Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Talisman Heroes

One of my long term projects is to complete the models that go with many of my older GW board games so that I can play them with my children when they're old enough (and they're getting close!) and quite possibly, their friends. For this batch, I painted the Swashbuckler, the Dwarf, and the Knight.

For the Swashbuckler and the Knight I wanted to do something important for teaching my children. Minorities are very underrepresented in Science Fiction and Fantasy, which I find odd because many of us were outcasts ourselves and we should fully understand the value of inclusion. The Swashbuckler was painted with Latino skin tones while the Knight was painted with African skin tones. I chose these two models for this treatment for two reasons.

First, and most importantly, these character classes have very little baggage associated with them. Swashbucklers are known as heroic fighters with defeat their enemies with style, while Knights are generally viewed as virtuous warriors upholding the honorable code of chivalry. I did not want to create any negative implications with the chosen models.

Second, many of the Talisman models are modeled with Anglo features, which would make it difficult to paint them in a manner that would fit the traditional racial features I wanted to portray in a realistic manner.

But anyway, without further ado, here they are:


And for anyone that missed them in my warseer project log, here is the first batch of Talisman models I painted:



8 comments:

  1. Really beautiful work. I love your smooth, vibrant colours! The bases are also boss.

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    1. Thanks! They're dragon forge bases, the sculpting is great, making them ready to paint!

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  2. Wonderfully smooth paint jobs, and a great message to teach the kids too!

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    1. Thanks, these plastics were perfectly cast making them much smoother to begin with :D

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  3. Nice!

    I have been picking up some of the... quaint 90s monopose Citadel fantasy plastics recently too, as I find them surprisingly pleasant to paint.

    That Troll Slayer sculpt us right up on the cusp of great/awful for me, but when I had it in hand I immediately liked it.

    Drop me a line if by any chance you have any spares of some of similar models from that era please. I'm still after a few.

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  4. I felt the same was about the troll slayer. I painted him the first time in about 2002 and wasn't impressed. But after stripping and repainting him, I loved it.

    Sadly, I have no extra monopose models. When they were coming out I wasn't a fan and never acquired many.

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    1. No worries, I had almost zero interest in them at the time too.

      If fact, I may have referred to the plastic Chaos Dwarf big hat as "The worst Citadel Miniature of all time".

      I grinned like an idiot when I got one in the post last week though...

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  5. Nicely done. I think it's good to try and do a mix of human flesh tones. I think you've done a great job of it so far.

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