MINIATURES DESIGN CONTEST

Last year I ran several contests for people to win the chance to get their designs made into miniatures. Little did I know I would never get the chance to make them until this year! So for the time being I have closed the contests and to save memory space on my server, I have removed the losing entries until I can upgrade the package I have, at which point I'll probably put my favourites back up.

Design Contest winners that are being planned or sculpted at the moment:

Ebric the Doomed

Hi there, I just finished reading the thrud comic and I saw your ad so I decided to take a look at your site, love the miniatures, boris is great.

I thought I'd send in a few piccies of my Live Role Play group for the miniature design competition as we tried in the past to convert existing figures into our LRP selves (no luck)

The unit is based around the worship of Thrud (yup the comic character) and as such call ourselves Thruddites and drink, fight, drink and act braindead (some of us act)

Anyway as I can't draw I have enclosed a photo for you to look at if you will.

The pic is myself (as Ebric) with my Missus (as Auriol)

Nox the poncy mage and a shot of some of the group (I'm the one in the long coat with no armour on)

Thank you

- Andy Downey

Centaur

This is my first try at sculpting completely with greenstuff. Most Centaurs I`ve seen look rather wimpy or are so heavily armoured they look more like machines so I wanted to create something simplistic but looked more natural and was still threatening I hope I`ve achieved this. The model itself is meant to be a Centaur Lord and is more like 32mm scale as opposed to 28mm. Sorry about quality of pictures ( I`m still trying to master the Digicam) if you`d like to see more please let me know and I`ll try again, anyway hope you like it.    

Dennis Brooker

He/it is in service and worship of the god of worms and decay (that'd be the hideous Netherlord called Beelzebub, I expect...Andy), I wont go into talking fluff, I’ve included an alternative posture drawing- which shows lowered weapon, head positioning is now tilted in order to inspect the severed head and overall conveys a somewhat classical pose, alternative weapons could also be designed. Hopefully I’ll find time to produce a painted version but as I have a project strategy that has to be written by Monday its going to have to wait.

Cheers…

~Rob Carey

Kobolds

Kobolds are between three to four feet tall and lean, with slightly elongated limbs, looking something like a dog and a featherless chicken from hell (similar to the look of skeksis in Dark Crystal without the size or bulk). Their heads are elongated and slender with beaked mouths, with the a few fangs managing a length great enough to be visible along the bone-snapping underbite. Perfectly round, lidless eyes pop from the shadows of its high brow ridge and the cheeks are capable of holding food, as they are scavengers by nature, and often have to eat on the run from larger opponents. Kobold legs are designed for short leaps, making it easy for them to hop into windows and across short obstacles, as well as making them good climbers over rough terrain. Their toes are notable for raptor-like claws which they use to rip pen their opponents flesh, and they frequently leap onto prey and rend, a favored tactic of the species. Kobolds have a short chicken tail that wags when they get excited, which is disturbing to see when confronted with a pack  of them. Their weapons are made from discarded metals framed in bone, and they ornament their protruding spinal ridge, as well as craft jewellery, with discarded chainmail and finger rings knotted with small bones (chicken, baby, etc) and chicken feathers. More artistic kobolds will craft spinal decorations using long feathers to give them a plumish back to intimidate their prey. Kobold bodies are hunched forward, which aids the vicious creatures in stealth.    

UPDATE:

 

I worked up a front facial sketch for you as well as ideas for a champion and a shaman. The front face needs no explanation, but I thought of the following for the others, including notes about the logic behind them. Hope you like them! On a side note, after sending the last idea I realised I hadn't mentioned the colors I was thinking of. I was thinking of them as bleached bone with a grey-green tint and speckles (like pale mangalors from the film The Fifth Element) with a muddy chicken-pink in the folds and shadows of their skin (as opposed to the traditional orangish-red of most kobolds), and a black-tipped tan beak (like an upside down rooster beak if that makes sense). 

 

Kobold Shaman

    The shaman has a collar of chicken feathers as well as a collection of broken and bloody chicken wings hooked into his spinal rings. These items, as well as the considerable amount of food stored in his hamster-like cheeks, are offerings from his kin. Other kobolds regular give the shaman such offerings because the vicious shaman scares the crap out of them. All kobolds that are "lucky" enough to have a shaman about do everything in their ability to keep the magic-user happy and well fed, rightfully fearing that to deny him is to be cursed, hexed or killed. As a result of this treatment, kobold shamans frequently have a pot-belly. Kobold shamans have the ability to use curses and hexes on opponents that can cause physical or mental weaknesses and injuries and even death. To use this magic, they must drain the life essence from a living thing by torturing it, and a casting shaman is evident when seen with a screeching chicken or similar small animal clutched in its bloodstained grip (larger creatures are to heavy to carry around). Regrettably for the shaman, this power is fleeting, for after a curse or two is cast the animal is broken and killed. It is a glorious thing for a kobold shaman to find an unconscious or wounded adventurer that cannot defend himself. The shaman will gleefully torture the victim until death to use his power, and some shamans have often had kin drag the helpless victim into a fight in able to craft more and stronger curses. Experienced adventurers will often place priority on killing a shamans living spell component to negate the shaman's magic, even if it is a helpless ally.

 

The Rooster (Kobold Champion)

    The Rooster is the classic example of a kobold champion. Named for the plume of black and green feathers laced into his spinal rings, the  vicious kobold is notorious for a double-attack tactic by first using his raptor-like toes effectively during a leap attack, followed by a vicious downstroke with his crude blade as he lands on his opponent, frequently knocking the target down. So agile and fast is the violent little cuss that he easily dodges return attacks from those few that survive his initial attack,  and he often uses his knuckles to launch himself again, repeating the tactic. Few opponents survive the Rooster's rapid assaults, but those that do frequently scare off the Rooster, who is cunning enough to know when he is outmatched. The Rooster is reknowned by adventurers for his ability to escape and live to fight another day. (The small side shot by the main sketch is included to show his feather placement ) 

I know it's not traditional, but at the least, I hope you find it an entertaining read.

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