Caesar Miniatures 1/72 Sorceress and Bodyguards

[Rob Dean]

I have been spending Minivember catching up a bit on my  Portable Fantasy Campaign project.  I’ve been chipping away at it as a campaign for five armies since early 2017, and it builds on a 2014 initiative to put a travel fantasy game in a box that will fit under an airline seat, so that I can take it to a convention regardless of my mode of travel. Anyway, I decided to have a little fun and paint an unplanned stand of figures as a reward for finally getting the first couple of stands of orcs for the orcish army finished. All three figures here are from the Caesar Miniatures Fantasy Adventurers box set, originally issued around 2010.  As a result of early imprinting by the Airfix company, I have always had a fondness for the 1/72 plastic figures, and I bought a bunch of the initial release when Caesar started making fantasy figures.  Unfortunately, they have been rather intermittantly in production, and don’t seem to be currently available.  Even finding a box floating in the Bay of Ease would be a small miracle at the moment.  But, I do have a bunch.*

 

 

As you can see by Sir Forescale shimmed up so that his feet are about level with the feet of the sorceress et al., these women are pretty small by Reaper standards. (This does make finishing 30 in a month a somewhat easier task, counterbalanced a little by the level of brush control needed to work at that level.

 

 

For whatever reason, Caesar packed a lot more of these sorceresses in their boxes than the second, left-hand-staff, figure. (See PSR article linked above.) We have played around in various ways with the large spheroid on the top of her staff.  My sons have painted it into a skull; I sliced one off and added a rustic broom using some two-part epoxy, etc.  For this one, I tried going with a plant theme, so I halved the staff head, painted a flower on top, and leaves on the sides.  The flower theme is then echoed in her bodice embroidery and the bodyguard’s shield.

 

 

That all seemed like a good excuse to use a flowering tuft on the base.

 

Back to painting orcs…

 

 

 

 

[Chaoswolf]

Very nice work on the ladies!

 

 

[Glitterwolf]

Looks great.

[Iridil]

Very nice work on such small figures - charming!

[jdizzy001]

I’ve been searching for these folks for years. They look great!

[72moonglum]

These are such cool figure Rob and petite! I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this fantasy line. 

[Rob Dean]

I had to stop and reconstruct where/how I ran across them, so I called my son to check his recollections.  The short version is that we were working on a Bronze Age Egyptian/Hittite project using Caesar figures when Caesar released the fantasy figures, so we were on the mailing list for new release announcements from the 1/72 dealers and so forth.  According to his recollection, he had started on a dinosaur-rider army (for Hordes of the Things, so dozens of figures at most) about then, so the availability of those figures (Elves, generic human adventurers, orcs, goblins, and undead) pushed us over the edge into building some fatnasy armies. I built out from some Airfix Robin Hood and Sheriff of Nottingham figures I’d out together for a kids’ game:

 

 http://sharpbrush.blogspot.com/2011/09/hasty-hordes-army.html

 

It looks, in general, like we were stuck into this in 2011, and it’s been constantly in the background since then.

 

http://junkyardplanet.blogspot.com/2011/09/odds-and-ends.html

 

 

[jdizzy001]

Not gonna lie, if i were to start again, I would consider 1/72 scale. I’m just in too deep to start again. They look great!

[Rob Dean]

47 minutes ago, jdizzy001 said:

Not gonna lie, if i were to start again, I would consider 1/72 scale. I’m just in too deep to start again. They look great!

 

Well, far be it from me to urge you into something that you will regret later, , but I have this as a side project, playing on the small size to do something more compact that my main fatnasy project.  So even if you are bought into Bones (let’s say), you might find there is a niche.  In mine, whether using the individuals or the Hordes of the Things bases, it goes on the 3x3 ground cloth.

 

 

 

 

 

But that’s wandering a bit from the original topic… 😁