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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Hammers on April 10, 2016, 11:39:51 PM
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Just a place to shove my Game of Thrones stuff, things which maybe also serve as medieval.
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Let's see 'em then!
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Ooo, you tease ;D
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Aha :)
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From LPL10,
'Rascal', class Cad light catapult
Catapult crew in House Clover livery (silver on red)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Catapult.jpg)
'Lightning', class Storm medium trebuchet
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SmallTrebuchet.jpg)
'Thunder', class Storm heavy trebuchet
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/LargeTrebuchet.jpg)
House Glover standardbearer
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/HouseGloverStandard.jpg)
Wee Waldo, strong simpleton levy
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/WeeWaldo.jpg)
Greatox, Hedge knight
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/GreatoxHedgeKnight.jpg)
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Oh my.
Those trebuchets are incredible - epecially the heavy.
The Hedge Knight: one of the best models from the Mordheim range.
I really likethe armoured chap with the mallet and his team on the smaller trebuchet. 8) 8) 8)
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Can you tell us where you sourced the siege weapons please...
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Can you tell us where you sourced the siege weapons please...
The two smaller ones are Zvezda. As 1/72 they are on the small side but very nice kits. There is a ballista in the kit to but I am saving that one for something. Being out of hard plastic I have weighed them down with sheet lead.
'Thunder' is completely scratch built in wood.
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The piccies won't load for me. :'(
Dying to see them.
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Hadn't seen the Zvedza kit before and it looks great - I think I 'need' one for my own project !
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Excellent job on the scratchbuild
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'Thunder' is a work of sheer magnificence. Really nice stuff Pedr!
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Stunning work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
I am impressed with your use of 1/72 scale, never would have thought they would match up
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You're still a tease ;D
Lovely work though 8)
cheers
James
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Lovely. Much more in keeping with my vision of Westeros.
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Splendid work!
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Flash from the past, drunk septon:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/DrunkSepton.jpg)
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Not very happy with this one but just to have everything in one place: King of the North
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/14/134_02_09_13_5_44_46.jpg)
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Very nice stuff. Those Zvezda kits are definitely worth getting for gaming purposes, and the heavy trebuchet is a work of scratchbuilding art!
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Not very happy with this one but just to have everything in one place: King of the North
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/14/134_02_09_13_5_44_46.jpg)
I love it, Hammers! :-*
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stunning :-* :-* :-*
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I agree, some excellent toys...
The Zvezda onagers and ballistae are great kits and go well with 25mm figs... you can see my battery of three in front of the oliphaunts (middle right of photo) from this Salute game in 2010
(http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x200/sukhe_bator/Salute%202010%20AoA%20game/IMG_1334.jpg)
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Looks nice Hammers !
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As I clicked on to view the latest post I noticed that there had been 666 views .......
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/RooseBoltonI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/RooseBoltonII.jpg)
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awwwwww what sweet, cute, cuddly little puppies ....NOT! :o :o :o
These would give me the creeps and freak me out painting them up if I had some (as you can probably guess I'm not a Dog person) looking gooooood >:D
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Holy mother of dragons! :o
That guy screams Roose Bolton, really nice find!!
Great work on the dogs too!
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Great stuff 8)
Keep it coming :D
cheers
James
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Love it! Very much how I imagine him. The hounds are great too!
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very "nice " Ramsey :-*
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I can't get the pictures to load. :-[ :-[ :-[
Dying to see what others are reacting to...
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Oooh lovely :)
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Those siege weapons are lovely. :-*
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The miniature is El Cid, sculpted by Mark Copplestone as a limited edition, releases with the El Cid Warhammer Historical supplement. I've had it in the pile for ages. When I picked it up it just said: "My name is Bolton. Roose Bolton'. But I think it is fashioned after Charlton Heston in the title role from 1961.
The mutts are a mixed bag of Citadel and Rackham.
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One thread more to follow :-*
Very cool idea to use El Cid, Peder :D I stil haven't decided what to do with mine
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I meant to add, I find your "King in the North" a fantastic conversion. Don't know why you're unhappy with it.
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Neither do I. I just aint. :)
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Roose Bolton looks fantastic! You've also made the pink colour scheme work really well.
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Smalljon UmberI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Smalljon UmberII.jpg)
[knight of unknown brand, possibly citadel, the charger is from eBob]
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SerGallanTrantAndRetinueI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SerGallanTrantAndRetinueII.jpg)
[Claymore Scot, Perry First Crusader, Copplestone Henry V and eBob Scottish knight]
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Nice painting compadre. Who be they in Westerosi terms? :)
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Stormlands. One of the kingsguard, Ser Meryn Trant is the pederast sadist asshole of the Kingsguard, who Arya Stark stabbed in the eyes in a Braavosi brothel. This fellow is not him, however, but some senior relative.
