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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Ogrob on May 15, 2016, 03:50:09 PM
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Heya, if you are just now checking out this thread in say 2020, bear with me for a few pages. Photography gets better and better if I may say so myself.
Ahoy folks. I mostly paint Warmachine and Hordes, have amassed some Frostgrave by now, and like everyone else I got inspired by the fantastic Game of Thrones projects going on on this board, so decided to have a go myself. Mostly I'll see if I can keep posting stuff in this thread, I seem to always drop off and get frustrated because I'm a terrible photographer.
With any luck, there will be a Renedra castle on show soon, as well as more Stark and Lannisters.
These are Fireforge Teutons (went for the fur cloaks) with Gripping Beast (and some Frostgrave) heads and shields:
(http://i.imgur.com/KOOONXj.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/ILuSkBi.jpg)
What do you think? The banner pole will get a banner at some point, and I'll fill the units out to work with SAGA.
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Hey Ogrob, welcome to the GoT party! These look mighty fine and looking forward to seeing more.
Like you kitbashing choices and the snow bases!
Hope we can help you keep this project going. May I add this thread to our GoT compendium stickied above?
DG
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Of course! I may end up posting other stuff as well though.
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Oooh nice, they look really northern! Very well done!
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Sweet.
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Yes, welcome to the GoT madness! And very nice work! Good colors, I like how the shields came out especially.
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Lovely, especially those shields.
:-* :-*
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Thanks everyone. Working on some northern knights now to add to the force, and then on to the first batch of Lannisters.
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Keep it up. getting there with my Greyjoys. Damn you all for your inspirational projects (aka 'where's all my money gone').
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I like those. The direwolf shields are great :-*
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Cheers! I feel they look better in real life then in the photo. Considered going back and adding highlights, but also thought that the northmen themselves are probably pretty crappy painters.
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Ha ! I use the same reasoning - "As if the Greyjoys highlight. pfff".
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Almost done assembling. Torches, door, gates and other bits will be stuck on before I paint. It is truly a behemoth.
(http://i.imgur.com/eHv6cA8.jpg)
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I shudder to think how much that must have cost you...
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:o :o :o
Wow, Ogrob! Your house words must be "Go Big or Go Home".
Seriously impressed and eager to see it painted!
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I shudder to think how much that must have cost you...
About 1/3rd of what the Warlord Games castle could? lol
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Yeah, probably. But looking at the Renedra site, the large castle set is 290 pounds, which would be close to 600.00 for me. Not counting the shipping.
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I don't have kids, so it's alright. lol
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First tower painted. Even with carefully testing techniques, the painting went much quicker than the assembly.
(http://i.imgur.com/KxQPWH9.jpg)
Oh, and there's a little hint at what's coming next in that second picture.
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Nicely done!! Love the detailing of the torch light.
House Umber coming into view! Looking forward to more of those.
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Nice work.
The torch backglow is a nice touch.
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That castle does look like it has potential.
In fact, I would really like to work on it myself, but space restraints and common sense will prevail.
I look forward to seeing what you do with the rest of it, though.
8) 8)
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Sometimes common sense goes out the window ;)
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Very nicely done :)
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Going to have to get into the property game and buy me a castle. The kit, not a real one mind. But then again I'm in a high paid job, single and have no kids. I could always sublet. Turn a few dungeons into shops and a Starbucks. I think the kit would be less maintenance though. Nice work. Keep it coming.
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That tower looks very nice. Sigh, I think I will be taking the plunge soon as well. Though I will be chopping it up for towers, fortified manors, and gatehouses...
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Very nice GoT start and the castle is very very well painted indeed
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Some armoured Northernes:
(http://i.imgur.com/QCVaBDu.jpg)
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Those look great! :) Did you use transfers for the shield designs, or paint them freehand?
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Freehand. Pretty happy with the bears on the Mormonts.
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They are very nice. And good kit bashing to build the figures - I spot lots of different manufacturers in them.
I really like the snow effect - looks like snow, which isn't always the case with basing.
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Very nice! I especially like the young Mormount lad in the front.
