June 2022 Fourth Preview: Wraiths and Free Miniature for patrons!
Good evening afternoon guys, 鈿旓笍
Hope you are having a great weekend. Today we wanted to show you the six (6) Wraith miniatures and the Free Exclusive Miniature for patrons, the Spectral Commander! 馃拃
So.. talking about the six miniatures for the Wraith unit, you guys know that we are huuuge fans of Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's work. But not only of the story, the entire artwork behind the movies, the concept art and illustrations for the books and many other artwork are a big source of inspiration for our work.
The two sketchbooks from Alan Lee and the one from John Howe contain an incredible amount of references and illustrations used for the visual world of Lord of the Rings -and the Hobbit- like this illustration or this one that we've used as references for our Wraith miniatures.
They have also some remembrance to another set of old miniatures for the LOTR miniature game, can you identify them? 馃憖
Finally, we have gathered some time to create one more miniature, a free miniature only available for patrons, the Spectral Commander, which of course you will be able to identify very soon the reference from where it comes! 馃拲
We are working now on the last miniature, the Lord Necromancer on Flying Monster, that we hope to have ready by tomorrow!
Remember, the June 2022 Release, the Spectres of Transilvanya, is composed of:
6x Crypt Ghosts Unit: low level spectres with rusty one handed weapons
6x Wraith Unit: armoured spectres with two handed weapons
6x Spectral Cavalry Unit: undead spectres on horses with two handed weapons
9x Second Anniversary Skeleton Warriors Unit: basic skeletons warriors without armour, with spears and shields.
1x Ezekiel, the Lord Necromancer in Flying Monster
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Comments (9)
Hmm, the wrairhs remind me of the elven warriors of the last alliance. Its the chestplates. Also, please give now
Thank you Ben! In the post you can a linked image that was our main reference for these miniatures :)
already asked, can we have them without weapons please ?
Hi Stuart! At the moment it is impossible for us to make them without weapons because we don't have the time to do it, but you can probably do it yourself with any 3D software like Meshmixer or 3D Builder. We would recommend to use Zbrush for that. We have plans to start making some short videos in our Youtube channel to explain how to do things like that in a couple of minutes with Zbrush :)
That Spectral Commander! 馃槏 Thank you!
Glad you like them Karsten!! :D
I like it, although I will use them as Grave guard for my Soulblight Army. May I ask why you never go for 10 model per unit? Even if this means that you do one unit less per month. 6 is such a strange number for unit building. ;-)
Hi Tonny! It mostly depends of what kind of unit we are making. If it is going to be a core unit we tend to make more miniatures because those kind of units are big in numbers ( like we did with the Skeletons Warriors, the Sunland Militia and so on) and it is hard to avoid repetition with a only a few miniatures. If it is going to be a special or rare unit we use to make them smaller in number as they tend to be smaller in the games. :)
hmm I just wondering, the look so hmm clean for undead. the skin and the clothes looks so smooth, maybe its just me.