Hawk - Treasure Hunter

From time to time I like to honor the talented folks I have the privilege to collaborate with by immortalizing them (or their pets) in pewter and making them part of the Dark Sword line. I typically do this for anniversary pieces. But then I got thinking...there are so many talented folks and strong allies of Dark Sword out there that doing one a year will take a long time. So I have joined forces with famed Reaper concept artist TALIN and started getting these talented folks that I am a big admirer of drawn up for sculpting by the very talented Mr. Jeff Grace. We sit down and determine what iconic character class they would like to be based on their personalities and move forward from there. Next up was Ron Hawkins from Reaper Miniatures. I have been a huge fan of Ron and his contagious enthusiasm for miniatures since the late 1990's when I started collecting Reaper Miniatures. Ron is about the nicest guy a person could ever talk shop with and he grew up loving the same miniatures (Ral Partha and Grenadier) that I did. Ron and the entire Reaper crew are simply fantastic. This is my tip of the cap to an all around awesome guy that needed to be immortalized outside of Reaper to impress upon him how much of an impact he has had on the miniature community at large by art directing one of the great miniature companies of Y2K and beyond. We did Ron as a fantasy version of a treasure hunter (a certain treasure hunter he is a big fan of and has dressed up as from time to time at ReaperCon). It was determined that TALIN artwork matches up with Jeff's sculpting style very well so Jeff has done the first four pieces and will most likely do the bulk of this tribute range of premium miniatures.