Its always cool to see what inspires the designer of the miniatures and Benoit from Raging Heroes did an article today talking about the new Hell Riders. So lets look at their background and their story!
Here is where you can order them
https://www.ragingheroes.com/search?type=product&q=hell%20riders*
The Hell Riders: the making of by Benoit
https://www.ragingheroes.com/blogs/news/designing-the-hell-riders-benoit-shares-details
Background Story
The Daughters of the Crucible are part of the Sister of Eternal Mercy faction, but as much as the regular sisters are noble knights, well-organized army, the Daughters are more sort of missionaries that have been abandoned to themselves. Their mission is to take care of the underdogs, the poor and the weak, in places that have been abandoned by regular Sisters.
It means that they were left by themselves and had to create their own fighting style with what they could find. They are very streetwise, dealing with everyday violence and problems. They come from various backgrounds, and some of the! ended up being Daughters because they had nowhere else to go. Different life stories that brought them to become Daughters of the Crucible.
The Water of Resurrection
Another consequence of having to deal with the violence without having the resource of a structured army, a proper training and weaponry: a lot of them go through death and terrible stories.
But they do own something special: the water of resurrection, which can bring them back to life. Yet, that's rarely an easy trip. Especially when it's not done properly: a complex process within the specific sanctuaries abandoned by the Sisters.
Instead, the Daughters have to find how to do it their own way, and most of the time it's a rough ride. That's where these Bikers come from: a brutal resurrection. When they come back to life, they've been through hell and dark times. And each one with a different experience, making everyone of them very unique.
Six different characters and personalities
So we had this very cool concept with these street characters on bike. But of course, we didn't want heavy armored bikes, we wanted to give them more of a rock'n'roll feeling, like crazy choppers. An that was the beginning.
So we wanted to make each one a very different character. We went for different types of personalities that could fit that idea. A bit like the four horsemen of the apocalypse. But we had 6 of them, and each one would need their theme, all dark but with their own feel.
One of the biggest influence was the "Bat Out Of Hell" album cover of Meat Loaf, which is a crazy over the top illustration. We thought it was funny (and so cool at the same time!), and we wanted them to be something like a poster you could find in the cabin of a truck driver or a truck stop. Something we really liked about this Meat Loaf cover artwork was the very extreme pose of the rider. So we wanted to have something in the sculpt making them look like they were speeding like crazy and driving their bikes like if it was an extension of their personalities. That was a starting point for these character on wheels.
