Tuesday 29 April 2014

Old Runequest Miniatures: Scorpion Men (Beastmen conversions)

Hello all,
Along with the old Runequest Dragonnewts (pictured here), I also got some fun looking Scorpion men. I initially bought them because I thought they were variants of the old "Runequest Box 4: Beast Men - Scorpion Man with Club". 
Unfortunately, they were not and are two pretty crappy conversions, or rather destructions of the originals - the clubs ares gone, shields have been inexpertly added, and bothhave received (even more inexpertly) a new beastman head. 
I've been working on them with green stuff to hide most of the old conversion and have added a little something special to them to make them more Slaaneshi - I think they have, under the circumstances, turned out just fine :-):

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Mr. Scorpion Man #1
The distinct claws were bought - after much searching - from an online bitz-shop.

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Mr. Scorpion Man #1
The purple should tie them in with the Slaaneshi warband nicely, but I guess that the browns could have used a bit more variation.

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Mr. Scorpion Man #1

The original scorpion men looks like this:


 (picture from http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/File:RQ4-10.jpg)


The beastman head used for Mr. Scorpion Man #2 (below) may have been a skeletal head originally - not sure. If anyone can identify where these heads originate I would appreciate the information.

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Mr. Scorpion Man #2
I've left this scorpio's shield blank until inspiration strike me for a motif.

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Mr. Scorpion Man #2
Considering the circumstances I think they look effective, and - if you don't look too closely - they look nice :-).

All the best,
Kasper

6 comments:

  1. Interesting figures and great photography!

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    1. Again, thanks DeanM - slowly getting to a decent level of photographing skills.

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  2. Great job on these and the other members of the warband. Look what happens when I fall behind on reading your blog, you are twisted to the powers of Chaos.

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    1. Hi Sean and thanks. Also I'm not so much twisted as dancing on a razor sharp edge of sanity... :-).

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