Blood Bowl Minotaur (converted from GW plastic kit)

[odinsgrandson]

Here are some pictures of a minotaur I made for one of my Blood Bowl teams. He's pretty big for the game, but reposing the plastic minotaur was a whole lot of fun.

The colors match the other minis on the team. Here he is:

[axiom]

Lovely painting and great re-posing. The pink is particularly great!

I still remain unconvinced that those plastic figures are actually minotaurs though (the feet are wrong and I can't get over the hairlessness/wierd hairy patches).

[snakees]

Great paint job, great conversion, wrong miniature.

Theses GW minotaurs are in the top 25 worst miniature ever made ;
http://chestofcolors.com/25-worst-miniatures-ever-made/

the quote from the flop 25:

Candidate #14: Minotaurs [Games Workshop]

If you know what smoked ham looks like, you don’t have to look at those minotaurs. Or maybe take a minotaur and put it on your sandwich instead of ham? The official paintjob didn’t help those guys, but if you take a look at the way their muscles are sculpted, you will be amazed how creative the sculptor good. Or maybe they live on the same planet as candidate #12?

[Norse]

+1 to what snakees says - odinsgranson almost makes a great job out of one of the poorest sculpts in recent memory.. almost...

also, with the armour so pink, I would have stayed away from giving him a matching wino complexion around the nose.. makes him look like he's been sniffing his team mates in their armour regions, if you catch my drift..

[firebreather]

Very nice, looks like he really knows how to use Horns & Juggernaught.

[Axtklinge]

Great paint job, great conversion, wrong miniature. (...)

+1
Great paint job!

[odinsgrandson]

Great paint job, great conversion, wrong miniature.

Theses GW minotaurs are in the top 25 worst miniature ever made ;
http://chestofcolors.com/25-worst-miniatures-ever-made/

I'd been considering grabbing a Nagash sometime to see if I could pull it off. I figure that I've gotten some pretty good mileage out of those old BB High Elves that I had sitting around... and sometimes I just want a challenge.

Maybe I'll do something Mutant Chronicles.

I honestly don't quite see the smoked ham look in the mini so much as the GW paintjob. I figure Minotaur feet can go in a number of different directions (older GW minis went with feet and hooves kind of at random). I can see the strange patches of hair argument, and the sculpt does have muscles on his muscles.

[Norse]

unusual feet.. OK, after all, it's a fantasy creature, so who's to say how a half man half bull should walk or what his feet may look like..

patches of hair.. that's OK.. I have strange patches of hair too.. for instance, half the hair that used to be on my head is now on my back for some reason..

muscles on muscles = not good. This is just a really, REALLY weak understanding of anatomy I'm afraid, and no amount of artistic license will fix that..

[Der_Doodle]

I still remain unconvinced that those plastic figures are actually minotaurs though (the feet are wrong and I can't get over the hairlessness/wierd hairy patches).

Sadly to say the hairless body is atleast the historical correct way of a Minotaur. The Full beast should not have a hair on his complete body since it is the head of a taur on the body of a man

But well the wierd muscles on the GW Minotaurs are really a turn off for me.

For this conversion I can only see very nice paintjob (I always love it when someone manages a nice looking pink on a BB miniature) and you deffinitly made the best out of the source material.

[Steam Ball]

Be happy! It could be skulls on his muscles.