Froggy Boyz

Well this evening my son and I did indeed have our painting session. I managed to finish the frog riders. If I compare how I feel about these to how I felt about the Sisters then it is like comparing chalk and cheese.

I love these, I think in part because they are such a bonkers idea. Not one of them is sitting on the mount, they are all airborne in one height or another. I also love the randomness of the equipment. Yes I deliberately chose the options to make them this way, but again – bonkers. The lances in the description is frog cavalry with pointed sticks… and that is it down to a tee. They are just long sticks, not even pointy! The frogs themselves look bloody dangerous.

The one thing I noticed when I put them all together is thar the originals are in a polished silver and the new ones ate in gun metal… nothing a wash won’t solve.

So here they are in all their bounding glory…

With these, the frog colour is the unifying colour. If you think back to the frog herds, they were all colours and the leader was pretty colourful too…

In a way I wish I hadn’t gone as bright on the frog herds… at the time I was thinking poison arrow frogs.

James is still busy painting the chaos dudes. They were a present too him from Joe.

The big question is… do I go steppe goblins next… well obviously after I finish the peasants to go with the various knights. With regards to the latter, I have literally just scratched the surface.

Archers and Can Openers

Well it was absolutely my intention to get painting but I am going to run a Geek Club 2.0  in my new school. Off I set to print off some pumpkins for them to have a taster session. Sadly my flamin’ hard drive wouldn’t upen. Turns out it was a dodgy cable, thankfully I had a spare available. So a lot of wasted time occurred. I did manage to slice them and get the printer running. I took a bit of a risk with the resin left in the vat… I gave it a damn good stir… I will find out in 10 minutes if I should have dumped it.

Anyway, when I was out there I rescued this lot…

Eight archers and six can openers. I have the two already on the round bases so Eight of each. I also have the fantasyesque Jean D’arc too. The mounted version is already painted…

Hopefully painting will occur tomorrow!

Goblin Frog Riders

Well as expected I printed the three missing frog riders, and because I can never ever leave any space on the build plate I added a couple of Gallian men at arms.

I even managed to choose ones I hadn’t used before… (pure fluke!)

But because it is me then I decided to print another half dozen men at arms!

Sadly I didn’t feel up to painting and didn’t even try. Not sure if I will manage tomorrow as it is the school leaver’s assembly. I probably won’t be up to much.

Busts and Goblins

Well I retried the bust from yesterday and she came out fine. Obviously the bed had moved and needed re levelling. I now have four to choose from.

The two grey ones are Tytan Troll. The guy on the right is from the Curse of Strahd (some D&D adventure I think). I thought the goblin with the top knot looked funky. The smaller of the undercoated one was a free one from My Mini factory…. Diego Irrazabal. This one printed in five sections. Base, torso, head and the two arms. The big one is from Miniatures of Madness. She is Mizzy the Articifer. She has a matching 32mm miniature and diorama too.  I have her through the tribe. I get one bust a month. This one came through that.

I also mentioned goblins… well here are my swamp goblins so far, by so far I mean ones that I can find.

My KR cases came today… luckily I have goblins as I messed up the sizes. Yes I could have probably sent it back, but these sort of fit and to be honest I can use the inserts fir my 15mm armies.

I just have to decide which bust I am going to start tomorrow. What do you reckon? left to right:

  • A- goblin
  • B- Mizzi
  • C – Armoured Girl
  • D- Bloke in the hat

Until tomorrow…

A Busy Boy

Well after a totally Shite day work wise I came home and decided to be productive.

This lot are now finished, apart from some form of symbol on the two banners and shield  (oh and the green one needs a shield).

I know green is a bit of a rare colour in these kinds of fantasy miniatures  but this isn’t Brettonia so the green rule doesn’t apply. Interestingly enough after the 13th century green was actively avoided into the 15th century. It came back in the 16th, long after people had the need for it on a shield.

So I had a mooch about and got out the medievals I could find…

I might actually have more somewhere.

I now need a lot more commoners!

Actually to be honest, I really need to ask myself… do I really?

My original plan was that each knight had ten to twelve foot. So I would need about another fifty or so to paint! Obviously if I have some unpainted ones lying around then I will get them done.

I also painted some 6mm ork chariots and did a bit more on the bust. I tidied up the painting  cupboard and made another covered (Duck tape) cat food box to store some extra Speedpaints in.

Jean D’Arc

Well sort of…

Not really much done. I was going to undercoat the militia, but it was torrential rain and strong winds so there was no way I was going to go into the shed… wimp that I am!

I painted both flags in the same blue. This was with Army Painter standard acrylic. Some shading and highlighting will be required.

Oh yeah I painted the green on the knight too.

Hopefully I can carry on tomorrow.

Knights and Pumpkins

I carried on with the Knights and foot soldiers this evening. I just need to get the bases painted on the foot below. I have to finish Joan D’arc and make a start on another mounted knight and another banner bearer on foot,

I also got this lot done for my mate…

I still have to do the stems and then get them based up.

For these pumpkins I went outside my usual method and sprayed these black, dry brushed them white then added the orange. I actually did something different to my usual… I won’t be doing this regularly though.

In other news my new filament printer arrived today.

Something Achieved

This evening I forced myself to paint something. I am really not in the mood at the minute. Ongoing health problems mean I am knackered and then I have had this flu thing…

But this evening I went for it 🙂

Mr Dwarf was picked up and added to the part painted pile. He is nearly finished… it has only taken me about ten months so far.

Hopefully I will keep the momentum going tomorrow.

Another Knight Finished

This evening I got this pair finished.

Bill the pony made an appearance to balance the scene up a bit. I am toying with the idea to add water slide transfers to the knight as well as the shields on the various foot soldiers.

I made a start on another pair of mounted knights as well as more foot.

The school has built a little diorama for a local festival of trees. Here is a work in progress…

I will get photos of the finished diorama tomorrow… well it better be finished tomorrow as I need to get it to the organisers tomorrow afternoon.

Painting Knights

This evening I got some paint slapped onto the Highland Miniatures Knights.

The colours for the livery are in a different style to the previous iterations.

I really had to force myself to get this small amount done. I am still not 100% so anything I manage is better than nothing.