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Miniatures Adventure => Gothic Horror => Topic started by: Cat on October 31, 2021, 05:54:24 AM
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I'll likely be running games of The Silver Bayonet in the French and Indian War set in Sleepy Hollow, but also couldn't resist the fun of doing up some some Napoleonic flavoured stuff too.
First figures up are the valiant troops of the Nachtwehr, ready to defend Pleasant Goblin Valley against all incursions!
Classic plastic Warhammer Night Goblins nappified with putty and a few backpacks and a horn from Victrix Napoleonic French.
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Wonderful :-*
Last Train to Darksville…
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great stuff.
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Brilliant Cat, really imaginative. What’s next up?
BALM
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Seems like mining the rather large Flintloque range from AA would be an obvious approach to de-humanizing a Silver Bayonet crew.
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Great Goblins Cat!
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Thanks folks!
BALM, currently on the workbench is a goodly assortment of Eureka's Tyroleans with a few Austrian army support for a hunting unit, and quite a lot of Victrix plastic French for assorted purposes. Scruffing up a bunch of the French for Revenants. Also building the core military types for a trio of squads in French uniforms (with a variety of metal figures for special characters on order to round them out): Neapolitan, 7° Reggimento di Linea Real Africano; Swiss with some special attachments from the Vatican Guard; and oh what the heck, probably a French unit too (unless I think of a good flavour build for another satellite state).
Looking forward to the eventual release of VIctrix Bavarians to face off against the Tyroleans
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Brilliant I look forward to seeing your progress, I (luckily) don’t have anything that is particularly useful to play SB but if other peoples projects/experiences look good I may be tempted to try in 15mm.
Thank you for posting,
BALM
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Wolves for all occasions are ready to romp at last! For the last several years, whenever I bought minis from a company that had wolves, I would buy them to build up variety for the great wolf pack for Sleepy Hollow. They got trimmed and primed as they came in, then set aside for painting later. Finally figured that there was enough critical mass of wolves to paint and base them to have ready for Silver Bayonet as well.
Freshly finished — young wolves, regular wolves, large wolves, and giant wolves (and a little black goat too).
Currently, there are several projects on the workbench, including a few 1809 Brunswickers from Steve Barber. The basic soldiers are the ubiquitous shouldered arms marching up and down the square types.
With a bit of work, they can be re-posed. the metal is a little harder than I would prefer for such work, but do-able. My trusty #16 blade was critical for the heavy leaning into the cutting.
Because this metal is fairly hard and brittle, the second one snapped while bending. The right arm broke above the elbow while bending it back to reach for the cartridge box. The left arm broke at the wrist while bending it to hold the cradled musket. But then it was easy to glue the pieces back right where I wanted them.
Now they are in more interesting poses for skirmish gaming. They just need a little putty to finish them up.
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You can never have too many wolves.
I am keen to get some of those Victrix Bavarians too.
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You can never have too many wolves.
I am keen to get some of those Victrix Bavarians too.
In fact I just ordered a couple of more wolves this afternoon, and Bavarians too! Just took advantage of the Foundry holiday sale. They have packs of assorted poses in their Napoleonics range, so got some Bavarians and command along with other goodies, including some French and Austrian casualties for dressing up the found clues.
I may not need the Victrix ones after all.
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Love the goblins!
:-*
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I am guilty of loving the easy kitbashing of plastic kits. I am not as skilled as you with metal conversions.
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Nice work, the wolves look great (I have one in my painting queue so I am paying special attention).
I am a bit concerned about that goat, though. I hope that pack have full stomachs already!
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You never have enough wolves ;)
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Some West Wind Gothic horrors. Not much fancy modelling on these, just some slight re-positioning of arms, and one werewolf who will be a character in a Bavarian unit got an officer's sash added.
Otherwise, the werewolves' origins are identified simply by the trousers of their former units: one of the French Horse Artillery, one of the Italian Legion or Horse Artillery, and one Austrian or other white-trewed type.
I will expend my one exclamation of "Why wasn't this included in the game?!?" for Frankenstein's monster — young Shelly visited the ruins of Burg Frankenstein in 1815, then wrote the ground-breaking story in 1818. You can't get more Napoleonic Gothic Horror than that!
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Always liked the Gothic Horror figure range from West Wind/Old Glory. Cheap, fun to paint and full of character. The Vampire Wars etc game system didn't impress me quite as much, but it wasn't bad as such.
Doesn't seem like adding Adam to Bestiary would be very difficult.
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They look great Cat!
And I agree in relation to Mr F's monster. I have a few Reaper Bones Gothic horror figures that Silver Bayonet is giving me an excuse to paint and they include one clearly inspired by the monster in that story. I intend to paint him anyway, despite him not fitting neatly into the existing bestiary. it may be wishful thinking, but perhaps there will be a Frankenstein inspired supplement one day?