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Just be careful of that first step out the door lol
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Those are excellent. Great assembly and painting. Loads of character :-*
We need to get this thread of yours added to the LAF GOT compendium thread!
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Nice!
Very nice! I especially like the young Mormount lad in the front.
Could that perhaps not be a 'lad', but one of the Mormont ladies? Perhaps Dacey Mormont, who died at the Red Wedding.
(http://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/8/88/Dacy_Mormont.jpg)
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Nice!
Could that perhaps not be a 'lad', but one of the Mormont ladies? Perhaps Dacey Mormont, who died at the Red Wedding.
(http://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/8/88/Dacy_Mormont.jpg)
We have a winner!
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Are they all named characters? They look splendid either way!
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Great thread :)
cheers
James
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Are they all named characters? They look splendid either way!
Just the Mormonts for now. The blonde chap on the left does look a lot like my mental image of Ned, but I'll probably do some proper Stark warlord models once I get my SAGA rules.
Those are excellent. Great assembly and painting. Loads of character :-*
We need to get this thread of yours added to the LAF GOT compendium thread!
Thanks! Your thread was my main inspiration, both for kitbashing in general when I picked up Frostgrave, and then for starting this project.
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We need to get this thread of yours added to the LAF GOT compendium thread!
Yea, verily and forsooth! (Done)
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Making some progress:
(http://i.imgur.com/8xxrcwI.jpg)
This is not the configuration it will be in later, just what happened to be done first.
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That is going to be one awesome castle.
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Yep, this is looking properly good.
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:-* :-*
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Man, for my next batch of minis I must remember to paint before I glue their shields on. Progress is quite slow for among other things this reason.
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No progress on the castle I'm afraid. It's been to hot to prime, can't have the door closed or we'd expire from heat, and can't have it ope because spray fumes are yucky.
I did pretty much finish the first batch of Lannisters though! These are WOTR Men at arms and Fireforge Teutons. I'll be using more Perry minis for the rest of the force, but I do quite like the look of the Crusader figures. My plan is spears over pikes for all my soldiers, as I feel GRRM only mentions pikes in the context of heads and mounted them upon things. Lannisters get Crossbows while the Northern houses will get Longbowmen. Lannisters will have a lot more plate among their Knights and leaders then the Northmen, who are 50/50 plate and chainmail at the moment.
Jaime Lannister, Illyn Paine, a banner bearer and a random Knight:
(http://i.imgur.com/wsXokJI.jpg)
Some Lannister Guards (maybe the bastard what stabbed Ned in the leg):
(http://i.imgur.com/GyBdZmD.jpg)
And some cowards:
(http://i.imgur.com/DY1m7GM.jpg)
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Ohhh, I like them! They can fight along side Ser Wigglesbotham any time!
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nice Lannisters
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Thanks guys! Freehanding lions was stupid hard, so I think most of my Lannister knights are going to be plate and two-handed weapon types to save me the effort. It's either that or I need to start looking into transfers.
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Excellent. Like those 8)
The banner bearer in particular is a very nice mash-up :)
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Excellent. Like those 8)
The banner bearer in particular is a very nice mash-up :)
My own favorite is actually Illyn Payne. I love that brutal looking greatsword from Fireforge.
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Nervermind this one
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Back to the sort of thing people seem to find more interesting then, some Northern levies (or Frostgrave soldiers). Not happy with the photos, but they are in focus at least,
(http://i.imgur.com/WES4KP1.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/88IUELo.jpg)
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Oehh Nice!!
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Very Cool Work!
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So four days before I headed far north to see my folks and old friends my order finally turned up. Warlord Celts, both Perry Agincourt sets and some Frostgrave soldiers to round out. Not to be dismayed, I glued together a bunch of minis and packed a travel kit. Naturally the northern summer sun also allows me better photos then the crap light in the south.
First up, eight Stark archers. These will be Warrior level in Saga, which I finally got the rulebook for. Parts from all over.
(http://i.imgur.com/JgQXujk.jpg)
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Nice mash-ups 8)
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Thank, nothing you haven't done before though.
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very nice Stark figures :-*
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Some more guys, some more shaky photography. Here are my eight Lannister knights, 2 pts of Hearthguard for SAGA. I'll add tufts, flowers and other things to the bases when I get back to my stuff. The Lannisters are always prancing about in the meadows.
