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Post by tredhed on Aug 25, 2011 5:57:41 GMT -9
Wow these are GREAT!!
And soon "Player Characters" ?
Can we get Bullywugs too?
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Post by sammo on Aug 25, 2011 8:08:52 GMT -9
I dig the pig faced orcs, definitely puts the retro into your fantasy line. ;D
My hope is that when (if) you ever do set of kobolds they'll be the gygaxian barking dog kobolds and not lizardy creatures like their modern iterations.
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Post by okumarts on Aug 25, 2011 8:16:41 GMT -9
Ha! I only draw the scaly dog kobolds.
I drew up some other monsters and characters today. This is hilarious fun! My own PC from 1981 will be in the free set I'm concocting.
I am surrounded by hardcover AD&D books and stacks of old Dragon and White Dwarf magazines!
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Post by Rhannon on Aug 25, 2011 9:05:26 GMT -9
When the first release?
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Post by Parduz on Aug 25, 2011 9:30:01 GMT -9
I drew up some other monsters and characters today. This is hilarious fun! I'm impatient to see what will sort out. I see your style very similar to my preferred cartoonist: Giorgio Cavazzano (not so much in the "line style" but in dinamic and the "tension" of the poses). I like a lot how he draw big, "dumb" characters, so i'm courious to see your trolls, ogres, giants and other big, slow, stupid monsters  I also hope to see from you tiny, "cute" monsters (being "cute" in the sense of the Paizo goblin style).... |
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Post by okumarts on Aug 25, 2011 11:35:20 GMT -9
I'm hoping the first release will be sometime this weekend. Most likely the Orcs. I just have to test build the darn things now. In the meantime, here is a sneak peek at the next set. A free one!  |
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Post by stevelortz on Aug 25, 2011 11:52:47 GMT -9
Dave, you're DARKFAST line has got to be the most interesting and exciting thing I've seen in miniatures in decades! As I wrote before, I cut my sculpting teeth on Hildebrandt-esque orcs at Archive Miniatures in the late '70s. Your orcs feel like long lost friends come back into my life!
Last semester, in our American West class, we read a book called Waterlily. It was a fictional account of a Souix woman written by an ethnologist who was herself a Souix woman. The Souix men were always tearing around the countryside on hunting or war parties, and it was the women who held the tribal culture together.
Since reading Waterlily, I've come to the conclusion that it is the orc women who hold their tribal culture together, but just as orcs represent the dark side of Tolkien's trenchmates during WWI, orc women would represent the dark side of matriarchal society. The male orcs are always out rampaging on macho raids because they don't want to be subjected to the humiliation and scorn heaped upon them by their wives at home, which they have to meekly accept in that setting. They are all mama's boy's, and his mother-in-law is the most terrifying thing in an orc's life.
So I will be glad to have a WHOLE orc tribe with which to generate stories!
Have fun!
Steve
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Post by cowboyleland on Aug 25, 2011 18:34:52 GMT -9
I Love the way your mind works, Steve. If you need a break from your master's studies, you should definitely find some Steve Erickson books. He is an archeologist or anthropologist as well as a gamer and he writes GREAT stories. Right up your alley.
C.
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Post by cowboyleland on Aug 25, 2011 18:35:58 GMT -9
I Love the way your mind works, Steve. If you need a break from your master's studies, you should definitely find some Steve Erickson books. He is an archeologist or anthropologist as well as a gamer and he writes GREAT stories. Right up your alley.
Oh, and Dave, I'm looking forward to these figs too!
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Post by okumarts on Aug 26, 2011 10:47:13 GMT -9
They'll be out this weekend, just got to do some of the packaging and other work! They look awesome built. The archer is a bit bigger in this build than he will be in the final build. THey are kind of hulky next to the Vikings. I think that the retro-fantasy line will be a bit more 'heroic' in scale than the other lines.  |
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Post by onemonkeybeau on Aug 26, 2011 13:00:02 GMT -9
These are... .am.a.zing... !!!
Great job David!
onemonkeybeau
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Post by stevelortz on Aug 27, 2011 10:32:33 GMT -9
They'll be out this weekend... What a looooong weekend this is turning out to be! I'm working on finishing Narli Uffdahssen and his crew while I wait on pins and needles! Have fun! Steve |
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Post by okumarts on Aug 27, 2011 14:13:05 GMT -9
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Post by stevelortz on Aug 27, 2011 16:07:56 GMT -9
Got 'em! Made my weekend! My first class is Greek at 8 am on Monday. You bet I'll be working on these until then! Thanks!
Have fun!