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Yes, all the West Wind Gothicky figures paint up very nicely. I played the Vampire Wars or Chaos in Carpathia at a convention — it was entertaining enough with someone else running the game, but I wasn't inspired enough to buy the rules.
I figure at the very least, the monster can play the part of a troll, or even a hobgoblin in a pinch. There is a convenient monster creation section; although I'm still waiting for the FLGS to get the book so I can buy mine.
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Yes, all the West Wind Gothicky figures paint up very nicely. I played the Vampire Wars or Chaos in Carpathia at a convention — it was entertaining enough with someone else running the game, but I wasn't inspired enough to buy the rules.
I've enjoyed both in years past, although I think Chaos was the better of the two.
I figure at the very least, the monster can play the part of a troll, or even a hobgoblin in a pinch. There is a convenient monster creation section; although I'm still waiting for the FLGS to get the book so I can buy mine.
Ditto. Still trying to stick to shopping locally, although it gets harder and harder as the distributors narrow their focus and reduce their order numbers.
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From out of the mists comes the unmistakeable beat of the Pas de charge, but not from the deep sound of the massed drums for a large assault, nor even the reverberations from a single drum — it is the thin tapping of sticks on metal. The good news is that the Eagle of the Ninth wasn't lost years ago when their first battalion was. The bad news is that they still have it.
All plastic figures are Undead just waiting to happen, take these Victrix French for instance.
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My box of infantry are the shakoed heads; so to make the earlier troops for this, so I used a dozen metal heads from Steve Barber to back date them. On all the heads, I carved down the cheeks for a bit more of a sunken look.
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Superb! I hadn't thought the solution would be ordinary plastics, some skillful knife-work and some additional blood effects. These look nicely creepy, and I can imagine from a distance look like a regular French unit, and it is only as they get closer that you start to get a nagging feeling that something is not quite right about them...
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A lovely (if that's the right term) unit of undead French!
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Excellent concept and execution!
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Thanks for the kind comments folks — working in plastic is always a joy, as is painting undeads!
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Nicely done on those revenants!
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really well done. excellent.
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Here's a pair of ghosts that I had painted earlier for Sleepy Hollow that will work perfectly in Europe too.
Duncan Campbell of Inverary, late of the 42nd Highlanders, met his fated doom at Ticonderoga (d.1758). A ghost in Government Tartan will do just fine in Napoleonics too of course.
A slightly modified Reaper figure. If you want to go really cross-eyed, try painting plaid with transparent acrylic paints on a transparent plastic figure! Holding it to the light while painting, you can see the paint on the other side too.
O_o
I'm happy to paint regiments of Highlanders, but I have resolved to limit the number of Highland ghosts I will paint.
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The Lady In White of the Raven Rock in Sleepy Hollow was so much easier to paint. Painting clear figures is much much easier when they're not wearing plaid! Ladies in White are also a standard ghost type across Europe.
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From out of the mists comes the unmistakeable beat of the Pas de charge, but not from the deep sound of the massed drums for a large assault, nor even the reverberations from a single drum — it is the thin tapping of sticks on metal. The good news is that the Eagle of the Ninth wasn't lost years ago when their first battalion was. The bad news is that they still have it.
All plastic figures are Undead just waiting to happen, take these Victrix French for instance.
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My box of infantry are the shakoed heads; so to make the earlier troops for this, so I used a dozen metal heads from Steve Barber to back date them. On all the heads, I carved down the cheeks for a bit more of a sunken look.
Excellent idea and imagination!
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A friend who will be joining the games has been printing out the terrain, and I've been painting the pieces; starting with some ruins. I did my usual stone work by spray painting with an armload of different colours from a distance to get speckles.
These are from WOW Buildings, A World in Ruins WW2 set. These are from the ruins of the town of Cassino, and work great for ruined castles. They look much more like the ruins of Frankenstein or Ehrenberg than any 'castle ruins' I've seen that all tend to Fantasy High-Gothic. Fortunately, he got this set at the Kickstarter Prices; the shop price now is quite exorbitant, especially for the quality of the files which have some issues.
The ghouls are Mantic with just a little re-working. Some arm swaps and bits of putty for variety, and applying some gravity to the odd bits of sleeves and whatnot that were jutting out at improbable angles.
I slathered the jutting bits with a generous coating of PlasticWeld cement. When the plastic softened, I bent it downwards, and then it hardened again in place.
The game mat is Dark Island by Lukas Schimdt. I've had my eye on this for several years and this game was finally a good excuse to buy it during Noble Knight's holiday sale (I've never seen this company anyplace else).
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Great stuff mate!
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And now a Hobgoblin and the first of the hunters.
The part of the Hobgoblin is played by West Wind's King Rat with just a bit of modification to the hat.
A British ship from Sumatra, bound for Malta, never made port. It is presumed lost at sea with all hands. Well, all except one perhaps. They had sent dispatches regarding a giant creature they had caught and that the marines on board were training it to fight with them. This hobgoblin wearing the clothes of a sergeant of the Royal Marines is suspected to have made it to safety from that ship. Certain authorities would like it brought in for questioning.
