Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (Rust Monster face reveal)

[M.P.]

Great paintjob .

[102-year-old-man]

this is awesome! I love your 1/72 scale ideas!

[Sunjester]

Those are looking great!

[Vladimir Raukov]

Lovely paint job and yes, they scale very nicely.

[beefcake]

Those are great.
Love the scratch built monster too!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all!

Here's another scratch-built monster. This one made its debut this afternoon: the Beast of Averoigne.

[Hobgoblin]

Some dungeon monsters for my 1/72/true-25mm megadungeon project. Apologies for the photos - very poor light at the moment!

[Severian]

Nicely done! That's the old Grenadier medusa, isn't it: mine is still garish in yellow and purple enamels from about 1982...

Great work on that Beast of Averoigne, btw; I did try to say so earlier but the website wasn't co-operating. It prompted me to take Smith off the shelf for the first time in a while.

[Hobgoblin]

Nicely done! That's the old Grenadier medusa, isn't it: mine is still garish in yellow and purple enamels from about 1982...

Thanks! Yes, that's right. I've got the Ral Partha one lined up next. Both are small enough that they work (more or less) OK with 1/72 figures - and better with those than they do with 28mm.

Great work on that Beast of Averoigne, btw; I did try to say so earlier but the website wasn't co-operating. It prompted me to take Smith off the shelf for the first time in a while.

I'd read a lot of Smith before, but I'd always avoided the Averoigne stories until I was forced to by running Castle Amber over the past couple of months. And I was very pleasantly surprised. I think The Colossus of Ylourgne is one of his very best. I also recently read a Zothique one, The Door to Saturn. I think that's the prototype for just about every Jack Vance story.

[swiftnick]

Excellent work!
I particularly like that medusa and minotaur.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

Here are a couple of kitbashed 1/72 D&D trolls - GW ur-ghul bodies with gnoblar and gretchin heads. I did the first of these ages ago - he was originally on a 40 x 20 base, as I was going to create a troll-only 15mm HotT army, with small individual trolls like these as warband elements and bigger ones as behemoths, etc. But with no need for that project in current times, I thought I'd add him to my 1/72/true-25 D&D resources. His greener friend was done for my 28mm beastman unit, but I always had half an eye on using him as a troll in a smaller scale.

In our current Zoom D&D campaign, the PCs are now at or above seventh level. So monsters such as trolls are starting to fulfil the roles taken by orcs and hobgoblins earlier on - which means that I need lots of them. I've got some more kitbashes coming up using GW ghouls and various things from Reaper, etc. One encounter the PCs might run into before too long demands 18 trolls, so I want to get a fair few underway now.

[Little Odo]

That Gnoblar troll looks great; the colour scheme suits it perfectly.

[swiftnick]

Splendidly strange looking chaps!
Justin what camera do you use for your online games please?
I am going to try some lion rampant.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

It's a Hue HD Pro document camera. I'm not sure if it would work well for wargames rather than RPGs, though, because it's intended for an A4 sheet. So it's great for claustrophobic dungeon adventures, but probably not for showing a whole battlefield (not sure how well it would work if positioned high up).

One reason I'm cracking on with all the 1/72 stuff is just so we can get more on screen during the games - especially when bigger monsters/battles are involved. The Hue is great for showing different angles (down a corridor or a room from either above or the PCs' view, etc); the bendy neck allows you to get it very quickly into odd positions.

I'll have a play around with it when we set up tomorrow and try to work out how much of a full tabletop it could show, but I reckon there are probably better cameras for that.

[Severian]

Great work on those trolls. I reckon the sight of eighteen of them appearing unexpectedly via online camera ought to throw most parties off their stride...