ZeroTwentythree":2f3ety3h said:
Also dug out my bin & might paint up the original lead nobles/fianna as well.
Original Fimir are a rare treat, shall enjoy to see them if you choose to do that.
But right now I'm painting some of the awful new plastic minotaurs for someone and will need to cleanse my painting soul with some marshy goodness by next week.
I think the official GW paintjob really tripped them up on a couple of points. More than anything on the whole model I couldn't stop staring at their exaggerated shin muscles. They haunted my dreams! The sculpted muscle itself is more reasonable (on the shin that is, the rest is... ample) it's the paintjob that did them in on the thing that bothered me the most on those poor, poor minotaurs.
Having said that, boy does the rest of the sculpt have issues in my opinion. Heads like English bull terriers, feet like seal flippers, a very flat footed gait. For a creature known for its bull head, hooves (or feet is fine, just no flippers please) and a frenzied personality those design choices really hurt the poor old minotaur in my book. Looking at them again I notice they have massive lower canines, no upper canines. The kind of stuff you see on orcs and maybe daemons. These fellows just keep on giving.
I have seen much nicer conversions of them, for examples as testosteron laden — if that's your cup of tea — ogres, they work a whole lot better. Work around the head and the feet and the models can have much more potential so I like to think there's hope for them.
I bet you they could even do a good fimir, if you wanted a huge muscled one! Sorry for going off on a tangent on those minos but see how I tied it back in with Month of Marsh?