(http://i.imgur.com/0trmctI.jpg)
And here's some extra soldiers to complete the groups shown before. I'll have 8 soldiers with spears and 8 with crossbows. The W&N s7 I packed isn't quite as pristine as I had hoped, so the free hand lions on the shields will have to wait.
(http://i.imgur.com/9xkalha.jpg)
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So after I got these pics taken I couldn't resist lining up the whole army as it stands and snapping a picture. This is 4 pts for SAGA. Next up is finishing up my Starks for which I have 5 pts built and mostly painted.
(http://i.imgur.com/H3gYnys.jpg)
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Good stuff. I have a batch of these on the go myself at the moment :)
Yours look great. The force is building! Satisfying, isn't it ;)
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Good stuff. I have a batch of these on the go myself at the moment :)
Yours look great. The force is building! Satisfying, isn't it ;)
It is indeed. Need to get the castle done so I can stage a bit of a siege.
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Time for some Starks. Got a lot done yesterday, wrapping up the Warlord (probably Robb Stark and Gray Wind, build shamelessly ripped from Captain Blood) and the last few men for both Warrior units.
(http://i.imgur.com/SiQKoJC.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/rdAueWZ.jpg)
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very very nice indeed
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Thanks mate. Was quite surprised to see my thread pop up after a few weeks. There are also Lannisters on the bottom of pg4 if you haven't seen 'em.
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That looks terrific!
I feel inspired!
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Whoops..forgot to react earlier..
Real good-looking load of Starks! I like the roundshields, both the freehand and the idea of giving fhe Starks round shields!
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Whoops..forgot to react earlier..
Real good-looking load of Starks! I like the roundshields, both the freehand and the idea of giving fhe Starks round shields!
Thanks! It seemed appropriate to me. Also, I didn't have enough Fireforge shields for both forces ;)
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It's late, the pictures are terrible, but I just had to show off this thing. Finally got around to spraying the last tower yesterday, and wrapped up the paintjob today. It looks pretty dang imposing IRL. I don't even have a room large enough to take scenic photos of the whole thing. Still, I'll try to take better pictures tomorrow.
(http://i.imgur.com/o64BsnN.jpg)
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Looks suitably imposing. Good stuff.
Now just a few buildings to go inside....
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Yeah, it needs something. I want to have a go at building a keep for it, but there is just way to many other things to do first.
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That does look rather impressive 8) 8)
Question is, are you going to build a dedicated base for it with a moat and everything :D
cheers
James
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Tempting as that sounds, it will have to wait until I have a house to put it all in. :D
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lol Fair enough :)
cheers
James
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Well done!!
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Had a game of SAGA the other day, where my Starks were slaughtered by some strange looking folk.
(http://i.imgur.com/oQm1KG3.jpg)
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So I've been a bad Stark and not taken pictures of my miniatures for quite some time. There's a SAGA Age of the Wolf campaign on, and I have gotten some painting done.
So here's all the new stuff for the last quarter of 2016.
Stark Archers now number 25, two full units of Levy plus an extra Bard the Bowman from the Hobbit.
(http://i.imgur.com/Mo8O4an.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/o3dVucN.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/VVxtnKL.jpg)
I made some Stark men at arms to round out the numbers, these will be lesser nobles, knights, cousins in direct service to House Stark:
(http://i.imgur.com/mOBqVfT.jpg)
Here is Ser Helman Tallhart, who is slain at Duskendale.
(http://i.imgur.com/PxASdHn.jpg)
And a Manderly, probably Ser Wendel. I decided to simplify their arms.
(http://i.imgur.com/fJWU431.jpg)
So that's what my Stark force looks like right now. I play them as Angle-Danes in SAGA right now, and probably won't need all that many more models before the campaign is over. Later I will most likely make some mounted models so that I can play them as Rus Princes, which have a very nice winter themed battleboard.
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Great stuff :D
cheers
James
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That's a lot of progress. Very well done. 8)
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very nice indeed
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Lovely kitbashes and painting. thanks for sharing
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That's a lot of bowmen :o
Nice modelling and painting :)
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Thanks everyone! Nothing gets me painting quite as well as having games coming up.
