Lead Adventure Forum
Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: dijit on 19 January 2016, 09:08:39 AM
-
Well we started off with playing God of Battles in 15mm. It played well until we'd ended up playing it so much that we began to find various loopholes and weaknesses in the rules and then it sort of lost our attention. We decided on 15mm because you could get a decent sized force relatively cheaply and painted up relatively fast. Plus we'd been playing 15mm scifi for a while and enjoyed it, so why not fantasy too? I started with a beastman army (played as Blood Gorged in GoB), and finally got them all painted just as our interest in GoB was beginning to wane.
However, my interest in 15mm fantasy didn't stop there. Having seen the Demonworld range by Ral Partha I was hooked. The advantages of having a small table easily set up, with characterful minis that were lovely to paint got my interest going and I found I was hooked to 15mm fantasy skirmishes.
Regarding rules I/we have tried Open Combat, but found the moral rules clunky; Skulldred, which had potential, but then Dave King disappeared and interest dropped. Having liked Open Combat, which is inspired a lot by Bloodbowl, we went back to the source and played around with the Bloodbowl rules and they seem to have stuck so far.
But anyway, you guys are probably more interested in pictures of painted minis rather than my ramblings. So here's my first offering. There's more painted, just not photographed yet. My photography skills aren't the best, but I hope you get the idea.
A skirmish force from the Beastmen I started with:
(http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o694/Dijit1980/IMG_0080_zps6wx6cn7q.jpg) (http://s1338.photobucket.com/user/Dijit1980/media/IMG_0080_zps6wx6cn7q.jpg.html)
The Boar ridder is a conversion from an old Citadel/Marauder boar and the big beasty is a Reaper Bones mini.
An Orc warband
(http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o694/Dijit1980/IMG_0076_zpsi2oojyha.jpg) (http://s1338.photobucket.com/user/Dijit1980/media/IMG_0076_zpsi2oojyha.jpg.html)
A wildman/frontiersman warband.
(http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o694/Dijit1980/IMG_0078_zpszjoucrmb.jpg) (http://s1338.photobucket.com/user/Dijit1980/media/IMG_0078_zpszjoucrmb.jpg.html)
And lastly, a wizard and town guard
(http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o694/Dijit1980/IMG_0082_zpsseh5yqha.jpg) (http://s1338.photobucket.com/user/Dijit1980/media/IMG_0082_zpsseh5yqha.jpg.html)
Hope you like them and feel inspired to share your projects too.
-
Wonderfull!
-
They are superb, well painted 15mm! Whats not to like
I have toyed with putting an order in for some of those Ral Partha 15mm, but really have so much stuff already I don't think my better half would be to understanding of another mini project on the list ::)
I need to complete some more first me thinks!
Thanks for sharing :)
-
They're really gorgeous Duncan; great job on all of them! And yeah, we should really get back into the whole 15mm scene again this year :)
-
They look really good! Full of character and I like the readability. Orcs are a definite favourite, though maybe a bit more time on the freehands of the shields (OTOH, they are Orcs, so it can be seen as appropriate). The skin is fantastic, though.
But could you elaborate a bit on playing with Bloodbowl rules? Fantasy football rules for a skirmish game?
-
Ditto to everything you wrote about 15mm.
Very nice looking warbands!! Luv the beastmen. I dont have any of them in my 15mm collection yet. Must get some.
-
The Little Warriors of various descriptions look WONDERFUL...GREAT brushwork. The Beasty Boys are more attractive in 15 than 28 in my sometimes humble opinion. VERY WELL DONE one & all!
-
Damn fine paintwork but also really nice models. I wasn't aware that such good sculpts were out there for 15mm fantasy.
-
After a large sellout at the local store in the last year we just started playing Dragon Rampant in 15mm.
I got some of the Demonworld beastmen, orcs, humans and ice withches then for a couple of euros and they all look very good. There were some of the older (original ral partha) sculpts there too that I bought.
In fact, after seeing Steam Flunkys fantasy pics again I just painted some Copplestone barbarian cavalry and bought some more packs of Demonworld minis.
As we are a group of six guys 15mm turned out to be the perfect scale to play DR on a small table.
-
Arggghhhh o_o
Painted eyes on 15mm figures lol
They look great 8)
cheers
James
-
Dangerous post. Full of inspiring stuff and makes me want to shuffle my Beastmen to the top of the paint queue (only because I've the others painted).
Spooky on the thinking front. I could have written that too.
-
Some great looking groups you've got there. I was a 15mm fan for years (for the reasons you listed) but moved on to 28m when my eyes told me to. I've recently been drawn back in to 15mm sci fi though :)
-
Thanks for all the comments. They have been a pleasure to paint (even the eyes ;) ).
15mm skirmish gaming has so many advantages. I have a small 18" square board sat on the table in my office. Meaning that in those quiet moments I can set up a quick game and perhaps play a turn or two before going back to work and leave it set up without a problem for picking up again later.
But could you elaborate a bit on playing with Bloodbowl rules? Fantasy football rules for a skirmish game?
I'll go over my notes and put them on Dropbox later so you can have a look through what we've talked about. As said they are really just rough notes.
I've also taken a few pictures of the last of my painted collection:
An unfinished Elf war band, Gandalf, and a knight
(http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o694/Dijit1980/IMG_0085_zpslxdkpkhc.jpg) (http://s1338.photobucket.com/user/Dijit1980/media/IMG_0085_zpslxdkpkhc.jpg.html)
A band of Knights and men at arms fight off a giant spider:
(http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o694/Dijit1980/IMG_0084_zps3q5ifz7p.jpg) (http://s1338.photobucket.com/user/Dijit1980/media/IMG_0084_zps3q5ifz7p.jpg.html)
The spider is an excellent sculpt and gives me the creeps just looking at it.
