Bogenwald

Well today I cracked on and got the crossbows finished, leaving seven mounted troops and the big beastie….

I am really, really not looking forward to getting the flock done on these… there are going to be 132 of them to do… I must be totally bonkers!

I did buy some oil paints and thinners and am going to give them a go to add a wash on everything…I will varnish everything first just in case.

The printer has been busy the last couple of days, but it isn’t for me… I am printing up a dwarven army for Joe. I have done three units totalling thirty figures. August brings more troops, so it will give him a chance to get these painted before the next lot drop.

Joe very kindly got me an AA gift voucher for my birthday so I had a think and decided I would go for another HOTT army… but what to choose. I decided on an elven force… but found he had one already and so, because I need my head examined, I went for an Imperial army… yeah more Landsknecht to paint up… why not go for 15m , I mean I already have loads in 6mm and 28mm… these are nice miniatures though…

The only thing I am going to change out is the Giant (we’ll it is a fantasy army)… I am going to shrink down one of my 28mm Ogres for the job… he has Landskecht style armour which will fit in nicely… if I want to change things up a bit I do actually have a Leonardo’s tank from my HOTT Conquistador force 😁.

You can find an image of my tank Here. It worked well in the HOTT competition.

Today I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked, but I did manage a bit. I managed to get the crossbows onto bases as well as add some bits to a couple of the miniatures. The bits added were a couple of severed heads onto the spear and a bell onto an other one.

The only problem with these is that they are a bit on the small size, but to be honest they will be in their own separate unit so it may not be so obvious.

I also got some paint onto the ghouls and the skeletal bases…

I also started printing some dwarves for Joe. Two dozen printed and six in the machine now.

On a totally different note… I watched a couple of Underworld films on Netflix… well it was on in the background and it was a bit weird… the vampire needed a torch to go into dark spaces… she is a Vampire, night walker…by definition she shouldn’t need a torch… okay I know I need to suspend belief, but it did make me chortle a bit.

My second last prints came off the printer today. I now have twelve Dinocrocuta to get painted.

Because I am a total pillock I keep adding to the pile of stuff I need to paint… I think I have the following..

Twelve small ghouls

Six large ghouls

Nine zombie villagers

Seven riders for the horses in progress

One big beastie and it’s rider

I got everything undercoated apart from the beastie rider…so hopefully painting will commence tomorrow.

Here are a selection of the Dinocrocuta…

They have a nice brutish feel about them…

Oh and in case you were wondering the final print were a skeletal Megaloceros and skeletal Smilodon.

Today Joe an I had a morning of painting and then another game of Silver Bayonet.

We basically had to go and rescue some gold from a swamp… slight issue was the scary dog.

So we rolled as per the usual method, but more importantly was the controller of the spectral black dog. Muggins here lost the important roll and was attacked by the dog. It leapt onto my poor doctor who err fell over after getting a nasty bite from a dog who suddenly appeared. The terror roll was at minus 8 on my roll, which was a bugger as I rolled a four on two D10.

Luckily I gained control of the dog for a few turns and managed to get rid of the opposition’s swordswoman. My Supernatural investigator managed to get onto the flank and cause some casualties

My troops had also got their eye in and managed to drop both the officer and doctor. My occultist did everything she could to bless the weapon of the officer, eventually she made, it allowing the officer to wound the dog, sadly though the dog then attacked her…

somehow she survived, especially when a certain person used an awful lot of points to try and bump her off…

In the end the dog attacked the investigator, the occultist managed to bless his weapons, leading to the death of the beast.

In the end, Joe was down to two miniatures remaining, who took the sensible option and legged it.

This left me in charge of the battlefield as well as the gold… and for the first time a win.

It was a great game…

Today I spent more time finding ghouls to print than I did painting. I decided to go for some multi pose ones as it will give me more options.

However as you can see they are huge. This is a problem using different creators…Now I am in two minds.

First is to give these ones away and reduce the size by about 20% so that they fit in as ghouls.

Second is to say bugger it and just run with them as they are… it is a fantasy army after all.

I want twelve of them and have three glued together and three are sitting on the printer so it won’t be too much of a hassle to shrink them and reprint.

I got this far with the zombies…