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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: HappyChappy439 on December 29, 2017, 02:58:33 AM
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Hi Everyone,
I've been out of the hobby for a few years so I decided to get back into it (mostly after reading Captain Blood's excellent Westeros thread), and wanted to climb aboard the Song of Ice and Fire bandwagon with a thread of my own.
I've decided to theme the project around Stannis Baratheon's forces in The North, partly because it doesn't seem to be all that common of a theme, and partly because I need some practice doing free-hand shield and banner designs.
The bulk of the miniatures are Perry Agincourt plastics with a few conversions here and there.
So for a start, here's some test miniatures where I've tried to paint Stannis' sigil on a pavise (apologies for the lighting!), and a mould I've made to try and make heater shields:
(https://i.imgur.com/JoSQ1eM.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/YrzxpHg.jpg)
I'll hopefully post updates as and when I have more miniatures finished!
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Those look fine! Good job on the sigils! And welcome to the GoT madness!
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Hi everyone! It's been an extremely long time but I've finally been able to have time to work on this again! I've been using the downtime mostly to practice painting livery and heraldry, so I've been trying to integrate more freehanding of it into the project.
So to start up again, here's a bundle of Baratheons!
I finished up a block of the pavisiers, but to be honest...I'm not *too* happy with them for some reason, I'll probably just keep the eight of them as back-rank bodyguards.
(https://i.imgur.com/aapboId.jpg)
I've also painted up what I'm going to use as a command block. King Stannis, Ser Justin Massey, Ser Richard Horpe, a couple of standard bearers, and a random groom/squire type person.
(https://i.imgur.com/Rr3QRdP.jpg)
The Massey spiral is pretty excruciating to paint, so thankfully Stannis doesn't seem to have brought many more Massey men of arms with him to the Wall!
With the standard bearers, Stannis is described as having his own personal sigil of the stag in a fiery heart, and also the 'vannila' Baratheon crowned stag, so I wanted to include both. These ones weren't quite as freehand, where I drew the sigils in pencil, before painting them.
(https://i.imgur.com/wzvHHIE.jpg)
Here's the whole gang together
(https://i.imgur.com/l6ltO2G.jpg)
In terms of 'regular' Baratheon soldiers, I liked the idea of having blocks of polearm/halberd equipped infantry, I'm not sure how accurate it is to have the Perry Agincourt-era Infantry using halberds, but I've got a bit of a soft spot for them! The actual infantry don't have much in the way of defining livery badges, so they can sneakily be used as Swiss or German halberdiers in other games!
(https://i.imgur.com/ROTL0NE.jpg)
In command of the block I've kitbased a figure together to represent Ser Clayton Suggs, a rather horrible hedge knight. To represent how he's a lot lower born than some of the other knights I put him in an infantry aketon and added a visor to one of the infantry bascinets.
(https://i.imgur.com/4YiU5KY.jpg)
And finally, I've converted up a Mounted variant of King Stannis, with Lightbringer. I know in the books the sword just glows, rather than being on fire, but I liked the idea of having the flaming sword as a sort of banner for the cavalry.
(https://i.imgur.com/WMisdxM.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/WcaWZOY.jpg)
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Nice conversion work there. Stannis looks great 8)
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Thanks for the kind words!
I've been tinkering away with practicing with heraldry and sigils, and also to practice sculpting heater shields en masse, so I decided to paint up a block of infantry for House Florent, King Stannis' wife, Queen Selyse's house. I want to hopefully add units (or at least, random knights and men at arms with shields and surcoats) from a few of the houses sworn to King Stannis.
The Florent sigil I used was based mostly off of one that appears in some of the Fantasy Flight games card artwork. Incidentally, painting ermine is hard!
(https://i.imgur.com/pUWcO63.jpg)
Here's the infantry without the men at arms in the block, the bascinet boys
(https://i.imgur.com/emaXtdz.jpg)
And here's the whole gang together so far
(https://i.imgur.com/7pPI3gS.jpg)
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Spiffy heraldry!
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Hi everyone!
Been trying to practice specific heraldry, so I've been working on getting individual knights/men-at-arms painted up from the houses sworn to King Stannis
My eventual aim is to have two blocks, one of "hand-weapon and shield" and the other with polearms.
First off, here's some named characters:
Corliss Penny (his arms aren't stated in the books, so I improvised with some canting, and put five bezants on a bend sinister, because bezants...penny...ah, I'll show myself out), Justin Massey, Richard Horpe and Ormund Wylde
(https://i.imgur.com/F36UB82.jpg)
I've also done a few unnamed knights from the other houses in Stannis' army, so here's knights from House Morrigen, House Velaryon, House Caron and House Bar Emmon
(https://i.imgur.com/bQY8XOP.jpg)
Personally I'm not a fan of the Morrigen arms on the wiki, so I tried to do something more like the Silesian eagle on the shield and surcoat. Hopefully it turned out ok!
Here's another angle
(https://i.imgur.com/PE7YYM5.jpg)
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Heraldry continues to look great. If you tire of sculpting heaters, I had excellent fast service from 1st Corps, I ordered a good hundred shields from them for my force.
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Thanks for the suggestion! In retrospect the 'mould-lines' from green-stuff are more visible in the photos! I'll definitely give 1st Corps a look!
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Your heraldry is wonderful and makes me want to go back and have another go at my own. My Mormont bear was ok but other ones I've tried have been rubbish, not surprising when you are comparing yourself against the standards set on here by the likes of your self and captain Blood!
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Oh wow! Thanks for the high praise!
I think the heraldry/freehand detail is something I want to improve on, in anticipation for looking into some 15th century historicals, especially once the coats-of-arms start getting quartered (looking at you, Burgundian arms!)
Thanks again!
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Hello again!
Here's another of Stannis' vassal houses, House Peasebury of Poddingfield (a bit on the nose there from George RR Martin I think!). They're specifically mentioned as contributing bowmen to Stannis' cause, so I'm using them as a block of archers.
(https://i.imgur.com/cUesfaf.jpg)
I wanted to put a figure together with a cloak to be Lord Robin Peasebury. In retrospect I ended up painting his cloak to look like a beach towel, but I liked the effect so I'm keeping it! lol
As an aside, I also put together two test extremely loyal Karstark light-cavalry (of the "dozen mounted lancers" described in A Dance with Dragons). It's cold-out so I wanted to make them look better dressed for the Winter than Stannis' own southern forces, so I GS'd some gloves and extra chainmail padding. Hopefully they turned out ok!
(https://i.imgur.com/eobRCu2.jpg)
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Good builds! The pea pod banner is bril :D
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Lovely work - a great looking collection
:)
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Hi everyone, another update, this time for House Fell of Fellwood, one of the houses from the Stormlands who travel up north with King Stannis.
I've got a block of infantry (compared to the archers for House Peasebury), with men-at-arms mixed in, led by Lord Harwood Fell. I've given them all axes, because axe, fell, wood? Ah? Ah?
(https://i.imgur.com/Jmll5bx.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3pA8eAP.jpg)
As a general rule, I'm wanting to give the Lordly characters big cloaks to set them apart from the Knights and Men-at-Arms.
Here's King Stannis, and his lordly followers, Lord Fell and Lord Peasebury
(https://i.imgur.com/lWzIsE4.jpg)
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Love it, really embracing the obscure and punny side of Westeros :D
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Yup! Going through the wiki (and most of A Dance with Dragons) it seems that Stannis is left with the pun houses in the stormlands!
At the same time, a LOT of the houses that are described as having any significant numbers with him seem to have either white or green in their house colours. I'm debating who to have for a second block of archers, but I don't want them to be TOO similar to the other houses. Wensington maybe? Blue/Yellow. Worst-case I'll set them up in Baratheon yellow, Stannis mentions archers more than once after all.
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Have been going back over a few threads of late, and I must say that ermine looks great.
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Hello again! Another update quite soon after the previous one!
I've been working on getting a big block of Baratheon infantry to form the core of the force, to represent the King's Men and Queen's Men in the levvies that came north from Dragonstone and Storm's End.
First up, a unit of crossbowmen. I wanted to put Humfrey Clifton, a knight from the Westerlands who follows Stannis north, but he doesn't have a sigil described in the books. But luckily there's a historical House Clifton (of Clifton Manor) who fought in the War of the Roses, whose sigil is a white lion on a black field. The lion fits the Westerlands background pretty well I thought, but turns out they're fiddly to paint freehand! Hopefully it turned out ok (from a distance at least!)
(https://i.imgur.com/1dfdWUo.jpg)
Next up, a big block of Baratheon billmen (or halberdiers really, but that doesn't have the alliteration to it!). I've put two standard bearers in the block, so it can neatly be split into two groups of twelve if needed, but as part of the block of 24 I've got it being led by Ser Clayton Suggs (with the longsword).
(https://i.imgur.com/Cxg2nxl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/vdlu2vr.jpg)
Here's a shot of the full Baratheon column, I may add more units to it, like some bowmen or somesuch, but as it stands it'll be the core of Stannis' host.
(https://i.imgur.com/4mjl42K.jpg)
Finally I want to just show the unit banners separately, I wanted to avoid having the same banners for every unit, to have a difference between King's Men and Queen's Men, so I've got variants of the Stag and the Flaming Heart on the banners. Stannis' personal standard is described as a bright yellow, so I've put the whole stag within the flaming heart, and a much brighter yellow for that one.
(https://i.imgur.com/XhfiI37.jpg)
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I'm really enjoying following this project. Its great to see larger forces for GoT! These guys will look great once you get the army finished.
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They look great en masse
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Just so great!
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Blimey :o
You're not hanging around!
Nice builds, and bold colours. Well done 8)
I've added your thread to the LAF GOT compendium / index!
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=87146.msg1074224#msg1074224
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Hi everyone! I've been focusing more on getting some blocks of knights ready, one with hand-weapons and shields, and the other with polearms, just to have some representation of the other smaller houses that follow King Stannis north, but not enough to really get all that much of a mention in-text!
I've finished the shield block so here's how they've turned out! I've got knights (and/or men-at-arms) from House Caron, Morrigen, Bar Emmon, Estermont, Chyttering, Velaryon, with Ser Ormond Wylde and Ser Corliss Penny, all led by a knight of House Florent:
I wanted to have multiple banners per block of knights, just to kind of reflect how every time Stannis' host gets described people talk about his banners (and given the casualties, he probably has a high banner : person ratio).
(https://i.imgur.com/VmNuaft.jpg)
And again from the left, so the shields and banners are a bit more visible
(https://i.imgur.com/MXha4wv.jpg)
And here's a shot with the flash on, just because the Morrigen shield is really dark, so it doesn't show up too well in photos:
(https://i.imgur.com/eRZ7tBy.jpg)
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Fantastic array of banners
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They're going to look especially good once you have them all together. They will look like a true medieval army, full of different banners and household colors surrounding a core force of yellow!
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Man you are knocking that heraldry out of the park! Beautiful work! :-* Will you be doing Boltons and their begrudgingly mustered northern subjects to oppose Stannis?
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Thanks for the kind words!
I've got a block of Karstark pikemen ready to paint, and I'm mulling over whether or not to get some Freys into the mix (chances are I'll use one of the WotR Perry boxes rather than the Agincourt ones, to differentiate the Riverlands soldiers from the Northmen), but not thought about Boltons yet!
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Superb stuff! ;)
Wish I could do my heraldry as well as you, great project.
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Hi again!
I've decided to go for a change of pace lately, which meant dabbling with Northmen!
So far I've put together two figures who I'm going to use for commanders, and a Weirwood (Which ended up far taller than I expected!) My camera does *not* like the lighting this time of year, so forgive the weird lighting and focus on the pictures!
(https://i.imgur.com/eHcxegu.jpg)
The first of the two commanders are Morgan 'Middle' Liddle, who is an unmodified Perry Gallowglass commander, because I really like their Irish figures! and the other is Big Bucket Wull, taken from the GW Forlong the Fat mini, with his spear replaced with a Perry axehead.
(https://i.imgur.com/r8tylZl.jpg)
Plan is to have a couple of skirmisher units of Mountain Clansmen to support Stannis' main force (or to represent some of the Northmen who are reluctantly following the Boltons)
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Perfect minis for those characters.
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Hi everyone.
Quick question, I'm looking for minis I could potentially use as a stand-in or basis for conversion to use as Arnolf Karstark, but I'm not sure what to use! Does anyone know of any manufacturers or miniatures that could be used as a nobleman, in like, noble robes/cloak/etc, rather than armoured? Bonus points if they have a staff or cane. I was going to use the Perry Henry VI, but I've got other plans for him!
It's surprisingly difficult to find unarmoured nobles in 28mm! I've tried looking up wizards and mages but they tend to either be too large scale, or a bit too scruffy looking!
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Hello again! And a slightly belated happy new year!
For a bit of a change of pace, I've started some work on some more Northmen in earnest, starting with the extremely loyal House Karstark.
I wanted to keep things different from the southron soldiers by having the gambesons (aketons?) in much darker colours, so brown, black and grey, rather than livery and linen colours...unfortunately that does have the side effect of being extremely dark and it shows up a bit odd in photos! Hopefully it came out ok!
(https://i.imgur.com/Xl7YBvk.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/2YcJhfp.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/U9vKTkx.jpg)
As an aside, turns out those wire spears are actually quite sharp, whoops!
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Looking good! Are those the old Claymore scots, now sold by Antediluvian? Was a bit tempted by their new War of the Bruces releases.
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Yup! They're *slightly* smaller than the Perry figures but not so much as to be a problem!
