This little chap is the final ork from the Alternative Armies pile of miniatures I am doing for my mate.
I had sent him a photo of the latest two and asked what colours he wanted doing on the undead.
I was just about to get him painted when he sent a message and asked for him to have a red jacket with yellow trim. This isn’t a problem but Five minutes later he would have had a brown jacket.
Tonight I did another couple of the Alternative Armies Miniatures. We have an exploring officer on the left and Sir Markus Conclave of the Kings Own Rockette Batteries…
Of the two Conglave is my favourite of the two.
This leaves the orc reporter for the ork miniatures I will keep going with the Alternative Armies until my secret project arrives 😉.
Today I managed to get a bit of painting done as I was in the house due to having a bit of a head cold. I also had to go and pick up Esther from the Ferry first thing this morning so I had a bit longer to paint too.
I still have another three orks to do before going onto the rest.
When I picked up Esther at the ferry, I also picked up her sister and our new house guest….
Skyla will be with us for the next week.
So I got these finished this evening. It was my intention to get them completely done. It looks like they will need to be based tomorrow.
I nipped into town this afternoon and got some new Contrast paint. My skeleton bone was almost out and my Gore Grunta fur is pretty empty too.
Last night we played the fourth scenario in the Silver Bayonet…
An agent had been killed in the forest and both forces had to findmthe body and retrieve his signet ring to prove the rumours were true. The first team assigned to this had been chased off by some strange squat creatures… I mean whatever could possibly go wrong! 🙄
The five markers across the middle of the table were the clue markers…one of them would be the missing agent.
As you can see we set up in opposite corners and off we set. I won initiative and moved to the wood as my officer and investigator moved towards the marker, Joe did likewise.
Unfortunately for Joe the Goblin on the centre hill saw his troops and moved off towards them. Unfortunately for me a goblin randomly chose to appear right next to the marker so a bit of a scrap occurred. In fact my officer and agent were stuck there for the next four turns as all Goblins appeared at the same spot… on the upside I got a lot of points for killing them all…
Now luckily for me both of the above were armed with cold iron weapons, which negates the 4 points damage reduction against the Goblins, also my officer was lucky enough to be wearing a religious symbol, which thankfully causes the Goblins to take a -3 to hit… this alone kept my officer alive on a number of occasions.
By turn three all hell was breaking loose across the centre, not to mention that Joe had found the missing agent’s body…
As I said things got a bit messy in the centre, by turn five bodies were piled everywhere
We managed on double one whole game and this led to a possessed scary thing which thankfully appeared on Joe’s side of the table, unfortunately for me, not close enough to stop his infantryman carrying off the agents ring.
Once again my poor investigator did his best to chase the artefact, and once again it slipped through his fingers.
In the end Joe had four of his force downed and I lost one.
Injuries for his officer was a permanent reduction of -1 to health, this goes alongside the jitters which gives him a permanent-1 to his courage roll. His Swordswoman took a ball to the knee and has a -1 to he movement, she also has the jitters. His doctor and infantryman took only a flesh wound so are fine.
My one casualty was extremely unlucky as he was killed by the extremely accurate shot that got him. This is after he did a reroll to reduce his damage, which he did… sadly just not enough… I rolled a six, I needed a seven! So poor Francois, the Miller’s son from Lille, will sadly no longer make it home to his wife and young child.
Louise Julie, comtesse de Mailly did an excellent job cursing just about everyone in her line of sight, it was her intervention at one point that kept the noble officer alive. Captain Jean Luc Picard was most grateful that he found such a useful associate. He was also lucky that as a comtesse, she could never be claimed to be a witch.
It was another great game, total casualties across the three forces were and amazing ten downed. My force comprised eight, Joe had seven and the Goblins five.
We are going to take a break for a while, bit it will give me time to sort out more terrain and to find all the monsters I might need. I can see some 3D printing is going to take place for some of them.
Tonight I did a bit more on this pair…
Really just the teeth to do on McBam, but a lot more to do on Giggers. I also did a bit on a couple of others.
Tonight I made a start on some of the Britorcn officers. Left to right are a military Padre, Major Giglamps of Afri and Captain Angus McBam of Joccia…
To be honest the kilt is a little subtle, but felt it was better than my first attempt. They all Have a long way to go, but at least some colours are appearing on the undercoat. The faffing about with the tartan and chequered cloth certainly slowed things down a bit.
So I suddenly remembered that there were two Catalucian officers sitting in full view and have been since… at least 3rd February… so this evening instead of the Samurai I thought I might as well get them finished to join the rest of them.
To be honest, nothing fancy. The one in green has a weird moustache and in hindsight perhaps a lighter colour might have been a better choice for it. I feel a colour change coming on tomorrow.
This evening I cracked on and got the remaining foot painted and based up.
So that is them all done apart from these two
Since this photo was taken I have managed to paint the base brown and add a black edge 😃. I am going to try and get them finished tomorrow.
I spent the last couple of days adding bits of white to the undercoated then Contrast covered elves. This evening I started adding colour to them.
As you can see these are different to the others, the drummer is still a mystery to me. I actually think he is kne of the Ferach (French) elves. The shako cover really does make me think that… I just couldn’t be bothered to check it out. Well he is now in the pay of the Catalucian elves…
Hopefully I will crack on with these tomorrow. Luckily I am on my Easter break so I might get the chance for sneaky painting sessions during the day.
Bogenwald 