Creature Caster’s Kickstarter Unleashes More Monsters!
May 2, 2014 by brennon
The Creature Caster Kickstarter is going very well indeed and with just nine days left to go they are still raking in the funds to make more creepy monsters...
First up we have a better look at the astoundingly awesome Treewalker. With the Wood Elves on the way from Games Workshop this weekend and next you might have a case for pairing this wondrous creation with one of their plastic models. She certainly looks like a queen of the forest.
The world of Demons and Angels is also getting a look in and while the Plague Angel isn't quite the angel you might have thought you'd be seeing it's still a brilliant looking model. I love the Maggot Demon too who looks like he is going to be spawning oozing minions from his back. I can't wait to see that one painted up.
Rounding things off we have another epic looking Dragon. I have, as I mentioned before, a penchant for Dragons at the moment and this one is epic in the extreme. I reckon any Vampire would be very happy to be riding on the back of one of these and the fact it's dead gives you plenty of reasons to paint this in interesting ways.
Have you pledged for any of these monsters?
Fantastic figures, all. And the size of them means they will dominate a battlefield. Good value, considering their size, and resin to boot. For those of you who didn’t bother before, compare the Treewalker with GW’s compost tree thing. May just be personal preference, but I would far sooner have this one as the focal point of my army.
“Compost tree thing?” Not that familiar with GW, so I honestly don’t know if that’s a joke or not. Doesn’t sound very appealing, however. 🙂
The Treewalker is definitely amazing. She’s supernatural without being silly, sensual without being slutty, and I’m sorry … five and a half inches high? A miniature that large MUST have an incredible amount of detail and allow a painter to really do some epic work. I just hope all those tree branches aren’t too easy to bend or break.
These are stunning sculpts and they would be incredible to paint. However, I’m not entirely sold on these as playing pieces as they seem to suffer from the same problem that a lot of giant sculpts do; they don’t look grounded. What I mean is, it is very difficult to make a 5″ tall figure look like its a giant in 28mm scale and it can often end up looking like it’s just a larger scale miniature. I’m not convinced that they’ve pulled that difficult trick off with some of these.
Perhaps something around the base to ‘scale’ them, like battlefield debris? Maybe shields, broken weapons? Broken up gabions? As long as it isn’t skulls.
Finally a miniature to help sate my Elder Scrolls inspired Gyno-Dryad fetish.