They're essentially unmodified aside from the St. Andrew's cross filed off, though, in retrospect, it wouldn't be too difficult to adapt a St. Andrew's cross into a Bolton sigil! Just put a head onto the X shape.
Though while the sculpts are good, they do need some cutting and filing to get the pikes to fit, as a heads up!
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Nice work, suitably grim northerners
:)
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Hi again!
So for another change of pace for this log, I've decided to allow it to be usurped by the younger Baratheon Brother, Renly.
I've used the Perry Henry VI as a basis, with his hat chopped off, and new hairdo green-stuff'd on, I'm still new to GS-work though, so Renly gets a stylish mullet/perm
(https://i.imgur.com/y7mZfvC.jpg)
The Perry Henry seems to have a slightly droopy old man face for young Renly, but I hope it's come out ok!
Here's the Baratheon brothers facing off! I want to hopefully make a Summer-Stannis, and a mounted Renly so I can make a little vignette of Renly's peach scene in the books.
(https://i.imgur.com/cXCF40K.jpg)
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Great conversion
There isn’t an end to this is there....what have we all got ourselves into?
lol
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Great conversion
There isn’t an end to this is there....what have we all got ourselves into?
lol
Hah, thanks!
The plan is still to focus (mostly) on Stannis' A Dance with Dragons storyline, so I shouldn't get sidetracked with things like the Blackwater, but I'll make a couple of exceptions here and there! I still need to convert something to use for Mel after all!
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Hello again!
So I finally decided to crack open one of the plastic boxes of Perry HYW cavalry, and I'm very impressed! So of course the first thing I did was to chop up one of the torsos!
I decided to make an attempt at Ramsay Bolton from the plastic cavalry, with his House Bolton gimmick armour and all. In the books it gets described as "helm and gorget were wrought in the shape of a man's face and shoulders, skinless and bloody, mouth open in a silent howl of anguish," which of course called for some generous use of green-stuff, and filing down the existing helmet and gorget.
I'm still a bit of a green-stuff novice, so hopefully it turned out ok!
(https://i.imgur.com/PxCFk1o.jpg)
Once the sculpting was all finished, I decided to paint him up, and emphasise the "Red Helm" and "Dark Armour" that Theon points out, with a stylish pink cloak to tie the whole ensemble together!
(https://i.imgur.com/LnVWwR7.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/qGdgb6f.jpg)
I'm going to be putting together a unit of light cavalry to accompany Ramsay on the field, with axes and swords, rather than lances like those southron sorts. Let me know how he's turned out!
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It looks horrific! Perfect execution of what Mr Martin describes!! I'm gonna try to make my Ramsay like that!
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Horrific and a bit crazy-looking...I’m surprised that the TV series didn’t use it, as it’s suitably gory.
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Now thats how to make a baddie look bad!! Got to be one of my favourite GOT figures the helmet is a real work of genius :-* :-*
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Hi again everyone! Thanks for the kind words about ol' Ramsay!
I've been a bit indecisive over the last couple of weeks (combined with IRL stuff going on), but I've finally settled on putting together some test miniatures for House Bolton, starting with some cavalry. The sort of unpleasant chaps who follow Ramsay around, or cause mischief and mayhem in the Hornwood during A Clash of Kings.
I've gone with pink!Boltons for the livery, but I wanted to keep them looking pretty scruffy and disorganised where they're not much more than brigands, so lots of padded or leather armour. To help that look, I've given them all big axes, rather than any of that southron nonsense with lances. Can't raid a village and break down doors with a lance!
Doing the banner was a bit difficult, so I hope my attempt at interpreting the sigil has been successful!
(https://i.imgur.com/dkrk5jB.jpg)
The chap with the mustache is my personal favourite, I just like the pose!
(https://i.imgur.com/GTBN0C9.jpg)
For the units without big pink collars I wanted to give fur cloaks, to show that they are definitely northmen (and it's chilly up there!)
(https://i.imgur.com/lGp0Cx3.jpg)
And here's the gang all together!
(https://i.imgur.com/UyGtN4t.jpg)
And with Ramsay too! Incidentally, I only noticed afterwards, that Ramsay (and by extension the other Perry plastics) are actually quite a bit taller than the other cavalry. Which has the nice side effect of showing that he is definitely the one in charge of the unit!
(https://i.imgur.com/Lr1EHNI.jpg)
If these ones have turned out well, plan is to extend them to a unit of 10 Dreadfort cavalry for house Bolton! Hopefully they've turned out alright!
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Looks great, the pink works well.
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Suitably dastardly looking Bolton’s - well done on embracing the pink, it works well, and the banner looks great.
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Hi again everyone! Thanks for the feedback about the Dreadfort cavalry!
I've finished off the rest of the unit, with the same Pink-and-axes direction so they're ready to go cause trouble!
(https://i.imgur.com/1mnxUdT.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/RCEkMET.jpg)
A lot of pink livery and fur collars! With Ramsay leading the force of horse (of course)
(https://i.imgur.com/9V35L84.jpg)
I hope they've come out ok and look the part for Ramsay's gang of extremely unpleasant followers!
Also, I hope my attempt at painting horses has gone successfully! I'm not too experience with them so any feedback there is welcome too!
I've also been inspired by @Ogrob's GoT project to pick up some of the Claymore Castings infantry, but I've hit a problem where I like the sculpts and poses so much I'm indecisive about which house to put them in! Whoops!
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"...but I've hit a problem where I like the sculpts and poses so much I'm indecisive about which house to put them in! Whoops!"
The kitbasher's dilemma!
Congratulations on another completed unit! Bravo!! To paraphrase my grad school motto about thesis writing: "The best project is a completed project."
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Good looking unit, real rough but professional look which I think is great for Bolton.
Looking forward to seeing what you settle for with the Claymore models. Have you seen the english archers they previewed on Facebook?
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Have you seen the english archers they previewed on Facebook?
I hadn't seen them before! Thanks for the heads up! Definitely liking the looking of them, would make some excellent Freys methinks!
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Good looking unit, real rough but professional look which I think is great for Bolton.
Agree completely - really look the part.
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So my order from Claymore Castings arrived, and whoops! The indecision hit hard. Some of them were fairly easy to plan paint-schemes for certain houses. But I've gotten very attached to the French double-handed weapon infantry! "Do I want to make such nice models Boltons, or Freys?"
King Stannis may get a few more halberdiers if I get too indecisive! Yellow/black is a suitably generic colour scheme!
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Freys!
(The only trouble being, of course, that the Freys are a bit rubbish lol)
I like the snowy bases on your Bolton cavalry.
Time I got on with my Lannister cavalry from the Perry HYW set :)
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Freys!
(The only trouble being, of course, that the Freys are a bit rubbish lol)
My thoughts exactly - probably suit Frey’s better, but it’s a shame to use such lovely figures on them.
Time I got on with my Lannister cavalry from the Perry HYW set :)
Yes it is...we are all waiting for another dose of inspiration...
;) :D
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Hi again! I've got another update but...not with the Claymore Castings minis yet!
Before I got to work on those, I wanted to get a couple more named characters done first!
So starting up, I've made me an Arnolf Karstark, the extremely loyal and not at all treacherous castellan of Karhold!
(https://i.imgur.com/ixXdFnT.jpg)
Choosing a figure to be ol' Arnolf was actually quite difficult, but eventually I settled on a Perry peasant of all things. This one in particular, with a haircut, a beard, and a heap of green-stuff to make him look a bit less scruffy.
(https://i.imgur.com/n57DynP.png)
To go with Arnolf, I've got a few retainers (or sons/grandsons/cousins/etc.) from Karhold to accompany him, and to practice freehanding the sunburst.
(https://i.imgur.com/vd4Bv9P.jpg)
And also a standard bearer, to add to the many faces of the Karstark sun: Annoyed, Confused and Worried!
(https://i.imgur.com/SFBqR91.jpg)
Here's the gang all together
(https://i.imgur.com/oZojmTa.jpg)
And a side shot to (hopefully) show that the retainers have sigils on their surcoats, and Arnolf has a big grey cloak.
(https://i.imgur.com/gFlfUAS.jpg)
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Well done on the Karstarks, especially the freehand...I fear my own attempt would look more like an emoji.
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Thanks! I'm still trying to work up the nerve to attempt the Umber one!
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Those Karstarks are great! Just like Akula I feel very much inspired! I may restart my Westeros project with Karstarks.
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Hello again! Another Karstark update!
I've decided to do my first few Claymore lads as Karstark archers, with furry collars, as a sort of Household guard for Castellan Arnolf. They're going to represent the garrison archers from Karhold itself, so they look a bit neater than the common-or-garden infantry, seeing as they've come straight from the Karstark seat.
(https://i.imgur.com/vMdZiqj.jpg)
They've all got heraldic surcoats as a sort of 'uniform,' with the house badge on, in a WotR sort of style. So lots of little sunbursts!
(https://i.imgur.com/DkjCYWt.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/X9aZha6.jpg)
And here's Arnolf Karstark together with his household guards and retainers.
(https://i.imgur.com/aKZTsdn.jpg)
Hopefully these lads have come out ok!
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Lovely work - the surcoats make them pop
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You're a remorseless GoT-ing machine!!!
I am envious and in awe. Bringing my project out of deep freeze with a House Tully faction next month.
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You're a remorseless GoT-ing machine!!!
I am envious and in awe. Bringing my project out of deep freeze with a House Tully faction next month.
High praise (and richly deserved).
Will be looking forward to seeing your own update - suspect a few more GoT projects will be getting a boost in the next few week...the more the merrier.
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Very nice free-hand painting of the Karstark's heraldry.
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Great stuff all round :)
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Thanks for the kind words, all!
To be honest it's the other really high quality GoT/ASoIaF threads that keep me going with this! Lot of inspirational stuff on the forum, and it's always great to see peoples' interpretations of the characters!
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Thanks for the kind words, aTo be honest it's the other really high quality GoT/ASoIaF threads that keep me going with this! Lot of inspirational stuff on the forum, and it's always great to see peoples' interpretations of the characters!
I couldn’t agree more with this sentiment - LAF has so many inspirational thread (on so many different subjects/genre/periods).
Particularly when it comes to Game of Thrones there is no “right way” to do it, it’s just great to see everyone’s enthusiasm and ideas spurring one another on.
:)
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Hello again! I've been a bit conscious that for a while now I've neglected to do any Baratheon-focused updates, so for this week's update I've got uh....a different Baratheon!
I've decided to do a mounted version of Renly Baratheon, after he declares himself king. I wanted to take a bit more time to get to grips with sculpting to get a little less of an odd haircut to his on-foot counterpart I did before! On top of that, I wanted to work on the crown that House Tyrell gives to Renly, with its jade-and-gold stag's head.
(https://i.imgur.com/4H6HxdX.jpg)
He's also got a peach, either to taunt his brother Stannis, or for a handy snack on the road
(https://i.imgur.com/RXO62Yr.jpg)
And here's a shot of both the on-foot and mounted Renlies, both of them are based on the Perry Henry VI, and built up from there!
(https://i.imgur.com/sFTbcI3.jpg)
Let me know what you think! Hopefully they've turned out ok! I might do another version of Renly in his green armour as well, as the 'battle Renly' (or Ser Garlan Tyrell)
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Solid job, crown looks good and the peach is a good touch :D
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Peachy
:D
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What a beautiful pair of figures.
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[Edit 30/03, I've retaken the pictures, hopefully with better lighting now!)]
Hi again! Today I've got another update
So way back in the distant past I put together a few test Karstark Cavalry (back before the HYW plastic cavalry) so I thought I'd best finish that unit off, to represent some of the "dozen mounted lances" Arnolf Karstark brings with him down from Karhold.
(https://i.imgur.com/kwCc3SB.jpg)
I wanted them to feel a little more armored and wealthier (like Northern equivalents of men-at-arms or border-horse types), so the priority was adding mail to the WotR light-cavalry, or giving them 'medium-armour' type bodies, while also giving them the Agincourt heads, to unify them with the rest of the force. (My personal favourite is the one in the brigandine and bascinet)
(https://i.imgur.com/4FilxYj.jpg)
And for a full group shot (and sudden lighting deterioration) here's a Column of Karstark
(https://i.imgur.com/blh0Ws8.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/p24AdNL.jpg)
And an array of the Karstark force, a Cavalcade of Karstarks
(https://i.imgur.com/lg30hsn.jpg)
Hopefully the force has come out ok!
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I've re-taken the pictures with better lighting, and updated the post with the new photos! Sorry again about that!
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Good job! I'm always to scared of sculpting chainmail, but yours looks fine.
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Great job, the cavalry look the part - new photos really show them off.
You are building a really decent collection there
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Digging your continued prodigiousness! Great work!
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Hello again!
Here's s bit of a mini-update, Real-Life stuff managed to catch up with me, so I've been attempting to scratch a heraldry itch in my downtime!
I took @Ogrob's advice and got a big bag of 1st Corps heater shields and decided to get to work with those!
I've done 20 of them (so far), roughly grouped by region/Overlord, I'm not sure if I'll necessarily use all of them, but it's fun to practice the heraldry at least!
I've got two photos of them, one of them I had to remove the glare off the fiery heart (which had the side effect of making the others a bit dark!)
(https://i.imgur.com/efstAtt.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/PY99iwb.jpg)
Let me know how I've done! Bonus points for guessing all the associated houses (though, bonus points for me I guess, if I've made it recognisable enough to name!).
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Lovely work! Of the top of my head I've got the following:
North: Manderly, Woolfield, Flint and Locke
Riverlands: Frey, don't know, Frey junior branch?, don't know, Frey bastard?. The last one kind of stumps me, but is there a House Fisher with a heron symbol maybe?
