My projects, ideas and ramblings about old school Warhammer, Fantasy Warriors and Wargaming in general.
Having
the finished the druid, attention has turned to the Bob Olley Troll who I have
now decided will be the Champion of the Chittering Horde. However, he will be
upgraded to a Level 10 Hero with high Strength (2 Handed
Weapon) and scaly skin (Heavy Armour).
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Mirk (Level 10 Undead
Hero – 55pts) – River Troll Scaly Skin (Heavy
Armour + 3pts) & Mighty Strength (2 Headed Weapon + 2pts) |
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| Fish for tea |
As planned, I wanted to paint up one of Mark Copplestone's Ex-Grenadier Wood Elf druids as a army leader and to try out colour schemes. I didn't want the normal greens and healthy skin tones. So went for a muted colours except for the greenery which I have tried to make as vibrant as possible.
As I am using the undead army list he will have the profile of a level 15 Necromancer. This character whom I am naming as Ash is Leader of the Fae from the Darkling Wood.
I wasn't sure when I bought the Skull set at Christmas as £17 seemed quite lot to spend on non-figures but I have ended putting them on nearly everything. But perhaps having Chaos and Undead armies helps!
Not quite sure how I am going to use the stone circle but I thought it fitted with the theme very well and make a nice scenic piece.
Finished off refurbishing the farmhouse. I did end up adding more windows (in this case four) which doubled the number of windows from the original build. I also finally added some door handles which have been missing for the last 30 years. The door handles were made from little balls of Milliput which I originally made as eyeballs for the Oldhammer shields which now also are used as small toadstools. An increasingly useful scenic item.
As this was a tidy up rather than a complete repaint, I left the walls and woodwork alone but did do a bit of dry brushing on the roof tiles. I may go back and add a bit weathering.
It now looks quite pleasant with the flowers borders around the house.
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| Now with added wagon wheels |
So I have finished the second of my two wizards for this duel. Vordak from Citadels 80's Lone Wolf range. He has been sitting on the shelf with same paint job that I got him with for at least a decade. I decided not to go down that the black 'Ringwraith' look but went for a mixture of greys and reds. The red was much brighter than I thought and he ended up with a Little Red Riding Hood vibe (Doh!). Also tried a different order to my painting by doing dry brushes to the base colour and then washing (In this case Nuln Oil) rather than dry brushing after the wash. Overall I am pleased with the look.
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| Get OFF my land & leave my carrots alone |
After painting up a couple of old school adventurers, I searched the loft and found my old dungeon floor plans. These seemed a much better backdrop for photographing these fearless dungeon adventurers.
I was a fan of the British Dragon Warriors roleplaying game when I was younger. Published as series of books. Book 5 - The Power of Darkness caused a bit of stir as it featured a Darkness Elementalist with the power to summon demons. This probably wouldn't cause much of a fuss today but seemed to be a big deal back in the day. But was withdrawn at the time. The books were a mixture of rules and scenarios with a distinctly British vibe. With Knights, Barbarians, Sorcerers and Mystics as the four main classes.
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| Battle Royale |
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| Attacked from all sides |
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| Beware the White Hand Orcs |
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| Don't throw a one on your morale test |
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| Magic Ring don't fail me now! |
Finished the high level Magic User character from the Citadel ADD1 AD&D Magic User set as part of my Duel mini-projects. Yellow always seems to be a bit of tricky colour but I like the look with the blue robes. Heavily kitted out with wands, scrolls and magical trinkets. Ready to take on Bugbears to Trolls. Now on the the lone Wolf Vordak mini.
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| Ready for Old School Dungeon Action |
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| Magic Missiles ready! |
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| Pre-Paint Job |
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| Definitely not an Oldhammer troll! |
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| From WD37 - Artist Unknown |
Since finishing the first part of my chaos army, I have been thinking about what some of projects I want to take on next. I do want to do a wood elf army at some point as I have had several attempts and never managed to finish them. But I don't fancy painting up large blocks of archers at this point and my mate Stevie has just finished a high elf army so this likely to be a opponent at some point in future when we can start meeting again
I recently came across Oakbound Studios Miniatures (oakbound.co.uk) and their range of Fae. These are excellent by the way with loads of character and really nice style. Definitely going on the list. and they also produce a set of skirmish rules. This led to a rummage through the loft to find these beauties.
