A unit of Glover knights

24. May 2016 thomasriepe 28mm figure, A song of ice and fire, fireforge miniatures, Game of Thrones, George R R Martin, GoT figures, Perry miniatures, plastic miniatures, Season 6

I build 6 new knights for a Glover light cavalry unit for Lion Rampant. There will be Glover knights and knights from other houses who serve House Glover. So the sigils will not be all the same.

This is the officer of the unit. I built him from Perry and Fireforge parts. The body is cut in half at the waist the lower body is from Fireforge the upper body from the Perry light Cav. set The Arms are fire forge the head is from Perry. The Feathers are from my bits box ( I think from a GW helmet). The horse is a fire forge one with a Perry horse head. This knight will be from House Forester. ( Sigil will be a Tree green and brown on a red field). As there is no mentioning of the sigil of House Forester in the books I made it up myself.

The next one is a banner bearer. Built from a Perry light horse body and fire forge arms and helmet. The horse is a fire forge one again with a Perry head. This knight will be a House Glover household knight.

The next one will be a House Branch knight. As there is no description of the House Branch sigil in the books I made one up again . White field with red branch ( chanting heraldry). A strait build from the Perry light horse box except the shield it is from the Gripping Beast dark age warrior set. I cut of the boss to have more space for the sigil. I used these parts as I wanted to depict a knight who spend his youth in Dorne .

The next knight is another Glover household knight. A strait build from the light horse box by Perry with a Fireforge shield.

Next one is again a Perry light horse body with a firgeforge head and shield. This knight is from House Wood again chanting arms by myself as not mentioned in the books. 6 trees green and brown on a field white over red .

The last knight is from House Bole. Again no Sigil mentioned in the books. So I made one up again. A bole natural colors on a field white and red. A strait build from the Perry light horse set with a fire forge shield.

I tried to have some variations in the sigils but keep them together as a unit therefore the Glover colors as field in the arms of the different houses. The only mentioning of the houses above is in “Lady Sybelle Glover provides scouts from House Bole, Branch,forester and Wood to Stannis Baratheon for his march on Winterfell through the wolfs wood. (A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 42, The King’s Prize.)

I will post pictures of the painted knights when finished.

The Banner Bearer of the Glover mixed unit

18. May 2016 thomasriepe 28mm figure, A song of ice and fire, fireforge miniatures, Game of Thrones, George R R Martin, GoT figures, House Glover, Perry miniatures, plastic miniatures, Season 6

This is the banner bearer of the unit. It is a Perry HYW body and a Perry mercenary pike arm. The shield is from Fireforge miniatures. The heraldry on the shield is a overpainted decal by Schildschmie.de. The banner is freehand. As the House Glover is a house affiliated with the House Stark I painted the Stark sigil in the hoist of the banner and the Glover one behind. A little bit like the standards used in the WotR. In the books the banners are often discribed as flying above or below each other but I thought this concept is better.

Bank holiday in Germany

16. May 2016 thomasriepe 28mm figure, fireforge miniatures, painting horses, Perry miniatures

Today is a bank holiday in Germany. So I thought I might get in some painting time. I cracked out my trusty airbrush and started doing some horses for the next knights. I don’t like painting horses so I always do the basecoat with an airbrush:

The building in the background are my sons so don’t ask me what he wants to do with them. As you can see the horses are a mixture of Perry and Fireforge plastic horses.

Next then was to get all the saddlery and drapings back in black. Took me almost an hour to do 6 horses.

And of course I did the highlights on the horses first. What is still missing are the manes and tails and the socks etc . Now on to the riders. I will do those as singles and not in a batch of 6.

More to follow.

House Glover!

9. May 2016 thomasriepe 28mm figure, A song of ice and fire, Dragon Rampant, fantasy wargaming, fireforge miniatures, Game of Thrones, George R R Martin, GoT figures, House Glover, Season 6

I started doing a vassal house of the Starks of Winterfell to be able to field different armies in Dragon Rampant.It will be a mixed unit of Archers and billman.

House Glover is a noble house from the Wolfswood .The Wolfswood is a forest in the North of Westeros. It is located just north of Winterfell and extends for some three hundred miles north and west to the Bay of Ice. The Glovers are loyal vassals of House Stark of Winterfell, and have their seat at the wooden stronghold Deepwood Motte. Their lands extend throughout the Wolfswood, north-west of Winterfell. The head of the house is the Master of Deepwood Motte( a wooden motte-and-bailey castle) stronghold of House Glover. The castle is located north-west of Winterfell in the Wolfswood, near the coast of the Bay of Ice.

Here is Ser Gawen Glover heir of house Glover of deepwood motte:

He is one of Robb Starks hearth guard knights and leads the Glover household troops into battle. I painted him earlier, the heraldic design was painted freehand.

The first “human” wight of the white walkers

30. March 2016 thomasriepe 28mm figure, A song of ice and fire, fireforge miniatures, Game of Thrones, George R R Martin, Mantic, Perry miniatures, Season 6, White Walkers, wights

This is a former Lannister soldier resurrected as a wight by the white walkers.

The figure is build using an old GW skeli arm a Mantic skill head a fire forge shield and a Perry WotR body.

I am not so sure about the figures painting. He doesn’t look “cold” enough. What would you do differently? I am thinking about a blue/white wash?

The latest Stark archer

17. March 2016 thomasriepe 28mm figure, A song of ice and fire, conquest games, fireforge miniatures, Game of Thrones, George R R Martin, Gripping beast, Season 6, Stark, Winter is coming

Here is the latest Stark addition:

It is the commander of the archer unit. He is build out of a Gripping beast saxon body and shield and a fire forge head. As I reached half time with this unit here is a picture of the completed miniatures so far: