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A Ghostly Bride

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:

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Kryptofski Ghoul Officer,

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….

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No Painting tonight…

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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Graveyard Gamble

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/

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10mm Undead

Now onto the undead…

Still in Aberdeen so more pictures of previously painted stuff.

A small force of scary stuff.

Vampire commanders, one of the three bat clouds, the other two are sitting in the 15mm early German box. This became a quasi fantasy force with both werewolves and giant bats.

Skeletons both cavalry and infantry with their own command. Ghosts in the background

Zombies with big scary skeletons and mummies in the background

I increase my undead force by including the beggar army to act as thralls

They have their own command (at the back)

They do have a mounted force

As well as a small force of missile troops.

As with the barbarians, these are based up for GW’s Warmaster. I intend to rebase the cavalry to a 30 x 40mm base giving me two bases worth.

Other things I found when I was having a mooch around in my boxes.

Samurai Apes, these are part finished and the following need even more work

I have a whole host of the blue ones at the same stage of painting. I may have to get them finished now that I have found them. The above is pretty much the full range apart from bow armed tiger riders. They really could do with some additions. Some form of peasants as well as some monks and ninja just to name a few.

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Witchland…Thingies

These are thingies or even thingumybobs.

An evil combination of Skaven and zombie. I had a couple of zombie heads going spare and a pile of skaven bodies and I thought I would give it a go. Tail removed and the zombie head attached with Greenstuff. A down and dirty paint job and voila.. a couple of… whatever’s!

Funnily enough I did not enjoy painting these at all. I can’t say why I just didn’t. Strangely exactly the same thing happened with the Witchland Zombies I added to my Flintloque force. I just didn’t enjoy painting them.

I have painted plastics before and never had the same feeling of ‘meh’. It is not as if I haven’t painted plastics before and to be honest I just painted a plastic Space Marine that I quite enjoyed.

It shall probably remain one of those mysterious mysteries.

Speaking of space Marines I built some of the chaos ones.

To be honest I am quite impressed, even though you can’t do much to these ones apart from maybe move the position of the arms a bit and get the middle one to turn his head the other way. I am going to have a mess around with my green stuff tentacle roller tool and see if I can make the next lot look a little different.

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Witchland Werewolves

Nearly there with these…

Birthday tea and people packing meant I didn’t get as far on as I would have liked. To be honest they are nearly there… a bright silver edge to the swords and bayonets and another layer of the brighter green and red as the layers I put on earlier are all but gone.

This is the command group for the werewolves…

One of these days, I am actually going to have to properly base everything painted. That will be a dark day… I find painting relaxing and basing stressful.

Finally I went and purchased a couple of the next Conquest magazines. To be honest I will probably never use the miniatures but my little boy enjoys painting things from time to time. It saves me trying to find something for him to paint.

Three figures, six dice and a pot of paint, not to mention a cardboard battle mat for £4.99 isn’t a bad deal.

I only wish they would fasten the top down better…as I put the other one in my basket the top flew off and the contents flew all over the co-op. The people in the queue by the magazine stand helped me get everything back. It really is amazing how far a six sided dice can go on a tiled floor!

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Return to the Witchlands Again

A smidge more tonight

Not that you can really tell 😱

Bits and pieces such as teeth, base coat on the musket woodwork and the gold and face on the vampire Officer.

Before I got these out of their box I was convinced that they were much further on than they actually were. Still a fair bit to go highlights on the uniform etc, claws and the bits that were chipped to heck when someone knocked them off the top shelf. Metalwork on the weapons needs doing too.

I knocked up a poster for this years games day. Quick and easy and hopefully bright enough to spot. I have still to do the leaflets to hand out on the day.

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Return to the Witchlands

I decided to get some more paint onto my werewolves…

I would have got more done but thunder was rumbling around the surrounding area and the lights kept going off.

I thought I had better get back on with them before I carried on with the French Indian Wars stuff.

Whilst painting I noticed the following…

I mean what could possibly go wrong! Luckily I decided to eat my yoghurt before the inevitable happened.

I will probably crack on with these tomorrow night.

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Werewolves…slow progress

Very slow progress

Subtle highlights on the green uniform and white breeches. Base coat of red down and white strapping painted in.

You can just about see the green highlights here.

Still a longish way to go. My paint brush looks like it is eventually giving up the ghost 😟. It wasn’t a Windsor and Newton super expensive one, but a cheap one that actually had a bit if a bend at the end. I found it really easy to use, but tonight sadly it started splitting down the middle as I ran it over the figures.

I reckon another couple of evenings and I will have these done.

On the upside, I found a regimental colours to fit the flag pole.

I may do another one, I have some with a full moon on, but they are the larger size version. The other option is to extend the length of the pole.