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Miniatures Adventure => Gothic Horror => Topic started by: DivisMal on February 20, 2023, 10:51:40 PM
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Good evening honorable gentlemen. After a long break from painting caused by the happy birth of my daughter, the last few months saw me getting back into the hobby. Philippa is now four years old and I have gotten back a bit of freedom.
So what does a true LAFer with this time? Start at least one never ending project in every subforum here! After 15mm Fantasy, SF, VSF, 28mm 30 Years War and Star Wars, I thought I’d do a bit of early 19th century skirmishing.
The very nice and lavishly produced Silver Bayonet will be my start. I’m not sure though that I like the rules, so I have Song of Drums and Shakos as well as Fear & Faith ready (since I’ll be mostly playing against myself this should be no problem, I intend to use the SoBH rules and the Silver Bayonet scenarios).
Anyway, as you now know: it’s going to be Napoleonics with a bit of fantasy/horror added.
Disclaimer: What you are going to see would probably get me kicked out of most Napoleonic forums worth their name. I do intend to stick close to uniforms, but I will make up a bit of alternative history in Northern Germany. That might conflict with the precise dating of some uniforms and units, but I want to have fun. And I do not intend to collect enough for historical battles, so I guess that won’t be a problem.
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I intend to play in an alternative past near my current home: Hanover and its surroundings. It is 1805, William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart has been given command of an army to liberate the home of the British kings. He lands in Frisia and moves to northern Germany in an attempt to bring the French to battle. However the French army is already retreating. The vast bogs and forests of the North German Plain are home to sinister and macabre creatures and Napoleon has bitten more than he can chew!
Part of the British force are the 95th Rifles (they were really there!), who are sent forth to scout. They will be assissted by Light Troops, the King's German Legion and German allies. I’ll flesh out the background during my solo adventures.
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Here are my first models. A bit too many for The Silver Bayonet, but the Perry 95th Rifles are so good, I could not stop.
Sadly my casts had enormous amount of flash. Probably the moulds aren’t used so often now that everyone buys plastics.
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That sounds like a plan! Indeed it's schaurig übers Moor zu gehen. I did it and survived...almost. :D
For me TSB was a relieve, because it finally gave me an excuse to paint the last few of my napoleonic miniatures whose already painted comrades also had never been used before, but now found a good use at last. I look forward to read your weird ideas on alternative Schleswig-Holstein Lower Saxony. I once had things to do in Boostedt. Perhaps it's Boo-Stedt in your world... lol Alright, I was too quick. Hangover is the capital, I suppose...
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And here is the first monster: a Ratman sculpted by Copplestone. It’s an older model that now has found a new home. I’ll use him as a hobgoblin!
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That sounds like a plan! Indeed it's schaurig übers Moor zu gehen. I did it and survived...almost. :D
For me TSB was a relieve, because it finally gave me an excuse to paint the last few of my napoleonic miniatures whose already painted comrades also had never been used before, but now found a good use at last. I look forward to read your weird ideas on alternative Schleswig-Holstein. I once had things to do in Boostedt. Perhaps it's Boo-Stedt in your world... lol
Hi Michi and cheers! We’ll definitely go to Slesvig (I think it’s still Danish at that time) and Holstein and also the Netherlands. After all Winter is coming and national unrest is growing in the occupied territories!
Here’s another monster. A „demon“. I am not always happy with the Silver Bayonet lore and think demons are not really fitting, but then, let call them moorgeister and everyone is happy. These cruel creatures roam the bogs when the fog comes out. Their sharp claws are deadly and their speed is superhuman. It is said they live in the few caves known in the Bückeberge, Seven Mountains (yes, the one with Snowwhite is actually here) and the Deister.
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This is going to be my Changeling.
The model is from a Conan KS iirc. Very quick paintjob, so I can start playing soon: greyscale drybrush over black basecoat, then only inks snd a few details with normal colors. I even skipped the highlights.
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And another Changeling or maybe a „hobgoblin“ from the same KS. I have no idea who this little ugly is meant to represent. I liked him for The Silver Bayonet because in contrast to most fantasy models, he is sculpted not so comically distorted.