And lastly a few demonic entities.
(http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o694/Dijit1980/IMG_0089_zps7vwtxkvn.jpg) (http://s1338.photobucket.com/user/Dijit1980/media/IMG_0089_zps7vwtxkvn.jpg.html)
The larger two are Reaper bones minis, which were awful to paint, so despite their rather rough appearance I'm happy enough with them considering. The smaller ones are Nurglings from GW.
That's the last of what I've managed to paint so far, apart from the much larger Beastman horde.
-
The smaller ones are Nurglings from GW.
that's another good thing about 15mm, you can use a lot of 28mm figures for larger monsters etc.
I found a pair of 28mm cyborgs to use as 'Rigor' and 'Mortis', bodyguards for my 15mm Dr Diabolical. His personal medical robot is a GW Epic (1/300th) scale figure.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yhPbBSm7Pck/Ve3S7cr2oGI/AAAAAAAADHk/lMUUeLbWApg/w1024-h828-no/dr.diabolikals-fiendish-creations04.jpg)
-
They work beautifully together!
-
A very inspiring thread. Thanks for sharing.
i have just got back into painting 15mm after telling myself (and selling of nearly everything) that I couldn't paint that small any more. I have found that a change of painting techniques, an optical loupe (and an adjustment in expectations) means I am managing to get an orc horde ready for Dragon Rampant.
-
those 15mm's are fab
-
The larger two [Demons] are Reaper bones minis, which were awful to paint, so despite their rather rough appearance I'm happy enough with them considering.
They look great. No worries!
-
That's luverly stuff! Great paintjobs and, to my shame, I didn't realise the quality of some 15mm sculpts before this. Which ones are Demonworld, and where are the others from?
The spider is an excellent sculpt and gives me the creeps just looking at it.
I used to keep tarantulas. That looks like a pretty good recreation of a threat display. lol
-
That's luverly stuff! Great paintjobs and, to my shame, I didn't realise the quality of some 15mm sculpts before this. Which ones are Demonworld, and where are the others from?
They're pretty much all Demonworld, those that aren't are the dwarf/gnome and the two men-at-arms on the lefthand side in the town guard (the last pic in the first post). Then the not-Gandalf and the man-at-arms behind him together with the elves. Not sure where they are from as I got them secondhand. If I'm correct then I think it's Werner Klocke that sculpted most of the Demonworld range. They creep towards the larger end of the 15mm range, but are doubtless amongst some of the best 15mm sculpts available.
-
Ah great minds. I used that same Reaper ghost and a horde of nurglings with my 15mm fantasy and scifi. A few other scale mix options on my blog if your interested.
You are making me want to drop the 28 stuff I'm doing and get back to 15s...
-
Ah great minds. I used that same Reaper ghost and a horde of nurglings with my 15mm fantasy and scifi. A few other scale mix options on my blog if your interested.
You are making me want to drop the 28 stuff I'm doing and get back to 15s...
I've only just stumbled upon your blog a week ago (via the 15mm fantasy gaming facebook site), you've got so great stuff there. 28mm minis can make very good large creatures in 15mm.
-
You are making me want to drop the 28 stuff I'm doing and get back to 15s...
Take care of your feet, 28mm are much heavy than 15mm. ;)
I agree, you could found lot of things in 15mm scale. Splintered light miniatures, Khurasan and Ral partha Europe (Demonworld) have got some great things in their ranges, and I don't tell about copplestone casting ;)
28mm provide some huge monsters for less money. Even some 28mm scenery stuff could be use with 15mm mini for greater monuments.
do you recognise somethings here ?
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gA-CZlSTF6E/VpaApJrFexI/AAAAAAAABMY/YR6drgo7yeg/s1600/P1010570.JPG)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LPHiAD94Uj8/VSpthtRjG4I/AAAAAAAAA7c/qwPyYyZB3FA/s1600/Stephane_Khazad%2BParty_15mm_rd4.jpg)
-
I have a bit of a dwarf-crush as it is, but your paint job on those Demonworld fellas is just like, well, naughty!
Good photo too. I still struggle to get nice clean, sharp shots like that. (Oh, that might actually be the paint job at fault...)
-
Absolutely agree with your views on Demonworld minis. I've been a big fan of them for ages. They paint up beautifully and give me fantastic results. I've got several HOTT armies using them. They are even easier to put forces like yours together now that they are sold by RPE and not boxed up in big unit packs but available in smaller pack sizes or even in mixed warbands through their BlightHaven range (which incidentally includes some must have fantasy scenic pieces.)
I see RPE are now doing something called Demonwold Universal - which claims to use smaller units and no longer be hex based. Anyone tried them?
Paddy
P.S. If you want to replace your non-Demonworld Gandalf for a Demonworld mini - try Gandagor the Grey. IMHO possibly the best 15mm human wizard model available: http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/shop/demonworld-15mm-c-76/demonworld-classic-c-76_151/characters-c-76_151_111/4651-gandagor-the-grey-p-2792.html
-
That is some lovely terrain Stephane - both here and in your own thread.
-
Very nice Duncan - Ill bring the 15mm barbaric horde next time we meet :)
-
Very nice Duncan - Ill bring the 15mm barbaric horde next time we meet :)
Sounds good. I'll look forward so that!