Hi everyone :)
Next up in my series looking at small mini creators and how we can help them is Oathsworn Miniatures. More specifically I'll be looking at miniatures from their Burrows and Badgers Range. As ever, I'm not getting paid to write this content, and have paid for the minis. Pictures of the originals are taken from the kickstarter page (here) and thus belong to them and not me.
Burrows and Badgers itself is a tabletop skirmish game with rules by Osprey games. You can find more about the game here. Oathsworn produce the miniatures for the game and they already have a good selection here. The Kickstarter I backed was for an expansion to this range and I picked up the four minis pictured above (and looked at in more detail below.
Here you can see Tomas Crumm 'Town Watch-Mouse' (no town is complete without one!) and Captain Bertha Voss ' Shrew Heroine'. All I have done in these photos is remove mold lines, glue to the base and spray prime. The painted mini in the photo above is an example from the Kickstarter and not painted by me.
The miniatures are undoubtedly very cute but I think that they retain a level of grounding in a traditional fantasy world which makes them more than 'just' cute. Although not the system they are designed for I think that these minis would fit into a high fantasy D&D or pathfinder game, or look great in a display cabinet.
Here you can see the remaining two miniatures I received: a mole which was a free stretch goal, and a mist ghast (an undead mouse). I've put them alongside a close up of one of the minis before it was cleaned up and primed. The miniatures shipped with the bases in the photos.
You can see from the photo that there is a little bit of extra metal along the mold lines and there was some light flashing in a few places. This is absolutely standard with miniatures like this and is easily cleaned using a craft knife and some files, I just wanted to show how much there was. You can actually see it a little bit on the right arm of the mole above (left of photo) which I clearly hadn't completely removed before priming! There were larger chunks of metal underneath the base where, I assume, they had been detached from the molding sprue, but these are no problem at all to remove because they don't have to look pretty once you've done it because they can't be seen. I was a little surprised that they shipped with slotted bases when they have flat bottoms, and this required a little filling work, but nothing too bad.
So here you can see the finished mole. I haven't had a chance to paint any of the others just yet because I've been ill, but I think that this gives you a good indication of what the minis look like once they have paint on them.
I was really impressed with the level of detail on the miniatures. Where a miniature has too little detail sculpted in it can be really hard work to bring it to life with paint. I had no such trouble with this mini, and it really was fun to paint. The fur has a lovely texture to it which gives you lots of options when painting it. I enjoyed doing a little bit of object source lighting with the candle on the hat as well. These are the first minis I've ordered from Oathsworn Miniatures and I've been really impressed. The ones I haven't painted yet have just as much detail and character to them as the mole does, and I think that they will look great on the tabletop. The online shop for Oathwsworn is still open (here) and they are still shipping, so if you need some goodies and want to support a small business head over there and check them out. As ever, I hope that you are staying healthy and finding some hobby time to take your mind off everything going on. Goblin Squire :)
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