Stannis: Only know Stannis Lord of Light and Crowned Stag. Love the purple and white riders mirrored.
Stormlands: Renly Baratheon, Beesbury, and no idea on the rest.
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Delightful!!!
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Beautiful!
Second row 4th from left is Charlton and sixth from the left is Erenford
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Lovely work! Of the top of my head I've got the following:
North: Manderly, Woolfield, Flint and Locke
Riverlands: Frey, don't know, Frey junior branch?, don't know, Frey bastard?. The last one kind of stumps me, but is there a House Fisher with a heron symbol maybe?
Stannis: Only know Stannis Lord of Light and Crowned Stag. Love the purple and white riders mirrored.
Stormlands: Renly Baratheon, Beesbury, and no idea on the rest.
4/4 with the North!
Beautiful!
Second row 4th from left is Charlton and sixth from the left is Erenford
I sort of cheated with the Riverlands so as @Ogrob says I've got two variants on Frey bastards (seeing as Aenys and Hosteen are the only ones who get namedropped going up north, I figure they bring a few cousins). @Akula's got Charlton and Erenford correct! With house Haigh being the second from the left (Haigh..hay...pitchfork? Oh GRRM, you and your puns)
The Stannis Narrow-Sea Houses are Stannis' own Lord of Light with the Crowned Stag, House Farring, House Velaryon, House Massey, and Clayton Suggs.
Suggs' pig was one of my favourites of these to do, shame Clayton Suggs is a horrible person though. House Farring's mirrored riders took ages to do, thanks for the kind words on that one @Ogrob!
For the Stormlands, we've got a Renly/Generic-Baratheon stag, House Horpe, House Wensington (Sam Tarly mentions it in a one-off-line in ASOS), my take on House Morrigen's flying crow, and House Wylde.
Thanks for all the kind words everyone!
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Don't have any Woolfields in my army, but I have the others so I should know them.
The flying pig is such a funny sigil, very GRRM.
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Great shields. Sadly, these days everybody takes the "silly stag" of house Baratheon from the show as canon.
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Sadly, these days everybody takes the "silly stag" of house Baratheon from the show as canon.
Ah, do you mean the one that looks just a wee bit like Bullwinkle the moose's head? lol
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Well, a stag wearing a crown around his neck just deserves to be called silly. I guess the show runners needed to highlight Robert's drunkard character so they made him slap that crown around the neck of the stag after he became king.
The books meanwhile state that the Baratheon's coat of arms always showed a crowned black stag on gold, ever since Orris Baratheon "borrowed" it from the last storm king.
Compare this picture from before the TV show ever showed up
(http://i.imgur.com/UHzaA.jpg)
to let's say to this picture:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/da/cb/8f/dacb8f3a50eeaab7c406ad00757ecc18.png)
Lionel Baratheon, ancestor of Robert I. The stag should be crowned but thanks to the TV show he isn't an illustrators now pick this up as canon.
Wow, quite the rant for some fictional heraldry... :D
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Ah! Thanks for clarifying! Yup, the illustrations in the appendices in the books have the crown on top of the head as well, so I probably *should* do that, rather than the "crown slightly too big, so the stag got its neck stuck in it"
I'll do some tests to see how it looks when I try the crown on top of the head!
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The shield work is fantastic. Especially on items such as the stag.
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Excellent work on those shields - very impressive indeed.
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Hello again!
So I thought I've been neglecting poor ol' King Stannis lately, so figured I'd better paint up some more units for his forces!
To get back in the saddle I've painted up some of Stannis' royal knights, the rather unpleasant assortment of chaps he has left after the Blackwater.
These are mostly just straight builds from the new Perry plastic Agincourt knights set, with (somewhat anachronistic) heater shields from 1st Corps.
(https://i.imgur.com/fI0obmM.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hfIgUsO.jpg)
So from left to right we've got Clayton Suggs, Justin Massey, Richard Horpe, Godry 'Giantslayer' Farring, and Ormund Wylde. Horpe is Stannis' second in command on the march to Winterfell, so he gets the command here
Suggs is just a hedge knight, so I've given him one of the un-armoured bodies from the set rather than a full plate harness. Plate armour's expensive!
I'm going to add yellow pennons to each of their lances at some point as well, just to tie them in with Stannis' own colours a bit more, and to represent the yellow banners that Jon Snow makes a big deal of mentioning when he sees them
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Your hand painted heraldry is brilliant.
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Good job! Once again I really like the look of Ser Farring, great job on the purples.
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I envy you your steady hand - your heraldry is top notch
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Hi again!
Bit of a change this week where I've put together a couple of household guards (or dismounted knights) of House Manderly as a sort of test for the 'uniform' of Lord Wyman's personal guard.
So rather than spears, they've got tridents, and scale armour because White Harbour's got its brand going on as one of the wealthier places in The North.
(https://i.imgur.com/ZITK5dY.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Vjfw8Ie.jpg)
They could also double up as some of the White Harbour men skirmishing with the Boltons in the Hornwood during A Clash of Kings
(https://i.imgur.com/940NvnG.jpg)
They fit together quite nicely in formation too! But I've run into a bit of a snag where I've run out of tridents, so making more might be a bit difficult! Any manufacturers of tridents would be much appreciated!
(https://i.imgur.com/yfSdccJ.jpg)
Let me know how they've turned out!
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They look great
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Castaway Arts sell tridents
https://secure.iig.com.au/castawayarts/index.php?cmd=store
Steve Barber models used to have some but I think they sold the range - the following company seem to stock their gladiator weapons, but no photos.
http://www.triangleminiatures.com/SBM_GLA.htm
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Ah! Thanks for the suggestions! I'll check them out!
I'll probably reserve tridents for foot troops or mounted officer types, and rely on plumes and seaweed-looking frilly coats for the rest
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Very stylish looking
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Lovely painting and punning :)
Are the scale mail bodies fireforge?
Trident heads seems like the sort of thing you could easily cast using intant mold and the putty of your choice.
Snip off a few spear heads and put on some trident heads and you're golden :)
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Lovely painting and punning :)
Are the scale mail bodies fireforge?
Yup! They're fireforge bodies, with Perry French Infantry heads (the bascinets with neck armour), and cavalry visors and plumes, with the foot-knight lances
Trident heads seems like the sort of thing you could easily cast using intant mold and the putty of your choice.
Snip off a few spear heads and put on some trident heads and you're golden :)
Excellent idea with casting tridents! I'll put together a mold and see how it goes! Worst case I make one for REALLY tiny tridents for like, helmet crests!
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I’m curious, do you have a plan/list you are working from, or are you going from House to House as the mood/inspiration takes you?
The reason I ask is that I can’t see any end to my own project ...the more I work on it, the longer the todo list seems to get....
:D
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I’m curious, do you have a plan/list you are working from, or are you going from House to House as the mood/inspiration takes you?
The reason I ask is that I can’t see any end to my own project ...the more I work on it, the longer the todo list seems to get....
:D
I'm pretty unstructured with this one to be honest! I think at first it just started out as "I want to make a small Stannis!" but then it ended up growing as I got more and more into it, probably helps that I've been doing a re-read of the series too! So sometimes I'll just end up deciding "you know what? I'll do some Manderly lads" or other times I'll be mid-reading and get a flash of inspiration!
I've not got any rules or army list to go with it either! I'm kinda unfamiliar with what's on offer in the fantasy wargames systems, so sometimes I've *generally* copied what looks like Lion Rampant stuff (like units in multiples of 6), but that's a happy coincidence more than actual planning there! lol
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I'm pretty unstructured with this one to be honest! I think at first it just started out as "I want to make a small Stannis!" but then it ended up growing as I got more and more into it, probably helps that I've been doing a re-read of the series too! So sometimes I'll just end up deciding "you know what? I'll do some Manderly lads" or other times I'll be mid-reading and get a flash of inspiration!
I've not got any rules or army list to go with it either! I'm kinda unfamiliar with what's on offer in the fantasy wargames systems, so sometimes I've *generally* copied what looks like Lion Rampant stuff (like units in multiples of 6), but that's a happy coincidence more than actual planning there! lol
lol
It’s really interesting, rereading some of the GoT threads, how many LAFers started out with “I’m planning on a small force of XXX” and then the project spirals out of control. In many ways I’m glad I didn’t write a list to work to at the outset, as the background material lends itself to so many different possibilities.
Keep up the good work mate.
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Indeed, I had pretty much built as many models as I was ever going to need for my first intended game system, and then just kept going.
Love the Manderly knights!
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Hi again!
I've been quite busy these last couple of weeks painting up horses for King Stannis' knights, which worked out as quite lucky timing, as @Akula has been recently showing off some excellent Free-Folk on their project thread!
(https://i.imgur.com/WtMGD6n.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Gx0v7jg.jpg)
Largely they're the new Perry Agincourt plastic knights, with 1st Corps shields, asides from King Stannis himself, and his two standard bearers who are based on Perry metals! I've also attached yellow pennons to each of the lances, because Jon says that there's "yellow, so much yellow, yellow banners" and I wanted to reflect that in some way!
Here's a side-on shot to give a little better angle on the banners
(https://i.imgur.com/l2zdxec.jpg)
And for some of the individual knights, I've tried to keep the available knights in-line with who we've seen or heard about in the books with King Stannis
"he glimpsed a seahorse, a field of birds, a ring of flowers" - Jon X, A Storm of Swords. (I've tried to copy the Florent sigil from the appendix in the books, with its...interesting fox-face)
(https://i.imgur.com/Blo19Ls.jpg)
"The turtle is Estermont, the swordfish is Bar Emmon, and the crossed trumpets are for Wensington" - Samwell IV, A Storm of Swords
(https://i.imgur.com/4K208wt.jpg)
For some of the other knights, I've taken some liberties, Stannis describes how Lucos Chyttering and Lester Morrigen are still loyal to him, with Richard Morrigen following Stannis to the Wall, so I've included knights to represent their houses. In A Dance with Dragons, part of Queen Selyse's escort is Narbert Grandison and Perkin Follard, but no mention about the rest of their houses, and whether they support Stannis. So I've included a Follard and a Grandison on the assumption that there might be more of them bopping about! Originally I was going to do just a Lion Passant for the Grandison sleeping Lion, but then, reading through the Complete Guide to Heraldry, turns out a lion taking a cat nap dormant is an actual heraldic concept, fancy that!
(https://i.imgur.com/iQJ9d8L.jpg)
And finally King Stannis himself, and his royal standards, one of them just being held by a Baratheon retainer, but the other one I'm using to represent Devan Seaworth, one of Stannis' squires, because I had to have an onion somewhere! I've also taken @von Kalden's advice and put the crown on the stag's head this time, rather than on its neck! (I know Lightbringer in the books isn't supposed to actually be on fire, but I wanted to set it apart somehow from a distance)
"Floating above them were the largest banners yet, royal standards as big as sheets; a yellow one with long pointed tongues that showed a flaming heart, and another like a sheet of beaten gold, with a black stag prancing and rippling in the wind" - Jon X, A Storm of Swords
(https://i.imgur.com/udk9Bpo.jpg)
Let me know how they've turned out!...I may need to take a break from horses and focus on infantry for a while to recover!
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Wow - what an update!
The new Perry cavalry fit the bill and the vivid yellow goes really well with the white snow - the pennants are a nice touch.
Very effective en masse, particularly with the minor Houses...the more I see of them, the more I’d like to add Stannis’ forces to my todo list.
Whereabouts are you based, we should get a game in ...although I’ll need a lot more free folk...unless you are happy for me to butcher your Baratheons with some Boltons..?
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Excellent attention to detail... if that force were charging at me, there's no chance i'm standing my ground for the inevitable!
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These knights are awesome, the heraldry is amazing and the banners superb! Please keep the updates coming
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Thanks everyone!
I'm glad the yellow turned out ok! I was unsure how it'd look with yellow parts fixed to non-yellow knights, but it seems to have worked when they're en-masse! The Perry knights are a joy to paint (even if that many horses is a bit daunting sometimes!)
Longer term I might swap out one of the standard bearers for a Melisandre, but I might save her for a "Summer Stannis" to go opposite Renly. I've got a real soft spot for the parley scene both in A Clash of Kings and in the show too
Whereabouts are you based, we should get a game in ...although I’ll need a lot more free folk...unless you are happy for me to butcher your Baratheons with some Boltons..?
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I'm based near Brighton in the sunny South, always down for a game though! That is a good point too, I should probably structure some of these Baratheon boys into a list of some kind! What systems do people use these days?
Plus, no need to be picky about opposing forces! The nice(?) thing about King Stannis is that he has terrible people skills so he can fight just about anyone! lol
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I should probably structure some of these Baratheon boys into a list of some kind! What systems do people use these days?
Not sure what systems others are using, but I’m going to write a simple fast play set....eventually :D
Plus, no need to be picky about opposing forces! The nice(?) thing about King Stannis is that he has terrible people skills so he can fight just about anyone! lol
lol
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Great work on the knights!
For game, I'm looking toward Oathmark from Osprey, due out sometime in the autumn, which should suit your basing decently. That's a mass battle game, and for skirmish Saga Age of Magic is getting some hype at the club so I'll play that with my Starks,
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Thanks for the suggestions, I'll have a look! Is Lion/Dragon Rampant much good for this sort of thing too?
Also, for anyone curious about the rather *erhem* odd, Florent sigil in the appendix, here's an example
(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/516421270578003976/573260637157982208/DSC00595.JPG?width=600&height=400)
It's quite something. I think for future Florents I may just do a "Fox's Mask" like in The Complete Guide to Heraldry
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Hello again!
