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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Diablo Jon on March 02, 2018, 07:47:01 PM
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So this is my first new project of 2018 (unless you count giving my wargames room a make over in January and February :)) I've been feeling the fantasy itch for a while and decided to start some new fantasy armies.
Anyone interested can read my ramblings on my blog here https://jonsotherwargamesblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/fantasy-gaming-in-generica/
The short version is I created myself a fantasy world I've called Generica to set all my fantasy gaming in. Generica is so named because its one of those generic fantasy worlds that will shamelessly rip off Tolkien, D&D and old Warhammer :D
Anyway my first army is one of those psudeo-medieval generic fantasy human realms I've entitled The Grand Duchy of the Black Wolf. If you are bothered there is some history and military background on the grand duchy here https://jonsotherwargamesblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/the-grand-duchy-of-the-black-wolf/
and here is the first miniature for my new army the Grand Duke Adelhelm and his banner bearer. These are a couple of Fireforge knights with a couple of extra GW bits. I should point out I've always fancied doing a winter themed army, so as this is a new army I thought what the hell and went for it, so snow bases all around.
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More pictures on my blog here https://jonsotherwargamesblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/the-grand-duke-adelhelm/
I already have a few more characters painted up and some units started so more pictures soon (hopefully)
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Next up for my army characters Udolf, Duke Adelhelm’s eldest son, baron of Wolfsburg. This is another Fireforge knight with a GW head, on an unknown metal horse from my bits box, the two wolfhounds are from warlord games
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strangley my snow bases looks far more yellow than it does in real life I guess its a lighting issue... or the dogs :P
more on my blog here if your interested https://jonsotherwargamesblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/udolf-baron-of-wolfsburg/
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A great start to your first Generica army. I like the blue/purple colour scheme - they must be a bunch of rich nobs to afford those colours. I am looking forward to seeing what the down-trodden peasant man-at-arms that makes up the bulk of the army looks like.
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Looking good! That is a nice colour scheme.
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Excellent start - interested to see how much actual fantasy you will introduce into that army. :)
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Those look great! Thank you for sharing. The GW head works better in the fireforge Knight than I expected.
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Thanks for the nice comments guys
Excellent start - interested to see how much actual fantasy you will introduce into that that army. :)
Not overly much I think. Quite often human armies in fantasy settings aren't all that different to historical ones though there is usually a wizard, warrior hero or the odd magic item to add some fantasy. I'm already planning out the opposition though who will have a lot more fantasy elements to them.
Those look great! Thank you for sharing. The GW head works better in the fireforge Knight than I expected.
I think the heads from the early Empire and Mordhiem plastic sets aren't overly large (there was a bit less scale creep back then) I had loads in my bitz boxes I've used on all sorts of conversions over the years but I'm down to the last few now :'(
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So talking of adding fantasy elements to the army here we have Ruztan Flamestaff court wizard to the grand duke and headmaster of the Wolfsburg College of Mages. Ruztan specializes in fire magic and dresses accordingly. Despite his advancing age his mind is as sharp as a razor as is his tongue.
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I wanted to represent Ruztan in battle carried aloft on a magical pillar of flame. The pillar of flame was scratch built out of pink foam, green stuff and cotton wool. I’m not sure if it quite worked out how I had imagined it would but it still works I think. Ruztan is an old Ral Partha miniature there are a lot of nice miniatures hidden around the Ral Partha Europe website if you dig around a bit.
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Nice painting all round, but that wizard really is something special. Certainly looks good even if it didn't go to plan.
Painting plans never survive first contact with the figure.
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BEAUTIFULLY DONE! Keep up the WONDROUS WORK.
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Nicely done. Love the concept of the wizard on that pillar. Hope he is wearing nomex under garments.
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Thanks for the nice comments guys
Next up we have another (and at the moment last) character for the army Jorn Baron of Nordburg. Jorn is a hard bitten warrior whose barony takes the brunt of the raids and attacks mounted by the northern barbarians, orcs and worse on the grand duchy. I’ve mounted him on his base with one of his loyal Nordburg militia pointing out the direction of the enemy.
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Jorn is a another Fireforge knight this time with no conversions. The militia man is a Frostgrave soldier converted to hold a standard and with a head from the Conquest games Norman infantry set. Both are painted in the Nordburg red and white livery. One slight issue is that in my haste to finish this one off I stuck the flag on upside down it should be red at the top …ho hum
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Looks great! Especially the banner weathering!
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Looks great! Especially the banner weathering!
thanks it was more luck than judgement. I thought the banner looked to clean when I first stuck it on so I cut the edges up with some scissors and then just used a flat drybrush with a little black paint on to drybrush the edges and folds it worked out quite well in the end.
