The wizard Otto summoner of Erwin the….

29. March 2017 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, fantasy, fantasy wargaming, Halfmen, Westfalia Miniatures

Here is my halfmen army wizard. He is a summoner of the army mascot Erwin. In real life Erwin is the mascot of the Schalke football club. As I said before Gelsenkirchen and Schalke are the theme of my halfmen army, therefore a mascot has to be. This is the real Erwin:

Of course my Erwin will look a bit more menacing at last he is a army mascot and not one of a football club.

So here is Otto the wizard:

And his apprentice, little Carl ,keeper of the magic book of spells:

As you can see I used a black background for these pictures I think it works better then the white one . What do you think?

So when the summoning spell is cast who will be turning up? Erwin of course but who is Erwin…… More in the next days!

Shieldmaiden Infantry boxed set

28. March 201728. March 2017 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, fantasy, fantasy wargaming, Figure review, Shieldmaiden Infantry boxed set, Shieldwolf Miniatures

The Shieldmaiden Infantry boxed set is the second hard-plastic kit to be released by Shieldwolf Miniatures. This particular set was succesfully funded during the War is coming: Shieldmaidens Army Reboot Kickstarter in early 2016. Gathering more than $80.000 and backed by more than 550 backers, these miniature were put into production and are now almost ready to be delivered and released for retail. Shieldwolf Miniatures is always trying to improve the quality and detail of their miniatures so let’s take a look if they have managed to raise the bar on these new Shieldmaidens. This modular plastic kits contains 20 miniatures but you can kitbash 24 as there are more bodies than left arms included The full review can be found here. You will find many pictures of the individual sprues in the review. The set is very recommended for kit bashing etc. I will use them for my ongoing Game of Thrones kit bashes. I need some female Wildlings!

some livestock

21. March 201721. March 2017 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Game of Thrones, Gripping beast, livestock, sheep

I painted up some livestock . Sheep with the shepherd and his dog.

The minis are from Gripping beast when I remember correctly . I had them so many years before actually painting them . You know what it is like living with a lead mountain 😉

Here are some pictures of the shepherd and his Dog:

And some more pictures of all the minis:

There will be more animals an civilians in the future for doing looting scenarios with my Game of Thrones figures.

My sons Ork Blood bowl team

9. March 2017 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, blood bowl, bloodbowl team, fantasy, fantasy football, fantasy wargaming, Games Workshop, Ork blood bowl team

This is my sons Ork blood bowl team which I painted for him. It was a daunting task as I painted them all at the same time. Normally I only work on one figure at a time to keep up my painting mojo, because you see more quickly that you get something finished that way. This time it was doing the skin on twelve models, doing the armor, doing the clothes always in batches of 12. I am happy that I can turn back to the single miniature approach now. I told him to do his human team by himself. I mean he is quite a painter himself!

So here are many more pictures of each Ork player for you to enjoy!