I'm back with some more northmen, this time, without any horses though!
I've been working on Mors 'Crowfood' Umber, and his pro-Stannis faction of House Umber, which in the text amounts to "a host of green boys."
Santa Claus Mors Umber is described as being tall, with a big ol' polar bear cloak and missing one eye, so I wanted him to stand a bit taller than his troops
(https://i.imgur.com/tFwKN1R.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0N30Kz9.jpg)
I've also painted up a few of Umber's green boys, basically whatever peasants, fieldhands, stable-boys or lumberjacks are left at Last Hearth between the Red Wedding and Hother taking the other fighting men. So to get that impression I'm focusing on as little armour as possible, and more 'civilian' outfits, to make it look like they've just hastily been called out from the fields for a bit of mischief against the Boltons!
I wanted to avoid overt livery for the irregulars, but still wanted to tie them in to House Umber somehow, so I've got reddish-brown in the outfits to hopefully unify them a bit.
(https://i.imgur.com/gGvpSTf.jpg)
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Excellent work - like the bear cowl !
Where is the horn from...could do with some myself?
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Excellent work - like the bear cowl !
Where is the horn from...could do with some myself?
:)
Thanks! It took an unreasonably long time to work out how to do the bear cowl!
The horn is from the Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors sprue. I've only got the one though, so I'm working out how to improvise for the rest of the unit!
[Also edit: I've updated the photos because something was bugging me about them!]
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Great read this. Some very good builds and ideas.
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Hi everyone!
I've been a bit quiet in this log while I've been focusing on my Burgundians in another thread, but I've not totally neglected the Westerosi here!
This update's a bit of a cheat, where I've tried to paint up my Burgundian foot-troops as livery-independent as possible so that they could be used to represent Summer Baratheons, rather than Stannis' forces up North.
I'm planning on getting a few more units of greener Baratheons done (mostly Renly/Blackwater focused, like the Rainbow Guard), but in the meantime, here's the Flemish Storm's End pikemen!
(https://i.imgur.com/b0UjSHX.jpg)
[Edit] In retrospect, the civilian colours I chose of drab green, red and yellow ended up making them look like traffic lights, whoops!
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I like the look of them! Very convincing!
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Hi again!
With the weather getting warmer I decided to work on our Knight of Summer, Renly Baratheon, in his full battle regalia. He's got a pretty distinctive suit of armour in the books, being all green enameled plate, with a huge rack of gold antlers on his helm, so I wanted to give that a go!
(https://i.imgur.com/7kKhL3T.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/sSZl31s.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/glIfSPw.jpg)
He's a re-purposed Edward IV at his base, with a headswap and some antlers bolted on as a start. I was debating whether or not to give him a shield or not, but decided in favour of it, where I would be adding shields to the Rainbow Guard when I get round to them.
Renly here can be used either as Lord Renly of Storm's End, King Renly, or his ghost with Garlan Tyrell in the armour at the Blackwater, so hopefully fairly versatile!
Here's a shot of the three Renlies I've got done, I'll do something similar for King Stannis, so he has some Summer/Blackwater variants too:
(https://i.imgur.com/dBy0UIV.jpg)
Let me know how he's turned out!
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He looks Really tough!
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Splendid!! :o I just need to make my Renly exactly like yours!
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Hi again!
I've been away for a while, but I've been working on getting King Renly's Rainbow Guard tabletop ready! It let me try out more colours I don't typically use (lots of purples!) so they were great fun to paint up!
The Rainbow Guard are Renly Baratheon's own new Kingsguard, with each member (minus the Lord Commander) having a specific colour, in-universe to represent the Faith of the Seven, where they each wear specifically coloured armour and rainbow cloaks to reflect that.
(https://i.imgur.com/yFmxaKB.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/qdrjidq.jpg)
As a breakdown of the individual knights, here's the unfortunate Ser Robar the Red from House Royce, and Ser Emmon the Yellow from House Cuy, who both end up killed by a grieving Loras after Renly's death
(https://i.imgur.com/qrNAy5I.jpg)
The next three knights are the three who defect to King Stannis, Lord Bryce the Orange, of house Caron, Ser Guyard the Green of House Morrigen, and Ser Parmen the Purple from House Crane. Lord Caron and Ser Guyard lead Stannis' forces at the Blackwater (and die there), but Ser Parmen, the most cardboard of the rainbow guard, is captured offscreen, and is oddly still alive in the story, presumably forgotten about by GRRM, I don't think he even has a single speaking line!
(https://i.imgur.com/UoFzUFB.jpg)
Next up is Brienne the Blue, of House Tarth. I got to cheat a bit here, where during the Parley scene in A Clash of Kings, Brienne is described as wearing a visored helm, which saved me doing a headswop! She's assigned as King Renly's standard bearer during the parley with King Stannis, and was planned to carry the Baratheon standard into battle before Renly was assassinated, so I've given her the standard of the group.
(https://i.imgur.com/ShjAWf5.jpg)
And finally, here's Lord Commander Loras Tyrell, he's got fancier armour in the books, so I gave him a WotR body rather than an Agincourt one to reflect that!
(https://i.imgur.com/T0Q0ikH.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/R6oKOzF.jpg)
To round things off, here's a full group shot of King Renly and his amazing technicolour kingsguard!
(https://i.imgur.com/fFDfO3j.jpg)
Let me know how they've turned out! They were great fun (if extremely fiddly) to paint!
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Amazing detail. I love how you are following the story to a T. Great job.
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They look great. Must admit this had completely passed me by when I read the books.
Now you just need to do dismounted versions of each ;)
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Now you just need to do dismounted versions of each ;)
Shhh spoilers! ;)
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Hi again! A bit of a quick update this time!
So just in time for the end of Summer, I've put together and painted a Summer Stannis, with Lightbringer, in his finest parley clothes (based off the excellent 'Parley at Storms End' artwork by Joshua Cairos https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/015/770/508/large/joshua-cairos-parleyatstormsend-joshuacairos.jpg?1549567878/ )
(https://i.imgur.com/8TtdjNM.jpg)
And here's the Baratheon brothers together, to give a bit of the contrast between the two!
(https://i.imgur.com/I7WYnrX.jpg)
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Great work! He has that gruff look that we've all come to know matches his personality...
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Excellent work on the Rainbow Guard...makes me want to make some more progress on my own project
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Outstanding work and painstaking recreations!! Bravo!!
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Thanks for the kind words everyone!
I've been working quite quickly on another update to get some more of the parley party done, this time Melisandre of Asshai!
It took an unreasonable amount of time to decide how to put the model together and what to use as a base so I hope she's turned out ok!
(https://i.imgur.com/2FRbkh6.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8kAfIYh.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hPFCKnV.jpg)
And I've also done an on-foot 'winter' version of Melisandre, for where she goes North with King Stannis. In the books, Mel's powers are supposed to be more effective at the Wall, so I wanted to update her outfit a bit, to have more of a fire-gradient to it, rather than the plain red robes of summer-Melisandre
(https://i.imgur.com/LaaCc5u.jpg)
And here's some group shots:
Summer Stannis and Melisandre
(https://i.imgur.com/ZySHezi.jpg)
King Stannis and Melisandre in The North
(https://i.imgur.com/hHbgKfV.jpg)
And 2/3 of a Parley Party (just need Cat and a walrus-mustached standard bearer to complete the set)
(https://i.imgur.com/KzlAVZg.jpg)
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This looks so cool!
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Melisandre is pure genius, both on foot and horse. Great ideas! And I love your White Harbor concept as well.
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Thanks for the kind words!
I want to get back to the White Harbour lads at some point, but working out some alternative bodies to avoid them being TOO uniform (mayhaps some walrus-mustachioed knights too!)
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Nice job, particularly like the foot figure
:)
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Hi again!
Bit of a small update this time!
I wanted to do a bit more with the Stannis-supporting northerners, and AKULA recently posted some excellent Mormonts, which got me inspired to make a start on a conversion to represent Alysane Mormont, the "She-Bear," who signs up with King Stannis after he takes Deepwood Motte, and keeps an eye on the captive Asha Greyjoy.
This was partly an excuse to try out contrast paints on darker colour schemes (Mormont Dark-green and black), but I used a new can of varnish after finishing the painting, which had the unfortunate side effect of making her extremely glossy! Whoops! I've tried to compensate for that in the photos but that freaks out the lighting on the snow a little bit!
(https://i.imgur.com/vQYiiW2.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Rnj6we0.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/JKT3c3H.jpg)
Hopefully she's turned out ok!
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Perfect
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Missed the updates from the rainbow guard and further and I'm deeply impressed! Such creativity and it all looks so well! Amazing work!
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Brill :)
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Great conversion!
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Hi again!
This time I've got some Umbers! This time of the Hother 'Whorsebane' Umber faction, who fights with (though, not very enthusiastically) House Bolton. In A Dance with Dragons, House Umber is split between the two Umber brothers, Mors and Hother, with Hother taking all the old greybeards, and Mors keeping all the green boys, (I'm subscribing to the theory that Hother is on a suicide mission to cause mischief and mayhem, but that's neither here nor there)
For the greybeards I went with the Antediluvian Miniatures Scots range, there's a lot of beardy, slightly scruffy looking types that I thought would fit in with the "hastily assembled militia with whatever equipment we have left" look!
(https://i.imgur.com/JSfPQIp.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/nwOkk8D.jpg)
And here's a few of my favourites from the bunch, the sculpts are wonderful and I'd highly recommend the range
(https://i.imgur.com/gZTi6tG.jpg)
I decided to give the Umber 'roaring giant' sigil a go, but I've found it's very difficult to make it not look a bit goofy, so I made do there!
Let me know how they've turned out!
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I think they look great! Excellent choice of minis for their intended role.
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Ooooh I like those :-*
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I Was just eyeing these figures earlier today (for a Mormont army). Excellent paintjob, and love the models!
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Those Umbers look absolutely cracking :-* :-*
Great job, I need to check out those minis...
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Hi again!
So I've been working on finishing off the main bulk of Stannis' forces in The North, but to break things up from snowy men-at-arms I've also been working on some named-character conversions (just to save me having things TOO similar to straight-builds of the Perry kits like in my Burgundian project!).
So for a start I decided to make another variant of King Stannis, to represent a battle-ready version of his A Clash of Kings pre-character-development self. Though at the same time, his armour is based on the description Jon gives in A Dance With Dragons: "Grey Plate" with "his breastplate had a flaming heart inlaid above his own"
(https://i.imgur.com/cjFixOA.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/XQACJmt.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/DizsDCu.jpg)
And here's him in comparison to my older A Dance With Dragons Stannis from about 2-and-half years ago! I've tried to keep the posing consistent between the two, even if the newer one doesn't have a big flowing cloak (It's not cold yet!)
I was going to try my hand at some object-source-lighting for Lightbringer, but I wasn't quite brave enough for that yet!
(https://i.imgur.com/jaOQ4bX.jpg)
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He looks great!
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Great work - really like the flaming heart emblem on the breastplate
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Hi again!
After quite a long while I've got another update, there's been a lot of GoT/ASoIaF posts on the forum lately so that's inspired me to get to work on some of my backlog!
This time, for some reason, I wanted to have a go at kitbashing together some of the City Watch of King's Landing, the Gold Cloaks!
Rather than the show's more Ottoman look for them, I went for the more drab description in the books, using the Dark Sword gold cloak figure as a guide. They're described as wearing black mail, boots and gloves, to go with their cloaks (I always imagined them to be just...metaphorically gold, rather than literally gold though). The armour itself, at the same time rather than going for fully black metal, I decided to go for more of a look of some dark blued steel
...Incidentally, having the corrupt city watch wear "black mail" is a bit on the nose, isn't it?
(https://i.imgur.com/X2goeYa.jpg)
Gold Cloak officers get described as having black breastplates with four golden discs on, so I tried to get that across with the chap leading the unit
And here's a shot of the cloaks themselves:
(https://i.imgur.com/J4vi08U.jpg)
To go with the spearmen, I put together some skirmishing crossbowmen as well
(https://i.imgur.com/NU0TPoT.jpg)
And here's the bunch all together
(https://i.imgur.com/gb9Gezw.jpg)
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Really like your take on them, makes a lot of sense. Good builds too, Are they Fireforge scandinavians? Best take I've seen on those if so.
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Really like your take on them, makes a lot of sense. Good builds too, Are they Fireforge scandinavians? Best take I've seen on those if so.
Yup! The spearmen are Fireforge Scandinavians, with Perry HYW heads and Anvil Industries cloaks (with a bit of green stuff), the crossbowmen are Perry crusaders with the same HYW heads and Anvil Industries cloaks
Making these guys really made me realise how amazing it'd be if Fireforge allowed us to buy big bags of their cloaks though!
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Lovely job mate, a sound bit of reasoning on the colour scheme and well-executed
What’s their bribe level...still five gold dragons?
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Clever kitbashing. Very inspirational!
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Thanks everyone!
What’s their bribe level...still five gold dragons?
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This got me thinking (seeing as I was going through the audiobooks as background noise while doing these), and it looks like Littlefinger only sets aside one golden dragon for each rank-and-file gold cloak! What a cheapskate!...Janos Slynt gets 2000 all to himself though
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Hi again! It's been a while!
This is sort of a mini-update (and a pretty convenient coincidence with AKULA posting a start for a King's Landing build!) but I've been making a start on boats™, specifically, a bit of a mini-project to make Stannis Baratheon's Fury (again, inspired quite a bit with AKULA's own growing fleet!)
