Kickstarter Review - Curse of the Hollow Hills

I've been hitting the Kickstarters hard lately, actually spending more money on funding the creation of miniatures than buying actual miniatures. Over the past two weeks I've either pledged, or completed the surveys for four different Kickstarters. I thought I'd list them here.

First up, the Curse of the Hollow Hills by the Greek company Crippled God Foundry. They had been plugging this for weeks around the various Facebook pages, sub-reddits and forums. So I was super ready after seeing the preview renders. In fact, I was backer number one. (We're #1!)

I backed at the Dreadful Monstrosities level - although I pledged more as I knew I was going get a bunch more through add-ons.

Here's my haul:

The Foul Abomination I really have no need of. There are a lot of the "fat zombie ogres" around and I find them utterly unappealing. Although the skeletal animal things are interesting. Of course, had to go for the Undying Wyrm. Yet another drake for my collection. However the sculpt is really nice. And the Death Watcher - another in the recent explosion of undead beholders.

One Everliving sorceress liche

One undead Alhun liche. Perfect for my Chaos: Legion of Hell. (Alhun is the non-lawsuit way to say "Mind Flayer")

A bunch of skeletal infantry.

A large skeletal rat man for my Skaven contingent.

And finally, a zombie hill giant. Not skeletal to be sure, but a good addition to a barbarian or Dark Ages army.

WIP: Giant Skeleton Hoplite

Skeleton Warrior
Vitruvian Hacks
2016

Not a miniature per se, but a articulable action figure. When painted correctly, it does really nicely as a giant hoplite in my undead Classical Greek army.

Primed with Army Painter Rotting Flesh

Washed with Agrax Earthshade.

With armor, primed black, based with Scale Color Decayed Metal (bronze) and washed with GW's Nihilakh Oxide.

WIP: Kronos

Reaper, The Collector
Grim Reaper Casting
Nasteez #1036

I've repurposed this guy as the Titan Kronos for the undead Classical Greek army, to use either as a commander or as a creature.

It's a rough sculpt, befitting GRC from the early 90's. But he does have the essential kit: a scythe (with which he castrated his father, the sky (literally) Uranus; an hourglass, as the god of time and a crown (king of the Titans).

I'm trying to find a way to paint glass.

Recent Purchase - KT-009 Skeleton Warrior Iron Rust Edition

In the mail, all the way from the land of atomic breathing lizards and giant flying reptiles, the Skeleton Warrior (Iron Rust Edition).


Again, not a miniature per se, but a display model that the Japanese love so much. At about 150mm tall, however, he's a great addition to my undead Sengoku Period army as a Gashadokuro - a skeletal giant from Japanese mythology. With some creative basing work, he should be looking like he could take on Godzilla himself!

Recent Purchase - Boss Fight Vitruvian H.A.C.K.S.

Just recently purchased two figures from the Boss Fight Vitruvian H.A.C.K.S. line. One Skeleton Warrior and one combination set of a standard Skeleton and Aged Steel Accessory Pack B.



These aren't miniatures per se, but rather a line of highly customizable action figures. But at just under 100mm tall, with a little painting, they will make excellent giant hoplites to fight in my undead Classical Greek army. My skeletal titan from Ral Partha needed some company and I stumbled across these while doing a google image search for undead hoplites. (I always like to browse google images to see when something new pops up). So now I have two units of giants - one of giant Cyclopes and one of human hoplites. More flexibility!



These figures are highly customizable and I love the armour available, especially the Athenian helm with the transverse crest. It will look excellent painted in bronze and washed to achieve the verdigris effect.



They Might Be Giants

Fe Fie Fo Fum... Honestly, what would a fantasy army be without a few giants stomping around? Giants are present in just about every human mythology. Of course, I have so many that at this point I could simply field an entire brigade of giants. Something I'd like to do some day. But generally, they're loaned out as assets to other armies.

Giant Grim Reaper Lord - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1001.  I had a few giants from Grenadier and Ral Partha hanging around, but GRC gave me a whole line to play with. Unfortunately, this first sculpt from GRC is pretty bad. It's the standard grim reaper w/scythe and pointing - but it's sculpting is pretty poor. Basically it's a big hunk of metal. It would later be resculpted into the much nicer Grim Reaper Lord #1055.