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Great stuff mate, loving it! 👍
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Great stuff mate, loving it! 👍
Thanks, Rick. It’s a relaxing change. The minis are so incredibly big :) but actually it’s also nice reading. The Silver Bayonet is one of the poshest rulebooks I have ever bought.
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Absolutely lovely
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Up to a great start. I'm curious about the 95th upcoming adventures in the unholy bogs of northern Germany.
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Schleswig Holstein and Frisia! As long as it isn't the valley of the lawless folk they call Finkenwerder we should be good. I shall follow with interest.
Also curious to see the regional spin on certain monsters. Irrlichter and Bog-mummies come to my mind, seeing as you mentioned the Moor.
Either way, great stuff thus far! :)
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That sounds like a plan! Indeed it's schaurig übers Moor zu gehen. I did it and survived...almost. :D
For me TSB was a relieve, because it finally gave me an excuse to paint the last few of my napoleonic miniatures whose already painted comrades also had never been used before, but now found a good use at last. I look forward to read your weird ideas on alternative Schleswig-Holstein Lower Saxony. I once had things to do in Boostedt. Perhaps it's Boo-Stedt in your world... lol Alright, I was too quick. Hangover is the capital, I suppose...
Yes, that’s right. They still make decent beers there. The house of Hangover…that might explain the behavior of a couple of British monarchs ;)
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Absolutely lovely
Up to a great start. I'm curious about the 95th upcoming adventures in the unholy bogs of northern Germany.
Schleswig Holstein and Frisia! As long as it isn't the valley of the lawless folk they call Finkenwerder we should be good. I shall follow with interest.
Also curious to see the regional spin on certain monsters. Irrlichter and Bog-mummies come to my mind, seeing as you mentioned the Moor.
Either way, great stuff thus far! :)
Thank you gents! I’ll do my best, and am positively surprised about so many kind words!
@ FreakyFenton: For the beginning I plan to go around Lower Saxony mostly. So Harburg (which has only been annexed by Hamburg in the 1930s) might be a place ;)
I’ll first scroung through my huge pile of unpainted models carefully curated collection of curiosities to represent the Silver Bayonet monsters, but of course we need a bog mummy, Irrlichter, barrow wights etc. And maybe even some supernatural help for the 95th and Napoleon.
I’ve been hooked on the great CYOA app The Frankenstein Wars some years ago!
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Nice. That rat man is quite cool.
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Nice. That rat man is quite cool.
Thank yoe EvilG. You’re doing a very impressive Silver Bayonet project yourself!
Scounging through my stash of painted but never used models I found this gargoyle from Rackham for the Confrontation game. As I’ve said before I have some issues with „demons“ in the Napoleonic age. Are there indeed suggestions or is there literature dealing with them? I haven’t found anything yet. Gothic horror (or Romantic Schauertomane) deal with the supernatural in death, nature or from ancient times, but not really hell itself. How could hell actually be worse than the siege of Badajoz, the retreat from Moscow or just being an average soldier ordered to stand and hold while enemy artillery was doing target practice on your regiment?
That’s why I decided to use the gargoyle as a „demon“. Gargoyles may not be typical of north German protestant churches but there were still enough in the Catholic centres like Münster to explain why they stalk the bogs.
So with the „demon“ now being replaced by a gargoyle, the ex-demon will probably serve as something else. I’ll explain in one of my next posts.
Question: this guy has been based for Confrontation. Plain black. I’m tempted to rebase him on a grass base to suggest he’s been from a Catholic monastery razed in the 30 Years War by the Swedes. Stupid or cool? I’m slightly afraid the green might ruin the effect of the wall where the gargoyle just detaches himself.
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The gargoyle is an excellent idea!
Why don’t you add just rubble and debris ot the ruined building that you can paint like the stone columns? It would neither disturb by the colour, nor would look out of place. You would catch to flies with one strike… :D
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Great stuff. I love the demon. :)
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I love the idea of the Gargoyle as a lone 'survivor' from a razed catholic church that is now out and kills everyone in blind anger who dares to come to close to his lone pile of rubble.
