Speedpainting Conan: TMG

There are four minis in this game, the rest are standees that I’m hoping I can swap for actual minis now I’ve got so many painted.  The four in this set are slightly smaller than the main set but look fine next to them.  Conan is small and weedy looking but this is his first adventure when he was a very young man.

His fellow thief Taurus.

Yara the evil sorcerer.

And finally Yara’s pet, a giant spider.

And finally a shot of them all in the game context.  I’m still learning this one and the Let’s Play from the developers and Sam is proving very useful.

Here’s the main sculp of the main man.

That’s 245 miniatures done in 16 weeks or about 2 a day.  Bearing in mind this wasn’t the only project I worked on during this time.  I was inspired to try to recreate the Adrian Smith art on the miniatures and Speedpaints definitely helped with getting the same look that Adrian has in his watercolour work.The full gallery of Adrian’s concept artwork for this game can be found here.

Up next I’m starting to play both games, starting with the smaller one Tower of the Elephant.

Here are the remaining creatures starting with the largest, every Stygian’s favourite and pride of Thulsa Doom – the Giant Snake.

Thog, demon God of Xuthal.

A Demon from the Outer Dark

And finally a glass-jawed camel.

That’s it for Conan: The Miniatures Game apart from the main man who I saved as a treat until the end.  At the same time as this game I also did the four minis from the Conan Tower of the Elephant game.  They will be in the next update.

Nearly there now.  The monsters are the last miniatures left.  These are the first ones done.  Firstly the Dark Demon

Bone Golem – easiest paint in the whole project – just a generous coat of Pallid Bone.

Some more demons, a Forst Demon and a Swamp Demon (in all the greens)

A perennial favourite foe, the Gray Man Ape

Creepy crawlies, a giant scorpion and giant spider.

Last of the minions and almost all of the characters done.  That only leaves the monsters and the main man himself.  Firstly for today the Bossonian Archers.

This is General Conan when he led a mercenary army.  Slightly strange effect on the armour in the art, not sure if it is supposed to show it gilded or made of some different alloy but it has a slightly yellow/greenish hue which I went with as well.

Some more of the last batch of characters.  Firstly we have the mage Hadrathus, again cheating a bit here with some flame effect and OSL from Vallejo Fluros.

Conan in his Warlord form.

A Kothian archer.

Nearly done with the last of the characters.  First the best bit of art, although the sculpt is a bit meh, Belit.

Thak the ape-man.

Gitara the lover of Khemsa.

Zaporavo, pirate captain.

Shevatas the master thief

Taurus the Prince of Thieves who assists Conan in his adventure in the Tower of the Elephant.

Bossonian Guards in two poses with their captain.  They have only 6 Speedpaint colours on them and no blending or mixing.  Still pretty effective in big groups.

The final miniatures painted in 2022.  Natohk the Veiled One who is the returned Khotan the Scorcerer who slumbered in his tomb for 3,000 years.  Needless to say he wasn’t a nice guy.

The Hyperborean Primitive – last of his kind.

Skuthus the Stygian Necromancer.

The three Kushite Witchhunters, their two guards and Amboola commander of the spearmen of Kush.

Some minor characters, starting with a princess.

And now some baddies.  Akivasha the Stygian vampire.

Khemsa, agent of the Black Seers.

Khosatral Khel – demon god of the Abyss.

A warlock – evil demonologist.

The fierce tribal warriors who manned Belit’s pirate ship were such as these with command shared out amongst sub-chiefs lile N’Gora.

There are 25 of these in the game.  15 in the original pose:

Then another 10 in two KS exclusive poses.  The usual AP Speedpaints with bronze blend being Dark Wood, Palid Bone and SP Medium in equal quantities with a few drops of Sand Golem added to get a slightly brighter tone.  This was finished with stippled GW Nihilakh Oxide.

Pelias is a wizardy type with his ball of fiery magical energy.  I did cheat a bit on the Speedpaint only approiach here as I couldn’t figure out how to do object source lightling with it so went for some dry brushed AP Neons to creat a suitable reflection on his robes.

This is an early version of Conan who is yet to have many of his defining adventures.

Thaug the sea monster.  This model is also the Ketos miniature for Mythic Battles: Pantheon.

And here is Adrian Smith’s original art.

Halloween tonight so here are some scary things.  Mummies.  Simple enough paint job and three different poses, two were KS exclusive.

Second lot of personalities.  We start with Conan and his lion, Amra.  The lion was Conan’s spirit animal and he could call on its strength and even see through its eyes.

Valeria.  Heroine of the first Conan movie who features in a few of the original stories.

Constantius “The Falcon”, evil mercenary.

Balthus and Slasher the dog.

Zelata the witch and her wolf.

Zogar Sag the Shaman.  Tried to match the artwork but due to the speed element didn’t do the war paint on any of the Picts.

Pict Hunters – there are 15 of these.

Pict Warriors

and finally Pict Archers