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 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:
Well Friday is here again and there are more troops that haven’t seen the light of day for who knows how long…
These are some of my troops for my Lion Rampant army. I know the shield was pretty much gone by Agincourt but I reckon these chaps found some and put them to good use. These Perry boxes are really good value as there was enough in the box for a whole army (only some are shown here). I also ordered some French, these however never got finished…
My idea was to mix and match and get a bit of flexibility… sadly Perry’s plastics didn’t have the necessary plastic cavalry so I had to use 15th century mounted troops. The good news is that I recently heard that they are coming out sometime in the not too distant future.
Finally for tonight. My Bidowers for both Dragon and Lion Rampant.
I found these GW minis fitted quite nicely (a bit larger) with the historical troops.
Next week I will see what else I can find in the boxes in the cupboard….
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.
I am pretty new to this Kickstarter Malarkey,
so I was very pleased to see a parcel waiting for me on the kitchen table when I got in tonight.
What seems like an age ago I backed a Kickstarter by Hammerlot Games. They were producing some resin gravestones, and as I have a rather large undead force for the Witchlands I reckoned I would give it a shot.
This was my pledge… I reckoned 40 plus gravestones would be enough.
To be honest 10 would have been enough, but they were so lovely!
Hammerlot were wanting 1000 Euro’s they managed a whopping 14,000 plus, which is very impressive. As you can see from the above the delivery date was July, and I got them in November… am I bothered, not at all. The company were up front at all times and kept everyone up to date by regular updates and to be honest I think a little team of 4 people would be hard pressed to deal with such an increase in demand, they also moved production to a new location (see I said they kept us up to date).
I am really impressed with the quality.
These are the two sets of twenty gravestones…
Following are the stretch goals…
They really are awesome. A close up of the gravestones…
They are all different, no two are the same.
A close up of some of the others…
I really do like how the handles of the tools are made out of bone.
So was my Kickstarter gamble worth it, most definitely. I am looking forward to getting them painted and onto the table…
They will work well with my Witchland’s forces
A ghoul officer orders an undead engineer squad to lift up a tomb lid…I grabbed the unpainted lot as I couldn’t be bothered to dig out the painted mob…
This gives some idea of the painted types…
https://bogenwaldblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/12/undead-forces/