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Awesome!
Ser Wendel is fantastic, full of character, just right I think!
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Had another game today. The archers did absolutely nothing this time around, after having been heroes in my last couple of games. Still won as my household men at arms cut down the enemy Warlord.
(http://i.imgur.com/lkCIKoa.jpg)
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good looking game
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We're back, with a ton of stuff! I've been really enjoying SAGA, and turns out an old gaming buddy had also quite enjoyed the test game we had last year so I got to planning a bit more Game of Thrones gaming stuff. He digs the Lannisters, so was quote keen on captaining them in some games. We went over the SAGA books and settled in the end not on Normas or Franks, but Anglo Saxons, who's schtick is to field massive units. So now I need a whole bunch of Lannister spearmen and knights. Well, the Spearmen are kitbashed at least. Knights will follow.
(http://i.imgur.com/WDnkEgo.jpg)
It was also pointed out to me that Russians have some very winter themed abilities in SAGA, and Rus Princes looked like they could be fun to play. For this I need some Northern horse including a Warlord. The Rus have a pretty awesome special unit of heavy cav that also has ranged weapons, so that's why I put bows and crossbows on a few of these. Could only scrounge a few separate longbows from the bitbox, or I would probably have equipped all of them the same way.
(http://i.imgur.com/FO8WtQW.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Kkdynpt.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/xCMf9Ga.jpg)
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Forgot to say the Spearmen will get kite shield and the Horse will get heaters.
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They're looking pretty good. Looking forward to seeing some paint on them!
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Some very nice creations there :)
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Thanks fellas. Looking forward to getting them painted up, just need to get a few other things finished and away from the painting table first.
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I have more things to show! I bought Claymore Castings great men at arms a little while back, and here are a few lightly converted to fill the ranks of my Starks. Some of my fully armored models felt a bit boring, I wanted a bit more character. These guys represent a Stark retainer, a Hornwood man who has found a very large axe, and Morgan "Middle" Liddle of the highland clans.
(http://i.imgur.com/xDFNFLH.jpg)
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Ooohh this all looks very promising! I like the characterfull trio you painted! They add some extra vibe in between the troops!
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Thanks mate. Really recommend Claymore Castings. Just slightly shorter compared to Perry 100 year war, great way to add some more variety to the fully plate clad Perrys for Game of Thrones.
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Wow :-*
They look brilliant. Lovely characters. Your collection is coming on really well 8)
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Hey guys!
Today I have for you some WIP terrain. I've been working on terrain for a fishing village, something that can stand in for Salt Pans, Stony Shore or any of the many other coastal locations mentioned. Today I layed out some more or less painted buildings and other terrain pieces along with my big harbor piece to see what it would look like. I only own Frostgrave-style mats at the moment, but will get something a little more neutral to feature this terrain on later.
What do you think? What would you like to see added? I'm thinking market stalls, carts and civilians (probably Perrys).
(http://i.imgur.com/7B0aWN8.jpg)
Tower from Renedra
Buildings from GW, Laketown Houses
Ship from Zvezda, 1/72 Thomas Cog
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Looking good already!!
I think some generic fences, little walls and the like would help to make it a bit less neat looking :)
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Cool! The Zvezda cog looks biigger than I thought it was.
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I think you need some small animal pens/vegatable gardens. They add character, and obstacles in the way of fences.
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I think you need some small animal pens/vegatable gardens. They add character, and obstacles in the way of fences.
I already have some pigs and piglets. Can't decide if I want to buy wattle fence or make my own round pole fences.
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very nice indeed ! You would need some farm animals and some village inhabitants for looting games!
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The knights are done! Except of course the little things you notice when taking pictures. So here we have an 8 man unit and a mounted Warlord for SAGA.
Robb Stark was done to match my foot version of the same character. He is accompanied by various named and unnamed mounted warriors. We have young Lord Hornwood, whose death creates a lot of problems in the north, Lord Tallheart who matches his foot version as well. Then we have a younger Lady Mormont from Bad Squiddo, and one of the Manderlys. This one might be Ser Willas. A couple of Stark men at arms accompany them into battle.
