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@crazyolafmetal
About This Blog
Hello, I am Olaf Metal. This blog is dedicated to chronicling and advertising the various weapons, artifacts, and shady market contraband found among my travels across the multiverse. Many of these will be made available to you for the right price. Unless you're a cop. Then fuck you.
Tfw you reblog a bunch of stuff on your crafting blog
Oh well. It lives here now.
Testament's new hobby
Elggretsuko!!
elphelt headbang
Shout out to Elphelt's VAs on that scream. That was some Jinjer levels of impressive screaming. I want them in my band.
i hate whenever theres a paladin/knight/generally gruff protector-type character in an alternate or historical time period, and when theyre adapted to the modern day or theres a popular modern AU headcanon theyre ALWAYS a cop. you fools. you fucking fools. a good aligned paladin wouldnt be a cop they would be a drug sponsor. a domestic cleaner. a child support worker. a sanitation worker. its not about cutting people in half with a zweihander its about serving the goddamn community
revisiting this to say
i love people in the tags saying what their paladins would be - personally, my paladin orion would be a child psychologist
people were saying it is a little about cutting people in half with a zweihander, just not in a police brutality way, and i stand corrected
I completely forgot about this one!
Cool looking cyberpunk piece. Considering putting this one up for sale.
Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight. Never running from a real fight!
I drew from Interstella 5555 on this one. I love Leiji Matsumoto's art, and the blue aliens were super cool. I like this model as well. I find I really like the art style of Twin Goddess minis. They do a really good range of body types. And I think it's pretty evident by the models I gravitate to that I have a type.
Another unabashedly horny model. This one done by request of my DM, who saw my pinup models and suggested I do one of Nerak, an NPC in our game.
My character, Shadrach, met Nerak in the Dungeon of the Mad Mage when he won the respect of a clan of hobgoblins. While there he met and then bonded with Nerak. They are expecting a child soon.
This is actually kind of a joke because Shadrach is kind of a wimpy kid with demonic pact warlock powers and a sense of delusional bravado only a young man could have. He is a play on my teenage edgelord D&D fantasies. A parody of toxic masculinity and ridiculous adolescent male power fantasy. Shadrach being the one to gain the respect and love of hobgoblins is really funny.
This isn't Nerak as she is. This is Nerak as Shadrach thinks of her. A Frank Frazetta painting come to life. For all of his shortcomings, Shadrach does truly love her, and Nerak, bless her, seems to love Shadrach a great deal.
May their children become conquerers and kings.
No backstory on this one, I just thought she was cute. I really enjoy painting pinup models because I find the hardest thing for me to paint is skin. So I am trying my best to get really good at it. It's a challenge, and I'm trying to find the right formula for every possible skin tone. With Aduna I wanted to paint a very fair complexion, and a dwarf was perfect as someone who doesn't see the sun very much. Yasuke was a great way to try out black skin. And Pancake was basically what got me started on pinups and busts, because the green skin was a novel idea for me. I liked how her skin turned out and decided to try more natural tones. Here I return to fantasy.
I really like this model. She looks like she's having a good time at the beach. I call her Tisiphonie.
An automaton dancer that I wanted to paint to look like a sepia daguerreotype. Instead she kind of came out looking more like a bronze statue but I like the effect.
What's this guy's name?
Jack?
No, that's his brother.
His name is Henry.
I wanted to do some object source lighting. I think I did OK for a first serious attempt at it.
I'm giving this one to a friend of mine who, like me, adores Halloween.
A model based on one of my favorite historical figures, Yasuke. The African warrior who became a weapon bearer for Oda Nubunaga and a respected samurai during the Sengoku era.
I love dwarves in fantasy settings. I just think they're cool. So creating an RPG story based around a remote mining town, naturally I had to include some cool dwarves!
My setting is partly inspired by the comic Rat Queens, and one of the things it has in common is this kind of wild underground punk scene element to it. The Dig Inn has basically become Fantasy CBGB in the setting and Hollow Rock has a really vibrant music scene. It hosts a yearly music festival that brings in a surprising amount of tourist money. We will get to this later.
This is Aduna. Aduna is another transplant to Hollow Rock, this time coming from the mountains of Kalim Kuna. This is the Dwarven city you expect. Carved into the side of a massive mountain, with tunnels and mines running deep inside. The Dwarven cities are more or less constantly fighting a cold war against each other some are more traditional feudal dynasties, others are capitalist business ventures with state authority, and still others are socialist worker's collectives.