Their coat of arms is a corpse dangling from a gallowtree, sable on azure. Thier words are "So end our foes". They are supposed to fit with my sept project.
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Very nice indeed and another house again! I like it that you all choose so many different houses ! Wouldn't it be grand to have them all on one table at least for a photo session ?
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Picking House Trant of Grey Gallows in the Stormlands as my project I did not, from a heraldry position, make things easy for myself. They blaze their shield, according to 'semi-canon sources' (whatever that is') with 'azure, a hanged man, sable'. This means the profile of a man in black in a noose on a blue field. Black on blue... difficult.
This semi-canon source aside, there is a passage from 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdom', chapter 'The Mystery Knight' where one of the protagonists, Dunk, has re-equipped himself with a vintage shield emblazoned with the previous owners heraldry:
'Dunk had not had the time to have it painted with his elm and shooting star, so it still bore the arms of it's last owner: a hanged man swinging grey and grim beneath a gallows tree. It was not a sigil he would have chosen for himself, but the shield had come cheap.'
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/DunkAndEggTrantShield.jpg)
Well, I guess that is 'canon' enough...
So my attempt, as a rough starting point, is to do this in a much larger scale...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/HouseTrantHeraldry.jpg)
Any old how you interpret this, it is bloody hard to transfer to a 28mm shield or banner. Anyway, I thought it better to have a large scale template to transfer to something lesser...
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Thats exactly what I do when I design my freehand. Draw it up much larger as a template!
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They blaze their shield, according to 'semi-canon sources' (whatever that is')
That means a fanboy in some spin-off compendium / wiki has made it up, and George RR Martin has said 'hey, that sounds cool, I'm okay with that...'
Given that some of GRRMs own heraldic inventions in the books make little sense in terms of either basic colour theory or legibility / visibility (never mind historical heraldic practice), it's unsurprising that his acolytes come up with equally ineffective blazons. Anyone who thinks red on pink (the Boltons) makes for a good, recognisable battlefield device, probably isn't going to be fazed by the equally unlikely combo of a black motif on a dark blue field... ::)
I'd go for a very light 'Azure'.
Good luck with the freehand ;)
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I applaud your heraldic endeavours. A really nicely themed retinue coming along there...
I'm pressing ahead with my Lannister forces and they are the devil's own job to do... the blazons are all bloomin' animals... lions, hounds, boars, oxen, peacocks, even beetles! It's the stuff of nightmares in 28mm...
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and don't get me started on the unicorns!
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That means a fanboy in some spin-off compendium / wiki has made it up, and George RR Martin has said 'hey, that sounds cool, I'm okay with that...'
Given that some of GRRMs own heraldic inventions in the books make little sense in terms of either basic colour theory or legibility / visibility (never mind historical heraldic practice), it's unsurprising that his acolytes come up with equally ineffective blazons. Anyone who thinks red on pink (the Boltons) makes for a good, recognisable battlefield device, probably isn't going to be fazed by the equally unlikely combo of a black motif on a dark blue field... ::)
I'd go for a very light 'Azure'.
Good luck with the freehand ;)
Richard, a tip... When I did my Roose Bolton, I figured he would have had a skilled AD make a rather impressive shield designed for him, so I took a fine aluminum mesh as a guide upon the shield and made small red paint dots off the pattern. As symmetry does not always come naturally to me I found this a nice help.
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That means a fanboy in some spin-off compendium / wiki has made it up, and George RR Martin has said 'hey, that sounds cool, I'm okay with that...'
Given that some of GRRMs own heraldic inventions in the books make little sense in terms of either basic colour theory or legibility / visibility (never mind historical heraldic practice), it's unsurprising that his acolytes come up with equally ineffective blazons. Anyone who thinks red on pink (the Boltons) makes for a good, recognisable battlefield device, probably isn't going to be fazed by the equally unlikely combo of a black motif on a dark blue field... ::)
I'd go for a very light 'Azure'.
Good luck with the freehand ;)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was written by GRRM as far as I am aware. I think it's a sort of a prequel but not.
