It's Thursday! That means we jump into the time-stream and go back to
revisit some of my older miniatures and projects. It's Throwback
Thursday! This week we are going to take a look at another RuneQuest mini. This time it's an Initiate of Humakt.
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When playing RuneQuest, we played in the Glorantha setting, which is big on their deities and has a hugely detailed mythology regarding them. In the games we played, we were always followers the Orlanthi pantheon of gods. Humakt was the god of death within that pantheon.
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I always liked the idea of a Humakti and usually look to them as my inspiration on how to play a Paladin. The way I played Grim Greycastle, my Paladin of Kelemvor in 3.5 D&D, was taken from they way Humakti act as well. This mini was actually meant to become a Humakti in one of Mark's RuneQuest campaigns. But he never ended up being used.
This mini is also one of the first that I ever attempted a more detail base with. At the time I had recently picked up some basing supplies from Games Workshop, including static grass, rocks and a kit of Warhammer 40,000 basing materials. Within, I found a skull pile and thought to myself that it would be super cool if he was standing on top of it.
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In order to get his stance correctly, it required me to cut him loose from his integrated base and then bend his leg into position. I remember it being a really long process too, because at that point I hadn't bought a razor saw yet, and had to do all my cutting with a regular xacto blade.
Now that I think of it, I think this is also the first mini I ever removed from a base too. Luckily I didn't remove any fingers in the process.
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He was painted up with red and black/grey, because at the time I had
only ever seen one other mini painted up as a Humakti and that was my Uncle's friend's original player character, who he had commissioned. So from then on, Red/Black just seemed to be the cult colors for them.
His shield is emblazoned with the the Runes of the cult, the cross being the Gloranthian Death Rune and the Y being the Truth Rune. Now a days I could probably make them more impressive. But back then I had very little freehand practice.
I really like this mini and whenever I see him it makes me want to play RuneQuest. Sadly, at this point, I don't know if/when that will ever happen again.