Had a bit of time on my hands, so I’ve been able to finish
off another nugget extracted from the Lead Mountain.
Next up was this overlooked morsel from Asgard; as any followers of the blog
will know, I am partial to Asgard sculpts ;)
No two ways about it; this is an odd looking sculpt. Bugbears
are generally viewed as larger, more intelligent goblins – hence the green
skinned paint job – and the actual sculpt of the head, arms and torso is fine,
lots of detail there, whilst the club is suitably menacing. But what is it wearing??!
It looks like a boiler suit! And as for those boots… very dapper, and totally
incongruous! The clothes are just totally out of keeping with the rest of the
figure. However, I understand that in later editions of D&D, bugbears
could be player characters, and I’m guessing that the figure was designed for
that purpose – otherwise, if you put this figure amongst a horde of goblins
(even Asgard goblins) it’s just going to look right out of place.
A pleasure to paint though – standard goblin green for the
skin, blood red for the hair (just for contrast) and then a light khaki colour
for the boiler suit, with leather for the boots. Apply washes, then dry brush.
Simples!
I’m fairly pleased with the end product, although I can’t
see it getting much table top time. From what I can make out, it’s a fairly
rare piece (although I understand that Viking Forge still produce it, along
with a lot of the old Asgard range) – I suspect it didn’t sell well because it
is such an odd looking critter.
Cool figure, though it is a very odd sculpt for a bugbear. The trousers do give him a steampunk look.
ReplyDeleteAnother Asgard i didn't know of ! funny look :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments - got to agree it is a very odd figure. I was originally very tempted to paint the boiler suit in very bright colours, a bit like a romper suit - but then the small devil of caution said to keep it simple ;)
ReplyDeleteit's Dungerees he's wearing not a boiler suit, prisoners in the states wear a variation of boiler suits as does engineers on old steam trains and such.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise that's a fine looking mini with a great paint job.