What do you think of photos with a background like this? I never could seem to get a good color balance on my white or black backgrounds.
(http://i.imgur.com/kdgy8ya.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/migd6eG.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/I40iamt.jpg)
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Impressive looking bunch! I like your heraldry, especially the Hornwood!
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Great stuff. Really coming together 8)
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Loving it!
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Thanks guys! I have quite a few Starks now, almost 65 I believe. It is time to start working on Lannisters again so I can field a proper battle. They will field mostly spearmen and cavalry, possibly some crossbows.
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First time ever that Photobucket has caused me any real issue. Re-uploaded the photos on pg 7.
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I have slowly been working on my Lannisters as well, but these feel a bit more like chore than joy. As a result, there is a lot of quick painting and more cut corners than my usual fare. They don't hold up very well to individual photography but I felt like I should at least show my progress so I took some army shots.
(http://i.imgur.com/OMWxZVT.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/193OrHX.jpg)
Hope you enjoy, even if I am clearly to lazy to paint lions on their shields ;)
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:o :o :o
Very nice mate, looking forward to see a battle Stark vs. Lannister!
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Great stuff. Looks like a good set up with the Renedra towers...
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very nice indeed
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Very nice painting and converting. It is always refreshing when there are shots of a game being undertaken as well. Looks great! It looks like SAGA is a good option for skirmishing Game of Thrones...
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Sorry for lack of new content, but I've rebuilt the thread since photobucket crapped out on us.
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Nothing new painted really, but took some new photos today. Here is the whole Stark army assembled. Enjoy!
(http://i.imgur.com/HmOqsdA.jpg)
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Splendid collection. Winter is coming! :-*
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Great stuff :)
Those GW Lake Town houses seem to fit rather well also.
cheers
James
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Great stuff :)
Those GW Lake Town houses seem to fit rather well also.
cheers
James
Thanks. I really like them, they also came with a whole bunch of nice fishing village bits and bobs. I've got a whole bunch of civilian/village type stuff built, and working on a bit more.
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Really impressive! And not just the figures, but the castle! the ship! the village (with Lake-town houses)!
You said you didn't want to paint lions, but aren't there a few lions on there anyway? I'm sure I can see them - in the group on the right, there are at least three.
I like that the Stark force seems to be mostly based in snow... is there some reason why not all the figures are going with the snow theme?
Another question... did you happen to do the *interiors* of the lake-town houses? I recently talked about doing that, in another thread, but it was rather a lot of work for a very limited play area.
You can see that here: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=102375.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=102375.0)
Really impressive decors. I'm still using Dwarven Forge dungeon tiles (piled up 3 or 4 high) when I need to represent a castle on the gaming table. Soon I hope to have a setup to rival yours.
Winter is coming!
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Really impressive! And not just the figures, but the castle! the ship! the village (with Lake-town houses)!
You said you didn't want to paint lions, but aren't there a few lions on there anyway? I'm sure I can see them - in the group on the right, there are at least three.
I like that the Stark force seems to be mostly based in snow... is there some reason why not all the figures are going with the snow theme?
Another question... did you happen to do the *interiors* of the lake-town houses? I recently talked about doing that, in another thread, but it was rather a lot of work for a very limited play area.
You can see that here: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=102375.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=102375.0)
Really impressive decors. I'm still using Dwarven Forge dungeon tiles (piled up 3 or 4 high) when I need to represent a castle on the gaming table. Soon I hope to have a setup to rival yours.
Winter is coming!
The answers to your first two questions are lazyness. I painted lions on the first four Lannister soldiers, but then when it came time to do the rest my brush was a bit worn, and I haven't gone back to add lions now that I have a new s7. Snow is pretty much the same story, I haven't added it because I've not wanted to mix up snow and glue for just one mini. Then I've just failed to go back and fix.
I didn't do interiors, it seems to be too much work. My Renedra house on the right has a loose roof that will enable me to go back and decorate. I did see your thread, there was some really impressive stuff there!