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A lovely start to your project. Will we be seeing any of their human foes in the near future?
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I like what you are doing so far. Please, keep going as I would like to see more of your creative craft.
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The gargoyle is an excellent idea!
Why don’t you add just rubble and debris ot the ruined building that you can paint like the stone columns? It would neither disturb by the colour, nor would look out of place. You would catch to flies with one strike… :D
Okay! I like that idea. Work has started!
Great stuff. I love the demon. :)
I love the idea of the Gargoyle as a lone 'survivor' from a razed catholic church that is now out and kills everyone in blind anger who dares to come to close to his lone pile of rubble.
Thanks, guys! I’ll elaborate the idea a little in the near future ^^.
I like what you are doing so far. Please, keep going as I would like to see more of your creative craft.
I hope, I won’t disappoint;)
A lovely start to your project. Will we be seeing any of their human foes in the near future?
Definitely! I’ve got some Victrix French and Perry Moscow retreat French on my painting desk. Especially the latter are absolutely stunning. As with the 95th there’s a bit too much flash for my taste, but the models are en par concerning proportions and dynamics with the best fantasy / 3d prints I’ve seen.
So, the frozen bogs will see a lot of small scale skirmish activities. First because I have those models and then because I think that’s actually the kind of warfare that would make sense in my alternative historical setting.
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I managed to find another model that will be refurbished for The Silver Bayonet:
When the first squads were mauled by the beings in the moors, it was a shock. The bodies were found horribly mutilated, sometimes half eaten. This was not the work of a wolf or the French.
Cathcart knew he had to find help. Anglican priests as well as the north German Pastors were embracing science too much and were of no help here. He needed help from an older religion. While Irish priests might have been an option, the suppression of Irish catholicism in the British army proved a problem.
That’s when the Portuguese connection came in and Padre Rui Parreira was shipped to Germany.
The padre is an old man, stout in his beliefs, nearly blind, ascetic and of near legendary constitution. Armed with a crucifix only he often accompanies the 95th when the supernatural is suspected.
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Padre Rui exorcising a halfbreed („hobgoblin“).
„ Ab insidiis diaboli, libera nos, Domine. Vade, satana, inventor et magister omnis fallaciae, hostis humanae salutis.“
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Great stuff. Love the priest :)
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Continually great stuff mate! 👍
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Cracking stuff, love the gargoyle idea 8) 8)
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Thank you, gentlemen! Father Rui will soon see some action. Yesterday I was in the DIY store and got two 125*65cm boards which hopefully will suffice as a playing area. I haven’t decided yet, how to do the board, but I think I will go for a flat surface with some sandy patches for my bog and terrain features recycled from previous projects.
I also did some work on the bases and gave my 95th Rifles some highlights (which are barely visible in photos, but look nice in real life); last, but not least I worked on some more monsters.
First the riflemen:
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Then I played a bit with Michi‘s idea and worked a little on the base of the Gargoyle and found some suitable terrain (I guess from a long forgotten GW kit) for the ruined chirch he belongs to.
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Then I found this litte gentleman from Rackham‘s Confrontation line of models who makes an excellent scarecrow.
Since I also love the Northstar scarecrows (which are out of stock everywhere :(. ), he’ll sooner or later become the king of scarecrow. A scarecrow warlock! (Maybe even one of the Harvestmen?)
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That Gargoyle is looking even better 👍
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Love the scarecrow :)
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Got a strange urge to listen to Metallica - Master of puppets. :)
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Continuing to love it all mate. The Gargoyle in particular takes it to a new level of awesome.
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Delightful figure.
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Thank you so much, fellow LAFers, while we had visitors today and I wasn’t really able to paint a lot, I did manage to rebase a couple of older models to be used in The Silver Bayonet.
Here is my take on the cultists. Not sure if there is really literary evidence for cultists in Napoleonic times, but the movies Sleepy Hollow and Pacte des Loupes both featured some kind of conspiracy and so, why not!
