I like to think of Ninjabread’s sister site Golem Painting Studio as being a cross between the ‘Eavy Metal Team and the A-team. They’re a band of specialists that exist as soldiers of fortune, helping people where they’re needed most, driving a van, defeating communists …
Ahem. Sorry. The chaps at Golem have been working with the amiable chaps at Mantic on their frankly sweet new Abyssal Dwarf Kings War Conclave, including this steampunky Lord that’s freaking chunky.
Sadly he’s not holding any adorable kittens.
They’ve also got a Half-breed Lord, which has got some really rich gold armour-plating. Looking at his left hand he could easily be converted to hold something. Like a vase, or trombone, or whatever took your fancy.
And third off, there’s also this Orc 3-up, which is a forerunner of the new Orc range. Again, as we’ve seen with Mantic’s Elves and Dwarves there’s very much their own style and vibe going on here. This Orc’s got much more in common with the Rackham (may the dice gods take pity on their soul) Orcs of old than the ginormo-chinned standard Workshop fare.
I’m still not sure how I feel about that half-breed. He looks like he should swivel about the midriff.
Surely that just puts you in mind of Daleks, and that’s a good thing?
I think the half-breed is doing one of the more dramatic Shakespearean speeches. Richard III maybe?
I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish’d, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
I quite like that orc look. Fresh, but not too fresh – it’s a bit Gorkamorka plastics.
That’s something I’d not picked up on. Shame the direction those initial Gorkamorka plastics were going in got derailed by the Brian Nelsoneque chinny squat Orks.
Could someone please explain the concept of steam punk to me? Everytime i hear that phrase I think of a very angry Johnny Rotten, not a dwarf lord wiedling a hammer.
The orc looks good though.
Well, to explain steampunk you need to first explain cyberpunk. And that’s a 1980s subgenre of scifi where you had authors like William Gibson creating a high-tech world with low life characters. Like Neuromancer. Gritty sci-fi about people eeking out a living on the bottom rungs of society.
Then steampunk came along with a similar vibe, but the cyber element replaced with steampower and clockwork. Since then it’s been derailed to mean anachronistic sci-fi, and anything that’s sci-fi but not set in the future.
Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown.