And a final update of the figures I've been working on this month. Again, these were originally part of a Centaur HOTT army that got too large, and these guys didn't make the final cut - but I've kept them as separate figures for D&D purposes. 
The one with the spear is what I would call a "traditional" Asgard sculpt - a bit coarse and lacking in detail (especially around the face!) but still with a lot of energy. The one with the bow is a reworking by Asgard of a figure from their Barbarian Personalities range - if you look at this picture of BP7 Arflane the Archer, you can see that they've taken the upper body, attached it to a horse torso and then modelled a cloak and belt to conceal the join. Whilst I can admire the re-use, IMHO the figure does feel very static compared to the "traditional" sculpt.
Both figures were a pleasure to deal with - mostly woodland shades as base colours then Army Painter soft tone for a wash, followed by highlighting. The bow centaur is a more detailed figure, and benefitted most from this, whilst the spear figure didn't come up as well as I would have liked - the lack of detail on the figure really didn't help. The bases are simply flock and artificial grass.
Pleased with both paint jobs on the whole, but to be honest I can't see the archer getting too much table top time - but his friend with the spear will!
Ace conversion. Wouldn't have recognized it as such without you pointing it out.
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DeleteAsgard FM100 Centaur with Spear v2 is a reworking of the Asgard Barbarian Personalities figure BP1 Clonar Sternbrow as a centaur!
I own the centaur with the spear but the tip was broken a long-time ago and i lost it, so now it looks like a staff. Need to reforge, gluing a spearhead :-) That figure is coarse as you truly said it but full of energy :-)
Deleteit seems over the years many companies reworked their base figures into other figures, GW's sculptors were well known for doing that..... several 80's orcs for instance have the same body and head, but differently equiped arms, all metal figures too.
ReplyDeleteI painted that Asgard Barbarian Bowman recently: http://hitstokill.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/pts-95-40k-vikings-chaos-dwarf.html
ReplyDeletePlenty of personality. I think as a centaur he would look better facing/firing upward instead of downward.
Great paint job on your Barbarian :) And I agree with your comment, its not the great conversion - that cloak on the centaur covers a multitude of sins.
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