Conan & Savage Beasts Painted Up For Monolith’s Adventure Game
June 19, 2015 by brennon
Monolith have had some more models painted up by the artist Martin Grandbarbe showing off what these heroes and monsters are going to look like from Conan once you've put a brush and some paint onto them. It also helps to be a master painter of course...
Heroes
First up we have Conan and Thak who have been painted up by the aforementioned Grandbarbe. While backers are still waiting for things to come together for Conan as a whole it's nice to see that the models can be taken to a place where they're nicely finished and well detailed.
I'm not a great fan of (what I'd consider) strange 'glow' effect on the models muscles and such even though they are very accomplished in their execution otherwise. I guess the style is there to ape (haha) the look of some of the old school Conan artwork.
Monsters
As well as the heroes there are some beasts for them to fight which you can see below. I like these models a lot!
The models are both very bat-like although the first one is most definitely looking like the demon we spied when the campaign was first kicking off a few years ago. The second creature is certainly even more impressive although onec again I think it might get a little lost among the highlighting?
But, I'm certainly no painting legend so this might be a great technique! Let me know what you think below.
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"...it's nice to see that the models can be taken to a place where they're nicely finished and well detailed"
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Those do look really good.
It is a painting style but nonetheless the artist has a lot of talent. Th minis themselves look fabulous. I am looking forward to getting my hands on the game and the minis when the pledges are delivered – I am one of those who would wait longer for top quality rather than see any rush, but it would be nice to have this by Christmas (Crom willing 🙂 )
I agree with dorthonion completely. Jamie’s last update said the PM should go up in a couple of weeks, so fingers crossed 😀 .
For anyone who is interested a bit more of an explanation. As far as I can tell, the top figure is Conan, the next is the degenerate man-ape that Conan confronts in the short story ‘The Rogues in the House’ (which was also taken and used for a scene in Toth Amon’s castle in the 1984 film Conan the Destroyer). The third is likely to alien pseudo god monster that kills Belit, Conan’s first real love interest in the story ‘The Queen of the Black Coast’. As the bat-like horror confronts Conan on an ancient ruined pyramid the ghost of… Read more »