Zebra People in a hurry!

 Here are some very hastily painted Zebra People (Pavis Survivors) for this weekend's Big Rubble game.

The horses don't look much like zebras, but if I recall correctly, the Praxian zebra riders are supposed to ride horses that have been transformed into zebras. So they'll do!

I did a lot of the main colour layers with acrylic marker/brush pens - the zebras and the saddles especially. Acrylic markers are handy for light colours; the great problem with them is that they tend to be lighter than they should be, so it's difficult to build layers from a dark base. But they're good for yellows, light greens and off-whites. 

I used acrylic ink and a thin brush for the stripes; next time, I'll probably stick less slavishly to real-world stripe density and make them more impressionistic zebras!

Broos for the Big Rubble

Hot on the heels of today's Zorak Zorani trolls, here are a couple of broos.

Trolls for the Big Rubble

 

Here are some kitbashed Mantic orcs to be used as Zorak Zorani dark-troll berserkers in some Big Rubble skirmish games. 

These guys are suitably sized and fierce-looking, I think.

I think the goofy top hat isn't out of place with the whimsy that sometimes creeps into Glorantha.

I originally used this guy as a 15mm giant about a decade ago. 

The nice thing about Glorantha is that it provides you with specific runes to use for worshippers of any given god: here, disorder, darkness and death.

A dragonewt for RuneQuest

 Here's a slightly converted Lancer lizardman who's going to be acting as a dragonewt in some forthcoming Big Rubble skirmish games. I originally gave him a green-stuff beak and tail ending so that he could be a Shén in Tekumel. But he never made it to the painting table, and so he's now a beaked (second-stage) dragonewt for Glorantha. 

The photos aren't great; I think there's something wrong with my phone camera. But I'm quite pleased with how he looks in real life.

A nice thing about painting dragonewts is that no metallics need be involved; the creatures are supposed to rely on bone, stone and glass for their weapons and armour. 

The other nice thing about dragonewts is that they aren't supposed to look terribly similar to each other - so there's free rein for a wide variety of model types and colour schemes as the warband grows.