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First unit for the new army are the Nordburg militia. These aren’t professional soldiers but the local towns folk called up to defend their homeland every man provides their own equipment which gives them a ragtag and rather dated look. Training is pretty basic meaning they can’t do much beyond form a shieldwall mob and hold ground but when defending their homes and families they can be tenacious fighters. It is normal for one of the baron’s knights to officer the militia in battle.
The majority of this unit is built from Northstar’s Frostgrave soldiers which I thought were perfect for a winter themed army. There are a few spare Wargames factory Vikings and even a spare red box figure in the mix while the officer is a Fireforge Teutonic knight. There are also allsorts of spares from my bits box for heads, weapons and shields.
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Nice mix of minis and makes - it all comes well together with the 2 colour scheme. Excellent unit. What games are you planning for?
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Nice mix of minis and makes - it all comes well together with the 2 colour scheme. Excellent unit. What games are you planning for?
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I'm planning to use the "Legions of Battle" rules by Crusader publishing https://crusaderpublishing.com/legions-of-battle-fantasy-rules/ not a particularly popular rule set that play a lot like older versions or WFB. They are a very generic (and have a nice list of unit traits) giving me pretty much free reign to create what ever units I want. Units are made up of 4-6 stands rather than individual basing which I quite like. I plan to use left over miniatures from the various armies to make SoBH wrbands for skirmish gaming in the future.
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I have wondered about Legions of Battle. I think March Attack, also by Crusader Publishing is a great set of rules. I also read the old play-through example of the Crusader Rules for ancient warfare which seemed old fashioned but a solid set of rules (https://crusaderpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/crusaderexampleofplay.pdf)
I imagiune the fantasy rules should be good.
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These look great! I especially love the Nordburg guys. Very thematic and beautiful painting.
As for rules, TooFatLardies are seemingly working on a Tolkien-esque fantasy game, so that that may be worth checking out when they publish it.
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This is wonderful and thank you for sharing. If I had more time I'd embark on my own adventure to Generica. Please keep the paint blog a rolling. A great little gem.
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Thanks guys glad you like them.
Next unit up for the army of the grand duchy are the Nordburg heavy cavalry. Made up of Noble knights with feudal obligations and men-at-arms who are non noble paid soldiers. The heavy cavalry are the grand duchy’s elite soldiers and the battle winners. Like the militia the heavy cavalry provide their own equipment so can vary in appearance they also tend to create their own livery using the colours of their barony.
These guys are a mixture of Fireforge and Conquest games knights which I think fit pretty well together. The parts from both sets are pretty interchangeable even the heads use the same fixing method which gives more options for modelling.
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There are more close ups of the knights, for those interested, on my blog here
https://jonsotherwargamesblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/06/nordburg-knights/
Here's a shot of the whole Nordburg contingent of the army
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You are really quick aren't you? Great units, keep them coming!
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You are really quick aren't you? Great units, keep them coming!
So my wife tells me...mmm I mean I had a backlog of stuff I had painted up but only photographed recently to post up. Things will slow down a bit now. I have one unit half painted and two more built but not even undercoated and two more units that haven't even left the sprue yet so more to come but not as the same rate.
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Very nice painting style and nice figure builds!
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I should have been painting up more infantry for my Grand Duchy army but I got side tracked thinking about the opposition army I will build next to face them. I end up writing a background piece for Isolda the Winter Wytch which is here for those interested
https://jonsotherwargamesblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/isolda-the-winter-wytch/
It got me so enthused I decided to put paint on the miniature I had chosen to represent the Winter Wytch this afternoon.
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now I need to get back to painting the Grand Dukes foot guards.
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Another unit finished this time the Grand Dukes Foot Guards. The Grand Duke maintains a standing force of 500 footmen half of whom are crossbowmen. The foot guards are responsible for guarding the Grand Duke’s palace and his family during peace time and providing the backbone of the Duchy’s infantry in war time.
These miniatures are basically a box of Fireforge Teutonic infantry straight out of the box with one or two head swaps from the Fireforge Templar set for variety.
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Having decided to go down the route of two winter based armies I realised I don’t really have any winter terrain. I have two dozen winter trees, the sort that go in model Christmas villages, I picked up in the local garden centre in after Christmas sale and a white cloth other than that nothing. So looking around my box of terrain modelling stuff I found this resin building I had bought for a long defunct Mordhiem project. I had already attempted to ruin it for Mordhiem so I decided to paint it up and winterize it for my new project.
Coaching Inns are common on the roads that cross the Grand Duchy but this has sadly been sacked by barbarian raiders working for the Winter Wytch.
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That's some great terrain there. Love the two contrasting forces as well. Some battle shots are required soon, I think ;)
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You're project is very nice. I really like the Winter Wytch, is this a conversion?
