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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Laughing Ferret on 09 April 2011, 07:53:45 PM
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A friend of mine has been playing a lot of Warlord & Songs of Blades of Heroes lately, and has got me thinking about how fun fantasy skirmish games can be. Plus it's such a nice small size for a project. Scratches the itch that ideas for big armies are making.
Here is one skirmish warband I made, and I have more planned:
(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb16/LaughingFerretStudio/Mordheim%20English%20100yrs%20War/IMG_6254.jpg)
They're the theme of today's post on the hobby blog. http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2011/04/to-z-hundred-years-war.html (http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2011/04/to-z-hundred-years-war.html)
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Oh! Very nice looking miniatures!!
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O.O
i always wanted to make such a beautiful warbad. I totally envy you, ferret!
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really nice, the colours look lovely and rich.
How do you run them in SoBH?
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Really nice looking group of gentlemen. I like your way of painting, it makes these miniatures look even better.
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Very nice indeed, even if most accounts of the Hundred Years War omit the role of ogres and hobbits in the conflict ...
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Who makes these figures? They look great! The simple paint job ties them together beautifully.
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Who makes these figures? They look great! The simple paint job ties them together beautifully.
The men at arms and the knight are mostly from plastic GW bretonian kits from what I can spot. The more characterful models I'm nut sure.
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They look fantastic!
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Brilliant! I like how everything "stays together". Cool!
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Awesome! Love the blog too. The ogre is an older metal one from Rackham's Confrontation range. Keep the projects coming please.
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:o :o
Nice cohesive warband with a variety of sculptors...that alone is an accomplishment...the painting is great too.
The one that jumps to mind for me is the little Marauder Halfling picking his nose...a great model...One I sold A couple of years apo that I now regret parting with... :'(.
Cheers,
Blue
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Ace warband, very nicely painted and great coherency in the models without them being from the same box of plastics. Good job! =D
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Lovely jubbly! These guys are just really impressive; a really cohesive warband with an alt-history feel and a fantastic popping paint job. Love the subtle weathered metals too. Pic saved to the hard drive!
I really regret not picking up that Cadwallon Ogre (and his compadres) when I had the chance a couple of years ago, just because i didn't need them at the time. Note to self: always buy minis when the opportunity arises.
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Yowza! Really, really nice work there. As everyone else has been pointing out very cohesive, but still varied! More please.
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Vibrant colours and great bases, great stuff. I hate plastic but this almost makes me want to pick up a box of bretonnians.
Damien
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Love the bases, excellent work! :-*
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Smashing stuff! What other warbands are you going to create to go with them?
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Thanks for all the feedback everyone! Much appreciated!
To answer some of the questions:
** in SoB&H: Pretty straightforward, but with a few tweaks:
Sir Henry & Sgt.s Weller & York are Leaders, Friar Cuthbert is a Cleric & Young Will counts as Warrior -these are the characters when running Mordheim.
The Men at Arms are Heavy Infantry, and the Archers are Archers, but give them shoot: long instead of medium.. just can't have longbows firing that isn't long! up their points to 48 (since elf archers are long and cost 55, but they're better quality, so seems about right)
the halfling run as a halfling thief but add short shooter for a few points.
and allow an Ogre in as a minotaur guard stats, and just swap a shield instead of the 2nd weapon.
** Miniatures: They are mostly made from GW Bretonian Men at Arms, as many pointed out. They're all converted to some degree though- I used many parts from the human Mordheim sprues. I also got rid of the enormous bretonian shields and used old GW empire shields. The knight is also a bretonian men at arms body, with an older knight of the realm helm, and bastard sword from the mordheim sprue: given his moniker, it seemed the right weapon.
The hobbit is from marauder, the last one I had from when I bought a pack new, back in late 80's/early 90's.. wish I had had more money back then... so much I'd like to have got. He was holding a spear, which I converted into a crude bow. And yep, the Ogre is Rackham- great miniatures!
As for other warbands, I have a half painted skaven group, but they need reworking and such. and I converted up an Orc warband from Orc warriors, black orc plastics & the old multi-part night goblins- and replacing their bows with more recent bows, since those too-thick bows are really looking dated now. I have a few squigs and an amazing troll from Warploque Miniatures for them. They're unpainted all, but someday... I also have a warband made from the Rackham japanese goblins & ogres, (unpainted still) that I need to have some good uninterrupted paint time to tackle.
Very nice indeed, even if most accounts of the Hundred Years War omit the role of ogres and hobbits in the conflict ...
Too true.. have to set straight this human-centric revisionist history ;)
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;D I'm swooning over this batch. Well done.