TAG Industries Chimps and Apes in Progress

Just an update on the Chimps and Apes featured in my last post.  In addition to basing the figures, I sculpted a club for the ape with a rock, and added a top half of a spear onto the chimp with a broken weapon.  I think the club will look good, the shaft of the spear might have gotten a little thicker than it should have been.

I then primed them in brown to make them a little faster to paint up.  Expect to see more soon.

TAG Industries Chimps and Apes

Unfortunately, I don't have any painted minis to show this month, but I thought I would share what I'm painting next: some apes and chimps from TAG Industries' Children of Fantasy Line.  These minis are from the early to mid 80s and have been in my collection and have remained unpainted since that time.  It would appear that they are fairly rare as I haven't found any pictures of them on the internet other than those on the Lost Minis Wiki, and some of those pictures, I provided.  (I know that at some point Raven's Forge Casting bought the TAG Industries lines but I'm not sure how many figures they produced and they appear to no longer exist.)  I'm also unsure how they were sold, but I'm assuming I purchased these as a set and not individually (or rather as a kid, talked my mom into buying for me. Ha.)

After years of sitting in my "lead mountain," I finally decided to paint these to use as a group of more war-like Pakuni for a Land of the Lost/Lost Civilization game.  I figured they would go well with the Sleestaks I recently painted.  They don't look all that much like the costumes/make-up from the show, but it won't matter, as I'll need something more threatening any way. You'll notice that the two figures on the ends have broken weapons that I will need to do something about.

Here's Chaka, a Pakuni, for comparison if you are unfamiliar with the show.

Chimp with Spear-that needs fixing.

Ape with Club

Chimp with Axe

Ape with Rock- and I am assuming he used to have club

Chimp with Club

Ape Beating Chest

Now to get these fixed up, based, and primed...

Enik the Altrusian

Finished off my Sleestaks with Enik the Altrusian.  I took one of the weaponless figures and sculpted a tunic and medallion out of green stuff.  My crude sculpting made the tunic difficult to paint and make it look good, but I did what I could.  On the original Land of the Lost, as an Altrusian, Enik was shorter than the Sleestaks too, but I think this figure works well enough.

"Trying to capture me? Your actions are...not logical. I seek only to return to my own time."

Sleestaks!

With a little time off for the holidays, I was able to finish up 5 of my Sleestak miniatures, aka Hissing and Lurching Lizards from Interloper Miniatures.  I just have Enik the Altrusian left to paint, since he has a different palette.

These are fun miniatures that I enjoyed painting and I've got some gaming ideas for them that I'm excited about as well.  I expect to post Enik soon.  Stay Tuned.

In-Progress Sleestaks 2

I'm sorry to report that it's been another slow month painting-wise, however I can assure you that my squad of Sleestaks are very much still in progress...

I hope to finish them soon! Stay tuned.

In-Progress Sleestaks

I like to post to this blog at least once every calendar month, unfortunately I have no new finished minis to show off.  So instead of that, I'm sharing what I currently have in progress: Interloper Miniatures Lurching Lizards, and Hissing Lizards.  These are clearly not-Sleestaks from Land of the Lost and I love them. 

If you are familiar with Land of the Lost you may notice that I have added a green stuff tunic to the figure in the middle to turn him into Enik (pictured below.)

 

 As I noted in my last post (featuring a grey primed fig,) I nearly always prime my figures in white as I generally prefer brighter color or at least the possibility of brighter colors, but for these Sleestaks I went with Army Painter brand "Greenskin" primer.

As soon as I finish these little creepers I will share them here for you enjoyment.  Thanks again for following along!

p.s. Just today Interloper put out a trio of not-Thundarr minis that I am super excited about too!  If you couldn't tell from all of the Gamma World love on this blog, Thundarr was my favorite childhood cartoon.