Scarlet Brethren “Good Ole’ Boys” – Demonblade Miniatures

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We have something a bit different today – a trio of miniatures from a company that I did not recall the name of – big thanks to Mr.C in the comments for refreshing my memory of the manufacturer – Demonblade Miniatures! Back in the late 1990’s or early 2000’s, during the days of 40k 2nd edition, WarZone 1st edition and playing games with semi-regularity in Mind Games Melbourne, one of the gang ran a few demos of a skirmish-sized game that used 40k-esque models. I don’t recall the name of the game, or the manufacturer (hence the above title), but I did pick up a few of their figures. Mostly their Not-Cadians, but also some of their Not-Orks. So far, so uninteresting – but it turns out that at some stage GW gave them the old threatening letter, and their “Orcs” or “Orks” or whatever quickly morphed into a faction called “The Org” (for ORGanised crime) and their models turned from Kev Adams Orc-alikes into models that look like they may have been sculpted by Bob Olley’s apprentice.

Anyway, this trio of ugly bastards are from a blister a pack of Demonblade models that I purchased, oh-so-many years ago, and while their realistic chance of getting painted was slim to none for several decades, I came across them while sorting out my “simple paintjob armed civilians and militia types” batch a year or three ago that recently resulted in painted Hobbits and Ruffians. You see, I more-or-less semi-randomly took a dozen models out of the tub and got to painting them, and one of those three was mister folded-hat here. Since the end of February was approaching, I made an effort over the past few days to get the other pair painted, so all three of the set would be done so I could post them together.

In the end, they got much better paint jobs than these models deserve, probably because they’re metal and they gave me a chance to work on something very different to my norm with low pressure. Would they have looked better with tattoos or even just implied tatoos? For sure, but, y’know. Too much effort for these. I also noticed last night that the guy with the cap has a little Confederate Flag on it. Since the model was designed in the 90’s when the context of such things in pop culture was a little different and people were less easily triggered, I’d assume the simple explanation of the designer just shitting on people from the U.S.’ South with these three yokel-looking motherfuckers. Still, I was painting him with echoes of Super Mario gone done broken bad and even a Confederate Flag wasn’t going to stop me! As far as games go – I dunno. I guess I could use them as Chaos Cultists, or Cthulhu Cultists, or something like that, with their unsettling, weird-looking fucking heads. It’s not really important. They’re done and so I can get on with finishing much more improtant other models.

If someone recognises these things, I’ll of course credit you and amend the post title. In the meantime, it’s another three models for Dave Stone’s Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4 wot ends tomorrow. Though I do still have 1 or 2 more posts to come for that…

19 thoughts on “Scarlet Brethren “Good Ole’ Boys” – Demonblade Miniatures”

  7. Very nice work, mate! These little guys have plenty of personality and you painted them very well! I agree that a tattoo would be more trouble than its worth with the small arms that they have.

    The 90’s were definitely a great time for the Confederate flag. Not to be overly political, I used to see them quite frequently which I always thought was idiotic because I grew up in a Union state. That’s America for you! 🙂

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    • Thanks mate – the arms in hand arent too small – I just wanted to be done with these guys and put that extra time into other models. 🙂

      Out here in the 90’s and before social media, we obviously were aware of the Civil War/Slavery/US’ racism (not that we dont have that one here as well!) etc, but the Confederate flag was a lot more “Dukes of Hazzard flag” in our pop culture.

      Now of course everyone is offended and fighting all the time thanks to social media/Trump/Russian bots/Woketivists/RWNJs etc. So anything that offends anyone in America is automagically bad here too even if the context is entirely different.

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      • That is also a good reason to call them done 🙂

        That is crazy that people in Australia would fight over it! I don’t know why people here want to hang onto a symbol of a losing side in a war from the 1800’s but its been that way for as long as I’ve been alive. We live in a strange world where people do things that aren’t easy to make sense of sometimes. Thankfully there are people like us who have our heads on straight! 🙂

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  10. They are crazy miniatures that we have never seen, but we vote to identify them as cultists of Chtulhu, with the subhuman appearance and all the Southern stereotypes they show in the clothing and accessories

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