Since I'm here posting anyway, have some village images:
(http://i.imgur.com/gbYj6HJ.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/B3jlfWA.jpg)
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What a village! Where do I begin? The wonderful wagons? The barrels?
No, I think my favorite is the seated scribe and his desk. Just brilliant! Who makes that guy?
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What a village! Where do I begin? The wonderful wagons? The barrels?
No, I think my favorite is the seated scribe and his desk. Just brilliant! Who makes that guy?
Dark Sword, from their Game of Thrones range. I only got him by accident from North Star as they sold off the range in heavily discounted lucky bags.
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wonderful
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I have made things! Eight knights who will join my Lannisters. Made from a mix of Steel Fist, Claymore Castings, Perry and Fireforge bits. Still need to polish some of the green stuff work, but I was keen to show these off. I also got a light box that seems to work really well.
(https://i.imgur.com/2ILx2CI.jpg)
Guy on the left is almost all Perry, with head and cloak from Fireforge Templar Knights. Right is a Steel Fist horse, with Perry MAA wearing a Fireforge cloak.
(https://i.imgur.com/5aJLPHD.jpg)
Left is Claymore horse ridden by Perry MAA, right is Steel Fist knight on Steel Fist horse with just a plastic lance swap.
(https://i.imgur.com/p4oOwKD.jpg)
Left is Fireforge horse with Perry head, ridden by Perry MAA and right is Fireforge horse with GW Brettonian head ridden by a Claymore french knight with a plastic banner pole.
(https://i.imgur.com/4GjNNMa.jpg)
Left is a Claymore rider (may redo that beard, it is dreadful) riding a Fireforge Horse with a Perry head. Right is a Claymore horse ridden by a Perry MAA. Head from the foot MAA.
(https://i.imgur.com/niQSrLj.jpg)
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Just went through the whole thread, great stuff in here! Can't go back to the pages containing the Renedra castle though; that thing looks far too tempting...
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Thanks mate! That does remind me, I need to get some ruined wall sections....
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Took the beard off and that guy will now be Ser Garth Greenfield. Built this new version of Daven Lannister using another Claymore Horse and by combining a Perry helmet with the beard from a Frostgrave Barbarian. What do you guys think?
(https://i.imgur.com/FdvD66z.jpg)
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Ooooh - those look lovely :-*
Real heavies. Great kitbashing and selection of miniatures 8)
Looking forward to seeing those painted.
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He looks very heroic, like a true Westerosi general!!
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Thank you both. Having a lot of fun bringing out all my bright primary colours to lay down the base coats for nine different sets of heraldry at the moment.
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That beard and head combo is very natural- excellent work.
Those Claymore horses are very nice; I especially like the chain barding.
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Fantastic and creative ideas ... very nice!
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Thank you both. I ordered the Claymore minis eyeing their lovely dynamic riders, but ended up loving the horses far more.
Hopefully I can show something painted by next weekend.
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just really nice conversions especially the last one !
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Some great builds there, very dynamic poses
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And now they have been painted! Thanks for all the comments on the builds, really helps painting motivation.
Starting from back left we have:
Ser Kennos of Kayce (Perry MAA on Claymore horse)
Ser Addam Marbrand (Steel Fist MAA on Steel Fist horse)
Ser Flement Brax (Perry MAA on Fireforge caparisoned horse with Perry armored horse head)
Ser Garth Greenfield (Claymore Hotspur on Fireforge caparisoned horse with Perry horse head)
Ser Phillip Foote, Lord of Nightsong (Perry MAA on Claymore Hotspur's horse)
Unnamed House Jast Knight (Perry MAA with Fireforge Templat head on Perry horse)
Ser Lyle Crakehall, Stronboar (Perry MAA on Steelfist horse)
Ser Devan Lannister (Perry MAA, Frostgrave Barbarian beard, Claymore John the Blind's horse)
Ser Jon Betley (Claymore rider on Fireforge horse with GW Bretonnia armoured horse head)
(https://i.imgur.com/BS85E1X.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/OkEoMsN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pWDz6jN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/YSj287B.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Jo2wzG0.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/XZh1Rgz.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3eJpA4W.jpg)
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The bright colors really help to give 'm that Westerosi feeling! Great job!