The models are from Hasslefree iirc and were bought for some Warhammer skirmish fun; they do fit perfectly with the Perry riflemen. The most appropriate use for them might actually be to add a bit of cthuloid insanity to the northwest German bogs: a local branch of the Esoteric Order of Dagon with members in Groningen, Emden and Leer. The wealthy bürgers, kept together by their Frisian blood, are very well aware that both Amaterdam and Hanover are far far away. What sinister ritual are they preparing in the bog? Are they in league with the French? Or the other horrors that stalk the bog at night?
Ladies be brave! Gents be patient! King George has sent some of his best to investigate!
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And this will be my final entry for the weekend:
Since I now have a model that is a more suitable demon, I thought this miniature might make a good vampire.
In The Silver Bayonet Vampires are mostly very tough monsters. So I’m not sure if the gentlemanly Victorian vampire is a suitable representation, but rather a more monstrous form.
He is accompanied by a female vampire, which is also an older model that I rebased and touched up slightly. I think it was from a Spanish company that sold excellent not-Warhammer stuff in the early 2000s.
So now I have two vampires, which should suffice. I’m now working on some French and hobgoblins.
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lol
I really like the Frisian cultists. The models you'Ve chosen and painted look great and I quite like the bit of flavour text you provided. Knowing a few Frisians might have made it that little bit funnier.
I do agree with your explanation of the vampires. There's some great models for more monstrous creatures in the reaper miniatures lineup as well. Great painting!
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Great stuff, loving the vampires. :)
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Great Project! Amazing progression can't wait to see the next steps!
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lol
I really like the Frisian cultists. The models you'Ve chosen and painted look great and I quite like the bit of flavour text you provided. Knowing a few Frisians might have made it that little bit funnier.
I do agree with your explanation of the vampires. There's some great models for more monstrous creatures in the reaper miniatures lineup as well. Great painting!
Thank you so much! Actually we’ve got family in Frisia and I’ve got friends on both sides of the border. We’ll let us say I had someone in mind when I drew up the backstory…:)
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Great stuff, loving the vampires. :)
Thanks. I was really afraid they’d be too evil.
Great Project! Amazing progression can't wait to see the next steps!
Well painting is difficult right now, but I did manage a few.
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Padre Rui is joined by noone else than Ada van Helsing, the will-be mother/aunt/relative of a certain Abraham who will follow her career. Ada is armed with pistols and a silver sword (made by polishing the blade with a needle). She an older model I rebased for The Silver Bayonet to serve as a supernatural investigator.
Edit: I was obviously so tired yesterday night that the text was full of typos. Sorry for that!
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Count Michel de Morloque is a French nobleman from the rural nobility. His mother was bitten by a vampire while she was pregnant and gave birth to a weak boy that was hidden away from the public. If it wasn’t for the high status of his family Michel would have ended on the street or get „disposed“. Being the only son pf the late Count saved him from that gruesome fate.
With the revolution, Michel had hoped people would become more tolerant of creatures like him. That was not the case.
It took a man like Major Ducas from Napoleon‘s secret service to realize the potential of the dhampir. Since the Michel is part of a special strike force investigating rebellion and the occult.
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Nice 8)
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Nice 8)
Love the Vampire/half human and a great backstory. :)
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Lovely stuff. Where is the vampire from?
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Thank you, gentlemen!
Lovely stuff. Where is the vampire from?
He’s an old Freebooter Miniatures sculpt. He comes with a nice base. Afaik they don’t sell him anymore, though.
Love the Vampire/half human and a great backstory. :)
Thank you, it’s actually a lot of fun woth these games with very small model count!
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Goblins aresome of the most common monsters in The Silver Bayonet. The official minis are fine, but first of all, I‘d like to reuse as many of my old models as possible without buying tons of new stuff and then I have to admit I think they look too brutal.
I’d like to go more into the mischievous little rascal theme. Goblins in The Silver Bayonet are described as just an overall term for all kind of little people. So staying in the North German context that would mean they represent Heinzelmännchen, Kobolde, the Klabautermann and so on. Of course, the North Sea is not that big and all kinds of Celtic spirits might be at home in the bogs, too.