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I've made a little warband for my implementation of Frostgrave (locally called 'Fallgrave') which I build with my sons. This rowdy lot is constructed around an Enchanter wizard and apprentice, which both look rugged enough to blend nicely with the barbarian sprue I gave my younger son (Can O'Beer) last Christmas. We also threw a cultist tracker in the mix for good measure.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SonsOfSven2.jpg)
In my experience it is rare that optional-position kits doesn't leave the miniatures looking like the arms are stuck on. Therefore the arms of most the barbarians have gone through substantial modification. I have hollowed out the shoulder joints and rounded the upper arms to get a tighter fit. Some arms are changed to get a more dynamic fighting position.
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Can O'Beer, my youngest son, has helped me name the characters
Here's Maester Sven...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/MaesterSven1.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/MaesterSven2.jpg)
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Sven the Younger, apprentice
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SvenTheYounger.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SvenTheYounger2.jpg)
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Sven, lord of Sven
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SvenLordOfSven.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SvenLordOfSven2.jpg)
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Sven Svenson Sven
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SvenSvenssonSven1.jpg)
Sven, son of Sven
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SvenSonOfSven2.jpg)
Stor-Sven
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/WeeSven1.jpg)
Sven Svenscousin
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SvenSvenscousin2.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SvenSvenscousin3.jpg)
Not-Sven the bastard
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/NotSven.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/NotSven2.jpg)
Sven the Hound
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/SvenTheHound2.jpg)
I do not necessarily share my sons' sense of humor but there it is.
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lol - they look lovely regardless. At least when new members join they don't have any problems remembering everyone's name (or worrying that their name hasn't been remembered).
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Love ‘em!
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Tanks, chaps. :)
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Great stuff Hammers :D
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Nice work, and I like the names.
:D
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I love your excessive use of birch seed pods - I am yet to find the right time to collect the seeds for drying to make my own supply.
Also glad to see that the rulebook is causing minis to get painted! ;)
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You need to make one more.
Sven Svenne.
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You need to make one more.
Sven Svenne.
Perhaps. Since Maester Sven is an Enchanter there will certainly be an magically imbued construct called 'the Svenimator'-
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Is there room for a spy-type character called Dub-lo Sven? ;)
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Is there room for a spy-type character called Dub-lo Sven? ;)
lol
Looking great Hammers!
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A prototype paintjob of a House Bolton pikeman.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/BoltonPike1.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/BoltonPike2.jpg)
It turns out it was a good idea to paint one in full before taking on the rest of the 23 little bastards I have customized, based and primed. With so many on the table you want to have the process well thought through.
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Very cool 8)
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Stunning...and creepy...in a good way
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Scarily good shield! The whole thing is excellent....
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Looking good! The fleshy-pink colour really works for House Bolton!
Silly question but what manufacturer is the mini from?
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Wow! That's great work :-*
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Great work!
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Peder :o :-* That shield is both ingenious and fabulous. Love it.
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Hammers why spend all this talent on GOT? Come back to BOB, all is forgiven lol lol Admit it, you really want to buckle on the broom handle Mauser, slap on your Woolsey helmet and enter back into the fray.
Lon
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outstanding :-* :-*
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Hammers why spend all this talent on GOT? Come back to BOB, all is forgiven lol lol Admit it, you really want to buckle on the broom handle Mauser, slap on your Woolsey helmet and enter back into the fray.
Lon
Who says I am not doing BoB? I just haven't posted much in a while.
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Looking good! The fleshy-pink colour really works for House Bolton!
Silly question but what manufacturer is the mini from?
Its a Bretonnian spearman, I am not sure which manufacturer it is. Some GW Warhammer affiliated company. Maurauder Miniatures, perhaps? They are heroic 28 scale, so they fit well with Oldhammer and Gamezone. I have about 20 more ready to go. The pike is from my miniforge, inspired by the Bolton troops at the Battle of the Bastards as seen in the TV series. The pavise is a GW Tomb King shield, which I picked because of it's size, shape and the skull shield buckle which I thought could be incorporated in the flayed man motif. I will however not stick to one motif, but do a several variations of the House Bolton heraldry (a red flayed man on pink de sang). More on that later.
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Now that shield is clever! It's quite disturbing, like a midget was skinned and nailed to it.
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What a comeback to this thread! Very nicely done, fits the Bolton theme perfectly!
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My 20 something Bolton pikemen are nearing completion so I thought I'd show my pavise artwork before I glue them onto the grunts.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/BoltonShields1.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/BoltonShields2.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/BoltonShields3.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/BoltonShields4.jpg)
As most of you know, the Bolton colors are ”rose gouttée-de-sang, a flayed man gules", that is a skinned man on on a pink field splattered with blood drops. This is really a classical heraldry horror as pink is the same as red, meaning a red man on a red field with a scatter of red droplets.
