BROADSWORD MINIATURES

Sunday 14 November 2021

TOYHAMMER - THE BADDIES

 I've recently been painting some Toyhammer figures as a palette cleanser. They are great for picking up and splashing paint on when I have a few minutes here and there ( usually about 3.30am). So far I'd only painted good guys, so it was about time to do some opposition.

Some skellies, summoned by a bone faced necromancer.

Thuggish evil knights.

Some infernal demons.

More heavy infantry.

and more.

Some light archers. The late 80s saw some truly dreadful figures, but they were fun to paint.

I had so much fun block painting over a white undercoat I am seriously thinking about doing more figures in this style. With these cheap plastic figures above it doesn't seem so sacrilegious, but on valuable old lead I have been thinking twice about it.



12 comments:

  1. Fantastic work. Love the skellies especially.

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    1. They are from the game Heroquest. I've never played it, but it has some fun minis.

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  2. Nice, you are making me seriously nostalgic!. It's great to see these old plastics given a new lease on life.

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    1. I despised these plastic "toys" when they were released, but live 'em now.

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  3. Fantastic! The necromancer is a great figure

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    1. Not a very original paint job, but he's undoubtedly based on the villain Skeletor.

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  4. Very smart , I like the rather cartoony poses , I think they have stood the test of time .

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    1. They are very charactatured, one of the reasons I didn't like them at the time, but they were designed to be fun and easy to paint, which I know now they are.

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  5. Those marauder archers are lovely sculpts. :)

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