So with that in mind I went to my carefully curated collection of exquisite miniature soldiers (=a huge pile of unfinished and semi finished Model unsystematically put into boxes and spread over several shelves) and found my old Rackham stuff.
I have some familiars that might be just what I was looking for. Furthermore I found a few goblins that might also fit.
Here are the first two. The goblin is an old model from the time when Goblinaid was called upon by Ral Partha while the living armor is a limited Rackham model. The latter one will either be of use as a goblin or be used as a living armor.
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I feel several of the monsters in The Silver Bayonet feel too modern, too violent and not really gothic. Werewolf tales, however, are a true classic of the time. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff is probably best known to German speakers since she is often read at school. Her ballad „Der Loup Garou“ is freely available on the internet and a great read that also oozes atmosphere for The Silver Bayonet: The world is full of supernatural beings who reward or play tricks on humans. The Fei (=fey?) checks the work of the women in thehouse, while outside in the unprotected wilderness scarier things like the Loup Garou roam.
Strictly following my „no new minis“ policy, I found some very good models for werewolves: Rackham Wolfen. Sure, they’re armed and look pretty scary, but actually, the sculpting of the Perrys is en par with them. I was tempted to cut off the weapons, but then decided to keep them: in von Droste-Hülshoff’s poetry the loup garou is not really described as in a monster manual and so a lot is left to the reader.
My werewolves are clearly very anthropomorphic, cursed humans, that shift into wolf-ogres comparable to the garou in White Wolf‘s World of Darkness RPG.
This one was a limited model and the pose is near perfect. As said above, without the axe it would be a near perfect werewolf. Even like this, however, I think it hits really well with The Silver Bayonet.
I haven’t decided on the name (for silliness’s sake I am tempted to call him Jean Bey), but he is a cursed nobleman from Brittany left to die in his home at Broceliande forest by Napoleons lackeys. When he lay there dying, „JB“ made a pact with the supernatiral to gain his revenge. Now he stalks his murderes in the bogs of Germany. Whoever gets between a Loup Garou and his prey, becomes prey.
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Lovely beastie ;D
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Nice Werewolf 8) 8)
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Continually great work mate. 👍
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That werewolf is genuinely terrifying.
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Lovely beastie ;D
Nice Werewolf 8) 8)
Continually great work mate. 👍
That werewolf is genuinely terrifying.
Thank you, gentlemen, I am happy to have finally found a purpose for him. The more I watch him next to my Perry Rifles the more I think he’s really a good size for this kind of gaming. After all he’s not going after lone, wandering girls but against King George‘s best.
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Tragic Backstory for the Werewolf and the Gargoyle. Now we need some purely evil villains. 👍
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Tragic Backstory for the Werewolf and the Gargoyle. Now we need some purely evil villains. 👍
I am working on them, but French uniforms are much more complicated than the all green and black of the 95th rifles! lol
For a start, I’ve now gone Silverloque, termed by fellow LAFer Hummster: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=134721.msg1710230#msg1710230
Here is Snigrot d‘Oldenbourge, the new commander of the anti-insurgent forces of the French army in Northern Germany. Snigrot is, as you can easily guess, no native of Paris or Greater France. In fact, he barely has learned French, but his knowledge of the local area and his hatred for the Lutheranian clergy (and citizenship) made him a logical choice for Napoleon. Snigrot, now able to pay his tormentors back, has bound his fate to that of Bonarparte. He is one of the most ruthless officers in the Grande Armée and wages war against insurgents, the supernatural and the British liberators without mery.
Vive l‘Empereur!
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His base will be pimped adm he‘ll get some more highlights in the coming days.
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And here’s another „goblin“ that can also be used as a living armor. The model is from Anakrôn and perfectly captures the spirit of Confrontation, but it’s also awesome for The Silver Bayonet.
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That Snigrot fellow looks somewhat fishy. Can't lay my finger on it. 🤔 Maybe it's because he's from Oldenburg, those friesians are a special bunch. 🤷♂️
I am working on them, but French uniforms are much more complicated than the all green and black of the 95th rifles! lol
lol
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That Snigrot fellow looks somewhat fishy. Can't lay my finger on it. 🤔 Maybe it's because he's from Oldenburg, those friesians are a special bunch. 🤷♂️
lol
Definitely that and not his pale green skin, quite usual thanks to the unhealthy living in the bogs, and the steampipe on his back! lol
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So, the sun is up, and I managed to take a slightly better picture of Snigrot.
