Ral Partha Legacy/Thunderbolt Mountain Squidmen with Goo Guns, sculpted by Tom Meier

[72moonglum]

Hello and good evening all you Reaper Maniacs!

 

So here's a few miniatures I've been meaning to paint but just haven't gotten around to them, you know, too many minis, not enough time.  But I did finally get around to these, which are pretty fun,  Squidmen with Goo Guns, sculpted by Tom Meier when he had the company Thunderbolt Mountains.  These are miniatures that his son had designed.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

and here they are as the actual group/blister pack they come in:

 

 

 

Anyhoos, quite enjoyable and reasonably simple to paint, hope you guys and gals all enjoy!

 

[KruleBear]

Very nice. The shading on the white pants is truly nice. 

[Rigel]

You hear the phrase "a face only a mother could love" from time to time, but these walleyed privateers? Who WOULDN'T want to give these squamous denticulate bastards a hug and a ham sandwich?! No heart could be so hardened, no soul so bitter!

 

Beautiful work here. 

[Carnacki the Ghost Finder]

Lovely, subtle work.  What great figures. 

 

But "squidmen"?

[72moonglum]

9 hours ago, KruleBear said:

Very nice. The shading on the white pants is truly nice. 

Thank you KruleBear! I was wondering if white wasn't too boring, but I had to choose a color and wanted to do three different colors of pants.

3 hours ago, Rigel said:

You hear the phrase "a face only a mother could love" from time to time, but these walleyed privateers? Who WOULDN'T want to give these squamous denticulate bastards a hug and a ham sandwich?! No heart could be so hardened, no soul so bitter!

 

Beautiful work here. 

Thank you Rigel, I'm sure their mom (moms, who's to say they're related?) are very proud of them!

29 minutes ago, Carnacki the Ghost Finder said:

Lovely, subtle work.  What great figures. 

 

But "squidmen"?

Yeah, who knows how they got that name?  They are named by Tom Meier's kid Theo when he was young.  

[Glitterwolf]

Great job, strange that they called them squidmen, being hammerhead sharks.

[Iridil]

Love the sharky skin! It looks like sharkskin feels.... such quirky sculpts!

[Chaoswolf]

They look great!

 

[72moonglum]

23 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Great job, strange that they called them squidmen, being hammerhead sharks.

Yeah, not sure the logic on that, other than that they were named by a child.

20 hours ago, Iridil said:

Love the sharky skin! It looks like sharkskin feels.... such quirky sculpts!

Yeah, they were great fun to paint!

14 hours ago, Chaoswolf said:

They look great!

 

Thanks Chaoswolf!

[Grand Slam]

Really cool models. The blending/highlighting on the pants is amazing. Great work on the eyes, too.

[72moonglum]

2 hours ago, Grand Slam said:

Really cool models. The blending/highlighting on the pants is amazing. Great work on the eyes, too.

Thanks Grand Slam! I’ve never painted such oddly far-set eyes before. When you look at them straight on, you don’t even see their eyes!

[Grizmar]

These guys are hilarious, great work painting, but this sculpt has me in giggles! How are they expected to aim with eyes 3 feet apart and facing opposite directions? I love the dumb open mouth look of the first two, I imagine the 3rd would have it too if not for the knife in his mouth

[72moonglum]

2 hours ago, Grizmar said:

These guys are hilarious, great work painting, but this sculpt has me in giggles! How are they expected to aim with eyes 3 feet apart and facing opposite directions? I love the dumb open mouth look of the first two, I imagine the 3rd would have it too if not for the knife in his mouth

Yeah, these are some pretty fun figures!  Designed by a little kid and brought to life by his sculptor dad!  I think that's why they have the goo guns, which I imagine instead of a small/large bullet spray out a pretty wide arc of goo to somehow disable their opponents, making the aiming not as precise or critical.