After a longer hiatus I restarted my House Brax unit. Here is a new Billman for the unit:
I will finish the rest of the figures over the next few days . After that I will come back to my halfmen army. You can see the other figures in the unit here: Flement Brax , Crossbowman 1 , Billman , Banner bearer , another crossbowman , Crossbowman 3 , another billman and at last jet another Crossbowman.
So I am back from a holiday in Italy now. Sorry that I didn’t post a lot during the last week. I rebuild my painting and modeling desk though. I needed more space on the table to be able to do terrain work there, too . The solution was to have a second level on the desk for storing the paints and all the other paraphernalia of our hobby. So I put down a sheet of MDF to protect the desk and build a second level in the back of the table. Pictures of work in progress:
Sorry but can’t remember were the paint racks came from forgot to keep a bookmark. But I think I saw them over on the Lead Adventure Forum.
Here are pictures of the finished table . I have a painting and modeling side now . Left is modeling right is painting.
So now with more space painting will go on !
I finished the first miniature from the Westfalia halfmen kickstarter ( You can see the unpainted miniature here). The figure of a famous old warrior who fought many battles against the yellow Kobolds of Dort-Mund. In these battles he lost an eye and a leg but he still wants to get back into the fight. Here is the finished Ass Hauer:
Next will be the members of his unit. The figures are very well sculpted and a treat to paint! I am looking forward to painting all the other miniatures. Well done Westfalia Miniatures !!!
There will be a new Nickstarter for Frostgrave starting on Monday next week called Forgotten pacts and it will include a new plastic boxed set of Barbarians. Here are pictures of the box art and of some of the figures ( As far as I can tell the figures are metal ones not from the box.
These figures cry Wildlings in the GoT setting to me ! So definitely a box I have to get my fingers on! I found another figure you can get from Northstar. Looks like Brienne of Tarth to me:
The Barbarians should be available in November.
The other day we had a small Dragon Rampant battle between the House Glover and House Lannister over a bridge crossing one of the tributaries of the Trident. Here is the deployment:
The Glovers racing for the bridge
Lannister heavy knights, lead by “The Hound” Sandor Clegane, contesting the crossing.
The House Glover mesnie.
Jaime Lannister overlooking the River.
The Lannister battle.
Sorry no more pictures, as we got carried away while gaming! It was a Lannister victory.
I started work on the first unit of my halfmen army . It is a militia unit. The unit is supposed to be made up of farmers living around the town of Gelsen-Kirchen. A town famous for its church ( Kirche means church in german). It is lead by a very famous old warrior who fought many battles against the yellow Kobolds of Dort-Mund. In these battles he lost an eye and a leg but he still wants to get back into the fight. His name is Ass Hauer :
Here is the unit:
I started painting them yesterday so not much progress to be shown here. I will post new pictures as soon as I finished the first figures.
So now I finished redoing the first batch of my terrain tiles. 8 river tiles and 11 hill tiles. There are a lot more tiles to be done as you can see on the pictures as I mixed old ones with the redone ones to build the table you see on the pictures. There are some more river tiles, open grassland tiles, track tiles and some settlement tiles to be redone or newly build over the next coming months . Here are the pictures !
Hope you like what you see
Just realized that I didn’t put up a before and after picture:
Thanks to Kawe from Westfalia miniatures I post a link below to the armylists done by Rufus, Don Matthies and Dan Mersey. Now you can start building your armies right away!
I finished the flocking of the river tiles yesterday. On some pictures the PVA hasn’t dried completely, therefore it is not translucent everywhere . The grass tufts were made with the flockbox, the other flocking materials are from woodland scenics and Noch.
The next step will be trimming the reeds and painting on the gloss varnish on the river proper.
DF have done a very nice documentary about miniature gaming.
The subject of the documentary is the owner of DF and is largely a biography with the kickstarter (remarkable drama free and smooth) providing the backdrop. A very nice film about our beloved hobby . I enjoyed it.
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