It's still early-days, but I've finished the work on the front of the ship, and the figurehead (apologies for the somewhat low-quality photo):
(https://i.imgur.com/hbswlXQ.jpg)
Fury is a War Galley in the books, and it is surprisingly difficult to find 28mm (or 1/72, or 1/56) scale galleys, so I've based it off of a Zvezda Trireme. It's a bit of an anchronism, but the tie-in artwork seems to depict galleys more like ancient-world oar-driven ships, rather than 15th century ones so I'll use that as justification
Unfortunately it has the side effect of making it extremely long! A pretty hefty 49cm prow to stern, so I'll need to plan to find somewhere to put it! lol
(https://i.imgur.com/fHkIauM.jpg)
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a neat concept.
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I’m really looking forward to seeing how you progress the Fury...I’m still pondering galleys
How wide is the deck on the Zvezda ship...?
Are you planning on it being fully gameable, ie boarding actions....I base all my GoT figures on 2p pieces but I’m thinking of maybe smaller bases for ship crew because of the limited space.
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I’m really looking forward to seeing how you progress the Fury...I’m still pondering galleys
How wide is the deck on the Zvezda ship...?
Are you planning on it being fully gameable, ie boarding actions....I base all my GoT figures on 2p pieces but I’m thinking of maybe smaller bases for ship crew because of the limited space.
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Thanks!
The deck is just over 60mm across, so for 2p pieces it looks like two can fit comfortably across from eachother on the deck, but that's the limit by the looks of things!
I'm planning on adding some fighting platforms to the fore and aft to hopefully add a bit more space, but it'd still be a bit of a squeeze!
The plan is to add some scorpions and catapults to the ship, but I'll probably make them detachable so that figures can actually move around on-deck
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Another quick update, but I've painted up the sail for the ship, I've done it separately to the rest of the hull while I try to puzzle out a convenient way of having the sail/mast be detachable!
It's about 4 Stannises tall, so probably the largest stag I'll need to paint!
(https://i.imgur.com/YzJ0QpH.jpg)
Apologies for the bizarre reflection on the stag itself, the black ended up being REALLY reflective when I was trying to get pictures of it! (I'm not a photographer at heart, so lighting eludes me!)
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That looks brilliant, nicely done mate.
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wow! That looks so great!
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Wowie!
At the moment I'm also building a boat for my Westeros project (thread will follow) so we at LAF all together may end up with enough ships to replicate the battle of the Blackwater!
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That looks fantastic, well done!
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(https://i.imgur.com/YzJ0QpH.jpg)
That looks bloody lovely :-*
Damn it....I’d convinced myself I could leave the sails as plain so they are more generic lol
I hope the other side is plain yellow.....if you’ve painted it in reverse, I’m going to be even more annoyed ;)
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Super stuff! Just lovely, that painting on the sail.
Embarrassing as it is to admit, when I first saw that one pic of the ship in that earlier post l thought "Blimey! That ship has a lot of masts." Then of course I realised I was looking at a chair in the background. :)
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Thanks for the kind words everyone!
That looks bloody lovely :-*
Damn it....I’d convinced myself I could leave the sails as plain so they are more generic lol
I hope the other side is plain yellow.....if you’ve painted it in reverse, I’m going to be even more annoyed ;)
The original plan was to have the sails plain canvas, or striped for Salladhor Saan's ships but then Ser Davos threw a spanner in the works!
Davos could make out Fury well to the southeast, her sails shimmering golden as they came down, the crowned stag of Baratheon blazoned on the canvas.
The rear of the sail IS plain yellow though, trying to mirror the stag was just a tad too intimidating lol (other ships I've found online seem to only have the heraldry on the front, so I'm using that as an excuse!)
I will say, the fact that the sail itself is broken up into a 'grid' of sorts is an absolute lifesaver, so having a copy of the image open on my computer with a grid superimposed on it really helped plan out the linework!
Embarrassing as it is to admit, when I first saw that one pic of the ship in that earlier post l thought "Blimey! That ship has a lot of masts." Then of course I realised I was looking at a chair in the background. :)
I think I would've thrown in the towel if I needed to get six of 'em painted up on a single ship! lol
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Hi again!
A little interlude from the Fury build!
I'd been taking a look at some of my older Baratheon infantry (from way back when I first started this project back in 2017) and thought some of them were...showing their age a little! So I've been (slowly) working on a more up-to-date set of miniatures to represent Stannis' forces in the North, more focused on his frozen death march to Winterfell, so a lot of cold, miserable southrons!
Here's the first six of the bunch:
(https://i.imgur.com/0UcOi01.jpg)
I wanted to give them a more scruffy, desperate look with their cold-weather gear, so I've given some of them cloaks, scarves and gloves. But I wanted it to look like all the snowy gear was just battered hand-me-downs from Castle Black, and not quite enough to go around! So all of the loaner gear is Night's Watch black
Stannis was not appeased. "Aye, you've shared your salt pork and porridge, and you've thrown us some black rags to keep us warm.
(https://i.imgur.com/hqKVamn.jpg)
Similarly the weapons were just a mix of polearms, (I'm aiming to add some swordsmen to the bunch as well), just to get across the "This is whatever we were able to find in the armoury in Castle Black/Dragonstone before we left" rather than a well supplied force!
(https://i.imgur.com/hHkTKO1.jpg)
Here's my personal favourite of the bunch, I like his red nose and rosy cheeks!
(https://i.imgur.com/h1djqhV.jpg)
And here's a comparison with two of the older 2017-infantry, hopefully there's been an improvement!
(https://i.imgur.com/dFtRduS.jpg)
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The new additions look suitably forlorn and frostbitten - the light dusting really adds to the effect :)
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The new additions look suitably forlorn and frostbitten - the light dusting really adds to the effect :)
Thanks! Though, I was quite worried that the snow-dusting on the clothes would look a bit weird (especially on the yellow!), glad to hear it's turned out ok!
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Thanks! Though, I was quite worried that the snow-dusting on the clothes would look a bit weird (especially on the yellow!), glad to hear it's turned out ok!
The dusting looks great, but the red noses and cheeks are a really nice touch. Was already impressed by Captain Blood’s inebriated ECW soldier, but these are excellent as well...I might have to experiment more with skin tones.
Post-pandemic, we really should try and get a game in, think we are doing ok for Baratheon’s and Bolton’s :D
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This looks so cool! They are clearly freezing a lot! You have gotten a lot of storytelling into the models! Really good job!
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Subtle but at the same time brilliant. They look truly cold. Great work!
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Hi again!
Thanks for the kind words about the chilly infantry!
I've taken a bit of a detour and painted up everybody's favourite, most legitimate king, Joffrey Baratheon!
I've gone for his Battle of the Blackwater appearance, according to Sansa in A Clash of Kings, where he's described with red enameled plate, and gilded mail, but I decided to sculpt little lion-head rondels for the armour as well. His crown is sculpted on, with "rubies and black diamonds" added to it as well
(https://i.imgur.com/9S4Ianj.jpg)
For someone who's ostensibly a Baratheon, and has that publicly doubted, you'd think he would dress a little less....Lannister-y all the time?
(https://i.imgur.com/vkRC32S.jpg)
The model is based off of the Wargames Foundry "Knight Arming" vignette. Originally I was going to use the model to be Imry Florent, to command the Fury, but when he arrived, it turns out he's about a head shorter than the Perry sculpts! Not so good for an adult knight, but ideal for a boy-king!
Here he is with some gold-cloaks for comparison! I like the pose, it could definitely work for him commanding his trebuchets (out of the way of the useful defenders) during the Battle of the Blackwater, or just bossing people around
(https://i.imgur.com/LKglTdH.jpg)
This also means I now have three of five kings put together (Though I will probably need to re-do poor Renly at some point)
(https://i.imgur.com/9wXWhO6.jpg)
Let me know how he's turned out!
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Simply brilliant :o
The lion-head rondels are a really nice touch (and well executed) but the heraldry is top notch.
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Well done. I love the gold cloaks
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Brilliantly done!
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Love it (the model, not the character :D )!
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Just wonderful. He certainly works as a young adolescent, and love the sculpting of the heraldry and the crown.
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Hi again!
Thanks for the kind words about ol' Joff!
Another quick character update this time, I've put together a model to represent possible-vampire Roose Bolton, in more of a non-combatant role.
(https://i.imgur.com/0EQKuSe.jpg)
He's mostly a hodgepodge of different Perry WotR plastics, with a green-stuff cloak. I'm quite pleased with how the cloak sculpting turned out! I wanted to try and get across his strange pale eyes, because every POV character makes a mention of them, hopefully those have come across in the pictures!
Here's a shot of Roose's lovely strawberry bubblegum colours that he decides to wear, "A pale pink cloak, trimmed with white fur, embroidered with drops of blood"
(https://i.imgur.com/U5QDWBw.jpg)
And here's a couple of Dreadfort men to accompany their lord
(https://i.imgur.com/E0rP6HL.jpg)
Hopefully he's turned out ok!
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A great model, the pose and especially the eyes are very convincing. I'm not a fan of pink as a heraldic colour, but that's GRR Martin's fault, not yours :D
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Suitably sinister looking....Roose is one of the creepiest characters (as an aside I think Michael McElhatton did a cracking job in the TV series).
Good work on the GS cloak as well - really rounds the mini off
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Thanks both!
Suitably sinister looking....Roose is one of the creepiest characters (as an aside I think Michael McElhatton did a cracking job in the TV series).
Agreed, he put in a great performance, though I don't think the bright heraldic colours would quite fit in with the TV show's aesthetic! lol
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That’s a great bit of kitbashing. Very natural looking.
(Apart from the eyes, of course lol)
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Excellent build indeed. Strong bloodsucker-vibes.
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These are great! Somehow missed this thread up until now. Very nicely done.
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Hi again!
Bit of a different update this time, focusing on some terrain! I've been focusing on Stannis' campaign in the latter half of A Dance with Dragons, so I wanted to focus on the Crofter's Village he sets up shop in during the march on Winterfell.
The village gets described as "a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower" and then Asha then later explains "King Stannis has taken the watchtower for his seat." So I figured the tower would be a good place to start!
The watchtower gets described as square, and windowless, with its entrance above-ground level (accessible by stairs, at least!), with a beacon fire at the top, where a lonely King Stannis likes to look into the fire.
I'm still pretty new to terrain-building so I wasn't sure I'd be able to do it justice, so I commissioned OSHIROmodels here in the forum to build a representation for it. He's done an absolutely amazing job (not that I'm biased!) and it absolutely fits in with what I'd imagined the tower to look like
(Here's a link to their website as well, http://www.oshiromodelterrain.co.uk/index.html (http://www.oshiromodelterrain.co.uk/index.html) )
(https://i.imgur.com/LHeNz9T.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/GXHEG36.jpg)
He was also kind enough to add a detachable beacon to the tower roof as well, as a really nice feature!
(https://i.imgur.com/irxail4.jpg)
As part of the commission, I'd asked for little hooks to be added to each of the external walls, so that I can hang banners from them, and swap them out as-needed, to have a nice visual indicator of who's in control of the tower, if it gets used for an objective in any games!
Currently I've only painted up King Stannis' own banners though, but here's how they look on the hooks:
(https://i.imgur.com/HY4Olz3.jpg)
And here's the tower with some miniatures for scale:
(https://i.imgur.com/CEIKdpJ.jpg)
I'd say OSHIROmodels did an absolutely amazing job, and I would highly recommend their services! An excellent result, and great service throughout the process! I'd strongly encourage people to check out the website to take a look at their work!
http://www.oshiromodelterrain.co.uk/index.html (http://www.oshiromodelterrain.co.uk/index.html)
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That is a brilliant piece of work and great little additions to it. That really makes the piece multipurpose.
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Nice :)
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Looks great with the flags on 8)
Happy that you like it :)
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Beautiful :-*
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Great execution of the interchangeable flags!
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Very cool. Good idea with the banners and nicely executed by Oshiro.
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Hi again!
Thanks for the kind words about the tower! (though the credit definitely goes to OSHIROModels lol !)
I've been spending most of the last couple of weeks practicing flag painting, just to fill out a bunch of variants to slot in depending on who would be involved in a given game/scenario!
(Naturally) I started off with two variants of the House Baratheon of Dragonstone sigil, I like the idea that the house sigil itself is the 'full' stag, while Stannis' personal arms are just the stag's head. (Though in the books, the descriptions change between A Clash of Kings and A Dance With Dragons, where Clash describes the stag more, and Dance refers to the stag's head specifically, so maybe GRRM just changed his mind over time!)
(https://i.imgur.com/O4sY7qU.png)
So next I decided to put together the other kings in the War of Five Kings: King Robb Stark, King Joffrey 'Baratheon', King Balon Greyjoy, King Renly Baratheon and King Stannis Baratheon (the image shows up quite small in an embed but appears larger in another tab!)
(https://i.imgur.com/K6ahKim.png)
Next, here's some flags for assorted Northmen: House Stark (again), House Karstark, House Bolton, House Manderly, and a nice simple black flag for the Night's Watch
(https://i.imgur.com/wafBrKz.png)
And a similar set for Southron houses: House Baratheon of King's Landing, House Lannister and House Frey
(https://i.imgur.com/IkCOJ6L.png)
And the Iron Islands (I may expand these a bit more to include some others like House Harlaw later) : Regular House Greyjoy, and the personal arms of King Euron Greyjoy
(https://i.imgur.com/eyM3FKp.png)
And finally, for some Targaryen (and Targ-adjacent) flags: House Targaryen, The Golden Company, and House Blackfyre (in anticipation for a plot twist I'm expecting in The Winds of Winter!)