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That's some great terrain there. Love the two contrasting forces as well. Some battle shots are required soon, I think ;)
Thanks. Need to paint up some of the Winter Wytch's army first, before I can get some battle shots, at the moment she is in a rather exclusive army of one..
You're project is very nice. I really like the Winter Wytch, is this a conversion?
No not a conversion she is from Mierce Miniatures Darklands range and is called Skaadi, Moraine Sorcerer. Mierce have some lovely miniatures but they have some hefty prices to go with them. Normally I wouldn't spend as much as I did on one (slightly larger than man sized) miniature but she just fitted what I wanted so perfectly I bit the bullet and shelled out for her.
Here's the link to Mierce Miniatures http://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=pro&pre=mrm_dkl_fmr_blr_wcf_961_000 (http://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=pro&pre=mrm_dkl_fmr_blr_wcf_961_000)
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Very nice building - I like how quick everything comes together here.
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Thanks. Need to paint up some of the Winter Wytch's army first, before I can get some battle shots, at the moment she is in a rather exclusive army of one..
Ah. I understood the two human forces were arrayed against one another, my bad. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the Wytch's men. For some reason I instantly thought of the Black Company series when I read about mercenaries in her employ...
Also, I like the Moraine witch model too, for some reason though the gratuitous booty does make me laugh. I don't know if I expected butt icicles or what ??? However, you sold me on the model - I think I might have to grab one at some point!
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No not a conversion she is from Mierce Miniatures Darklands range and is called Skaadi, Moraine Sorcerer. Mierce have some lovely miniatures but they have some hefty prices to go with them. Normally I wouldn't spend as much as I did on one (slightly larger than man sized) miniature but she just fitted what I wanted so perfectly I bit the bullet and shelled out for her.
Here's the link to Mierce Miniatures http://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=pro&pre=mrm_dkl_fmr_blr_wcf_961_000 (http://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=pro&pre=mrm_dkl_fmr_blr_wcf_961_000)
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Thank you, like you said pricey. She's $27 to the US. Yikes! :o
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Ah. I understood the two human forces were arrayed against one another, my bad. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the Wytch's men. For some reason I instantly thought of the Black Company series when I read about mercenaries in her employ...
Also, I like the Moraine witch model too, for some reason though the gratuitous booty does make me laugh. I don't know if I expected butt icicles or what ??? However, you sold me on the model - I think I might have to grab one at some point!
Ah I see. No all the humans are the same army they are just different contingents each wearing the colours of their lord the purple/blue are the Grand Dukes personal soldiers the red and white one of his barons I have one more contingent to go I'm thinking of green and yellow livery though yellow is never easy to paint well.
The Wytch's army is more barabaric and fantasical trolls, giants and barbarians probably the plastic frostgrave ones.
Yeah the Moraine witch is a nice model I suppose you could give her a grenn stuff icile skirt if you don't like the Beyoncé look.
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No not a conversion she is from Mierce Miniatures Darklands range and is called Skaadi, Moraine Sorcerer. Mierce have some lovely miniatures but they have some hefty prices to go with them. Normally I wouldn't spend as much as I did on one (slightly larger than man sized) miniature but she just fitted what I wanted so perfectly I bit the bullet and shelled out for her.
Here's the link to Mierce Miniatures http://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=pro&pre=mrm_dkl_fmr_blr_wcf_961_000 (http://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=pro&pre=mrm_dkl_fmr_blr_wcf_961_000)
Thank you, like you said pricey. She's $27 to the US. Yikes! :o
yeah you have to really like her to buy her :)
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Another unit finished for the army this is The Ducal Guard. This one hundred strong heavy cavalry force are made up members of the Grand Duke’s extended family, sons of court nobles and second sons of the various country nobles as such they are the premier unit in the whole grand duchy. Every member of the guard receives a black cloak hence their alternative name, among the general populace, of Black Cloaks. Those members of the guard who distinguish themselves in combat are gifted a black wolf pelt to add to their cloak.
These guys are all Fireforge Teutonic Knights with no conversions apart from cutting down the overly long lances to a more manageable size.
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and a quick shot of the grand Duke and all his guards
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I’ve added another unit to my ever expanding army. This time we have some Freemen who live on the ducal lands following the old ways practised by their Black Wolf tribe ancestors as hunters, woodsmen and fishermen. When war comes to the Grand Duchy these men will muster and join the army of the Grand Duchy as scouts, skirmishers and raiders.
This unit is mostly made up of Frostgrave soldiers with a few spare Wargames Factory Viking arms and heads, an old GW Mordhiem miniature and a Warlord games Celtic dog handler.
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The penultimate unit (for now) for my Grand Duchy of the Black Wolf army the knights of Wolfsburg in their natty green and yellow livery. These are a mix of Conquest Games and Fireforge Games plastic knights. I thought I’d play around with photo taking for these guys staging the scene better and tried some filters in my editor to make them look more wintery.