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He’s a nasty little bugger!
I like him :) lol
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Nice Vampire and hunter!
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Your gobos are a treat.
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Maybe it's because he's from Oldenburg, those friesians are a special bunch. 🤷♂️
lol
Deep Ones perhaps. :D :D
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Deep Ones perhaps. :D :D
This might explain a lot. lol
Sorry for all the flak to the north-Germans, lived for two years in Bremen before I retreated back beyond the Weißwurt-Äquator. ;)
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Cracking paintjob on the Goblin!
And yes, Oldenburg is a place. shudders
lol lol
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Cracking paintjob on the Goblin!
He’s a nasty little bugger!
I like him :) lol
So does Bonaparte. Snigrot is someone for the really dirty jobs. ;)
Nice Vampire and hunter!
Thank you! Both have been painted quite some time ago, but got new bases and a rework, highlights etc.
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Deep Ones perhaps. :D :D
I’m really tempted. Has anyone an idea where to get suitable deep ones? They might have a colony at Emden.
This might explain a lot. lol
Sorry for all the flak to the north-Germans, lived for two years in Bremen before I retreated back beyond the Weißwurt-Äquator. ;)
And yes, Oldenburg is a place. shudders
lol lol
Okay, just to make things clear: I’m from the west, Ruhr Area, with Silesean roots, but have been living in the North for quite some time. Since a couple of years, I’m even the curator of the archaeological collection of the state museum, I hope that entitles me to make some fun of my new home.
Btw: Oldenburg only has a Frisian minority. Even today the border between German/Saxon and Frisian territories is marked in Wilhelmshaven. Quite a strange thing to behold. That doesn’t make Oldenburg less a strange place. Until very recently (and in the minds of any inhabitants), it’s still an own country. Oldenburg (city) in Oldenburg (land), goes the voice in the train upon arriving… Actually I love these quirks.
Anyway, I’d really be interested in a few Frisian Deep Ones. Maybe one of the Frisian tea companies in Emden or Leer has made contact or the whalers on the North Frisian islands?
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I’ve finished my goblins…mostly. There are still a few details, highlights, base rims needed.
Here is the whole bunch together. I’ll post details later.
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So. I’ve got a few minutes to spend on LAF while my daughter gets ready for bed watching a bit TV. ;)
The first one is a classic kobold mischief maker. I’m unsure whether to do pupils in the eyes. He looks pretty evil with the white eyes.
Then a typical Heinzelmann. If you offer him a cup of milk every day, he’s a nice guy, helpful in the house and even in the smithy. But since Bonaparte has been trying to suppress rural superstition, the Heinzelmännchen have become quite aggressive and mean. Model from an old Rackham set.
Next one is also from Rackham and will be used along the same lines. This Heinzelmann helped the kind housewives of the villages with firing up their ovens. Now he sets their husbands on fire.
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So, I’m writing up this guy’s background now for the third time because my internet crashes. Maybe my wife forgot to put out the milk for the kobolds?
I’ll make single posts now. Even if it’s annoying, it’s not as annoying as having to retype everything again..,
The next one is the real Rumpelstilzchen, the stealer of babies and master of secrets. One of the leaders of the little folk uprising!
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Then come Hinz and Kunz. What they lack in size, they make up in mischief! Since they aren’t the biggest fellows, one usually climbs upon the other’s shoulders and they hide behind bushes.
Another great old Rackham sculpt.
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Last, but not least, here’s a Klabautermann who’s been shipwrecked at the North Ses coast. I now realize that I need to do some details here..
Again a model from Rackham.
Then we have a lovely old Citadel familiar. I intend to make him a very lonely Celtic spirit who has been left in Northern Germany when the Oppida civilization ended and with it Celtic life. Oh to be in jolly Eire!
