Go Scouting With The Fimbul Toughborns Of Godslayer
January 1, 2016 by brennon
Some new Nordgaard models are coming to the world of Godslayer from Megalith Games this year and the team have got their first studio painted miniatures ready to show off for the Fimbul Toughborns. This is a group of surly Dwarven rangers with some heavy duty crossbows...
From the images you can see that they are a set of scouting rangers who will be heading along ahead of the main group to see what lies ahead. I imagine they are swifter than the average Dwarf and can clamber over terrain when required with ease.
Close up the models are looking fantastic and I think they've done an amazing job on the armour underneath their cloaks. The cloaks themselves look great and the choice of green was a good one. Hats off to the painter as well for working on the intricate detail around the edges of the cloaks too.
Will you be adding them to your Nordgaard faction or maybe even picking them up to use in other games?
Drop your thoughts in the comments below.
"I imagine they are swifter than the average Dwarf and can clamber over terrain when required with ease..."
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Very nice.
The poses, sculpts, and paint jobs really come together. I like those little double crossbows.
These are really good I’ll have to check their stuff out more.
Promising, hope they go over the entire range with improvements
I like these guys. More good stuff like this please.
That’s a rather cool group of Dwarves.
Good to see the game ain’t dead
a great looking group of dwarfs.
I don’t know anything about the game, or what other factions there are, and I’m not normally a dwarf fan, but I think these are really, really nice models. Very well painted and based too.
The hands are just horrible… but I love the concept !
They’re a bit large (aka ‘heroic’), but they don’t look anything unusual to me. The one with the red beard has the most awkward looking hands I think, but the other two we can see in close ups look no worse than normal fantasy sculpts.
I suppose if you’ve spent years being frustrated by painting poorly sculpted or unrealistically proportioned hands you’re more likely to notice these things!
I was thinking mainly of the redhead you were speaking of, and his black haired friend (top left on the group photo). His left hand is just weird. They’re akin to cartoony fantasy sculpts of the nineties… It’s very rare that I find that sort of sculpt nowadays outside of the metal ranges that cultivate this sort of look. Even GW doesn’t do it anymore.
I see what you mean (now I look at the black haired one closer). Interesting that you’ve found the quality of sculpts across various ranges has improved. I guess perhaps a lot of the miniatures I see are either very different in style, and so ‘big hands’ would be so obviously wrong for the genre that they don’t get made, or that the miniatures I see are just pretty old sculpts!
I wouldn’t say “improved” in every way… but yes, generally. Nowadays, the rank and file is mostly done with 3D sculpting or with better tools and putties than just green stuff, and people are able (and willing) to sculpt extended fingers in more natural positions. Stylistically and esthetically, these miniatures fit their genre to a T, ad I even understand why they’d go for stubby fingers (they’re dwarves after all). But they could have made an effort to, say, have this guy hold another item instead of having a weird open hand… Oh well. I’m grateful for the crossbows, and… Read more »
These look really nice. I would use them in Kings of War or Frostgrave.
I still prefer aow pathfinders, but damn, those are better sculpts.