Team golem

Whilst digging through my large pile of unpainted Bones Kickstarter 1 miniatures I spotted the golems. These chaps feature quite a lot in D&D games so I decided it was time to slap some paint on them. I've not had much painting time recently as my movement disorder has been playing up so three miniatures with very simple paint jobs was about as much as I could manage.



The flesh golem is still on my work bench but should be joining them shortly.

If you go down to the woods today ...

If you go down to the woods today you might see my completed Hunters of the Wild units! Mantic don't yet make models for this unit choice so these are a mixture of Dryads and wood spirits from five different manufacturers brought together and mixed up.The KoW v2 rules describe them thus:-

Like a true force of nature, wild and untamed, the fey creatures of the forest gather in great hunting bands when the Elves march to war, honouring ancient pacts between the Sylvan Kindred and the Green Lady. Gnomes, fauns, will o’ the wisp, dryads and sprites form packs of spiteful warriors, fighting with the full fury of the Great Wild.

This is my first attempt at multibasing in 28mm (other than swarms etc). Usually I base troops individually and magnetise them to their movement trays but in this case I decided to do something different, largely because a load of the models were designed to fit on 25mm bases and the unit footprint for HotW assumes 20mm bases. I think it worked out pretty well but I think I'll stick to my usual methods of basing for now.









In other news this brings me up to 268 painted 28mm miniature equivalents for the year so far. The target of 300 that I set myself in January looks possible so I am cracking on with some more Mantic elves that I assembled and primed ages ago and just left. These will hopefully be a quick win and propel me towards my goal.

October?

My PNKD has been pretty bad this month so it has really cut down on my painting time and I have achieved far less than I had hoped.

I managed to paint up some Mantic Mars attacks scenery for the Random Platypus Barricades PAL.



And I've also completed a handful of old GW and WOTC dryads for my KoE elves.



I have to load more forest spirits to complete but fortunately they are pretty quick to do so I might get this unit finished before too long. Looking at the calendar I will have to get a move on if I want to break the 300 mark this year, best get to it.

Towards a cleaner workbench

The clearing of the decks continues. Yesterday I put the finishing touches to three characters for out D&D campaign. Firstly my wife's new fighter, Brienne. This is from the Otherworld female adventurers set.



Next up a very old citadel dwarf. I've added an extra axe on to his back as the character, Drax, is axe mad.



And lastly a Reaper Bones fighter. The swords won't stay completely straight on this one no matter how hard I try. I think the model was meant to have a cloak of a backpack or something but I couldn't find it so I had to plug the hole in the back of the miniature with green stuff. Not the best of paint jobs but I don't expect the character to last all that long!



There is still more workbench cleaning to go. Hopefully I will get a chance to pick up my paint brushes over the weekend.

Stormin'

And now a 80s Grenadier Storm Giant. This chap has been sitting in a box for years and I decided to dig him out and give him a new paint job due to the Random Platypus "Giant" paint-a-long they did earlier in the summer. The big problem was that I never owned the correct left arm for him - years ago I bodged him together with an arm from a citadel giant but it looked pretty bad.

Fortunately Random Platypus is a very nice place and another board member sold me the correct arm for the miniature. So here he is with the correct arms and a quick paint job.



And another (lead) weight off my mind and my workbench.

The chequered flag

And over the line we go. With one last push I have completed all the miniatures for my Clash of Kings army.

This little chap is a goblin army standard bearer who has been in the works for at least 10 years! The wolf is from a hobgoblin special character and the banner pole is from a space wolves dreadnought. After many years in bits he is finally ready to ride the battlefield.



With the army out of the way I set about tidying up my workbench. Firstly a very quick paint splatter on a Hasslefree Lenore. Lovely miniature, mediocre paint job.



And finally (for now) a Reaper Bones cleric. He's been knocking around my paint station for at least a year so I thought it was high time I finished him and reclaimed the space. Not fantastic but he's done and that's what counts.



I'm working on a few other miniatures I've had hanging around so with a bit of luck I will have more progress to report before too long.

Is that a crossbow or a cross ogre?

Only a few more days let until the clash and that's the last of the ogres I'll be taking with me completed.



Next up the goblin army standard bearer ... hopefully.

I have a few other bits and pieces rattling round my work space as well. It would be good to have a bit of a clear out and finish a few things before launching into anything too big.