These models are from the latest Relicblade Kickstarter, so I’m nearly a year late in painting them. But they came just a few days before I had to shut down the hobby space for months to prep for the move.
I decided to paint mine as if they were feral smurfs. The Chieftain gets red, like Papa Smurf.
The others are unnamed other smurfs, but generally wear white.
While nobody’s likely to pick them up and say “smurf!”, it amuses me.
These Shrimp Harpooners continue the ‘more teams!’ trend. I love these guys so much.
If you told me I needed shrimp miniatures, I’m not sure I’d believe you. But you’d be right. These guys are even more awesome than the gilblins. And fish gobbos are pretty rad.
You might think they’d dry out on land. But you’re wrong. They’re too cool for that.
The new Kickstarter had lots of extra models, but not a lot of solo characters. The Swarm Lord is the one for Adversary.
This is a big metal model on a 40mm base. He means business. I leaned heavily into the bee theme. The darks are a colorshift deep blue, which works well as a stand in for iridescent chitin.
Much like the Advocate side, I already had the alt for the Iguan Marauder, so I focused my hobby time on the new characters.
This pig is my favorite of the bunch. He’s got such weight to him and strength to his pose.
I’m a huge sucker for the crow face, whether bony like on the Dark Prophet or in mask form like Malifaux’s Carrion Effigy. The colors I chose are a bit bright and happy for a dark master, but since I’m usually quite drab I’ll give myself a pass here.
The Slayer Squid is model that I think suffers the most from the one-piece design. From this angle it’s a great model. But as you turn it it’s a bit flat. There are so many arms, it’s too bad they can’t be more dimensional. I’d be thrilled to see this guy reposed as a multipiece.