Last War/Doggerland [squads and personalities P.2]

[area23]

A couple of weeks ago I got obsessed by the alt. WW1 setting of Last War (Forbidden Psalm). It neatly fits in an old idea of mine of post war freikorps in central asia meets Call of Chtulhu which I started already over a decade ago(!): Freikorps Rorschach

I've been digging up my old Interwar miniatures to compose small rival bands of trench raiders and some monsters and apparitions to populate the endless trenches of an eternal war.

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An old conversion of a Blood Bowl starplayer with a Renegade miniatures' head and gun.









I started painting these at least ten years ago. Maybe I'll finish them this time!

[Daeothar]

That's pretty cool 

I'm very curious to see where you'll be taking these!

Where are the German minis from? For some reason I see a pressing need to paint a bunch of these in my near future... 

[area23]

The miniatures are Renegade, unfortunately out of production since quite a while already.

[Daeothar]

Shame; I like them. They seem proportionally compatible to Artizan, which I also like a lot...

[area23]

Shame; I like them. They seem proportionally compatible to Artizan, which I also like a lot...

They're a little bit bigger. Tall as Copplestone but more hefty. These are Kevin Adams' the early war range are by Mike Owen from Artizan. Owen also did  many of the Brigade Games great war and interwar ranges, which are more slight but being by the same sculptor compatible enough.

[Daeothar]

Thanks; I learned something today

[area23]

The first band of soldiers. Brigade Games miniatures from the US.

Sculpted by Mike "Artizan" Owen. I think the colours and leather jerkins are historically correct like this.
Very pale skin done with contrast paint and medium.









Captain with pug dog.

[Metternich]

Quite like your British raiding party.  Looking forward to seeing the German gas-masked party painted.

[area23]

Daddy Long Legs.
An old walker from the great war, from Graven Images. I got this one from the late Jim Bowen himself, in 2008. Before smartphones and Facebook when we only had forums and yahoo-groups.
Never officially released and only 8 sets were ever cast.
It was part of the Weird War II Götterdammerung setting.
Sculpted by Mark Fuller (Tin Shed Gamer), who did all the amazing Great War vehicles for 1st Corps miniatures.

[Metternich]

That is brilliant.

[tin shed gamer]

I knew you had a casting ( but I don't recall ever seeing any another
Than mine and Jim's painted (( and he put his together with straight legs.))

I've often mused over making a new interpretation of this as I've still my original sketches and notes.Also a casting of both the British and the German walker's.

[area23]

Ah, yes I remember you posted the sketches once. I think I saved them somewhere.
More and different Great War walkers would be really nice to see.

[area23]

I made a new, trench themed, photo backdrop.
The first test picture I did with this old GW banshee that I painted some years ago. The Lady of Ypres, a terrifying manifestation of the anger and despair and the hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers on the Belgian front.

Contrast paint, Vallejo pale grey wash and white highlights.



I finished painting this Crimean War russian officer. Swapped heads with a plastic Oathmark elf head.
A revenant. An undead or half-dead type. He could even be a vampire but I don't think so.



I newly painted these mole men.
With their weird snout they are actually star-nosed moles. "[...] a small semiaquatic mole found in moist, low elevation areas in the northern parts of North America." So it really doesn't make any sense at all to find these in the trenches of the Western Front. Unless your name is Jeff Bezos.
Clearly the picture must be from after April 1917.



Here a picture of the backdrop

[wolfkarl]

Those molemen are cool. Skaven could make an appearance in the trenches as well, couldn't they.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice work on those figures.

The photo set up looks very good.