Edit: the site crashed again while I was typing this entry. I really need to check the milk…🤔
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Nice Kobolds and Heinzelmännchen. But isn't Rumpelstilzchen dead? Or is this tall-folk propaganda?
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Nice Kobolds and Heinzelmännchen. But isn't Rumpelstilzchen dead? Or is this tall-folk propaganda?
That’s a good point, my friend, but remember that we’re currently in 1805. it was one of the earliest faery tales recorded by Jacob Grimm. He seems to have sent it 1808 to Friedrich Carl von Savigny.
That gives a lot of possibilities to have Rumpelstilzchen in my games AND makes me realize: I need models of the Grimms!
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Looks like Rumpelstilzchen got 3 years left.... lol
But you are right, everybody needs the brothers Grimm in a game of Silver Bayonet. Gotta convert some civilians.
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everybody needs the brothers Grimm in a game of Silver Bayonet.
:o Damn! You're right! :o
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:o Damn! You're right! :o
Think I'll go with the forgotten Brother Grim... There are always three...
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Philipp_Grimm
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Think I'll go with the forgotten Brother Grim... There are always three...
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Philipp_Grimm
A great find! And of course there were tales that never got into print because they were too… strange! The apocryphal faery tales!
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Yesterday I managed to finish these ghosts. The models are from GW and were part of one of these boardgames you can buy in German drugstores (Müller) and book shops.
Say what you want about the Stormcasts and the Age of Sigmar aesthetics, but these models are brilliant!
I painted them extremely simple: spray basecoat (wraithbone something) and a single layer of contrast paint. The bases were also painted with contrast paints, then a few toppings were glued on them (to harmonize them with the other bases, but also to hide the skulls…even here, just too many).
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I agree, the newer undead from GW are awesome. As is your paintjob. 👍
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I agree, the newer undead from GW are awesome. As is your paintjob. 👍
Thank you, sir! The thing is, the models are so good, they basically paint themselves. I’m quite happy at this stage and I didn’t bother for highlights or details. If you took some time you could probably get much better effects, but for bringing a random monster on the table, these are great!
Still looking for deep ones from Emden, though…;)
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I’m really tempted. Has anyone an idea where to get suitable deep ones? They might have a colony at Emden.
Anyway, I’d really be interested in a few Frisian Deep Ones. Maybe one of the Frisian tea companies in Emden or Leer has made contact or the whalers on the North Frisian islands?
This does remind me of one of the stories in Witchfinder from Dark Horse Comics. There's some town sort of governed by fish people.
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Really great work on those ghosts mate! 👍
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Still looking for deep ones from Emden, though…;)
What about Crooked Dice? They have a lot of fishfolk that could be converted to fit the 19th century.
https://crooked-dice.co.uk/product/fishfolk-dockers/
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Cool additions!
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What about Crooked Dice? They have a lot of fishfolk that could be converted to fit the 19th century.
https://crooked-dice.co.uk/product/fishfolk-dockers/
They have some very nice stuff! I’ll see that I get some. Most of the Deep Ones look a bit too modern in my amateurish vision. More 1920 than 1805, but the Deep One Cultists could work very well.
Really great work on those ghosts mate! 👍
Cool additions!
Thanks Rick and Peter! Your kind words are really appreciated!
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Irrlichter are small lights moving around the bog. The Duden assumes they are caused by self-combustion of bog gases. English folklore calls them Will-o’-the-wisp. I’ve been thinking about how to model them since I started this project. And indeed the suggestions came pretty early also by fellow LAFer FreakyFenton.
When I did a little research on my mobile (nothing serious), I found this computer created image of such a light. Look at the greenish hues!
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It’s as good as an archetype as I had wanted, because now I had an idea. And finally a use for a very old model!
In German folklore Irrlichter are malevolent spirits of the dead, so I thought a light green color on a vaguely humanoid model might be a good depiction!