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Those look great :-*
Lovely job on the groundwork too. What a tremendous company of knights 8)
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Thank you both. With regard to the bases I just find that with larger bases it's easier to get those larger grains in the sandmix to stick.
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Today's post will be this House Glover knight. This guy has been WIP for ever. It's just a straightfoward Claymore French Man-at-arms with an old shield from the bitbox and some extra fur. Pictures came out a little over exposed, but good enough to post.
(https://i.imgur.com/7PIsgXu.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/b34dItj.jpg)
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Great knights, foot and mounted. Thanks for sharing:)
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Great stuff all around....top work.
DV....:)
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Tough looking Glover knight! The shield looks great :)
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I hold those Claymore close to my heart. Lovely miniatures with great dynamic poses. I have a set of Glovers myself, they man my siege engines.
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Oh yeah, the Claymore models tempted me away from the initial plan of all plastic.
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Claymore Castings are up there next to the best of the Perry brothers' work and Conquest Miniatures as the nicest 28's I've seen.
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Wasn't planning on anything in particular, but I found myself building these two just for the fun of it. They're not destined to be anything in particular, I have neither game nor fluff related use planned for them. I guess they are some form of foragers, mercenaries, hunters, harriers or similar scum of the earth.
Fireforge bodies with Perry English arms.
(https://i.imgur.com/ScLVOS6.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/bU3a8M1.jpg)
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Scum of the earth. Always useful :)
Nice creations there.
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Thanks. I am kind of working on left overs now, need to finish some other projects so I can justify buying more historical miniatures.
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Nice! they look like there ready to cause some form of mayhem in Westeros. I like the mix of kits used to make them. 8)
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Those mounted archers are very nice, very dynamic.
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So much good Game of Thrones stuff on this Forum. How have I missed it!!!
Lovely work on the archers and the knights posted previously were beautiful.
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I don't know how you can miss it, there's even a stickied compilation thread!
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The two new build mounted archers would look great as part of Beric Dondarrions brotherhood without banners, great lokking mini's
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Made some trees. Woodland Scenics for the normal ones, Citadel Wood for the Weirwoods.
Lord Commander snow visits the godswoods before a battle.
(https://i.imgur.com/Aj1tQun.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/izlodHN.jpg)
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Wow. Those are great :-*
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Very inspiring!
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Thanks guys! The citadel trees make excellent weirwoods, and had good surfaces to add simple faces to. I think a lot of people just don't assemble all the extra branches and canopy, leaving some very dull trees.
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Thanks guys! The citadel trees make excellent weirwoods, and had good surfaces to add simple faces to. I think a lot of people just don't assemble all the extra branches and canopy, leaving some very dull trees.
Yeah it has seemed a little wild to me how those trees vary from thread to thread, some look great and others look worse than Playmobil trees. lol
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With news of Oathmark from North Star, I figured I could add some more soldiers to my Stark forces. I built four plastics from the few bits and bodies I have left and found a few suitable metal miniatures as well.
The two on the left will be men in service to House Mormont, they are heavily dressed and wear mail armor. The two on the right will come from the highland clans, probably come down together with Morgan Liddle who I've shown before.
(https://i.imgur.com/e9VtVET.jpg)
The metals are to Red Box with Gripping Beast saxon bits, Bad Squiddo's Lagertha and a Claymore man at arms with a new (or old fashioned...) shield. Haven't decided what house they will come from yet. Suggestions?
(https://i.imgur.com/gZsYNIi.jpg)
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Some jolly nice creations there 8)
The metal bodies do look a wee bit skinny next to the uber-bulky Frostgrave plastic bodies though... :?
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Yes, but they are taller, so it'll even out. :D
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The metal bodies do look a wee bit skinny next to the uber-bulky Frostgrave plastic bodies though... :?
I'll forgive it for Claymore. Not sure I've seen a more beautiful line of figures than Claymore medievals. Maybe Conquest Native Americans, but that's about it...
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Yes, but they are taller, so it'll even out. :D
Big head!
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Any suggestions which northern houses the last soldiers should be from?