(https://i.imgur.com/mx60tC0.png)
I've tried to freehand where possible, but some of them (basically any time I need to try human proportions like Manderly and Bolton, or the very fiddly ones like the Targ ones) I very much traced from reference images!
Hopefully they've turned out ok!
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Wow, so many! 8)
They look great :)
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They look amazing, very comprehensive too.
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Very nice, the banners look very good.
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Beautiful :-*
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Lovely work mate. I can vouch for how difficult the Targaryen banner is to paint, so huge applause for finding the time to paint so many different Houses 8)
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Wow! Brilliant work!
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Fantastic! Some of those look really hard to pull off. I was going to do my version of Iron Islands types for the LPL one time, and really wanted to do that cephalopod-ish banner of theirs, but I rejected the idea as I didn't think I could do it justice given the time constraints. Love yours.
I can't help but think that the TV show version of the Bolton banner is so much better than the book one, mind. Most of them I really like, but I tend to think that one is a bit naff (the design, not the painting or anything).
I won't give the TV show much credit for anything, not once they ran out of book material, but I'm perfectly happy to give them that. :)
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Really amazing looking banners!!
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Thanks everyone!
Lovely work mate. I can vouch for how difficult the Targaryen banner is to paint
Ha yup! I spent a few weeks procrastinating on starting that one after seeing how detailed your Targaryen sail was!
I can't help but think that the TV show version of the Bolton banner is so much better than the book one, mind. Most of them I really like, but I tend to think that one is a bit naff (the design, not the painting or anything).
I won't give the TV show much credit for anything, not once they ran out of book material, but I'm perfectly happy to give them that. :)
I think that and maybe their Umber variation, I almost included the book Umber one here, but I couldn't find a way I'd be able to paint a roaring giant banner that didn't look slightly goofy! (Though that might just be a limitation on my own ability at painting giants!)
(...I must admit though, the Bolton pink has definitely grown on me lol )
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Hi again,
Another slight diversion from Stannis, but with Antediluvian Miniatures adding to their Islemen range, I had some inspiration to make a start on some figures for House Greyjoy! For a start, I wanted to work on character figures for the Greyjoy uncles (Aeron, Victarion and Euron...and Rodrik the Reader), and Asha Greyjoy. I thought Victarion would be the most difficult to put together, so I did him first
For some background, Victarion Greyjoy is the captain of the Iron Fleet, and the younger brother of Balon and Euron Greyjoy. He's the most militaristic of the Greyjoy uncles, and a thoroughly unpleasant person, who spends most of his time being manipulated or outsmarted by just about everyone! Even GRRM talks about him as a brute who's "dumb as a stump!" So naturally he fits quite well as a bruiser at the core of a force on the tabletop!
Victarion very much buys in to the whole...squid gimmick of House Greyjoy, which made thinking of a way to model him quite difficult!
Notably he has a customised Kraken helm:
Victarion donned a tall black warhelm, wrought in the shape of an iron kraken, its arms coiled down around his cheeks to meet beneath his jaw.
And a cloak, cut into strips to look like a squid's tentacles
It was made of nine layers of cloth-of-gold, sewn in the shape of the kraken of Greyjoy, arms dangling to his boots.
Victarion specifically goes into battle in full plate, with a shield, so that part at least was fairly straightforward to represent!
The basis of the body is a Perry WotR Foot knight and his head is taken from an old GW Lokhir Fellheart, which seemed suitably ostentatious for a squid-themed helm!
(https://i.imgur.com/9vXKOpf.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/LrHwna7.jpg)
The cloak is just green-stuff, I've decided to have it formed into eight 'arms', with six on the back, and two over the shoulders in the front...naturally it ended up quite fiddly to make!
(https://i.imgur.com/ckPHNTk.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/PkpPACm.jpg)
I've also put together a later A Dance With Dragons era Victarion, after his run-in with R'hllor, I decided to give him some slightly lighter armour, to cope with the hot Essosi weather!
(https://i.imgur.com/5oOoNiz.jpg)
A lot of the reason for doing the ADwD Victarion was to have an excuse to sculpt up something to represent his crispy arm, which started life as a Perry Agincourt archer arm, with the forearm sanded down, and sculpted back up to give a cracked lava-ish look
(https://i.imgur.com/aqA0EoP.jpg)
I've also given him Victarion's Kraken cloak, which once again, was fiddly to do!
(https://i.imgur.com/QfESUd0.jpg)
And here's the two versions together
(https://i.imgur.com/J2c8zk2.jpg)
Hopefully he's turned out ok! Let me know if you've got any different interpretations, he didn't make it into the TV show, so I feel like there's a lot of room for different ideas!
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Brilliant work!
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Very nice kitbashing 8)
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That works well 8)
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Excellent kitbashing - hadn’t seen that head before, but it’s perfect for Victarion
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They are both excellent.
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Fantastic stuff, love that helmet its perefect!
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Looks great - both of them!
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Thanks for the kind words about ol' Vic everyone!
Got another update today, this time with going back to putting together the Fury. It's been quite a few months since I posted any kind of update around it, but a pile of balsa wood, plasticard, cardboard and green-stuff later, I've finally made some progress, and I think I'm in a position where the construction is complete and it's ready to paint!
Turns out the ship is quite long, so the photos are on scenic "sofa with a dust sheet thrown on" lol
(https://i.imgur.com/hnLI4CR.jpg)
I've added a forecastle on stilts, and a full cabin for the rear-castle. GRRM's ship descriptions seem to be a wild mishmash of things, but he does seem to consistently give galleys 'proper' cabins.
(https://i.imgur.com/pgxqLQE.jpg)
I figure, being the flagship of Stannis' fleet, the cabin would double up as the quarters of the commander, and as a war-room for the officers of the fleet. Davos mentions in A Clash of Kings that Ser Imry Florent summons the captains to the Fury to discuss battle plans, so I figured the cabin itself needed to be pretty large! I've added two sets of stairs, and two flagpoles to the rear of the castle
The forecastle is much smaller, and more just as a fighting platform for the ship
(https://i.imgur.com/47hwNgM.jpg)
And here's a picture with the sail and mast attached to it
(https://i.imgur.com/CO19zOf.jpg)
What I've not pictured are the hundred-something oars I'll need to paint up. That'll be a task and half!
Let me know how it's coming along, and if there's any glaring errors!
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Wow! Great work! Looking forward to seeing that painted.
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Thats a nice, big ship! What was the plastic base? Some roman ship?
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Thats a nice, big ship! What was the plastic base? Some roman ship?
Yup! It was the Zvezda "Trireme of the Roman Emperor" kit originally
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Very cool 8)
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Lovely work mate..... ‘tis a thing of beauty :)
Have you thought yet about what sort of armament it will have...ie will it have some sort of ballista or will it be archers?
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Lovely work mate..... ‘tis a thing of beauty :)
Have you thought yet about what sort of armament it will have...ie will it have some sort of ballista or will it be archers?
Thanks!
I was originally going to try for the book description:
Above her three hundred oars was a deck given over wholly to scorpions, and topside she mounted catapults fore and aft, large enough to fling barrels of burning pitch.
But turns out the front of the ship is just a hair too narrow for me to get the fore-catapult in, without it being an extremely tight squeeze (or the forecastle being gigantic!)
So plan is now to have some detachable siege weapons, I've got the two catapults (one for the rear platform, the other might squeeze in the front, but not the crew!), and six scorpions for the main deck. But I've not glued them to the ship so the option's open to have a bunch of archers/men-at-arms/etc. on the deck instead if I need to
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So plan is now to have some detachable siege weapons, I've got the two catapults (one for the rear platform, the other might squeeze in the front, but not the crew!), and six scorpions for the main deck. But I've not glued them to the ship so the option's open to have a bunch of archers/men-at-arms/etc. on the deck instead if I need to
That is certainly going to be an impressive sight 8)
I need to get on with my ships as well, so we can have a naval battle :D
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So plan is now to have some detachable siege weapons, I've got the two catapults (one for the rear platform, the other might squeeze in the front, but not the crew!), and six scorpions for the main deck. But I've not glued them to the ship so the option's open to have a bunch of archers/men-at-arms/etc. on the deck instead if I need to
Pictures please :)!
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Hi again!
Been a bit of a while but I've finally finished the work to paint up the Fury!
Working up the motivation to paint 116 oars was a bit of a task, but finally managed to convince myself to stick to it and it's done now!
(https://i.imgur.com/PjsUqgI.jpg)
I've left the mast (and sail) detachable to make it a bit easier to move figures around on-deck as well
(https://i.imgur.com/UP3GQH8.jpg)
And here's the rear-castle with King Stannis for scale
(https://i.imgur.com/ufBfPJs.jpg)
In terms of the armaments I wanted to try and keep it as close to Davos' description of the ship as the scale would allow (which definitely meant a bit of a tight squeeze sometimes!), but I've left them detachable so that they can be swapped out as the scenario demands
Davos could make out Fury well to the southeast, her sails shimmering golden as they came down, the crowned stag of Baratheon blazoned on the canvas. From her decks Stannis Baratheon had commanded the assault on Dragonstone sixteen years before, but this time he had chosen to ride with his army, trusting Fury and the command of his fleet to his wife's brother Ser Imry, who'd come over to his cause at Storm's End with Lord Alester and all the other Florents.
Davos knew Fury as well as he knew his own ships. Above her three hundred oars was a deck given over wholly to scorpions, and topside she mounted catapults fore and aft, large enough to fling barrels of burning pitch. A most formidable ship, and very swift as well, although Ser Imry had packed her bow to stern with armored knights and men-at-arms, at some cost to her speed.
So here's the scorpions on-deck:
(https://i.imgur.com/8sNsKAr.jpg)
And the fore-catapult, it just barely fits in the fighting platform (but if I made it any larger it would look weirdly large with the rest of the ship, so I've made do with a snug catapult!)
(https://i.imgur.com/Sc7V41c.jpg)
And the rear one, with much more spacious accomodation :D
(https://i.imgur.com/2ynGk2p.jpg)
Finally I've left the flagpoles at the back detachable as well so they can be swapped out for whichever is most appropriate for the scenario. Currently I've done plain Baratheon stags for an earlier pre-R'hllor Stannis, around Robert's Rebellion or the Greyjoy Rebellion, and also the firey-heart banners for King Stannis during the War of Five Kings and the Battle of the Blackwater
(https://i.imgur.com/BETujxg.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/sGwl6mT.jpg)
And here's the full length of the ship with all the bells and whistles attached:
(https://i.imgur.com/QqOGBeZ.jpg)
I'm quite happy with how it turned out, even if it took a while to get round to finishing it!
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Most impressive 8)
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Brilliant work, a ship to be proud of!
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Very cool! Most impressive! I have the same galley kit but since it's a 1/72 kit I've been hesitating using it for my 28mm figs. It seems like it works reasonably well.
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Awesome! Thanks for the pictures!
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Mate you should be really proud, she is a beauty :-*
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Thanks for the kind words everyone!
Mate you should be really proud, she is a beauty :-*
Thanks! Your Westeros post this week was definitely a big part in providing the motivation to finish those oars! lol
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Hi again!
After the Fury I thought I'd take a break from boats for a bit and work on some character figures! I was a bit indecisive with who to go for, but eventually settled on Jon Connington, one of the POV characters from A Dance with Dragons who was cut from the TV show
I was a bit indecisive about when I wanted the Jon Connington figure to represent, so I put together a couple of different ones to represent different parts of his life and career
First up is a young JonCon, back when he was Lord of Griffin's Roost and Hand of the King at the start of Robert's Rebellion, or early on in his exile with the Golden Company (alternatively, this could be used for his cousin Red Ronnet Connington who appears in a few of the books fighting for Renly, Stannis and later Joffrey and Tommen)
(https://i.imgur.com/vY9KCbP.jpg)
I've historically had some issues painting heraldic lions, and griffins were even more fiddly, so I kind of shot myself in the foot by having six of them on the figure! lol
(https://i.imgur.com/9VuBxuW.jpg)
Next up, I did a figure to represent 'Griff,' Jon Connington's alter-ego while he's in exile and in disguise after having faked his death. I've tried to copy details from the book description of him, with a deliberately drab outfit, fur cloak and dyed blue hair, though, painting an intentionally bad hair-dye job is definitely a challenge
Griff's cloak was made from the hide and head of a red wolf of the Rhoyne. Under the pelt he wore brown leather stiffened with iron rings. His clean-shaved face was leathery too, with wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. Though his hair was as blue as his son's, he had red roots and redder eyebrows. At his hip hung a sword and dagger.
(https://i.imgur.com/cZcoUyg.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8yJ8hIQ.jpg)
And finally as a bit more of a vignette I wanted to do an older Jon Connington, back from Exile and no longer in disguise (although poor Jon notes in the books that he has grey hair now, but a red beard still)
For this one, I've based the figure on the Gripping Beast Brian Boru figure, to have Jon sitting on a rock having a bit of an introspective moment in a meadow back in Westeros with the skull of his former friend, (implied) lover and commanding officer, Myles Toyne.
This was my first attempt experimenting with flowers on miniature bases, so I've included a mix of yellow flowers for House Toyne and red ones for House Connington for a bit of symbolism there
(https://i.imgur.com/wayjEF8.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/RDb6QnX.jpg)
And because I felt bad about having poor Myles only be a gold skull, I did a figure to represent a living Myles Toyne as Captain General of the Golden Company as well
(https://i.imgur.com/NmGiLtP.jpg)
For completeness' sake, here's Jon and Myles together and not dead!
