Brass Monkey Working On New John Blanche Miniatures
January 23, 2024 by brennon
Brass Monkey Games' James Sherriff has announced that he is going to be working on a new series of 32mm miniatures based on the artwork of John Blanche who recently moved on from Games Workshop.
John Blanche - Witch Hunters // Brass Monkey
The artwork comes from John Blanche and the above preview is a first look at the initial miniature for the range. There will be more for these 'Witch Hunters' soon as part of a Kickstarter that will help fund the production of the first group of miniatures.
More details are coming soon about the project but I am all for this. James Sherriff does amazing sculpting and John Blanche is a legendary artist. So, combining the two seems like it will provide us with some gorgeous grimdark miniatures.
We'll be keeping an eye out for the project when it lands!
"There will be more for these 'Witch Hunters' soon as part of a Kickstarter that will help fund the production of the first group of miniatures..."
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uuuuuuuh… nice
The Sisters of Battle Canoness based on the iconic John Blanche cover was one of the very few new Citadel minis I bought since about 2000.
Looks great and a bonus Beastie Boys earworm. Nice!
Hmmm, gotta be honest, if that example is any indication the sculpts need less dumbing down in translation from the art. The point of doing a John Blanche team-up is to get that energy, the details can’t be blanded away like that.
Yeah she’s lost all the spindliness of the illustration.
Full disclaimer – I am not nor have I ever been a fan of John Blanche’s artwork.
That is all.
Ugh. CAD sculpts. Yuck. If they’d been characterful traditional sculpts in greenstuff I’d have been interested, but the clean lines of CAD just don’t work as a realisation of JB’s organic and characteristically messy drawing style. In my opinion, anyhow.
This is underwhelming, to say the least. Digital modeling like this completely misses the entire appeal of Blanche’s rough, gnarly, spindly, and thoroughly handmade designs.
Everything about this design is clean, crisp, chunky, and smooth—in short, the very opposite of what makes the original image special.