With several hunting units in various stages of preparation, I opted to paint the simplest unit first: Die schwarzen Bajonette, 1809 Brunswickers. Six of the figures are from Steve Barber, with just a little re-posing, plus a couple of weapon additions.
The two Sisters Grimm are female Hussars from Colonel Bill's Belt Fed Gaming figures with some weapons added. Since Elite Miniatures, who make very nice female figures, are not responding to email orders, I went with these pin-up ones. I had to add an undershirt to fix the stupid wardrobe malfunction. And because they are 30mm figures with exaggerated legs, I cut the metal base off to bring the look of their height down.
I was originally planning on using one the Hussars to splice onto a mounted figure, but decided to go with two on foot. Now I'll probably order 2 more to make the mounted options.
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Loving it mate! Wunderbar!
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great use of Westwind's King Rat.
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A dozen Albanian brigands from Brigade Games.
Once they desert from the Ottoman army, they might as well keep running! Catching a ship if they can, this band is likely to appear anywhere in the war torn lands:
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The project is going along swimmingly Cat
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Fantastic choice for the Bandits. Also, impressive painting output. You must have a lot of time...
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Thanks, folks!
Also, impressive painting output. You must have a lot of time...
Painting is my primary hobby for relaxation. (And I've spent a lifetime studiously avoiding computer games — can't have two time-sink hobbies!)
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They look great - a splash of colour(s) in an already colourful period!
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Thanks, folks!
Painting is my primary hobby for relaxation. (And I've spent a lifetime studiously avoiding computer games — can't have two time-sink hobbies!)
Wise words there sir, wise words
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Painting is my primary hobby for relaxation. (And I've spent a lifetime studiously avoiding computer games — can't have two time-sink hobbies!)
That is my way as well.
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Painting is my primary hobby for relaxation.
Mine too (at the moment), but I still barely have time for it because of work/family commitments. At the rate I'm currently painting, I think it would take me three months to produce that set of brigands! Again, well done.
I myself had been thinking of using Barbary Corsairs for the TSB Bandits, but I've had a new idea which I'm presently working on.
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Looking good Cat!
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I myself had been thinking of using Barbary Corsairs for the TSB Bandits, but I've had a new idea which I'm presently working on.
Ooh, Corsairs are a great idea!
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After meditating awhile on what to do for Pixies, decided on the Reaper Gremlins as the meanest looking option. Took them to the green putty haberdashery, and made wings from the blister box plastic. Drew the membranes on with a .005 Micron Art pen.
Black Dogs are basic Foundry Warhounds.
Steve Barber wee ratties for clue markers.
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Looking good mate. Good tip on the pen, pardon the pun.
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I use those pens a lot — outlining most everything on all the figures, and drawing in eyes.
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Painting output on this project has slowed a bit over the past month as we've been working on a joint household Japanese model railroad project. But I have squeezed in some figure painting time around the edges of that.
Just wrapped up a large batch of hunters for Naples. Lots of figure choices for a single unit, or can be fielded as two full units for coöp use or a team in a multi-player game.
The natural choice for Neapolitan hunters is the 7º Reggimento, Real Africano, the best regiment in the worst army! Originally the French Pioniers Noirs, Haitians and other black troops, the unit was transferred to the new Kingdom of Naples.
Most Neapolitann soldiers were conscripted peasants and scrapings from the jails who were quite eager to desert at the first opportunity. My guess is that the men of the 7º stood out because as black men who spoke French with a Haitian accent they would not have had good prospects at trying to hide from the Gendarmie — so soldiering was their best option!
The bulk of the figures are Victrix plastic. The officer has been awarded the Ordine del Gattopardo, and personally presented with a leopard fur collar by Murat. The Cornet is the Junior Officer, or commanding Officer of the 2nd unit. The Porte-aigle is the Veteran Hunter. The Sappeur and Artillerist are Brigade Games' figures.
Friends and family in supporting roles come from a variety of sources. The Native Scout with halberd and Doctor with lantern are Westwind. Supernatural Investigator monk is Foundry. Vivandière is Belt Fed (with stupid wardrobe malfunction fixed with some putty). And the Occultist is Reaper.
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Brilliant! I love it, excellent unit!
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Lovely. Any plans for a Grenadier or two in their white bearskins?
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Lovely. Any plans for a Grenadier or two in their white bearskins?
Thanks! Just sticking with these figures and the 2 Grenadiers in shakos from the 7º.
The basic infantry here are the 4 Voltiguers. I figure the light infantry companies are the ones most likely to have all the basic loose order skills needed for these skirmishes.
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Excellent additions, squeezed in or otherwise!
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Absolutely brilliant!
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So much neat stuff in this thread!
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cracking stuff.