(https://i.imgur.com/wWuHJkR.jpg)
Hopefully they've turned out ok! I may do a few more Shy Maid/Golden Company characters to accompany Jon Connington (probably 'Young Griff' at the least!)
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That is stunning brushwork! Great job :)
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Thats a really good paintjob!
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Excellent work mate - especially well done on the heraldry
It’s the great thing about the material that you can be building a ship one minute and delving into the huge “supporting cast” of characters, the next.
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Thanks everyone! Had a lot of fun putting these together (especially the "Alas, poor Yorick" JonCon!)
It’s the great thing about the material that you can be building a ship one minute and delving into the huge “supporting cast” of characters, the next.
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Agreed! I've been re-reading A Feast for Crows/A Dance With Dragons, and in between all of the geographical filters and POVs there's loads of room to focus and re-focus projects like these!
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Fury looks great!! Very convincing! :)
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The Fury is absolutely incredible. Like, stunning. I'd love to see some games on that!
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Hi again!
After a bit of a break from painting full units of figures for the ASoIaF project, I wanted to get back into the swing of things, but wasn't quite sure who to go with at first! I'm always really impressed with the sculpts by Antediluvian miniatures, so I wanted an excuse to paint up a bunch of the figures. So naturally with so many packs of Iselemen on their website, House Greyjoy seemed like a natural fit!
Using Islemen as uh...Ironmen was also a nice way to keep the Greyjoys in-line with the other 15th century units I'm using for for the project, and fits in with the mental-image I had for the Iron-Islands forces as being Battle-of-Harlaw era-types that are broadly similar in terms of equipment to the rest of Westeros, but a bit scruffier and more axe-focused (though GRRM does lean pretty hard on viking references so that's definitely a valid reading too!). So with that in mind I painted up two units of twelve, one close-quarters block of raiders, and another with bows
The close-quarters unit is a mix of Galloglass and Antediluvian's new Early Islemen sculpts. I really liked the new Islemen figures, and this seemed like a definite opportunity to paint some up for a unit!
(https://i.imgur.com/Gd7vTZc.jpg)
I also painted up a unit of archers to go with the main block of raiders, they're mostly Antediluvian Islemen archers with a couple of ribaulds mixed in. I wanted to keep a sort of scrappy look to the unit compared to the more organised Westerosi ones, so I did things like mix up the gambeson colours in the unit to avoid things being too 'uniform', the range of equipment on the sculpts helped with that aesthetic (where like a third of the figures don't have shoes!)
(https://i.imgur.com/p6R7MCN.jpg)
The Antediluvian figures are slightly shorter than the Perry sculpts, which is great in this case, because it helps get across that Victarion is supposed to be a huge man and towers over the other Ironborn
(https://i.imgur.com/CSBiZdQ.jpg)
And here's the Greyjoy force so far:
(https://i.imgur.com/ZTp7RRR.jpg)
I've kept the banners detachable, and tried to emphasise the yellow rather than the black in the Greyjoy colours, so that I can keep the units as versatile as possible and use them as Macdonalds or Campbells in actual 15th century games!
Let me know how they've turned out, or if you've got any different ideas for how the Ironborn could look! And once again, I highly recommend the Antediluvian Miniatures' range!
(Incidentally, turns out painting squids is exhausting! lol )
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Excellent 8)
I think the series version looked naff. I like what you've done :)
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Nice work mate. I’ve really struggled to come up with something that looks convincing to me as Ironborn, but I really like your interpretation :)
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Looking the part, great work!
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Amazing look!
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Terrific.
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Smashing! I was going to do some Ironborn for the LPL a few years ago, and though that came to nothing in the end, I too had the idea to use figures from the Kingdom of the Isles, they just seem a good fit to me. Great minds think alike, eh?
By the way, though the Ironborn and Iron Islands are really cool with their weird Cthulhu god and everything, I've always thought their philosophy really, really, dumb. Having to pay 'the iron price' for absolutely everything is just asking for somebody with a bigger stick to come and swat you eventually. Never having peace with your neighbours is not going to work unless you are the biggest squid in the pond, and their history has proved over and over that they are not. Fucking idiots. Oh well, who ever said that kooky ancient religions ever had any practical advice about life.
I'm just imagining what Ironborn marketplaces are like.
"That's a nice hat. How much is it?"
"Three copper coins, sir!"
"Hmm... do you accept... IRON?!" SMACK!!!
Three weeks later: "Has anyone seen Quellon the hatter's stall lately? He used to do some really good hats..."
I know it isn't quite like that, but their stupid attitude always makes be giggle a bit. :)
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The freehand shields and flags are amazing. I also like what you've done with the leader. I believe he's part of a GW dark elf miniature? Either way this is wonderful. On a side note my gaming group plays the CMON song of ice and fire. I have just joined in with an order of the new Greyjoy miniatures so this is fitting to see your color palette.
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Thanks everyone! Glad the interpretation worked!
By the way, though the Ironborn and Iron Islands are really cool with their weird Cthulhu god and everything, I've always thought their philosophy really, really, dumb. Having to pay 'the iron price' for absolutely everything is just asking for somebody with a bigger stick to come and swat you eventually. Never having peace with your neighbours is not going to work unless you are the biggest squid in the pond, and their history has proved over and over that they are not. Fucking idiots. Oh well, who ever said that kooky ancient religions ever had any practical advice about life.
I'm just imagining what Ironborn marketplaces are like.
"That's a nice hat. How much is it?"
"Three copper coins, sir!"
"Hmm... do you accept... IRON?!" SMACK!!!
Three weeks later: "Has anyone seen Quellon the hatter's stall lately? He used to do some really good hats..."
I know it isn't quite like that, but their stupid attitude always makes be giggle a bit. :)
I've thought about this a few times because like...we know there's 'civilian' work on the islands like inns and stuff, and Victarion clearly got his custom Kraken helmet somewhere. I figure it might be some loophole like "Oh a thrall did it and they got captured at some point so it counts as iron-price stuff" or just GRRM pointing out the hypocrisy of a society like that...but it's also much funnier to imagine a punch-up happening every time someone goes to order a round of drinks! lol
The freehand shields and flags are amazing. I also like what you've done with the leader. I believe he's part of a GW dark elf miniature? Either way this is wonderful. On a side note my gaming group plays the CMON song of ice and fire. I have just joined in with an order of the new Greyjoy miniatures so this is fitting to see your color palette.
Thanks! Yup Victarion's head is from an old GW Lokhir Fellheart I had in a box somewhere. I'd definitely be interested to see the CMON Greyjoys painted up too!
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Hi again!
Bit of a quick update this time, with another character figure. This time, the commander of King Stannis' fleet after the Battle of the Blackwater, the Lysene mercenary pirate prince Salladhor Saan
Saan is based on a Front Rank WotR character figure, with a plume and some facial hair added. I wanted to give him one of his ostentatious outfits he gets described with, while also keeping with a sort of 15th century look, so the merchant-style houpellande and chaperon seemed like a good fit! Although, I missed off his jade buttons:
The Lyseni was a sleek, smiling man whose flamboyance was a byword on both sides of the narrow sea. Today he wore flashing cloth-of-silver, with dagged sleeves so long the ends of them pooled on the floor. His buttons were carved jade monkeys, and atop his wispy white curls perched a jaunty green cap decorated with a fan of peacock feathers.
(https://i.imgur.com/4FLFvSj.jpg)
And from the side for a slightly clearer view of the peacock feathers:
(https://i.imgur.com/CEVeCRi.jpg)
And here's Saan and King Stannis (best buds, naturally) to contrast the two
(https://i.imgur.com/TuiEgDb.jpg)
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Cool interpretation, looks the part to me. Great work!
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That works well :)
but it's also much funnier to imagine a punch-up happening every time someone goes to order a round of drinks! lol
lol
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It’s always great to see your interpretation of characters that I’ve got a completely different idea of in my head....Salladhor Saan looks brilliant :D
...oh...and as for...
I figure it might be some loophole like "Oh a thrall did it and they got captured at some point so it counts as iron-price stuff" or just GRRM pointing out the hypocrisy of a society like that...but it's also much funnier to imagine a punch-up happening every time someone goes to order a round of drinks!
lol
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Those peacock feathers turned out really well.
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Hi again!
Definitely been a while since the last update! Been a bit of a hectic few months so I've not had a chance to work on painting too much, but finally got some time back, so I've been working on a few more character figures. This time, the Squid Kids, Asha Greyjoy and Theon Greyjoy
First up is Asha Greyjoy, she's based on a Frostgrave captain, with a Statuesque miniatures head. I also replaced the halberd with a (throwing) axe, from her "Lord Husband and Suckling Babe" routine. Asha wears a surprising amount of green in the books, as opposed to Greyjoy black/yellow, but I still wanted to visually tie her in with the rest of the Greyjoys, so I painted the belt and strap yellow to connect to the rest of the force (and to parallel the whole squid/tentacle motif)
(https://i.imgur.com/GcWG3HP.jpg)
And here's Theon, as of A Game of Thrones or A Clash of Kings, with his charming (read: awful) personality quirks. He's an unconverted Front Rank War of the Roses Captain of Archers. I liked the idea of giving him fancier, more modern armour than the rest of the Greyjoys, where it would've been given to him by the Starks and Tullys in-line with mainland Westeros feudal styles. So it's all tidy, custom-tailored heraldic stuff to make him look like an outsider to the rest of the force (while still obviously a Greyjoy)
(https://i.imgur.com/yCMZ8zP.jpg)
And here's the two Greyjoy siblings together
(https://i.imgur.com/tguE7IU.jpg)
Let me know how they've turned out!
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Looking good!
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They look great - love the thinking that has gone into these
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They look perfect! Good job!
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Thanks everyone!
As an aside, I highly recommend the Statuesque Miniatures heads, had an excellent experience with the site, and the pulp scale ones fit pretty much exactly with the Perry kits
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Hi again! And potential spoilers for The Forsaken (and The Winds of Winter if The Forsaken makes it into the final book) in terms of Euron's character appearance!
Back again with more Greyjoys, this time I've put together a figure to represent Euron Greyjoy, as King of the Iron Islands (as opposed to Euron as a swaggering pirate at the start of A Feast for Crows)
The appearance is mostly based off of how Aeron describes him in the The Forsaken preview chapter released back in 2016, with his Valyrian Steel armour, shark-tooth crown and red-silk cloak:
That night he wore a shirt of iron scales and a cloak of blood red silk. His eyepatch was red leather, his lips blue.
He had put aside his driftwood crown. In its place, he wore an iron crown whose points were made from the teeth of sharks.
Euron isn't a fan of family sentimentality so his colour-scheme is very different to the usual Greyjoy Black/Yellow, with much more red (aside from his blue-lips from warlock wine overuse)
(https://i.imgur.com/uXHLLT7.jpg)
The description of the armour goes into detail about how the individual scales are engraved with glyphs, have whorls in the metal and are individually edged with red gold, but I figured the miniature was just a tiny bit too small to attempt that without it looking messy, so I took some liberties there!
Aeron specifically mentions that Euron is clad "head to heel" in scales, so I tried to find a figure with the longest possible scale armour to use as a base!
And here's a view from the back, with a better look at the goblet full of Shade of the Evening, which Euron seems to be spending most of his time drinking as part of his evil-wizard routine!
(https://i.imgur.com/uuxcrlq.jpg)
Let me know how he's turned out!
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I think your take on Euron is great! 8) That almost looks like a Rohan figure as the basis for him?
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Always enjoy your updates - it’s great to see different interpretations of a common theme...although I still haven’t settled on the look I want for my own Ironborn, your project continues to inspire :D
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Thanks both!
I think your take on Euron is great! 8) That almost looks like a Rohan figure as the basis for him?
Yup! That's the Háma figure as the base, turns out it was surprisingly hard to find a figure "head to heel" in scale armour who had the right sort of pose, and he fit the bill quite nicely! (Although, I do tend to imagine Euron a bit more gaunt!)
Always enjoy your updates - it’s great to see different interpretations of a common theme...although I still haven’t settled on the look I want for my own Ironborn, your project continues to inspire :D
Thanks! The nice thing with the Ironborn is they don't really have a consistent defined look, so there's a lot of freedom to experiment, especially with Euron and his crew. I've seen depictions range from vikings to basically swashbuckling pirates (and a lot in between), so I'd definitely be interested to see your take on them when you settle on a look!
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Hi again! Been a bit of a while since the last update!
Another small character update, this time with one of the more overtly villainous characters in the series: Vargo Hoat, riding his zorse
Hoat is captain of the Bloody Mummers Brave Companions and is a large part of Tywin Lannister's (and later Roose Bolton's) raiding and reaving across the Riverlands in the War of Five Kings. While the Mummers themselves are awful awful people, visually they're pretty interesting! With all sorts of different groups across Essos and Westeros represented, and a gimmick for riding zorses. So with that, I decided to make a start on some Mummers as part of this project, partly just to have an excuse to experiment a bit more with the painting (although many could be used in other Sellsword companies too)
My understanding from the book descriptions was that the Bloody Mummers were mostly a light cavalry force, so I wanted Hoat to be mounted as part of that, in full battle gear, with his goats-head helm and chain of coins around his neck.
(https://i.imgur.com/ofgxa2g.jpg)
The World of Ice and Fire book says that zorses (like in real-life) are a hybrid between horses and zebras, rather than just being the fantasy version of zebras, but I figured Hoat would be ostentatious enough to choose the most zebra-y looking one he could find! So I went for a more zebra-style colour scheme there, rather than the ones you see on real-world zorses
(https://i.imgur.com/HZqjr84.jpg)
Hopefully he's turned out ok! I probably won't make a habit of painting zorse stripes any time soon, they're exhausting! lol
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Excellent in conception and execution!