To circumvent this I have done the pink in a light flesh tone and the skinned man and blood in a blackish red with a deep red highlight.
Unfortunately the shoddy lighting have tinted the pictures a bit yellow. The shields have a more pinkish hue which I did not manage to restore in Photoshop.
These are based on GW Tomb Kings shield of which most have a (surprise, surprise!) skull buckle. I have in some case cut this off but in others incorporated them in the design of the flayed man. I have added an anchor spike at the bottom of each shield.
Various studs are either metal or over painted in deep red.
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Very nicely done - I like how you’ve used the skulls 8)
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Those pavises are great, I like the variety. Well done man :)
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Excellent 8)
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Very grim and ingenious Peder 8)
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Very gruesome - excellent job
:)
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Excellent work!
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Very nasty looking and excellent!
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An action shot of my just completed Boltons.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Boltons1.jpg)
A rather messy composition. I find it hard to set up miniature glamour shots in the cramped space I call my 'atelier'. You cannot, for example, see much of the Bastard of Bolton.
I will fuck about with the individual and small group shots in Photoshop later.
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Fabulous :-*
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Pike command headed by Roose Bolton himself, sans chiennes.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/RooseBoltonCommand.jpg)
Pike command, headed by the Bastard of Bolton, Ramsay Snow, also without dogs.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/BastardOfBoltonCommand.jpg)
Too over exposed to conjure away in Photoshop, I am afraid. I will reshoot the rest to see if I can do better.
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/HouseBoltonPike1.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/HouseBoltonPike2.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/HouseBoltonPike3.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/HouseBoltonPike4.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/HouseBoltonPike5.jpg)
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Lovely looking minis, I have those for use as Tully’s in a never started ASOIAF project.
For reference the minis are sold by Black Tree Designs - men of Averaign
https://eoeorbisuk.com/collections/fantasy/range_men-of-averaign
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Splendid Peder. A lot of gruesome character in those.
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Lovely looking minis, I have those for use as Tully’s in a never started ASOIAF project.
For reference the minis are sold by Black Tree Designs - men of Averaign
https://eoeorbisuk.com/collections/fantasy/range_men-of-averaign
I enjoyed painting these miniatures of a slightly larger size for skirmish gaming. Not quite in par with the Bretonnians created for GW by, I believe, the Perry brothers. But they do the trick, matched with Game Zone and the aforementioned GW. The latter are awfully expensive on the second hand market. The plastic variants are rubbish. Luckily I only need a a few, so I will gets some archers, horse retainers and a couple of knights more.
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They look great! Some very appropriately grim Boltons!
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Suitably gruesome looking Boltons
What’s next for your project?
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Some westerland troops. Mostly billmen of houses Marbrand and Clegane. I have just completed a knight and a horse retainer of house Trant (of Greygallows, the Stormlands). After that I aim to do a some archers, some in armed and in livery, others in non-descriptive levy colours.
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Difficult heraldry, Marbrand:
(https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/thumb/d/d4/House_Marbrand.svg/545px-House_Marbrand.svg.png)
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Some westerland troops. Mostly billmen of houses Marbrand and Clegane. I have just completed a knight and a horse retainer of house Trant (of Greygallows, the Stormlands). After that I aim to do a some archers, some in armed and in livery, others in non-descriptive levy colours.
Given how awesome your Bolton’s look, I’m really looking forward to the next instalment
:)
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Difficult heraldry, Marbrand:
(https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/thumb/d/d4/House_Marbrand.svg/545px-House_Marbrand.svg.png)
Possibly my favourite Westerosi house, but sadly quite difficult (and ugly) heraldry.
There are some real world examlex of burning trees in heraldry btw:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Burning_trees_in_heraldry
These may be less cartoonesk than the one you posted.
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Possibly my favourite Westerosi house, but sadly quite difficult (and ugly) heraldry.
There are some real world examlex of burning trees in heraldry btw:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Burning_trees_in_heraldry
These may be less cartoonesk than the one you posted.
To be fair, one of the examples you linked to looks rather similar.... ;)
(https://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh72/AKULADEEP/95CE1131-23F7-4A7F-BD5C-DF67CE35EC31_zpslgddwft6.jpeg)
It does look a bit cartoony viewed at close range, but translated into a 28mm shield it may well look very different...particularly if I was the one trying to paint it :D
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Whaddayouknow... That's quite interesting.
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To be fair, one of the examples you linked to looks rather similar.... ;)
Haha, fair enough! lol
I like this one the best, but that's even more complicated to paint on little shields:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/af/7f/4f/af7f4f39fb7254dabd0d4c7e1e28b9b5.gif)
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My shields are done. I'll post them later.
