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Reaper Bones

I do like these bones figures. They come as a white plastic figure that is really well detailed. The good thing is that they are nice and cheap. 


The ogre chieftain is £2.25, the cave troll sits at £2.00 with the werewolf coming in at a mere £2.55.
They are big beasties too. They are stood next to a Perry’s French Agincourt knight.

 

The models take the paint really well, this actually Surprised me a bit. I was obviously remembering my old plastic Airfix figures that the paint would spring off.

The werewolf is based differently as I want him for Flintloque type adventures. The others are part of my Dragon Rampant forces where everything is on circular bases.

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Beasties 

Well I messed around loads  tonight so only managed to get the horse done and the werewolf part painted.

I really do like the Reaper Bones werewolf, really cheap but a cracking figure

I also managed to get a grey base coat for Schwartzenbark’s uniform done.

Another parcel from Alternative Armies came today too.

Some figures from the Lady Wintermore’s Fangs set as well as Uncle Rogipoos, Jose and Nursey. I got some more halflings for my eldest to paint up too.

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Dapple Grey

Tried to paint my first dapple grey horse in my lunch break. One can see what it is meant to be, but I am not too convinced.

Maybe once I get everything else Painted and highlighted then it might look better.

I must remember that …If at first I don’t succeed ….. paint them brown!

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Toffee Cows in Progress

And if you are wondering….toffee cow???

First time I ever heard them called a toffee cow was at RAF Machrihanish. A flight sergeant was doing a slide show on mountain rescue and said “no matter where he went there was always a toffee cow”. The name has stuck ever since.

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Brougham

After building the turnip cart, i had a go at building the Brougham. I had a few problems with this- more user error than the actual model. There was o ne bit that looked a bit different to the instructions, but to be fair it want rocket science to work out what went where. The turnip cart was easy to make, this one really did need some kind of instructions to make sure it all went together properly.


It is a really nice model, I really do like the way it actually has steps to allow the passengers to get in, not to mention 2 little holes, designed I would imagine, for the carriage lights. I do have one minor niggle with it (probably due to Warbases trying to get everything to fit onto one mdf tile) the pole for the horses is too low. Coming from a house where my wife is a carriage driver it is really making my head hurt lol. The horse might get a leg over the pole and that is not good at all. Now do I leave it or do I do something about it. My thoughts were to build it up with milliput and then cut away part of the mdf. To be fair once you get a pair in front of the vehicle it cant really be seen. Looking at the image below you can see the pole coming out between the horses at chest height.

If I were to give it a score out of 10 I would give it about a 9.5. Probably not fair to lose .5 simply because I am being a bit anal!

I am not sure what colour to paint it, probably black or a dark blue.

The Brougham’s were used by individuals as well as by ‘taxi drivers’ They were also known as Growlers due to the sound of the iron shod wheels rumbling over the cobblestones.

The major problem I have is that the Brougham was ‘invented’ in 1834, about 20 years after I was wanting to use it lol!

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Turnip Cart

Well I made up my first ever mdf model. Luckily I started with an easy one. The brougham is a bit of a more complex one. I still managed to snap a bit.


It would have been nice if it had been etched on both sides.

I might actually just get some balsa struts in there to break it up a bit.