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Now we need the Ghostbusters-Theme played by a classical orchestra...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FgV-ZAyahy0
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Great idea, but that forearm is so thin :o
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Now we need the Ghostbusters-Theme played by a classical orchestra...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FgV-ZAyahy0
Yes. He’s also scheduled to star in my coming 15mm Ghostbusters project;)
Great idea, but that forearm is so thin :o
I think that’s intentional because its body is made up of…air? Or ectoplasm? But I was also wondering if it’s a miscast. Sadly it’s one of those models where I don’t know how I got to have them. My best guess is that originally it was a Greebo 10mm ghost from their undead not-blood bowl range (now oop).
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So, here is my first French model. It’s no one else than Cpt. Eduard de Fronsaque, nephew to the great natural philosopher. Eduard got his orders from Bonaparte himself: it makes the Empire look vulnerable if Friesland and Hanover cannot be pacified. England, Prussia, Austria and Russia are eager to see France bleed, eager to see a sign of Bonaparte just being a normal human.
Fronsaque has a small unit under his command and is determined that he’ll crush the rebellion once and for all.
Great model by the Perry twins. Awesome model.
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Nice choice of model for that sinister look. But I think his coat could use some more highlights because it's such a big part of the model.
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Nice choice of model for that sinister look. But I think his coat could use some more highlights because it's such a big part of the model.
I actually had planned just that. Then I realized the difference between an expert modelled inage of a cloak during a storm and our usual fantasy cloaks that, no matter the weather and wind direction, fly in all crazy sorts. There are really not so many good places for highlights as the cloak is tightly wrapped around the soldier.
When I’ve finisged enough models to play, or possibly earlier, I’ll go over this model again. At the moment I fear, I might ruin it with „fantasy“ highlights.
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While I have found very little time for painting in the last week (not even to reconsider my French officer), I managed to really fast paint an old model (iirc from some KS with tons of plastic goodies, maybe Conan or Mythic Battles): viola my bog hag. A Frisian version of the Irish banshee. Roaming the bogs on foggy days, these creatures lire men into their doom. The cold hands have given quite some fisematenten* to the first voltigeurs who thought it was their lucky day!
*fisematenten, noun, f, pluraletantum, German
assumed loan word said to come from French „visitez ma tente“, said to be a common hook-up phrase for French soldiers hitting on German girls [it‘s probably way more boring and unclear like everything in etymology, but I still love this explanation, the word was still used by mothers when I grew up and my girlfriend at uni knew it quite well].
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I really like the Irrlicht, and a great stand in for Slimer/Spud! lol
The cloaked soldier by the perries is great. I have wondered about getting one of the Retreat from Russia packs as well for some Silver Baonet brigands.
The bog hag is great! And yeah, also agree on the Fisimatenten or Fiesematenten bit. Usually used if some is up to mischief, but I have definitely heard the story multiple times, curiously enough even today in a bookshop about the visitez ma tente origin! :) The Franzosenzeit in Hamburg and the North of Germany is definitely an interesting topic from a linguistic standpoint.
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The Franzosenzeit is also underrated in the changes it brought! I’ve been stranded here in Nienburg where it’s the result of one of Napoleon‘s engineers who liked the place and stayed here that the railroad from Bremen to Hanover was built through Nienburg. And they brought biscuits which you can still buy today lol
Thanks for the nice words. I’ve currently several French from the retreat from Moscow range on my painting desk: they’re the best historicals I’ve ever seen and among the best model soldiers ever. Amazing details and poses. Reminds me often of my student time when I had to deal with Ancient Greek sculpture. Just brilliant, so yeah, definitely worth buying for The Silver Bayonet.
I’ve actually considered doing a second setting (remember I play mostly solo, so for the Brits I have all I need now), where a group of French soldiers fights cosacks, monsters and marauders of the Russian campaign (and the retreat).
I really like the Irrlicht, and a great stand in for Slimer/Spud! lol
The cloaked soldier by the perries is great. I have wondered about getting one of the Retreat from Russia packs as well for some Silver Baonet brigands.
The bog hag is great! And yeah, also agree on the Fisimatenten or Fiesematenten bit. Usually used if some is up to mischief, but I have definitely heard the story multiple times, curiously enough even today in a bookshop about the visitez ma tente origin! :) The Franzosenzeit in Hamburg and the North of Germany is definitely an interesting topic from a linguistic standpoint.