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Somebody say knights? ;D
Great pics and the editing really came out well. Although time-intensive, you should consider applying similar effort to an AAR at some point. Are there Conquest knights in there too or just Fireforge models?
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Somebody say knights? ;D
Great pics and the editing really came out well. Although time-intensive, you should consider applying similar effort to an AAR at some point. Are there Conquest knights in there too or just Fireforge models?
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The knights are from both makers the heads, arms and shields are very interchangeable between the two makes. Unfortunately you can't really swap bodies and horses as Conquest knights have the saddles moulded to the bodies and the Fireforge horses have the saddles moulded on. So a Fireforge Knight on a Conquest horse has no saddle while a Conquest knight on a Fireforge horse would have two saddles :?.
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Ok a little bit of threadomancy. I've started a project to renovate my wargames room later in the summer (see here https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=131769.0 (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=131769.0)) one of my goals before then is to clear my painting shelf of shame. To that end I have a few fantasy miniatures to get finished and so have dug up this old thread to post pictures.
Operation ” Finish up” has started by finishing off these Four snow trolls from the painting shelf of shame. I went for an early easy win with these guys as they where 90% finished and only really needed a few small details painted, basing and sealing to be done. They are Ral-parth trolls, sculpted by Bob Olley, and where meant to be part of my Winter Wytch army judging by this thread that means I started then in the middle 0f 2018 lol
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While I was at it I also took a couple photos of some other miniatures, I’d already painted for the same army, that I found languishing in a box during the re-organization of my wargames room. So we have two Frost giants converted from kids toy Vikings and a barbarian general command base. All these miniatures have now been magnetised and sent to live in a box with My Grand Duchy of the Black wolf Army.
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Lots to love in this thread, great work mate!
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Lots to love in this thread, great work mate!
Cheers mate.
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Here are another batch of miniatures from the painting shelf of shame that have now been finished. Fantasy games have always run side by side with historical gaming, for me, not long after I discovered historical wargaming in the early 80s I discovered Dungeons and Dragons and then Warhammer. These miniatures were going to be the start of a solo dungeon crawl project to try recreate a bit of that old D&D feeling. I was planning to utilise the very basic rules of the old fighting fantasy books and card decks to make the dungeon random. I collected a few miniatures and built a few prototype floor plans from foamcore and then…. got distracted.
Anyway a few of these miniatures where already finished, a number just needed basing and the Gnolls where only half painted. The basing on these miniatures was a bit more involved than my normal basing involving a layer of wood filler, green stuff pavers on top of the filler and then a layer of sand acrylic medium painted grey and then dry brushed with cream.
Anyway here are some pictures. All the miniatures are from Alternative Armies apart from the Hill Giant who is a OOP Wizards of the Coast miniature and the hero Cleric who is an original Ral Partha miniature from 1979 who quite frankly shows just what an amazing sculptor Tom Meier is in my humble opinion.
Group Shot
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Lizardmen
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Skeletons
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Gnolls
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Berserker
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Evil Knight
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Hill Giant
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Troll
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Heroes Barbarian, Wizard and Cleric
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The Evil Knight and that Barbarian from Alternative Armies will definitely have a spot on my shopping list.
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What a brilliant collection!
Those Rieder Design/Alternative Armies lizardmen and gnolls look fantastic in their naturalistic schemes. I've never seen the four newer AA gnolls behind the guy with the polearm painted before; they look very good.
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There's a lovely old school vibe from those miniatures that I really like. Nice stuff.
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The Evil Knight and that Barbarian from Alternative Armies will definitely have a spot on my shopping list.
They are both from the old Asgard barbarian range I believe. I just felt the guy in the boars head was to well armoured for a fantasy barbarian and decided he made a much better Evil knight
What a brilliant collection!
Those Rieder Design/Alternative Armies lizardmen and gnolls look fantastic in their naturalistic schemes. I've never seen the four newer AA gnolls behind the guy with the polearm painted before; they look very good.
Thanks.
I ordered the AA Dogman elites because the AA site said they were larger than the normal Dogmen and I'm a firm believer that Gnolls should be larger than humans. I think they made a slight mistake though because I got the Dogman with the Polearm from the normal Dogman pack rather then the 4th elite Dogmen. Having said that the one with polearm is probably my favourite one of the four.
There's a lovely old school vibe from those miniatures that I really like. Nice stuff.
Thanks. Old school was what I was going for. With this project (before it stalled) I wanted to try and create something that had a feel of the old, D&D games, I played at school, with cardboard cut out floorplans and old school pre-slotta miniatures. Only with much better paint jobs than my 12 year old self could manage with Humbrol enamels lol