New Leviathan Project Rumblings

[leutenantbrittan]

Hi!

Well Ive finally decided to do something with my Leviathan Project! I plan on painting up some small forces containing no more than a dozen miniatures each and playing Mordheim or Necromunda style skirmishes in the post apocalyptic Leviathan setting.

http://leviathanwar.blogspot.com/

Ive started a poll to see what warbands people would like to see and the options are as follows:

An orcish patrol. A mixed group of orcs scouting ahead of the great horde. The force will consist of several savage orcs along with a posse of regulars, a minor Kahn and his great orc bodyguard.

Goblin freedom fighters. Long crushed under the foot of the orcs, these goblins are escaped slaves intent on freeing their kin and looting the occasional settlement while theyre at it. Will consist of a group of goblins with mixed weapons and several herds of lesser goblins along with a troll.

Barbarian Raiders. Savage humans from the north on a raiding expedition led by a seasoned veteran along with a druid followed by some impetuous youngbloods and a lesser stone elemental.

Dwarven Adventurers. A group of experienced dwarven types exploring the region around the nearby dwarf hold. Consists of an ancient leader, an engineer with some automaton support and several dwarven warriors in support.

Elven Slavers. The baddies! A group of elven degenerates with supporting demon!

Light Elven Scouts. Most of the elves in Leviathan are evil and twisted demon worshipping drug addicts but some still follow the light. A scout group led by a magic user on some unfathomable quest.

Knights of the Eternal Light! Noble human templars fighting to turn back the darkness. The knights all have mechanical right hands with all sorts of interesting built in weapon options. Support will come in the form of some lowly squires while leadership is a templar champion.

Children of the Worm. Vile undead creatures bringing the gift of unlife to the world. The force consists of some rotting corpses along with a few more preserved minions led by a necromancer. Possible support may be some sort of worm creature or skeletal construct.

Pitiful Human Rabble. Most of humanity has been reduced to scavenging through the ruins of once great cities and this group is typical. There will probably be quite a few of them, many with some sort of mutations. The leader will be a wild eyed rabble rouser with a big mutant enforcer.

Any suggestions for other forces or indeed miniatures would be most welcome!

I dont plan on giving up on painting the big stuff but it may take a bit of a back seat for a while!


Titanosaur!

All the best!

[manic _miner]

 Great to see you back.Have you seen the new Leviathan releases from Scotia?Dwarf and Barbarian war machine crews.
 Looking forward to seeing the blog continue.I voted for Barbarians.

[leutenantbrittan]

Hi!

Its good to be back! I did see the new releases at Scotia and they arent too bad. I wonder what else they have squirreled away awaiting release!

I may have to post them on my blog too!

Hope your range continues to develop well as there were some really nice bits and pieces in it. Do you plan on releasing any fantasy gubbins?

[manic _miner]

 Fantasy miniatures will be the next release.Moulds are being sorted and miniatures painted.All is going to plan if not behind a bit.

 The new Barbarians are a bit cartoony.The Dwarves are better.

[leutenantbrittan]

Ooh I see what you mean by the cartoony barbarians!

[leutenantbrittan]

Hi!

Well the poll is underway and its looking like the dwarves are off to an early start! I will get some pictures taken of the unpainted miniatures and post them on the blog at some point over the coming week to show you what I intend to do with them!

All the best!

[leutenantbrittan]

Hi!

I just got this picture through from Thomas of the Die Platt website and thought Id share:

[rob_alderman]

That is an awesome looking force. I have to say I am tempted by it.

I'm also tempted to ask them if they need another sculptor. 

The miniatures look great, VERY 90's, which is right up my street. CHild of the 90's and all.

[leutenantbrittan]

All too true!

The old 90s style of orc really is a bit of a classic but is just too cartoony compared to many of the newer sculpts (minus the new apish orcs of GW) With my renewed interest in my leviathan project I have decided to go for some of the Bob Olley sculpted orcs and some of the assorted reaper miniatures stuff as its a bit more realistic and fits the background concept art better!

Ive posted a lengthy ramble about it on my blog too!

All the best!

[abhorsen950]

Niceee stuff.
Really like some of those figures.


Steve

[powerfrog99]

"Child of the 90's" thats a nice description for a really good taste

cheers Thomas

[rob_alderman]

Good taste is subjective dear boy. 

[Dr. The Viking]

OH the blog looks really good.

I'm dissappointed that there's no links to the manufacturers of the minis though. Especially the barbarians.

[Thantsants]

Excellent stuff - I too am tempted by all this orcy goodness - got some of those old marauder orcs myself (large unit towards the front of the pic).

Might have to invest in a copy of Leviathan too having had a look round your blog...

I presume best place to get hold of them is - http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=47_52&products_id=368

[leutenantbrittan]

Hi!

The Leviathan rulebook is available as a free download here:

http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Leviathan_Rules.pdf

But only the rules, not the background or armylists alas!

I will update my blog to include sources of the assorted miniatures but I believe all of Mr Wigglesworths barbarians (the conan war painted types from the blog) are all Leviathan miniatures!

Ive been using the old Grenadier miniatures as my barbarians (currently available from EM4 miniatures)

All the best!