Steve
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Post by kiladecus on Aug 27, 2011 16:13:43 GMT -9
I always referred to these guys as "Boarks" since they look like pig-Orks. These are incredible! I will have to pig these up... (any change of getting thses with post-modern weaponry? Or do I have to fire up GIMP?)  Btw, I want to see a set of magic users... wizards, clerics, paladins, socerors, faith healers, shamans... males, females, and assorted races! You do this and I will be among the first to buy it! |
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Post by emergencyoverride on Aug 27, 2011 17:30:16 GMT -9
I love them. Pig faced orcs have always been my favorite. I can still remember when orcs weren't green.  I also really like the bonus layers! Especially the one in the diaper crying. Great job bro!! |
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Post by gilius on Aug 27, 2011 18:34:42 GMT -9
You know, when I look at the reduced image of the cover page on DriveThruRPG, my mind keeps registering it as a picture of painted metal minis. It's like the shading just gives them the right "weight," really impressive. Makes me think how great they will look on the table!
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Post by onemonkeybeau on Aug 27, 2011 18:39:59 GMT -9
Bought and printing!
Just excellent!
onemonkeybeau
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Post by Dryw the Harper on Aug 28, 2011 10:41:41 GMT -9
I love these guys. They will have a great time raiding Imperfect farmsteads and villages.
;D
Dryw the Harper
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Post by stevelortz on Aug 28, 2011 11:01:38 GMT -9
...THey are kind of hulky next to the Vikings. I think that the retro-fantasy line will be a bit more 'heroic' in scale than the other lines... I had the same problem with the orcs (called "Dark Trolls") I sculpted for Archive. I've been fiddling with a few of your orcs and a few of your Vikings today, and it seems okay for your orcs to be larger. It appeared to me as I read Tolkien down through the years that there were two types of orcs: the Uruk Hai (or "High Orcs") and the Snaga ("Slave") orcs. It seemed to me that the snagas were the orcs that Tolkien had earlier associated with goblins, and the Uruk Hai were a heftier breed developed for the War of the Ring. The Uruk Hai were less affected by sunlight than the goblin orcs. So I developed a set off lesser bad guys close in appearance to the Dark Trolls, which were called "Trollkin" in the Archive/Runequest mythos. I later redid some of them for Lance & Laser's Hero Wars line:  These are trollkin specialists, consisting of a liturgical dancer on the left, a sleeping sentry, and two porters on the right. I can see using DarkFast orcs as elite and heavy infantry, with goblins (when you come out with them), probably smaller than figures like the Vikings, as the rank and file of orc/goblinoid armies! Have fun! Steve |
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Post by stevelortz on Aug 28, 2011 14:06:09 GMT -9
I find these orcs very x-acto friendly. Maybe it's the capes!
Have fun!
Steve
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Post by emergencyoverride on Aug 28, 2011 17:50:05 GMT -9
Yes they were very easy to cut out. I really enjoyed putting these together. Pics tomorrow. ;D
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Post by okumarts on Aug 29, 2011 6:15:08 GMT -9
Just thought I'd post what I'd built from the set. The 'dungeon' is from World Works Games.  |
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Post by Parduz on Aug 29, 2011 6:43:17 GMT -9
LOLed at the baby pig. ;D Such a race could'nt have evolved enough, here |
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Post by nikloveland on Aug 29, 2011 7:40:33 GMT -9
Cool set! I'm not a fan of Pig-faced orcs but I can appreciate great artwork!
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 29, 2011 10:09:38 GMT -9
I'm going to use them in WFB and fill the front rank of every unit with innocent orc children.
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Post by okumarts on Aug 29, 2011 12:18:29 GMT -9
I'm going to use them in WFB and fill the front rank of every unit with innocent orc children. THAT is one twisted battle strategy. It just might work too. I'm just about finished drawing the fronts of all of the free set. I want to have it up for Wednesday. |
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Post by highlandpiper on Aug 29, 2011 22:52:40 GMT -9
These are just amazing! I love them! A theme like this can go on forever (and I hope it does)! I'm very jealous of your artistic skill as I always wished I had 'this or that' miniature for my games.
Well done and please keep it up!
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Post by Tommygun on Aug 30, 2011 1:29:19 GMT -9
Those five little piggies are great.
Looks like the littlest piggy went wee wee wee all the way home.
....yes I went there. ;D
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Post by highlandpiper on Aug 30, 2011 4:34:05 GMT -9
Two Words
RAT MEN!
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I also really like the bonus layers! Especially the one in the diaper crying. Great job bro!!
