Some may call him a troll, others an ogre. Magic: the Gathering players might think of him as an Orgg or a Vizzerdrix. But I call him a bunyip, even though he bears no particular resemblance to the bunyip of Australian legend. (In an amusing coincidence, I saw a day or so back that I am not the only miniatures blogger to have painted one of these figures lately...)
Next, I based and painted up that batch of plastic wolves that I picked up over the weekend. They're rather large for lupines, so maybe they're actually direwolves or wargs or something. In any case, they'll help fill out the Orc army some day.
Finally, I finished up my last stand (for now, at least) of Mongol horse archers. (Shown here with another stand that I finished over the holidays.) As with the others, these guys are a mix of the various Mongol sets currently on the market.
And that gives me a complete army! (To be supplemented with more heavy cavalry at some point.) Next: time to begin work on my first winged hussars...
Very nicely done. Those wolves look great, where'd you get them? Nice job on the 'Bunyip', I like the striped flesh effect.
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Nick
Found 'em in a bin at my local game store/hobby shop. They're "Glade Guardians" from the now-defunct collectible miniatures game Mage Knight.
ReplyDeleteAhh, cheers, I'll keep my eye out...though I don't fancy my chances!
ReplyDeleteNick
Inspiring work, and just the motivation I need to start my own Bunyip/Troll/Ogre!
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Tim
A little googling shows that your introduction to bunyips was a little excerpt in Eric Carle's Dragons, Dragons from The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek, by Jenny Wagner. The Wagner book is cited in that Wikipedia article.
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