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| White Dwarf 37January 1983 - Cover by Emmanuel |
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| White Dwarf 38 February 38 - Cover by Nicholas Bibby |
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| Nick Bibby Dragons |
White Dwarf did a couple of articles on the subject of using Faeries in AD&D along with some nice pictures. They also produced some AD&D rules for the Faeries several of which I plan to use in my army.
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| Not just tiny Faeries! |
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| Not all goody two shoes |
Quick WIP post today, after putting together the remaining chaos cultists ready for the skull masks and Green Stuff hoods. I decided to use some of the remaining arms and heads to create some undead rising from the grave. Some of the arms on the cultist sprue are already zombie like and combined with a bits from a skeleton sprue I was able to make up five zombies ready to rise from the grave. So a quick and cheap boost the undead horde.
Rob
Finished off the Citadel Lord of the Rings ME-53 Southron - Haradrim to complete of the first duel. With a sort of classic Lord of the Rings vibe. I used a lot more colours (Over a dozen) on the Southron than I normally do although he mainly looks purple / yellow. This was an interesting way to complete a couple of figures that have been sitting in the pile for some time for no obvious reason except they didn't fit any particular niche.
I might even finally paint Lone Wolf.
Rob
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| 'Bring your pretty face to my axe' |
Got this miniature
for Christmas and he has been slowing been moving toward towards the finish
line. Given I first saw this miniature in the 3rd Citadel Compendium (Circa
1985), I can't believe that you can still buy it new (from a Ral Partha seller on eBay). It still
stands out as a great sculpt.
Sculpted by Tom Meier, this dragon has been a main stay of many undead armies and definite must for my growing undead horde. I enjoyed painting this miniature and decided to go for muted green. I was trying out a different wash technique on the blood which involved a Citadel Magenta wash from the early 90's (which I found in the loft). Which had a nice shiny look but doesn't come out on the photos too well.
Rob
So I finished my 1000 pts challenge at the end of February with my Army Commander (the Mighty Zog Arkwright) and the Drager's Bows (Chaos Thug Archers). A bit of a tale of two halves as I was pleased with the final look of Zog and not particularly pleased with the archers. This was not helped when I decided to stick them onto multi-bases before painting them (doh!) and the Battlemasters figures have quite a low level of detail. And on closer inspection no quivers for their arrows.
However the first stage of this army is now finished and I managed to add a reasonable chaos dwarf allied contingent.
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| The army in all its glory! |
November
is counting as month 0 because I painted this hobgoblin as part of a chaos
warband.
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Month 0: Oct 2020. Completed 1 Baal’s
Destroyers (40
pts). |
40 pts |
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Month 1: Nov 2020. Completed 9 Doom Reivers inc. Musician, Standard & Champion (149
pts) and 1 Baal’s Destroyers (40 pts). |
199 pts |
10 |
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Month 2: Dec 2020. Completed 1 Doom Reiver (11 pts), 1 Baal’s Destroyers (40 pts), Baal (116 pts) and 10 Gor Charge Beastmen (130 pts). |
307 pts |
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Month 3: Jan 2021. Completed beastmen champion (63pts) and x3 beastmen (39pts), beastmen musician &
standard (52pts), bog troll (65pts) and chaos sorcerer (85pts). |
304 pts |
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Total |
850 pts |
32 |
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| My Army Commander - Zog |
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| Gustavus alongside the ME-75 Swan Knight |
This model has been supporting my Fantasy Warrior's army for decades. However most of that time was with a basic green scenic scatter base. After a couple of years sitting in box, I decided he needed a bit of an update.
The paint job is mostly the one from the ninety's. I added washes to a couple of parts such as the bones and the clubs. But most of the work was on updating the base. The 'stretch' of the design was the arrows. Which I haven't done before but were made from sections of paperclip inserted into drill holes into the base. The fletching's were made from thin card cut into small rectangles and with the front cut at an angle with a modelling knife. They were then glued to the arrow shaft with PVA glue. Patience and a fine pair of tweezers were needed for this part but trick was to get an even amount of glue on each side of the fletching so it didn't twist whilst drying.
The rest of the base was pretty straightforward with small bits of slate and modelling clay with a sharp sand top coat. I recently purchased some scenic flower tufts (so expect to see more of them on my figures) and the skeleton was from the same sprue as the 'Bloody skeleton's feet' (see previous post). So they are good for something.
I am pleased with the overall result and he should be ready for the next couple of decades.
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| In a duel with an 80's skeleton |
Rob
Water Heater Finished* * And painted another gobbo 😀 One more room to complete. Rob
