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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: thenamelessdead on June 22, 2019, 03:39:51 PM
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Allow me to oblige by providing the first two pictures of my 15mm fantasy collection. These are the four archetypal dungeon adventurers. Photos taken pre-delve, hence the lack of grime and spatters of orc blood.
(https://i.imgur.com/UzkQfQE.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/KLm4nFc.jpg)
All models are from the Ral Partha Blighthaven adventurers set. I heartily recommend this range for its quality and value.
Comments on the photographic quality welcome but not necessary. I realise this needs to improve and when I can find the proper camera it almost certainly will... Anyway, I hope you enjoy. There is more to come.
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Excellent brush-work and your photography is fine too. The sculpts evince more character than some of their 28mm counterparts. Looking forward to seeing more.
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Thank you for the kind words.
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Nice work - love the eye patch chap.
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Very well done. I like your paint scheme. They look wonderfully weird...in a good way!
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The Blighthaven range is all drawn from the old Demonworld range, right? I recognize all of those, I think. More convenient to have them available in smaller packs if you're dungeon delving with them, of course.
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Ha, I have the gent with the eye patch on my paint table even as we speak! Great stuff.
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The Blighthaven range is all drawn from the old Demonworld range, right? I recognize all of those, I think. More convenient to have them available in smaller packs if you're dungeon delving with them, of course.
Correct. Some of the actual Demonworld packs are good for expanding in the direction of skirmish. Of which more later...
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I see you have solved the eternal struggle for skirmish type games.
Rounds or squares? Why not do both.... in the same base!
Looking at your party it seems like your short a Rogue.
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What good is a band of adventurers who don't adventure? None whatsoever.
As the group approaches the dungeon entrance, an alert guard attempts to halt their progress.
(https://i.imgur.com/3MfsWBk.jpg)
With the guard dealt with the group make their way in and soon come to a door at the end of the passageway.
(https://i.imgur.com/yGc2yu5.jpg)
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Looking at your party it seems like your short a Rogue.
If you can see the rogue, he's not very good at his job. :)
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What are the terrain pieces made out of? I like the look of the dungeon tiles on a black cloth.
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It's blue Styrofoam. Used the ball o' foil on it and painted. Not too difficult and pretty cheap but looks pretty decent better in real life than my iffy photos).
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It's blue Styrofoam. Used the ball o' foil on it and painted. Not too difficult and pretty cheap but looks pretty decent (better in real life than my iffy photos).
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Looks pretty legit to me. Pictures of my work always look far worse than the real life thing sitting on the table. I accept that about either my lack of photographic deception, or my poor eyesight while squinting over a table :D
The reason for my question was the dungeon entrance picture, bottom left looked a bit like polystyrene balls, and recently there have been some threads where people have done some magical stuff with the much maligned styrofoam packing material. Just wondering if this was another example of that.
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The 'base' was one half of what had surrounded a complimentary mug. What could be better than combining scenery making with a cup of tea? Just a simple white polystyrene affair with some spackle (see the Terrain Tutor on YouTube) and lashings of paint etc. The entrance is more Styrofoam and is supposed to give the impression of being set in a wall/cliff or whatever. The polystyrene actually came with a hole which made a handy 'fiend pit' or skylight for a dungeon room of some significance. I was pleased with effect of depth that I achieved with the door. Ultimately this piece serves a purely aesthetic purpose but it was fun to play around with what was to hand.
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I shy away from packing foam, but now and again I see something like this and think "you know, that looks pretty darn good. Maybe I ought to..." :D
Good work, all the way around. Can't wait to see more.
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Even a seasoned wizard adventurer needs to sample the fresh air from time to time. Unfortunately that can mean having your perambulation interrupted by the undead.
(https://i.imgur.com/uA3Hs5X.jpg)
Orcs and trolls also enjoy being outside the confines of the dungeon occasionally.
(https://i.imgur.com/tQYRHPm.jpg)
Some goblins taking their spider for a spin...
(https://i.imgur.com/3627Erf.jpg)
It's quite hard to get a decent photo of that troll for some reason, he's actually shaded albeit subtly. The gloss varnish on the smooth areas of the spider seems to be coming across. Undead and spider are from Alternative Armies and the rest from Ral Partha.
The miniatures appear on my home-made board, to which the flock is sticking reasonably well (I'll be honest, it's barely been used, but still). There is a hint of the trees I have put together and I also have some of Alternative Armies' resin walls and buildings undercoated and awaiting the brush. Hopefully I'll have some of that done at some point but expect my progress to be 'leisurely'.
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How big is the "above ground" board?
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A local bargain shop does 3'x2' mdf so I got a 9mm sheet of that. The ASoBaH guideline dictates a 2'x2' area for 15mm so the extra foot is useful for variation. It's done according to one of the Terrain Tutor vids on YT. Plenty of watered down pva, spray varnish and hair spray was expended and a bit of still flock comes off. Not sure if that's unavoidable, probably is. It looks ok but if I ever do another one I might get one of those grass sheets and cut and stick.
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Ah, 3x2' MDF would be nice. I've been trying to figure out what my "standard size" game board is for 15mm stuff. For fantasy, I feel like it can be smaller/more compact due to the prevalence of melee combat. For 28mm I have found that 3x3' is my preference. I can get everything I need to get done in that size. As much as 4x6 sounds swell, that has usually just involves a few extra rounds of movement before any of the fun begins.
Can we get a picture of the full board?
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Ah, 3x2' MDF would be nice. I've been trying to figure out what my "standard size" game board is for 15mm stuff. For fantasy, I feel like it can be smaller/more compact due to the prevalence of melee combat. For 28mm I have found that 3x3' is my preference. I can get everything I need to get done in that size. As much as 4x6 sounds swell, that has usually just involves a few extra rounds of movement before any of the fun begins.
Can we get a picture of the full board?
I don’t think, there is a standard size for 15mm tabletop wargames. Use a normal dining table, and it’s huge , take the standard 28mm/warhammer board and turn inches to cm, and it’s also great. And if you’re really gonna go for it, take a standard 28mm board and it’s frickin‘ monstrous!!!
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For now, I think I'm going to try and make a go of 1x1' cork tiles as my building surface of choice. Worked fairly well for my Diablo project, and ultimately it is very expandable at 1 tile at a time! I have some large felt rolls I can use too, should I get up the nerve to work out a truly wide open battle!
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I’m a CM in place of inches guy (ahem!) so I regularly play on an 45cm board (which is over a 3x3 in inches). I did go through a phase of working on small but elaborate 30cm boards, but I actually generally prefer mats now with terrain on top, even if they are a bit less spectacular.
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I also have a mat, which stores easily and doesn’t take much space.
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The 4 D&D archetypes here too . I hope it's ok to hijack your thread.
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The 4 D&D archetypes here too . I hope it's ok to hijack your thread.
Hijack away, you're doing more than me to keep it alive! Time has been short recently but I hope to contribute something soon.