Four down, two to go…
Fung is the newest member of the rifles, a little green behind the ears (no pun intended).
He was a nice easy miniature to paint, instead of black or white slings for the rifle I decided on grey as I want the unit to be a bit rag tag. I will decide on what kind of pennant to give him.
Three down, three to go…
Ichziah is a firm believer in the Orcish Deity, Sentinal. He always carries the book of holy words with him. His major problem is with the demon drink. No alcohol is safe when Tunge is around.
In game terms Tunge is a magic user.
Of all six figures he is my least favourite, I can’t honestly say why.
Dahn was finished this evening. He has, in the past lost the barrel of his rifle. I added another from a GW plastic empire sprue.
He is an elderly Orc from the hills of Albion. There is probably no better shot in the whole army. He has been known to drop enemy troops at miraculous ranges or through the tiniest gaps. He knows how to get the best out of his Bakur rifle. Keeping everything covered in best brown paper when not in use.
Although his accuracy and skill is beyond compare he will often be heard uttering the phrase ‘can’t see the face, can’t kill the elf’ although not as fast as his comrades he more than makes up for it in his shooting abilities.
Tomorrow evening another member of the rifles (or as they are more correctly named ‘The 105th Loyal Sharpshooters’) will get finished off. Not sure which one yet, but I have four to choose from.
First of the Chosen Orcs finished. Instead of doing a bit on them all I have decided to do one at a time.
I decided to do Bok Arris first as he was the furthest behind of the six rifleorcs.
Arris is an unusual Orc from the ranks in that he can read and write as well as speak several languages including Elvish.
He is a firm believer in Democracy, something that makes him troublesome for most officers.
Tomorrow I will choose another hero at random….
As I decided to listen to this then in respect for John Tams (who played Hagman in Sharpe) tomorrow I think I will have to do Private Hagsmun, an old poacher from the hills of Albion. The ‘best shot’ in the army.
As you might guess…. Not men at all, but elite Orcs of the 105th rifles…
Did a bit of tidying up but as I was so cold I called it an early night.
This set was my first ever Flintloque figures, I picked them up at a convention, York I think. I took them home and got them painted pretty quickly and really liked them… a few more purchases and then no one else was interested. I hung onto them for an age, but then the vast majority went the journey in a bring and buy.
Scroll forwards a lot of years and look what is back on my table. I think I have beaten my original levels of miniatures… back then there wasn’t the range that there is now.
So anyway above we have…
Captain Reckhardt Sharke
Sergeant Padrig Harpy
Private Hagsmun
Private Arris
Private Tunge
Young Private Purkinnz
In the set came nine Ferach… (French Elves). Some of them below, they were finished a year ago!
My good mate Wiggy got me back into these. I have three of these boxed sets, I bought one, he bought me one for Christmas and then I got a pile of stuff off eBay and that had a box in too.
I can use any amount of Ferach but the heroes of the 105th can’t really be used more than once.
Hopefully tomorrow night I will be warmer than tonight (the joys of living in an ancient house) and I will get a pile more done on the orcs.
I managed to crack on tonight and get him done.
As with most things he looks better in real life.
He was a great mini to paint, I do like the Civilians in the Flintloque range. My intention is to get them all, his wife Lady Anna is definitely high on my list if I can find her.
So far I have the Trolkin civilians, Valon as well as the dwarf civilians. Elf ladies and males, most of the Orc civilians, various priests and the odd one or two I have forgotten..
A couple more images of Sir Willorcby…
The basing materials is from Luke’s APS. I decided to give it a bash and I am pleased with it. It does what it says on the tin… PVA then dunk or sprinkle the base with the contents and voila all done and dusted. I went for the Patchy Plains, but I think I may get some of the other base ready pots for the various different theatres…
Tomorrow I may Crack on with the heroes of the rifles…
I got a smidge more done tonight…
Sir Willorcby is one of a pair, now no longer available… sadly lady Anna didn’t arrive with him as he came from eBay.
I am still on the hunt for the good lady, but she hasn’t appeared yet.
Regarding his Lordship…. he has a strange appendage that may be a belt buckle or perhaps a strange necktie… I will contact Alternative Armies to see if they can remember.
A speedy paint job tonight
This young lady came free with my Alternative Armies order. I ordered bits and bobs to finish my 15mm HOTT army and she was in the box. Part of this month’s Azazel’s community challenge was to paint heroes.
So she is my heroine (or anti heroine) for the dark Tzar…
As she is a ghost, she was probably the easiest mini I have ever painted… light white undercoat, a couple of thin coats of white to try and keep the grey tint.
This was followed by a watered down green wash. When dry I used a red wash on the petals and a green wash on the stems.
A quick base of Patchy plains and voila…all done.
I used Greenstuff to reach from the base edge to the top of the mini base which was quite high.
I also made a start on this fine fellow
And after him….
This lot:
I managed to get a bit more paint on him tonight.
Still some work to go, but I am now at the ‘there is something still wrong with him’ point, it might be that he isn’t on a proper base. Or it might just be that the colours are wrong. He has been really easy to paint and to be honest hasn’t taken that long to get to this point.
He was actually meant to be for Azazel’s December Community painting challenge…. errrr but he ended up in November….Luckily I have some other heroic or Anti heroic types that can be painted up.
I decided on a tanned leather coloured coat as opposed to the rotting flesh colour I had done on the previous ones.
The flayed face looks particularly disturbing on the colpack
I will crack on with him tomorrow… and may make a start on something else.
I have a doggy (Ostarian) Hussar that will be an ADC, there is also my Orc gentleman, but most likely Rogipoos will be the one to go for….
Gale force 10 winds, torrential rain…. is causing the lights to act like a disco.
The kids are traumatised as their Minecraft world, they have spent weeks on has become corrupted as the PS4 flickered on and off.
I thought I would show some images of the ghoul forces… these were painted up for my friend for his birthday.
The squad in all of their glory, the faces aren’t visible on the colpack.
A close up of the colours…
The officer is wearing his elfskin coat otherwise his uniform would be green and red too.
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