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Looking forward to seeing them. I did a Marbrand shield a while back, it ended up being mostly flame and very little tree.
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Bit late to your thread, its excellent, lovely work on the latest figures. :-*
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Looking forward to seeing them. I did a Marbrand shield a while back, it ended up being mostly flame and very little tree.
I found it difficult to make vermillion contrast with ash grey. The outline doesn't show very well.
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Really nice :-* The action shot(with the scenery) is brilliant!
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They look fantastic on the battlefield.
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I've completed the lord of House Marbrand, ser Damon. The Marbrands are not mentioned much in the canon, but Damon is the lord of Ashemark in the north east corner of the westerlands. The house are staunch followers of the Lannisters.
As mentioned in this thread they blazon their shields with cendrée, a tree in flame tenné, that is a burning tree against a field of ash grey. The son and heir of ser Damon, Addam, is said to wear burnished bronze armour and favours "red" horses, which means chestnuts.
I've picked the a scale of scarlet-vermilion-orange on light ash grey for the Marbrand livery.
The miniature is a 3rd edition Warhammer bretonnian wizard with the orb swapped for a sword. The original plastic horses are not very good, so I had him saddle a fiercer looking courser from a Chaos marauder, which I think does the trick.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/xSerDamonMarbrandI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/xSerDamonMarbrandII.jpg)
I like the rather natty hat. I actually own a similar one for reenactment, but in green, siena livery, lined with red silk. Makes me look (and behave) like a cockerel.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/xSerDamonMarbrandIII.jpg)
Ser Damon is not, in armour, as you can see, but I hooked his shield and helmet onto the saddle, as if he has been accosted unawares.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/SerDamonDetailI.jpg)
I put some effort into painting some embroidered detail on the cotehardie (long sleeved buttoned jacket).
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/SerDamonDetailII.jpg)
Closeup of the blazon of a burning tree, orange on smoke. I am guessing heraldry comes from a the Targaryan conquest when part of the westerlands were burnt. Or something like that. Given the general trends of Westrosi history, it is a safe bet that the area was burnt at some point.
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The billmen retinue of Ser Damon.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/xMarbrandCaptainI.jpg)
A captain of the Marbrand household troops, perhaps a bastard by the lords son and therefore named "Hill", as all ill-begotten children of the westerlands.
[Citadel Bretonnian]
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/xMarbrandCaptainII.jpg)
A variant of the blazon on a smaller shield.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/xMarbrandBillmanII.jpg)
I am not sure billmen would be carrying large shields as it would encumber their effective use of the halberd. But if he can sling it on his back like this it gives me an opportunity to paint the heraldry, which is fun. [Citadel Bretonnian]
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/xMarbrandBillmanI.jpg)
Looking at this shield now, I should go back and tidy up that paint job...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/xMarbrandBillmenIII.jpg)
These had no sling and peg on the back for a shield so I did not bother. [Black Tree Design Men of Averign]
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/xMarbrandBillmenIV.jpg)
I have really come to like painting these larger miniatures. There are not many suppliers (Game Zone, Black Tree Design, Fireforge) and the second hand Oldhammer Bretonnians market can be awfully pricey. [ Citadel Bretonnian and Black Tree Design Men of Averign]
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/xMarbrandBillmenV.jpg)
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A lot of gritty character in those Peder :-*
Ser Damon is magnificent.
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“Gritty” ...exactly the word I was looking for - lovely work
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Thanks, friends.
I have previously in this thread posted a few things regarding the family of Stormland landed knights by the name of House Trant. I bought these feudal knight and squire some time ago because of their beautifully dynamic poses.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/xTrantKnight1.jpg)
The horse is really getti'n it in this little vignette like miniature. The arrows, both to Ser Trant and the horse, are my own additions. I most often use thin steel piano wire for this which are fletched with thin paper and superglue. [Game Zone]
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/xTrantKnight2.jpg)
Here form an angle where it is almost possible to see the rather intricate heraldry of House Trant: azure, a hanged man sable.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/xTrantKnight3.jpg)
I admit, I usually use this kind of miniature as casualty marker, but in upcoming games I suppose he'll be crashing and dying like this all over the game board, perhaps pulling some other antagonists down with him.
The above feudal knight is the only produced by Game Zone miniatures which I like, the others being real clunkers. They do a set of mounted squires which are very nice and of which I am sure I will order more.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/xTrantSquire1.jpg)
The nag, as most metal horses balancing on one leg, broke during some rough handling so I've pinned it with piano wire. It will take a lot to make that snap, but since the pin is spring steel it now wobbles in an amusing way when moved about.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/xTrantSquire2.jpg)
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Lovely. Like old master oil paintings.