Huge Undead Warrior - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1014. GRC is still trying to get its sculpting legs on this one. But a serviceable, average giant.

Reaper, The Collector - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1036. Another grim reaper pose. I like the hourglass.

Undead Giant with Swords - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1046

Huge Undead Buccaneer - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1054. Kind of a specialty piece. He's usually loaned out to my undead pirate horde.

Grim Reaper Lord - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1055. The much nicer resculpt of the original Grim Reaper Lord.

Undead Giant with 2X Sword - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1118

Krom, The Mummy Lord - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1153. Meh. He's no Thog...

Fallen Undead Giant - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1051. Also a kind of specialty piece. I always presumed I'd use him as a giant casualty marker.

Undead Giant w/Axe - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1175. Don't mess with him or his battle axe.

Thog, The Mummy Lord - Grenadier Fantasy Lords #512. Kind of lame. Kind of classic.

Lord of Death - Grenadier Fantasy Lords #25. A lot of giants have this grim reaper theme.

Death Giant - Grenadier Fantasy Lords #150. Very nice sculpt by John Dennett.

Undead Giant - Mirliton UD50. Redo of an old Grenadier Fantasy Warriors line miniature. It looks like he ripped the arm of a dragon and beat him with it!

Bone Giant - GW Tomb Kings. Yep. $57 for this.

Liche Lord - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1015. All right! Magic users for the giant brigade. He must be a U. of Texas fan because he's throwing the "Hook 'em Horns" sign.

Liche Giant - Grenadier Fantasy Lords 500 Series #534. This one is actually pretty rare. He only showed up in a Grenadier catalog update and then vanished. A good grab from ebay.

Giant Liche Lord - Grenadier Fantasy Lords #001. The Mack Daddy of giant undead mages.

Classic Nagash - Games Workshop. This cartoonish sculpt by Gary Morley has the distinction of being pretty much the worst miniature sculpt in history. Surely not fitting of Nagash the Supreme Lord of the Undead.

Nagash the Supreme Lord of the Undead - Games Workshop. Now this is more like it. Plastic, but today's plastic miniatures are far superior to the metal of old.

Human in a Can - Mythic Articulations. Giant sized articulable human skeleton.

Skeletal Giant - Ral Partha 11-496. Very detailed sculpt with a non grim reaper scythe wielding giant.

Skeletal Titan - Ral Partha 02-424. Giant skeleton hoplite. Pretty much a permanent asset in my ancient Greek army.

Giant Skeleton - Ral Partha 02-940. A venerable classic. Came with choice of mace or sword!

Grim Reaper and Tombstone - Reaper SKU1414 by Bob Olley. A really nicely detailed 72mm set. But I've never like Olley's sculpting.

Giant Skeleton - Reaper #02742 by Jason Wiebe

Colossal Skeleton - Reaper #02911 by Jason Wiebe

Undead Cylcops - Grim Reaper Casting Nasteez #1018 by Jim Bove. Loaned out as an asset to my ancient Greek brigade.

Undead Giant Cyclops - Grenadier Fantasy Lords #11. Classic giant figure also loaned out to the ancient Greek Brigade.

Skeletal Cyclops Giant - Iron Wind Metals DF-744. Originally part of the Ral Partha Lords of the Dead boxed set, later selected out as an individual piece by Iron Wind.

Skeletal Cyclops - Wizkids Savage Encounters #33. Meh.

Grim Reaper - Grenadier Colossal Lords #3303. More than a giant... a TITAN. In Piquet terms this is a six slot monster (instead of the regular four I use for giants normally)

Death Giant of the Undead Legion - Grenadier Masterpiece Editions #5504 by Andrew Chernak. The one, the only, the original skeletal titan!

 Verlinden #1338 150mm Skeleton Warrior

 Verlinden #1526 150mm Army of the Dead Foot Soldier

Verlinden #1437 150mm Ghost of the Viking