Author Topic: Fantasy figs and terrain for SobH, KOW etc - 2nd cottage Finished! (Read 31730 times)

6mmfan · « **on:** September 23, 2015, 09:29:33 AM »

Hi guys

I've been chipping away at my large collection of Reaper Bones figures and also some GW Skaven. I have about 150 Reaper Bones figures, and about the same number of Skaven so this thread will go on for a while.

Reaper Bones Bugbears
Very cool figures with lots of character, and I converted one of the guys to have a spear instead of a club. Some of the detail was a bit soft and I cut off most of the studs on the armour as they were poorly defined and too hard to paint. Apart from that they were good to paint, but every time I looked at the I saw something else that needed painting! Eventually I got there and I'm happy with how they came out. I intend to use these as a Songs of Blades and Heroes warband but they might get used in my KOW skaven army

Completed SoBH warband

The Boss

Tony

Jim

Johnny

Eric

More soon

Cheers
Kieran

majorsmith · « **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2015, 09:58:24 AM »

Very cool!

tancrede · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2015, 10:37:55 AM »

Nice painting here !
And I like the "mushroom touch" on the bases. Very funny !

PhilB · « **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2015, 11:16:59 AM »

Great painting! Love the shading, the traditional color schemes, and hey, I just love bugbears, the heros of goblindom.

Show us more! --- Phil from France

6mmfan · « **Reply #4 on:** September 24, 2015, 07:55:00 AM »

Thanks guys

Next is a sample Skaven figure from the Island of Blood boxed set. A lovely figure and more in the style/pose of the older Skaven figures. I tried out some colours and techniques like rusty armour/weapons to see if it would work for an entire army and a quicker way to paint. I like the finished result but the picture doesn't show it well.

Reaper Bones Wizard
This was from the first KS I believe and I swapped it for some Bones2 KS figures. Its a great figure with well defined sculpting but a BIG figure. I had just received some new paint colours and decided to try them out on the figure. :grin:

The basing on both these figures need some finishing as I cant decide to go with a basing scheme for down in a dungeon or on the tabletop.

DeafNala · « **Reply #5 on:** September 24, 2015, 02:02:00 PM »

OUTSTANDING! The minis are BEAUTIFULLY painted AND the background scenery is GORGEOUS. GREAT WORK!

Chico · « **Reply #6 on:** September 24, 2015, 07:09:59 PM »

Very cool bits and bobs, keep as updated

Braxandur · « **Reply #7 on:** September 26, 2015, 09:53:37 AM »

Looking good so far. Coincidentaly I also just painted a set of bugbears to use as Ogre Berserkers in KoW. How do you plan to use them?

6mmfan · « **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2015, 12:57:19 PM »

I'll use them as stand-ins for Rat Ogres in a Ratkin army. Maybe in the future I will do a Orc army so they will be good for that I think.

Elbows · « **Reply #9 on:** September 26, 2015, 01:58:29 PM »

Awesome, and I too, like the Tre Manor Bugbears (have some sitting on my table half-painted right now). The best bugbears Reaper has. I may pick up one or two more. Also, they're big fellas, so I think they make the most of Bones material (which suffers as figures get smaller). A quick dip in boiling then cold and they're solid.

6mmfan · « **Reply #10 on:** October 01, 2015, 08:47:50 AM »

Thanks guys, I will try to update this regularly.

I started on some terrain as I enjoy making terrain (more than painting figures) and although I have lots of ambitious plans, I thought I'd start with some simple walls. I also wanted to try making stone walls brick by brick, which is something I have seen here at the LA site.

Stone Walls

For the walls I used some foam from a model airplane shop as getting pink/blue foam is hard here in NZ. Plasticard was used for the bases.

First I cut up some strips and lots of individual bricks

Next I put them into an ice-cream container along with some scoria rocks (volcanic) which are quite sharp, and shook it hard. This dented the "stones" and rounded the corners a bit.

Next I glued them on using PVA one layer at a time. I sprinkled a bit of fine sand over the walls while the PVA was still wet, so it went into the cracks in places.

Then I painted them a classic grey colour and followed that with lots of drybrushing. i also added some brown ad green washes but you can barely see them.Finally I covered the base with caulk and flock and some bushes I made. Also I added some patches of moss using some green flock to the stone work

Finished walls