Love the idea of the wobbly horse lol
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Lovely work! Damon Marbrand's conversion looks great! Keep it up!
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Love the new forces especially the wonderfully dynamic dying knight and repurposed Brettonians. Those Brettonians were some of my favorites back when I first started gaming. Though they their heraldry was nowhere near as pretty or even accurate.
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Great additions, especially like Ser Trant
What’s next?
More....we need more Game of Thrones goodness
:D
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Great additions, especially like Ser Trant
What’s next?
More....we need more Game of Thrones goodness
:D
I don't plan to make armies, just a couple of bands which can clash by the Sept of Seven Hells. I need archers ( in house hold livery or levy rabel) and some riders. I have a few Clegane billmen but I need a suitable figure for Ser Sandor. Haven't found one yet. A few mercenaries from Myr with crossbows would be nice. I have a maester on horse and some sort of low key magician would be cool, like a red priest, an alchemist of Kings Landing or a warlock of Qarth. By most accounts battle magic in Westros was considered more like posturing than having a real impact (well, you could claim that controlling dragons and wild fire have a lot to do with the outcome of battles, but the former is more like being an elephant tamer and the latter more akin to being a combat engineer).
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It's quite difficult to find a suitable large miniature to represent Ser Gregor Clegane, isn't it? By all descriptions he is the size and stature of a GW ogre, but I am not very fond of those. They are too cartoony.
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I don't plan to make armies, just a couple of bands which can clash by the Sept of Seven Hells. I need archers ( in house hold livery or levy rabel) and some riders. I have a few Clegane billmen but I need a suitable figure for Ser Sandor. Haven't found one yet. A few mercenaries from Myr with crossbows would be nice. I have a maester on horse and some sort of low key magician would be cool, like a red priest, an alchemist of Kings Landing or a warlock of Qarth. By most accounts battle magic in Westros was considered more like posturing than having a real impact (well, you could claim that controlling dragons and wild fire have a lot to do with the outcome of battles, but the former is more like being an elephant tamer and the latter more akin to being a combat engineer).
That’s the great thing about Game of Thrones - everyone has their own take on it, their own end goal, whether pitched battles or skirmishing. Personally I enjoy seeing Westeros through others eyes as much as progressing my own project.
:)
It's quite difficult to find a suitable large miniature to represent Ser Gregor Clegane, isn't it? By all descriptions he is the size and stature of a GW ogre, but I am not very fond of those. They are too cartoony.
Funnily enough was thinking exactly that earlier today. He is actually one of a handful of characters where I’d consider using the official figures (Darksword rather than the CMON range).
It’s not just the size, but finding a dynamic pose that looks right.
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Brilliant work Pedr,your painting gritty ,though not dull; a lovely style :-*
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Brilliant work Pedr,your painting gritty ,though not dull; a lovely style :-*
Thank you. It is not really an effect I consciously seek. Having moved about among seasoned reenactors a bit, and seeing the natural dye fabric the cloth salesmen flog, I chose a colour scale which is not exactly subdued, but not bright either. I tend to mix my highlights with tans and greys. Other than that I think the grittiness is due to increasingly poor eye sight. I have a hell of a time painting eyes lids, lips and nose these days...
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Funnily enough was thinking exactly that earlier today. He is actually one of a handful of characters where I’d consider using the official figures (Darksword rather than the CMON range).
It’s not just the size, but finding a dynamic pose that looks right.
Yes, it is. And I have considered the Dark Sword variant to. I am not 100% sure about the barrel helmet (too small) but since it comes with a bare head option, it could work.
But after seeing what this chap "thistledoo minis" has posted at CMON...
(http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics16/img57c54a082dee9.jpg)
...am considering getting a plastic Brettonian knight of the realm. I would need to cut him up good, and do some serious conversion, but that's the fun bit, eh?
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I understand your way of thinking completely seeing that pic. Gorgeous looking band, and I am sure your work will be even more so!
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A few more of the Trant household levy.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/TrantCommand.jpg)
It is a bit difficult to see but I have perched a black hooded head with a noose round its neck on the banner pole. Not my best sculpting work.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/CommandDetail.jpg)
The battle banner of house Trant, embroidered by the Westros most prominent impressionist artist, Vinsent of Goog. The scroll spells the words of House Trant: "So end our foes". You would never know if I didn't tell you.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/TrantBilllmen1.jpg)
I try to come up with variants on a theme when I paint heraldry. It seems likely that the conscript rabble would have difficulties to achieve the same level of artistry when decorating their shield. Some would probably even just show their team colours, others like the chap to the right, might signal his allegiance with a telling noose.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/Trantbillmen2.jpg)
These Perry-sculpted billmen are very nice, but I have too many of the same. I have about 15 more should anyone be interested in trading them for Bretonnian metal archers, you have a deal.
