Old School Shadowrun Cybertroll -- Lord Torgo from Ral Partha

[Pingo]

This is an old-school heavy-metal style Shadowrun gang member cyber troll, Lord Torgo, formerly of Ral Partha, now sold by Iron Wind Metals, both with the stock number 20-590.

 

Which is to say, he's a cyberpunk miniature from a 1990s vision of the near future full of dystopian tech and magical mutations.  He's a huge mutant with horns.

 

Discussion of the figure to follow after the pictures (which now that I see them large are looking in need of some improvement).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did some playing around with texture and color and light effects here.  The figure had some interesting details and surface types.  Like all old Ral Partha figures, it has an integral base, in this case sculpted paving with some litter already on it.

 

This figure was a pain and a half to assemble.  The supplied chain was too short* and needed to be replaced (but I thought a real chain looked better anyway).  The axe on his back is ridiculously top-heavy and attaches at two small points well below the center of balance; I added a wire "staple" to help hold it on.

 

I was not able to find any other images of this figure painted online.  It might be because It might be because he is so absurdly over the top heavy metal.  Or it could be because he is rather fiddly, fragile, and difficult to assemble.  The figure is front-heavy and on a narrow base, making it prone to tipping forward, and it hunches forward so it's hard to see the figure properly from a normal gamer's above the table perspective.

 

A WIP thread, covering this figure, Reaper's "50287: Caine, Cyber-Troll," and several other old Ral Partha Shadowrun figures, can be found here.

 

There are other Show Off  threads for the companion piece Shadowrunners (mostly trolls): Reaper's own Caine, Cyber-Troll, a Troll woman from Wolfram's Gang, a Wolfram's gang troll with tattoos, an Oni bouncer, a cyber-troll in reflective armor, and an ork woman street samurai.

 

 

 

 

 

*This was cached on Google but seems to have vanished in the meantime, which is why I copied it rather than linking.  I'm not the only one who found the chain too short:

Edited January 1, 2015 by Pingo

[72moonglum]

Wow, very. Nice job done on this one! I've seen a little bit of the WIP and am looking forward to seeing the rest of the Shadowrun ones you've been working on!

[Pingo]

Wow, very. Nice job done on this one! I've seen a little bit of the WIP and am looking forward to seeing the rest of the Shadowrun ones you've been working on!

Thanks! I hope to get the rest of the finished ones up soon.

 

Meanwhile, comments on this one and its companion piece, Reaper's Caine, Cyber-Troll, would be welcomed, if anyone has anything to say.

[Dontfear]

only thing I would add is paint the chain.  While it looks great, it lacks internal consistency with the rest of the sculpt.  its awesome though.

[smokingwreckage]

I think that, especially on older models, you could benefit from some dark lining to help crisp up the edges. Your work with colour is great, and lighting even more so, but there's a few just plain miniature painting tricks that might... just... I'm not even sure how to say it. There are particular places on this mini where tighter control and specific techniques would help showcase what you already do so well. It just depends whether you want to do that extra bit of fiddling.

 

For example, the rope-braid to his left arm has some bleed-over of the yellow. A swipe of Army Painter Ink, Strong Tone, would instantly fix that. Around his jawline and under his chin could also use a dab (a cooler almost-black with translucent edges to push the viewer's eye away from the slightly clumsy sculpt).

 

That said, your work is great, and I love watching it unfold!

[Guindyloo]

Beautiful as always, Pingo!   That teal on the ax is speaking my language

[Bruunwald]

Now yer' talkin'.

 

He looks like what might happen if Snake Pliskin and Randall Flagg had a lovechild.

 

Awesome.

[Limey72]

I like this and it is indeed a pain when assembly is off due to bad or MIS casting;(

[Pingo]

Oh it was well enough cast, hardly any mold lines.

 

I just think the concept wasn't particularly well thought-out, between the poorly balanced figure, the plethora of detail pointed basically at the table where players can't see it, and that triply dratted top-heavy axe (I think it fell off four times and it took me a week to glue it on permanently).

 

I really wouldn't recommend this figure unless one has a soft spot for campy old Shadowrun / heavy metal stuff.

[Lidless Eye]

He is delightfully over the top. Great work.

[Baphomet69]

I really wouldn't recommend this figure unless one has a soft spot for campy old Shadowrun / heavy metal stuff.

SOLD! On both counts! ;)