal. There are so many neat little ideas in this design: the swollen, bandaged feet (I suspect they've gone squirmy), the weird tusk skates (whatever the hell they're for), the tentacles and the look of slack-jawed horror on her face. But perhaps my favourite bit is the old saucepan for a helmet.

I've been knocking these out at pace, as and when I've had the opportunity, and as such I've probably rushed Sal a touch. It would have been nice to lean into her patchwork clothing ala the Marauder giant. As it was, I lazily used the same colours as Wilbur. But that's OK. You see, they're best mates and they were together when they stripped the corpses wearing the green and black uniforms. Or something...

Here's the gang so far.

Cheers

 

Antonius Bartonius and his Musical Bellows

 I've slapped some colour on another Eureka Miniatures' Chaos Army chappy. He's Antonius Bartonius and his musical bellows. Painted over a couple of evenings a couple of weeks apart (it's been a busy month).

Having trawled through far too many Bosch and Bruegel paintings searching for these little weirdos*, I thought I'd have a go at making the skin translucent and the cloth meaty slabs of colour ala Bosch, as opposed to my usual tendency to desaturate everything. I'm not sure that I necessarily pulled it off, but I enjoyed trying something new and I'm reasonably happy with how he came out. Here he is with his dog (careful, he bites...)

* I couldn't find an exact match for Antonius, but I think he captures the vibe perfectly.

A Weird Little Freak

 

I had a rare free evening this week, so I treated myself with slapping some paint on this weird little guy. It was liberating to paint a miniature for no other reason than my own amusement.

He's Batface the Biter from Eureka Miniature's Chaos Army range, sculpted by Mike Darpa and inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel. I picked up half a dozen of these minis a while back. They are lovely sculpts, crisp castings, with only minor clean up required, and this one was a joy to paint. 

Part of the fun of this range is searching for the images that inspired the sculpts. There's quite a few heads with legs in the works of Bosch and Bruegel, but I think this one is loosely based on a demon in the central panel of the triptych The Temptation of St Anthony (c.1506), currently in the collection of Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon.

Bosch's demon is more fishy than bat-y, and has an arrow in his bum, but I'm pretty certain that this is the one. I might do a few more of these.

Cheers