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Beautiful work. That Vinsent de Goog fellow has a very unique style. Very emotional.
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Good work with the Trant levy, always refreshing to see forces from Houses other than the main ones.
...am considering getting a plastic Brettonian knight of the realm. I would need to cut him up good, and do some serious conversion, but that's the fun bit, eh?
Yeah, the converting is certainly fun...never thought it would be...personally I blame Captain Blood ;)
Will definitely be interested to see your take on Clegane
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Looks good to me mate 8)
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Vincent of Goog lol
Great banner! The artist should approve. And if he doesn't well he doesn't know what he's missing!
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Vincent of Goog lol
Great banner! The artist should approve. And if he doesn't well he doesn't know what he's missing!
An ear, perhaps?
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Looking good! And nice idea with having variants of the main heraldic symbols to change things up a bit!
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Gallowgrey/MenOfTheWesterlands.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Gallowgrey/MenOfTheWesterlands2.jpg)
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(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/44/134-260320194405-44681398.jpeg)
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Super cool!
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Beautiful pictures... can’t wait for those dastardly Bolton’s to get their just desserts
:)
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Beautiful work :-*
It's a shame we couldn't compare notes this year ;)
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Great pictures.
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Fresh from the workbench, where I've been converting like Maester Qyburn, I give you Ser Gregor Clegane, a.k.a. 'The Mountain"
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Clegane/BasecoatedSandorCleganeResized.jpg)
Need I say it is just base coated for contrast?
Note that this is the book version, meaning the brute has not been poisoned and later revived like some great big golem. Still, he is impressive enough in the book version:
"Gregor is well known for his size, cruelty, and prowess in battle. Gregor is extremely tall (he is close to eight feet in height or 2,4 meters). He has "massive shoulders and arms thick as the trunk of small trees", and a voice like stone breaking. Gregor weighs over thirty stone (420 lbs, or 190 kgs), nearly all of it muscle, making him near inhumanly strong. Gregor's strength allows him to wield a six-foot, two-handed greatsword with just one hand, giving him enormous reach while still wielding a shield. Such is the power of Gregor's strength that he has been known to hack men in half with just a single blow. Ser Jaime Lannister regards him as one of the strongest living men ("like nothing human") in Westeros when thinking of who could match him in a fight.
In battle Gregor wears the heaviest, thickest plate armor in the Seven Kingdoms. His armor is so heavy that no ordinary man would be able to move, let alone fight effectively while wearing it, making him nigh-invincible in combat. Below the plate he wears chainmail and boiled leather. He also wears a plate helm with only a narrow slit for vision, atop of which is a stone fist punching up towards the sky. Gregor carries an extremely thick oaken shield bearing the three black dogs of House Clegane on a yellow field."
The miniature is put together from a wide array of bitz found in our excellent local little games store (independent).
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Great conversion! Is that an old GW Chaos Knight as the base?
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Great conversion! Is that an old GW Chaos Knight as the base?
Yes. Suitably hulky.
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Excellent...really looks the part - can’t wait to see him painted up
:)
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Ser Gregor Clegane, painted:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Clegane/SerSandorClegane1.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Clegane/SerGregorClegane2.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Clegane/SerGregorClegane3.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Clegane/SerGregorClegane4.jpg)
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Perfect, Peder 8)
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Nicely done! He's turned out great! Thanks for sharing
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Absolutely cracking...like a Prince of Dorne’s head....
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brilliantly done.
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splendid additions
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Really good :-* I can see you painting 54mm figures :)
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I can see you painting 54mm figures :)
Not in many many years, to be honest. I used to do Tamiya dioramas but that was before I had any real grasp of things like shading and weathering.
What was cracking fun with this miniature was the conversion work. I spent a couple of hours rooting through the bitz box in the local store. The black stallion (as per cannon description) alone, is composed of at least four different nag models, plus greenstuff, plasticard etcetera
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Love that he is huge :-* :-* :-*
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Brilliant job :-*
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Excellent work on the tower and the mounted Clegane, he looks massive :)
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Excellent work on the tower and the mounted Clegane, he looks massive :)
Thanks Mathias and all. This kit bashing thing is quite a lot off fun, as many have before me have attested. I have not made it easy for myself chosing large, Warhammer sized miniatures as Propperhammer miniatures are 1) expensive, 2) it takes some time to find the right bits and 3) Bretonnia miniatures, which are most suitable for aSoIaF, are of varying quality (the later 5-6th ed Perry sculpted minis are the dogs bollocks). But after a good rummage in various bitz boxes and don't discriminate against chaos, Empire, well, pretty much anything, you can put together some rather nice creations.
