Over the hills and far away

And here is the first part of the payback for a slow May. I painted this guy up in a tearing hurry for a D&D session but didn't quite manage to get him completely finished in time (he was however painted enough to use for D&D). I've added a couple of layers of highlights and I can now put him in the painted pile.



Meanwhile I have been doing a lot of work on goblin chariots in preparation for KoW v2.

I'm back!

What happened to May? May seems to have been a month for starting things but not finishing them - hopefully that will mean I can reap the dividends some time later and complete what I have begun.

In the mean time I had the Clash of Kings Northern Regional coming up and I had a flash of empathy for women who say that they have 'nothing' to wear to a particular social occasion. I have several complete KoW armies but I didn't fancy taking any of them to the event as they were. After a bit of list bashing I came up with a reasonable looking goblin list which then had to be revised further when it was pointed out to me that it wasn't legal under the tournament rules pack.


The problem with my new list was I needed to paint up some more miniatures for it - I was short by 10 goblin cavalry. After an extended rummage through my unpainted pile I turned up some goblin spider riders I bought back in 2007. I have tried to paint these up to match the ones I did more than 7 years ago. Its interesting to se them side by side - I think my current techniques look better and are faster to.

Here's the first batch of 5:-



And the second:-



And because I finished up those so quickly I decided to do some more trolls for the army:-



I'm now considering doing a few more upgrade bits for the army whilst I still have the enthusiasm.

Oh and for the record - I came back from the tournament as regional champion. :)

What a load of rubbish

A bit more scenery just to break things up a little. This is a load of Mantic Mars Attacks scenery which I got as part of the kickstarter campaign. Some of the pieces are plastic and the others are resin.





These will provide some welcome cover in our games of Officer Down.

They see me rollin'

And the ogre chariots are finally complete. These chaps have taken longer than expected to finish and have been languishing part completed on my workbench for some time. Its good to see them done - now I can press on with something else.

A regiment of three chariots:-







And an ogre character on chariot.





Not sure what will be next - maybe some more ogre rank and file.

Ogres of character and distinction

Its been a while since I have progressed my ogre army. I had a game the other week using the Ogres with the KoW playtest rules and they were very brutal and fun to play too. The experience rekindled my enthusiasm for getting the army painted up so I got on with the ogre characters who have been sitting on my workbench since January or so. I'm quite pleased with how these turned out.









And a group shot.


 
I'm now working on some charioteers, hopefully I can finish them soon and get cracking on the rest of the army.

One by one

Another day, another miniature.This chap has been clogging up my workbench for a while so I decided it was time to complete the work I had started. This is another Reaper Bones Elf. IIRC I stared painting this one whilst we were still playing our Dragonlance D&D campaign as a miniature for Gilthanas.



What next, more workbench clean-up maybe?

Cloaked in mystery

One more for the painted pile. This is "Aenur the sword of Twilight" a metal GW elf that came free with a White Dwarf 238 to promote Mordheim. In our D&D campaign this will be Rowen, an elven fighter/thief with a very task oriented philosophy.



Hopefully I can finish a few more odds and ends before the month is out.