Aduna's home of Kalim Kuna (Dwarven for "Rich City") was a mercantile business venture dressed as a city, and Aduna was the foreman of its largest mine. She ran that mine like a well-oiled machine, and quickly became one of the city's top earners. At least until she wasn't. Her mine began producing less, and Aduna began to panic. She tried to squeeze as much iron out of that mine as she could, leading to dangerous conditions that culminated in an accident that took the lives of 40 miners. Kalim Kuna brass couldn't care less about the lives of their workers, but were upset with Aduna and demanded she get the mine back up and running. She enacted new, unpopular measures, and a rebellion began in her mine. This was the final straw. Aduna was unceremoniously fired, and fearing for her life from both the brass and the miners who were out for her blood, she left Kalim Kuna.
The Catonbag Barony has been investing in infrastructure, hoping to become more than just a hub for trade, but also a military and industrial power. To do this, you need steel. Fortune smiled on them when iron was found in Hollow Rock, and a mining endeavor began. Initial efforts were met with little success. The Barony had to face the fact that they knew nothing about mining.
So when they heard the former foreman of Kalim Kuna's biggest mine was available and looking for work, they tripped over themselves to hire her. Aduna got a pretty good deal out of it, and a chance to clear her reputation... but mostly she wanted the money.
That is, until she arrived at Hollow Rock and had to lead a bunch of humans, tabaxi, and firbolg who know nothing about mining. She hates Hollow Rock. She hates most of the people here. None of them speak her native language. She relates to few if any of the townsfolk. Her only escape is the wonderful music at The Dig Inn.
Here she is, shown cutting loose at a concert, taking joy in the only thing she has that keeps her going: Rock and roll!
I have a setting building in my head for a tabletop RPG so when I paint minis I often make them part of that setting.
This is Pancake the Goblin. (Not her real name, by the way, but she will never tell you otherwise.) She was born in the Holy City of Ilem, a site of religious importance to several cultures that have set up a solid, divinely enforced peace treaty. Basically the gods got sick of the holy wars in their name and made everyone shut the fuck up. But that isn't Pancake's story.
Her life in Ilem was rough, as it is for many in the Holy City. But that is not Pancake's real story. Her life begins elsewhere, tucked away in a mining town in the quietest part of The Catonbag Barony. Pancake and her sister Sestina left Ilem to find a better life. Pancake finds legitimate work as a serving maid in the town's only tavern, The Dig Inn. She and Sestina are taken in by the bar's propieter, a kindly old man named Alagarin Tollivan. He finds himself needing increasing help in his old age, and Pancake soon finds herself running The Dig Inn in all but name. Tollivan sees Pancake's incredible business acumen, and her popularity among the miners in town, who have affectionately named her Pancake the Short Stack. Pancake embraces the name, knowing you can't buy that kind of advertising. Realizing he needs to retire, Tollivan gives full ownership of The Dig Inn to Pancake and retires.
Pancake begins using the profits she makes at The Digg Inn to reinvest in the town that gave her opportunities she would never have in Ilem. Her charity efforts do genuine good within the town, elevating her status from tavern maid to town benefactor. Pancake has more or less singlehandedly civilized the mining camp of Hollow Rock into a thriving boom town.
With Pancake, I wanted to portray goblins in a different light than they usually are seen in other settings. Goblins are usually chaotic and greedy. Mostly "evil" aligned. There are a LOT of problems with this in my eyes, none of which I really feel qualified to talk about but there's a very pervasive anti-semitism prevalent in many setting's goblin depictions that never sat right with me. But when you look at goblins there are a lot of common traits to admire that often get played for laughs or as negative traits. First and foremost is their industriousness and ingenuity. I wanted to give Pancake that in spades. Second is a strong sense of community that, to me, speaks to a culture that never gets explored. What is Goblin culture? Why does nobody want to make goblins sympathetic and relatable?
Additionally, I wanted Pancake to be a figure similar to the countless women who have moved out to frontier towns and brought civilization with them. Women who were leaders in the Wild West frontier, took on frankly terrifying jobs for terrifying people, and used what they earned to improve things around them.
That's Pancake. A girl from a place that didn't care about her, but she cared so much about the world around her that she made a home anyway. Not just for herself, but for other people.
And also I think the model is cute.
