I finished another regiment of Tomb Guard.
This is a regiment of the old metal Tomb Guard miniatures from 2002. I had been putting off repainting these as I didn't like painting them the first time around, and I was not impressed with assembling them nor how the shields kept falling off. So once I had paint stripped them, they were until late in the project.
To overcome the shield problem I added a piece of green stuff to the connection of where the hand grasps the shield, somewhere which is conveniently hidden from view. I have always found assembling and keeping assembled the metal miniatures from this era (later 1990's until about the mid 2010's) to be a little problematic, with the metal added parts falling off during handling.
The miniatures themselves are quite good. They differ from the later plastic Tomb Guard in the design with their Hawk looking head gear, and that they are all one piece miniatures, and this is the reason I designated them to be Settra's famous Hawk Legion of Tomb Guard. There are two types of the design holding the sword upright, and I managed to collect a regiment of the same one, with the skull design on the armour, not that it seemed to matter as much once I had pained them! I also collected all the same shield design, although I did retain the Tomb Captain's very fancy hawk shield.
Painting was straight forward using the dusty paint scheme. I followed the little background there was on them about having turquoise shields, and I painted the armour a little more gold, and less turquoise. I did the extra gold to suggest the elite within an elite nature of the regiment, and as also not to detract too much from the turquoise of the shields. I'm happy with them, and they were not as bad to paint in this paint scheme as they were about 20 years ago with the old one.
Enjoy :)
I never understood the design reason for him wearing a skull helmet.
The sculpting on the drum is actually very good.
I think that the same posed miniature does give the regiment the extra look.
Awesome looking Tomb Guard Lee, using greenstuff to make a better connection on the shields is a good idea, and fantastic colouring again.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dave. I always found that the later metal miniatures were sometimes a little fragile when handling. Glad you like the colours, the dusty look is a joy to paint.
DeleteI'm really enjoying this project, it doesn't come repetitive and you have certainly mastered the palette. Keep on!
ReplyDeleteThank you Suber. I am really enjoying working with this palette of colours. I am starting to come to the end of the project, and I was surprised by how much depth and feeling one can build up using it.
DeleteVery impressive. How do they do on the battlefield?
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteIt has been a long time since I have played a game with the Tomb Kings. The Tomb Guard specifically were very good, solid troops. The Toughness 4 gave them good staying power, and the killing blow helped defeat foes.
ReplyDeleteAnother impressive and sumptuous unit: we like how you managed to give them a more refined look in the armour and weapons without them appearing too shiny. The detail of the skull on the head of a skeleton is curious... but it looks like a non-human skull, perhaps rather an orc's. Could it be a trophy obtained from a victory over some orc tribe? Reflecting on your project, this question arose: from which edition of WHFB did the "European" type skeletons disappear, to be replaced exclusively by "Egyptian" skeletons?
Thank you, glad you liked them.
DeleteYou could e correct, the skull does look non-human, and there were several backstories concerning the Tomb Kings fighting Orcs.
There was never really a total disappearance of the 'European' style of skeletons as they continued to some extent with the Vampire Counts. However, it was from 4th Edition Fantasy Battle (1992) that skeletons went from being generic 'European' to being Vampires Counts focused, with the Tomb Kings officially arriving in 6th Edition (2000), with the Tomb kings themselves arriving in 2002.
In earlier editions there were more 'European' elements present, such Mummies, present, and some of the styles of the miniatures were not always strictly European in look. There was at one point a range of Undead Samurai.