Revelations

Hiho again

It is way into October and I feel I can now reveal what I have been working on for quite some time in the last months.
Ulisses, a german publisher of fantasy games, plans to release a new skirmish game for their roleplaying community. Most of this community are more into typical pen&paper roleplaying, using a fantasy setting called "Das schwarze Auge" (DSA) which translated means "The black eye". It is comparable to D&D but less known of course, as it is only published in german language as far as I know.

The game will be called "Schicksalspfade" ("Paths of Fate") and is aimed to give the pen&paper community an insight into the tabletop world.

The basic game will have cardboard figures to play with to keep the price on a low level.           
Of course it is also aimed at the tabletop community. That's why all the miniatures will also be available as metal miniatures.

That is where us sculptors come into the fray. Us means Stefan B. Niehues-Ellermann from Masquerade-Miniatures, Mati Zander (better known as "badsmile") and, well, me.

The game will be revealed to a bigger audience right now as I write this on the international gaming trade fair "Spiel" in Essen, here in Germany.

Many of the miniatures have already appeared in the internet on various online shops, so I feel free to reveal some pictures myself.

I will show them in the chronological order in which I sculpted them.

Each sculptor got one faction to sculpt which for now consists of 6 different miniatures.
My first faction was the "Thorwalers", a group most would describe as nordic or viking style people.
I started with their "priest"called "Swafnir-Geweihter" which means something like "Devotee of Swafnir" or "Sacred one of Swafnir".

Here some (rather bad) shots of the sculpt:

Here a slightly better picture of a resin master next to a GamesWorkshop Empire soldier for size comparison:

The miniatures are 30mm to 32 mm in average height, but more akin to "True Scale", so a bit slimmer than the standard GW miniature.

Hope you like it.

I will reveal more of my Ulisses sculpts in the time to come.

Cheers,

Gregor

Is she fast?

Yes, she is!

Of whom I speak? Of Victoria Lamb! Just about as soon as the legs I sculpted for her reached their destination in Australia she had them moulded and cast up and on her website.

If only all of my customers were that quick in releasing what I sculpted for them...

Some of my customers haven't even released stuff I did back in 2011.

Then again, who am I to fret? Did I manage to release anything of what I sculpted for my own range so far? NO! So I'd better shut up and keep on sculpting...^^


Meanwhile a picture of what I sculpted for Victoria:

To be found here and here on Victorias Website.

Don't tell her that I told you but there will be more legs and commando group stuff comming soon, I just am about to do the last finishing touches on my current commission for her... ;-)
If she keeps up her releasing speed you will see it soon enough on her website and here.

Till then all the best,

Gregor

38°C... It is too hot here...

Pheew...

I am surely melting here...
It is not often that I have to bear 38°C where I come from. 38°Celsius, that is over 100° Fahrenheit, for those who are used to that measurement.

Anyway, while I toil away at things I hopefully can show in the near future some of my older workings have now been released.

MaxMini released the great coat torso I had done for them ages ago.

Find it well painted here



Tabletop-Art released even more skulls for their skull line.
Some human skulls in different sizes (for 90mm size, 54mm size and 30mm size miniatures). They will be sold in 3 different conditions: complete, without lower jaw and the last one with some sort of damage, like cracks, hole, missing teeth, etc.

Find them in 90mm size here
and
in 54mm size here


Tabletop-Art have animal skulls, human skulls, monster skulls (dragon, minotaur and griffon) and they complete their skull line with skulls of typical fantasy tabletop races.
Demon, dwarf, beastman, ratman, lizardman and orc will now be available skullwise.  :-)

Find them painted here



Ok, that's it for now. I'm off, trying to find something cool to drink...

Cheers,

Gregor

Back at the workbench

Hiho everyone

Too short. Great, but too short. That pretty much sums it up what I think about my holyday.
 ;-)

Now there is work to be done so I won't linger here for too long but here is another release that waited some time to be made public.
It is some monstrous skulls  I did for the fellows of Tabletop-Art. A dragon skull, a griffin skull and a minotaur skull for use with 30mm scale miniatures:

Click here for the painted version.


Hope you like them.

Cheers,

Gregor

New releases, holiday plans...

Hiho there

Where have I been you might ask?!

Well, sculpting away, that is!

June has been a very busy month for me. That busy that unfortunately I wasn't neither able to sculpt something for my own line nor post anything else.

But now I met all my deadlines for June and that enables me to enjoy my coming holiday with my wife all the more. Lucky me  :-)

At least some of my older sculpts have been released by the correspondent companies.


MaxMini released some more legs I did for them a while ago:

Find them well painted here.



Tabletop-Art released a bunch of stuff I sculpted aeons ago.

Some banners:

Find them well painted here.


Cultist commander conversion set:

 These and more painted heads here.


And finally some smoke plumes for tanks or Warjacks and such:

Painted here -

and

here.




That's about it for this time.
I'm off, looking forward to my holiday.

Cheers  :-)

Grrrrooiiiinnkk !!

Hog-time it is!

One more of the beastly tribe and kin to the Satyr Ancient I presented in my last post.
What name to give him? Minoboar? Hogman? Werepig?

I don't know yet but that should not keep me from sharing some pictures with you.


Hoggie is mean, clever and lucky.

At least that is what he thinks from himself.

Bashing one of his more recent knightly victims showed him, that a wooden club won't last forever if the opponent is clad in iron. Cunning made him slam the club into the knight's helmet, thus getting a wonderfully durable bludgeon and finally he added his last lucky find - a dragon tooth.

So far nothing could withstand this most terrible of weapons - but then again till now he just used it to open a rather defenceless barrel of beer...

(GW Miniature on the right just shown for size comparison)

Hope you like him.

Not sure what I'll come up next with for this faction, but I think it's time for something less traditional.
First I have to work off a bucketful of commissions though, so no comments on time schedule... :-)

Cheers,

Gregor

Satyr Ancient

Hiho again

I thought it's about time to post something here again and lucky me, I just have finished another sculpt for my own line.

He is a bit of a starter for a new faction I will do more stuff for, so watch out for more.
I am not quite sure under which name I will be selling these, so for the time being I will call them beastmen.

This will only be one of a few who will look like the more traditional Satyr-like beastmen. Most others of those yet to come will  sport different "animal-parts".
This theme is one where for imagination only the sky is the limit and I plan to make good use of this "sculpting freedom".
So maybe there will be hippo-men, hog-men, rat-men, tiger-men, tapir-men, or whatever hits my mind.
I am rather curious myself as I had no concept art for this one, it developed while sculpting away...  :-)

If someone thinks he/she has got a most splendid idea that needs to be realised, let me know, I just might get tempted. :-)

Bye,

Gregor