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He looks great 8)
Good to see the project carry on :)
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Probabaly one of the most interesting characters to scratch-build!
Perfect choice to continue the project!
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Hi again!
Continuing Sellsword Summer I've decided to put together some more members of Vargo Hoat's sellsword company, the Brave Companions (or Bloody Mummers, really), starting off with a block of infantry
When Arya first sees the Mummers in A Clash of Kings she notes how odd the whole eclectic bunch of war criminals look, which provided a basis (and a lot of freedom) to get started on figures to represent the sellswords:
Arya did not know who Bloody Mummers were until a fortnight later, when the queerest company of men she'd ever seen arrived at Harrenhal. Beneath the standard of a black goat with bloody horns rode copper men with bells in their braids; lancers astride striped black-and-white horses; bowmen with powdered cheeks; squat hairy men with shaggy shields; brown-skinned men in feathered cloaks; a wispy fool in green-and-pink motley; swordsmen with fantastic forked beards dyed green and purple and silver; spearmen with colored scars that covered their cheeks; a slender man in septon's robes, a fatherly one in maester's grey, and a sickly one whose leather cloak was fringed with long blond hair.
(https://i.imgur.com/tXLsZZH.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/U3o3SVM.jpg)
In the block, I've included a bunch of the named Mummers who appear in the books
First off, the trio of Pyg, Shagwell the fool, and Timeon the Dornishman, a group of horrible types who first appear with Vargo Hoat when he arrives at Harrenhal, but much later have a run-in with Brienne
(https://i.imgur.com/H6ZR57C.jpg)
Next, Rorge and Biter, also thoroughly unpleasant individuals. Rorge was a fairly straightforward conversion to simply cut the nose off a Perry archer's head, and sculpt a scar there, while Biter was surprisingly difficult to find a base model to use!
(https://i.imgur.com/0CI3BhY.jpg)
And finally, the cadaverous Urswyck and the (also reprehensible) Septon Utt. I've given Urswyck a blue/grey colour scheme so that in a pinch he can be used to represent a Frey
(https://i.imgur.com/GApDA5s.jpg)
For the unnamed sellswords, I've tried to keep them as 'generic' as possible (while still keeping them themed around assorted free cities and places in Essos), so that they can be used in other sellsword companies or irregular forces
For some test figures, I've included two Dothraki swordsmen in the infantry block, based on Perry Azerbaijani figures, with Dothraki painted vests and mustaches sculpted on. I've decided for the project to interpret the Arakhs as just "a large curved sword" rather than the full khopesh situation from the show
(https://i.imgur.com/Jnjlqe8.jpg)
As a nice excuse to add some colour to the block, I've added a bunch of Tyroshi swordsmen as unit fillers. Arya specifically observes swordsmen with green, purple and silver hair and beards. In the series sellswords from Tyrosh are a famously colourful bunch, with brightly dyed hair and clothes, so I've tried to reflect that here. I've based the figures on the GW Corsairs of Umbar to give them a bit of a piratical look, so they could substitute for members of Euron's or Salladhor Saan's crews, or other Essosi sellsword companies
(https://i.imgur.com/KXKIRKr.jpg)
There are two spearmen from Volantis in the block, who briefly get alluded to by Arya a couple of times. Seeing as Volantis is more or less the Constantinople to Valyria's Rome, I've used Fireforge Byzantines as a base for the Volantenes. The figures themselves are based on a description Tyrion gives of the Tiger Cloak spearmen of Volantis in A Dance With Dragons:
A squad of Volantene spearmen stood guard at the river gate. Torchlight gleamed off the steel claws that jutted from their gauntlets. Their helms were tiger's masks, the faces beneath marked by green stripes tattooed across both cheeks.
A pair of spearmen attended them, clad in polished helms and shirts of silver mail. Across their cheeks were tiger stripes as green as jade
(https://i.imgur.com/bnjrTBR.jpg)
And finally, I had to include a figure to represent the big ol' bear that Vargo Hoat brings to Harrenhal, this time being led along by a Dornish handler
(https://i.imgur.com/DNktXte.jpg)
Let me know how they've turned out!
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These are fantastic! They showcase what I'd imagine just about everyone heard from their parents - that books always contain richer imagery than film or TV adaptations. You've done a brilliant job of getting that richness into 3D form!
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Agreed - a most unsavoury bunch of ne'er-do-wells brought to life by your wonderfully evocative painting.
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Brilliant work - they really look the part, both the named characters and the generics 8)
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These are fantastic! They showcase what I'd imagine just about everyone heard from their parents - that books always contain richer imagery than film or TV adaptations. You've done a brilliant job of getting that richness into 3D form!
I quite agree with Hobgoblin! 👍
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Thanks everyone! It was fun putting together such a colourful unit, in comparison to my usual Westerosi!
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Hi again!
Another Sellsword Summer post! This time I've decided to make a start on a different company to the Bloody Mummers, and put together some figures for some of the sellswords of the Golden Company
(https://i.imgur.com/mkKSzuM.jpg)
The Golden Company themselves are largely descended from the exile rebels who tried to install the Blackfyre pretenders on the Iron Throne, and spent the better part of a century fighting against House Targaryen, before House Blackfyre died out in the male line with Maelys Blackfyre in the War of the Ninepenny Kings. After that, they resumed being a 'regular' sellsword company, taking contracts in Essos and dreaming of returning from exile.
With that origin in mind, the idea I had in my head for the Golden Company is that they would have a broadly Westerosi style of equipment left over from the exiles, but would have over time integrated armour and fashions from the Free Cities in Essos. With the idea being that they would look (and fight) in a more Italian way, with a lot of infantry wearing mail, brigandines and helmet wraps.
The figures themselves are all unconverted Claymore Castings Italian spearmen, which I felt fit perfectly for how I'd imagined them, the 14th/15th century look fits in with the rest of my Westerosi figures, while also having enough Italian design features to visually separate them from the other factions
(https://i.imgur.com/RAgKYUQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/NLePYbu.jpg)
Here's a few of the individual sellswords slightly more up-close. I've tried to keep the unit with a common visual theme without them being exactly uniform to try and reflect how the Golden Company is notably disciplined compared to other sellsword companies, but also retaining a little sellsword individuality. Every member of the unit has some gold accents their helmets, breastplates or knee/elbow plating, while every miniature in a brigandine has the studs painted gold. The serjeant has a pointier bascinet and a full suit of plate armour to make him look more like a man-at-arms from Westeros, but has an Italian style shield to still tie him to the Free Cities
(https://i.imgur.com/gMhbfTC.jpg)
I hope they came out ok!
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They are lovely.
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Great work yet again mate! I wish you had been able to influence the costuming decisions on the tv series.
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Thanks for the kind words!
That said, painting all those gold studs on the brigandines sure is a task lol
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Hi again!
Continuing Sellsword Summer, as a follow-up to the Golden Company unit I've decided to (finally) add some Targaryen-adjacent content to this project! Rewinding a full 40 years before the start of the main series, I've put together a figure to represent Maelys Blackfyre, or Maelys the Monstrous as he's often referred to as. He's the last of the Blackfyre pretenders, who was killed by Barristan Selmy during the War of the Ninepenny Kings. He's a claimant to the Iron Throne and captain general of The Golden Company (by virtue of murdering his cousin to take control of it), which makes him a serious threat to House Targaryen's rule
Famously, Maelys had a small second head on his throat, and, having gigantism, was physically huge. So to get that imposing size across, I've used a Warhammer Chaos Warrior as the base for the figure, on account of how much larger they are than the historical ranges.
(https://i.imgur.com/ql6N1xf.jpg)
As a descendant of the Targaryens, I've given Maelys the silver-gold hair, and purple eyes of the family.
Here's a slightly closer view of Blackfyre and its scabbard. Being the ancestral Valyrian Steel sword of House Targaryen passed down from all the kings since Aegon I, I've painted the scabbard in Targaryen black and red, with rubies down the length of it.
For the sword itself, given that Valyrian steel is basically magical Damascus Steel in-universe, I've tried to give it a rippled Damascus-y look and the dark grey coloration that Valyrian Steel is usually described as.
(https://i.imgur.com/h2p61uc.jpg)
And a view of Maelys' cloak. I've given him a gold skull tied to his cloak to represent his cousin Daemon (given that Maelys pulled his head off). I feel like even though Maelys killed him and took over his sellsword company, he'd still feel a little bit of obligation, as a fellow Blackfyre, to take Daemon back to Westeros with him
(https://i.imgur.com/WDiGYpl.jpg)
Here is King Maelys I with his royal squire (and later captain-general of the Golden Company), Myles Toyne.
(https://i.imgur.com/VM6dlRp.jpg)
I feel like in response to the discrimination that he would likely have faced since birth, Maelys would put a very deliberate emphasis on his name and lineage, to draw attention to his legitimacy and his claim. So to reinforce that, he's styling himself as King Maelys I, carrying the sword Blackfyre, and taking a squire from a famous Westerosi noble house. His armour and cloak are painted in red-and-black dragon colours, with gold accenting, and a gold skull on the breastplate to highlight his rank and status in the Golden Company
For a closer look at Myles, with his stylish House Toyne doublet, carrying Maelys' helm and the banner of House Blackfyre.
(https://i.imgur.com/SkWh6Bz.jpg)
It's not been confirmed at all, but I like to think that Myles Toyne was Maelys' squire, and was alongside him during the War of the Ninepenny Kings, but being only a young squire, was left alone by Barristan Selmy, giving him a chance to take Blackfyre and Maelys (or his skulls at least) back to the Golden Company lines. As a parallel to Jon Snow's position as the Lord Commander's steward set him up for leadership of the Nights Watch
And here's Squire Myles Toyne with his older self, as Captain General of the Golden Company
(https://i.imgur.com/u3fx63R.jpg)
Hopefully the figures have come out ok! (Incidentally, dragon banners are very fiddly to paint, I've found, I probably won't make a habit of it! lol )
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Brilliant work mate - Maelys looks like a real villain.
Love the ripple effect on the Valyrian steel, and the dragon banner looks spot on
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Brilliant work mate - Maelys looks like a real villain.
Love the ripple effect on the Valyrian steel, and the dragon banner looks spot on
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Thanks a lot! I'm glad the steel has turned out ok! I'll probably be using that sort of pattern going forward for other characters with Valyrian steel swords!
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Amazing work on Maelys and the Golden Company!
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Hi again!
Another Sellswords post again, with another named character! This time, I've painted up a figure to represent the ever ostentatious Daario Naharis, ruthless captain of the Stormcrows and Dany's paramour
(https://i.imgur.com/saskhSD.jpg)
Given how over-the-top Daario is, I needed to set him apart from the already colourful Tyroshi I had painted up. So considering Daario is a fashion disaster in the books, I just had to get that included! I've based the scheme on his first outfit in A Storm of Swords in particular:
Daario Naharis was flamboyant even for a Tyroshi. His beard was cut into three prongs and dyed blue, the same color as his eyes and the curly hair that fell to his collar. His pointed mustachios were painted gold. His clothes were all shades of yellow; a foam of Myrish lace the color of butter spilled from his collar and cuffs, his doublet was sewn with brass medallions in the shape of dandelions, and ornamental goldwork crawled up his high leather boots to his thighs. Gloves of soft yellow suede were tucked into a belt of gilded rings, and his fingernails were enameled blue.
Going off that description meant a LOT of yellow, but I didn't want everything to be the same shade, so I've gone for a few different tones, with a warm yellow for the doublet, ochre for the leggings, mustard for the gloves and a very pale butter-yellow for his lace cuffs and collar
The miniature itself is based on a Eureka Miniatures Portuguese sailor, which I felt really had the swashbuckling feel I needed without literally going for 18th century pirates
I felt that the sword and dagger hilts were a tad too small to effectively sculpt the custom designs Daario uses, so I've just left them as gold, for even more yellow on the outfit
And to round off, here's Daario with the other Tyroshi sellswords I've painted up
(https://i.imgur.com/JPSsaHu.jpg)
Hopefully he's turned out ok!
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Looking great! Love the use of the corsair models and going with the extravagant hair colors like in the books
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Looking great! Love the use of the corsair models and going with the extravagant hair colors like in the books
My thoughts echo those of Rosie. Great work! I wish they had done as well with his appearance on the TV series.
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Thanks both!
Another quick update this time, with another character figure, this time one representing Queen Selyse Florent, Stannis Baratheon's wife. She's definitely more of a non-combatant character in this project, but with around sixty-odd knights and men-at-arms at Castle Black, she does have enough of a military presence there to at least give the Night's Watch some second thoughts about offending her
(https://i.imgur.com/cA8fTao.jpg)
In the books Selyse is pretty unusual in that her outfits are very rarely described, and never in much detail, probably because the only POVs who see her are Jon and Davos, who don't tend to pay much attention to that (compared to say, Ned who is very fashion conscious!). So in the absence of more detailed descriptions, I've combined colour schemes from her own house with those of her husband's, so she has a dress with the Florent white, blue and red, and over that, the Baratheon yellow and black, with ermine cuffs for the cold! Selyse struck me as someone who would be very performatively courtly, to compensate for Stannis' total aversion to the pageantry of nobility, so I thought bright colours and fancy dresses would suit her better than the extremely muted outfits of the TV series, at least in my interpretation!
The figure is one of the Assault Group Tudor Crowd figures without any modifications, I thought about adding her crown of flames, but ultimately decided against it, though I might do a second figure with the crown to pair with Stannis himself eventually!
Hopefully she's turned out ok!