Here is the Captain of the bow unit! Pictures of the unit and the complete army will follow shortly.
The Lannister Bow unit captain
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Next Stark Archer
Here is the fifth archer. Id did take a bit longer as I was away for a short easter vacation.
The fur was again done with greenstuff . Otherwise a strait build out of the conquest games archers plastic box.
The first wight for my White Walker army
This is a strait build out of the Mantic Skeli sprue. I painted him first as a test on painting decayed bone and blue eyes. Do you think this is OK as I painted it ? What would you do differently? Please leave a comment!
A new Stark Bowmen unit
When I was at Crisis in Antwerp in November I got one of the new boxes of plastic bowmen by Conquest games.
The figures are quite nice but it is very difficult to build them in a way that they look like shooting an arrow correctly. Normally the arrow arm is lifted up to the ear when you draw a bow ( I am an sports archer myself) but this is not really achievable with these minis. Anyway I gave them a try and started to build and paint a 12 men bow unit for my Stark Army ( for Dragon Rampant).
Here is the first bowman:
This is a strait build from the box except the hood which was added with some greenstuff. The grass tufts were made with the flock box I got for xmas. You can see a review on the terrain page.
More during the next days.
News from Westfalia miniatures
Westfalia just wrote on their facebook page that there will be more halfmen and even a game published by them together with Dan Meresy
Here is some concept art
Hope you like what you see !
Complete Lannister foot knight Unit
Here is the complete Lannister foot knight unit for Dragon Rampant:
Hope you like them. You can see all the miniatures of the unit and my Lannister Army so far here. Next up will be Greywolf the dire wolf of Robb Stark.
The last Lannister foot knight
Here is the last miniature for the foot knight unit:
the 5th Lannister foot knight
Here is the 5th foot knight . Just one more to do until the unit is finished and I will start with some more Stark figures e.g. another Greywind model ( more bad ass looking then the first I did).
Orcs and the “gamefication” of Middle Earth
I found this article on Lead adventure forum. Very interesting to read !!!! Recommended .
“A few thoughts occurred to me while assembling some Tolkien-appropriate orcish forces for SoBH and DR games. This very interesting blog post by Zhu Baijie catalysed them somewhat (I commented as JC). As many of us are keen on gaming in Middle Earth, I thought these might – perhaps – be of interest. On the other hand, it just might see like a completely insane post!
My main contention is that gamers have, over the decades, tended to distort the descriptions contained in Tolkien’s writings and that these distortions have become quite deeply embedded in RPG and wargaming rules and publications. I think this “gamefication” also had an impact on Peter Jackson’s films (I wouldn’t be at all surprised if WETA had a hefty population of current or former gamers). Here are some examples:”
By Hobgoblin .
More to read here
The next 2 Agincourt plastic boxed sets by the Perrys
The release date for BOTH Agincourt sets is late February, however it might be a bit earlier.
The sets are Agincourt French Infantry 1415-29 and Agincourt Foot Knights 1415-29.
Above are samples from the Agincourt French men at arms frame just in.
There will be one of these frames (6 figures) in the Agincourt French Infantry box set along with 3 French Infantry frames shown previously. In all 42 figures.
For the Agincourt Foot Knights set there will be 3 French men at arms frames and 3 English men at arms frames (previously released with the Agincourt English Army set) in the box. In all 36 figures.
Renedra, who are always up for a challenge have done it again with the fine details on visors and weapons etc. on this frame.
All three sets (including the English Army set) have interchangeable parts allowing an enormous choice of individual figures to be created by the customer.
There are more pictures on the Perry site! And on there Facebook page
I am really looking forward to these sets for doing other GoT houses like the Tullys etc.
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