More Lorún Pictures...

 

Comprising (from top to bottom): Law Speaker and apprentice; drummer; three skyclad ritual dancers; girl with animal sacrifice; totem bearer; hag (Shamaness) and Princess.

All sculpted by David Soderquist of Bronze Age Miniatures.

Lorún Lawspeaker and Princess - Finished figures....

Sculpted by David Soderquist, of Bronze Age Miniatures

...or at least, almost complete! They are not getting bases, but rather pegs on their feet to allow for mounting on a variety of bases. David is just finishing off the drum and will hopefully have pictures for me of the whole set a little later this week. Yay! :-)

Finished Greens are like Christmas presents! :-) 

The Legion of the Sapphire Kirtle, 12th Imperial Light Infantry

Sculpted by John Winter

This legion of javelin-armed skirmisher girls has 12 cohorts, giving a total strength 4,800 women. They are armed with javelins, light axes and have oval shields for protection. Two cohorts (800 women) are also trained as slingers. The legion is sponsored by the Temple of Dilinála; its Kérdu, or general, is the Priestess Dijáya hiQurrulúma. It is normally based at Tu’únmra, a small city in western Tsolyánu and during the war with Yán Kór it served in the Western Theatre. 

Painted Ahoggyá

Ahoggyá, painted by Akársh

Akársh posted these up on the Tékumel wargaming yahoo group: Tekumel-Minis-War. He has painted them in colours appropriate for those serving as mercenaries in the armies of Yán Kór, hence the green lacquered weapons and armour.

Lorún - WIP sculpts

Size comparison - EPG trooper with Lorún

Lorún Ritual Dancers

Here are some WIP sculpts of Lorún Ritual Set along with a Lorún Princess from the Tribal Command Set. Sculpted by David Soderquist of Bronze Age Miniatures. The Princess is based upon original art by MAR Barker. The Ritual Set comprises a Shamaness (Hag), a girl sacrificing a Hmá (a sheep-like animal), a totem bearer (holding a Sérudla skull - the Sérudla is a vaguely dragon-like creature), a male drummer and three skyclad ritual dancers. The Lorún are a tall race, as shown by the size comparison with our trooper from the Legion of Ever-Present Glory. All are "28mm scale" - that is 28mm from bottom of foot to eye being taken to represent the height of the average Tsolyáni male, or 5'10" tall. N'lüss giant men are taller still, reaching heights of 7'6", which is about 42mm (to top of head) in scale with the rest of our figures.

The Chlén Beast...

Sculpted by Gerald Dagel

Great News! I just found the Chlén Beast master model I was originally sent so long by Chirine. I just have to do a minor repair to one of its horns and then I can send it off to Jeff at JTFM for molding and casting.

IIRC, the cost per casting was estimated at $13-14, not including the mold costs. Our prices will be fair but have to take that into account. Now, that was a couple of years ago - material prices may have changed but Jeff may also have refined his methods. Part of the cost comes just from the size of the thing, but the multiple parts also bring it up.

It may be he can do a single piece casting. I mean he does things like casting the interiors of the crew compartments of his WW2 German half-tracks, and stuff like micro-thin handrails on tanks which are cast on the tank, and not as separate pieces! So a single-piece casting might be "old hat" to him.

The next thing to do will be getting wagons and crews/loads to go with the beasties. Probably - thinking out loud now - what we need to do is get a couple done and then get some kind of a harness sculpted on and then make production molds of that....

Suggestions and Comments welcome, as always!

Best Regards,

Howard Fielding

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