Yet Another Workbench Update

First: the baggage train!

No old grumbler worth their salt would go to battle without a baggage train. Naturally, our gnomes had to have carts of their own. Right now we have 2 carts and 3 goats. I plan to add 2 cart riders, as well as baggage to fill the carts. What else belongs in a proper baggage train? Let us know. 

Our first cart

another angle of the first cart

The second cart

Second cart from another angle

GOATS!

 Sappers!

Next, we realized our gnomes need sappers. What are our diminutive mountainous people without some digging tools?? Thankfully, we are working to fill this void. So far we have 4 poses, but we are aiming for 6-8 sappers. Is that enough? I am not sure it is. Let us know what sorts of sapper poses you'd like to see. 

Sappers with picks

Sappers with a shovel and wheelbarrow

 Halloween Monster Mash! 

coinciding with our release of skelegnomes, I am sculpting classic Halloween monsters in gnome form! We have a werewolf, vampire, mummy, and a frankenstein's monster. Hopefully, I will get these done on time. 

Gnome Werewolf howling, 22mm to the top of the snout. It's going to have a gnome hat and a typical gnome tunic.

Here's the frankenstein's monster. 15mm tall. He too will have a hat. 

Here's the mummy. Soon it'll have it's wrappings and big hat.  

Gnome vampire. 13mm tall.  He's got a sword, and is hiding behind his cloak.

Here's a cinematic pic of our soon to be released Skelegnomes. I'm very excited about them! Hopefully this link will take you to our skelegnome Kickstarter.

News from the workbench

The Swallows are done!
This is a big update from the workbench. Exciting news. The Swallows are finally done. They come in 4 poses. Below are pictures of 3 of the final poses. The final tricky part was figuring out what a bird saddle looks like. Most other fantasy lines just have their riders surfing on top of their birds or riding bareback. Gnomes are a more practical folk.

 Next, I also finished up the first 3 vignettes for our Medieval Marginalia project. You can see them, below, paired with their original context. I am super excited to see what this next project leads to. Please take our SURVEY to let us know which other marginalia you'd like to see come out of our project.

Here they all are tucked away in little boxes ready to ship to the UK for molding and casting. You can see more pics of the the Skele-Gnomes here.

It wouldn't be news from the workbench if it didn't show a new miniature in progress! Below is the fabled Stollenwurm or Tatzelwurm. A creature of Swiss folklore that had the front end of a cat, and the body of a snake! 

Happy Early Halloween from the Workbench

A look at our most recent side project: Undead Gnomes

Here's a picture for scale,
next to one of our gnomes and a citadel H. Elf

Gnomish Necromancer

 Thanks for taking a look at our undead gnomes let us know what you think in the comments.

The skellie gnomes are meant to be compatible for 28mm tabletop wargames and correspond to roughly mid to upper thigh relative to a human.

The we are aiming for a cute-fun-spooky aesthetic. Nothing too harrowing like the human dead, but humble and quaint in typical gnomish fashion. Furthermore, we were aiming to have them be clear cognates to our gnomish range so players could easily imagine their gnomish army rising from the dead.

Undead Gnome Leader with lantern

Undead Gnome leader from a different angle

The evil standard bearer, with sinister furrowed brows

Little undead hornblower

Another angle

Rank and file 1

Rank and file 1 dif. angle

Rank and file 2 - quivering little guy

Rank and file 3

Rank and file 4 - timidly holding his polearm

From the Work bench: Skellie Gnome Command

 Work is plodding along with the skellie gnomes.
 Today we have our first peek at the skellie gnome command. They are still works in progress; they'll all have halberds and the appropriate gnomely hats. Getting my phone to focus on the tiny buggers is tough.

Leader with Lantern

Musician with Horn

Sinister Standard Bearer

Quivering Minion

Work Bench: 3 rank and file undead gnomes done

Here are pics of our skellie gnomes. Next we will be adding a 4th rank and file model and 3 command models.

Remember to take our survey [no longer requires a google account] and let us know what sort of project you'd like to see Byron sculpt next for OS Miniatures.

Let us know what you think about the skellies in the comments below. Seriously, what do you think? Sorry about the photo quality; its hard to focus on tiny things.

Dark sinister Sculpts from the work Bench: Gnomish Necromaner and skellies

Gnomish Necromancer

Here's a glimpse of another gnomish project in the works. This project will be to produce a single regiment of gnomish undead. This legion of legend will include a necromancer, 4 rank and file halberd poses and a command.

The necromancer is nearly complete, but the skellies have obvious work that still has yet to be done. The Skellies are also gnomes and share the same diminutive height as other gnomes in our ranges.

Rank and File 1

Rank and file 2

rank and file 3

rank and file 3