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I've completed some more conversion work, now some men-at-arms of House Clegain, aka. The Mountain's Men
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Clegane/TheMountiansMen.jpg)
I am trying to convey some brutishness in their demeanor, like arming them with mace and flail. The mace is completely scrathbuilt, I think I overdid it, the head is to big. Oh well...
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That is certainly a brutal-looking mace, but not half as bad as those spikes they are impaled upon ;)
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Impressive Peder.
The head of the mace looks like that mighty flail thing the Witch King of Angmar wields when he’s trying to brain Eowyn in The Return of The King... :)
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Nice converting! Are the bodies both Fireforge Forgotten World cavalry?
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Impressive Peder.
The head of the mace looks like that mighty flail thing the Witch King of Angmar wields when he’s trying to brain Eowyn in The Return of The King... :)
Yes. Not a look I was going for. Looking at it like this I think I can see away how to remedy it.
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Nice converting! Are the bodies both Fireforge Forgotten World cavalry?
The legs are indeed from Fireforge, the rest are from various.
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I upgraded Sir Damond Marbrand with a barded charger.
(https://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Marbrands/SirMarbrandAndRetinue.jpg)
Looking at the picture I realise I whould have taken a close against a plain background of Sir Damon and the nag as the barding has some quite intricate brushwork on it. Oh, well... Later perhaps...
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Excellent camouflage :D
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Gorgeous paint job Peder
It always great to see more of your take on Westeros
8)
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I've zoomed in on that horse and I'd definitely like to see a close up as it looks spectacular.
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And just to satisfy my sense of completeness, my two Mountain's Men from the Fantasy painting competition:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Clegane/TheMountainsMen1.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Clegane/TheMountainsMen2.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Clegane/MountainsMen3.jpg)
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:-* :-*
More....more....
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Amazing work! The detailing on Damon Marbrand's barding is great!
Really liking your overall aesthetic with the project!
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Amazing work! The detailing on Damon Marbrand's barding is great!
Really liking your overall aesthetic with the project!
How kind! This project is on the backburner, in fact I may have painted all the miniatures I intend do paint, except the occasional one.
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Oh! Look at those! I need to add those to!
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Man, this thread is excellent... :-*
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Thanks, friends.
I have previously in this thread posted a few things regarding the family of Stormland landed knights by the name of House Trant. I bought these feudal knight and squire some time ago because of their beautifully dynamic poses.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/xTrantKnight1.jpg)
The horse is really getti'n it in this little vignette like miniature. The arrows, both to Ser Trant and the horse, are my own additions. I most often use thin steel piano wire for this which are fletched with thin paper and superglue. [Game Zone]
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/xTrantKnight2.jpg)
Here form an angle where it is almost possible to see the rather intricate heraldry of House Trant: azure, a hanged man sable.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/xTrantKnight3.jpg)
I admit, I usually use this kind of miniature as casualty marker, but in upcoming games I suppose he'll be crashing and dying like this all over the game board, perhaps pulling some other antagonists down with him.
The above feudal knight is the only produced by Game Zone miniatures which I like, the others being real clunkers. They do a set of mounted squires which are very nice and of which I am sure I will order more.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/xTrantSquire1.jpg)
The nag, as most metal horses balancing on one leg, broke during some rough handling so I've pinned it with piano wire. It will take a lot to make that snap, but since the pin is spring steel it now wobbles in an amusing way when moved about.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/xTrantSquire2.jpg)
A modest update and addition of two mounted squires of House Trant [GameZone]
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/HouseTrantRet2a.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/HouseTrantRet2b.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/HouseTrantRet2c.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/HouseTrantRet3a.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/HouseTrantRet3b.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/GoT/Trant/HouseTrantRet3c.jpg)
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Beautiful cavalry! It’s a shame about the fragile ankles. I realize the poses wouldn’t look as dynamic, but I kind of wish more sculptors would take durability into account more when designing cavalry mounts. When the “rule of cool” conflicts with practical use in games, I am leaning more and more towards practicality as I get older!
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Not sure how I missed this thread until now. Great work! 👍
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Excellent work!
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Lovely work mate :)