Anyway, next item is here and complete. I was already in on the Bruegelburg kickstarter from Lead Adventure when they showed this miniature, and I just felt it had the exact feel of Lord Tywin. The details don't match either book or series, but he just feels right. What do you think?
(https://i.imgur.com/coI3vYX.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/aieutP9.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/kYZvuw9.jpg)
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Splendid job. Nothing like how I imagine him, I must confess, but I can see why you’ve gone for this interpretation... The very picture of a super wealthy, renaissance prince of a somewhat Teutonic persuasion :-*
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As the good captain said, not tbe way I envisaged Lord Tywin but he is magnificent and has all the power and gold of Castley Rock oozing from him. I love the goldem whiskers, which are actually part of his description in the book, and the fabulous armour on the house again displays the wealth of the Lannisters. A superb top baddie!! :)
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How about house Reed, the Cranogmen, all you would have to do is change the spears to tridents and they would look great especially as they are supposed to be smaller than other Northerners, these figures would fit in really well lime that.
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That Tywin is a lovely figure! I can totally see why you made that little chap your Tywin!
How about house Reed, the Cranogmen, all you would have to do is change the spears to tridents and they would look great especially as they are supposed to be smaller than other Northerners, these figures would fit in really well lime that.
I 2nd this!! :)
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Thanks guys, will have to think about Crannogmen.
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Not at all how I pictured him, but I enjoy seeing other people's vision of the series, and you've certainly done the sculpt justice with that paintjob. :)
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I am liking the use of a foot MAA bearing the flag alongside the CiC. :D
For what it's worth I'm thinking of using tridents and partisans culled from GW Mordor orcs for my Manderly contingent. They'd do equally well for Crannogmen's fishing and frog spears I reckon... ;)
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I might start by having a closer look at my Ghost Archipelago plastic crew. Only problem is everything delivered at once, and not I have the rest of the Bruegelburg KS as well as 40 islanders, some boats, dinosaurs and other monsters from GA calling for my attention.
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Photograph! Waiting through the Gothenburg winter for priming weather, but I thought I'd take a WIP image anyway. These need matt varnish and bases to be done, maybe eyes if I feel up to it.
Lady Lyanna Stark leads a patrol of Glover, Mormont, Cerwyn and hill clan men. I enjoyed the variety of arms and armor on these.
(https://i.imgur.com/FnTR0qB.jpg)
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It's alive! Been playing other games, so this has been a little on the back burner but I do have some progress to show you.
A couple of pages back I showed some mounted archers, and they inspired me to get some more cavalry. A box of Perry Light Cavalry and a box of Gripping Beast Dark Age cavalry turned up just before I moved house in March, and last week I sat down and kitbashed some models. I ended up making two units of eight, one of melee and one of horse archers. Parts from Perry, Gripping Beast, Fireforge, North Star and Bad Squiddo. The lone metal head is from Red Box.
(https://i.imgur.com/Cq2qcWd.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Sd06yd7.jpg)
The models are quite varied in look, but I have something of a plan. Some of the models, seen below, come from Northern Houses, with the weapons and helmets of professional soldiers:
(https://i.imgur.com/UGIKFIN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/at7iqJt.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/lxD8jSN.jpg)
Some represent more southern Houses, White Harbor or Riverlands men, in modern city bought clothes with slightly fancier equipment:
(https://i.imgur.com/foYuUHf.jpg)
And finally some are far Northern hunters and highlanders, clansmen on shaggy horses who have been pressed into service to forage and skirmish:
(https://i.imgur.com/qoQvtsg.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/kEy3lJZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ammmWb2.jpg)
What do you think?
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I think they'll do the job nicely :)
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You’ve been busy! Some nice creations there :)
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Thank you both. We'll have to see how long it takes to get them painted....
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Absolutely amazing paint work!!….. :-*
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Got my Oathmark Human boxes the other day, and decided it was time to revive this project. When I started out I had SAGA in mind, but now I have a proper historical army for SAGA age of vikings, and more Starks than SAGA really supports. So what to do? Well, there is this Oathmark thing coming out that should be good.
So I've started rebasing and adding to my units to make a mass battle force from the Starks. Below are my first kitbashes using Oathmark plastics, including some Elf spear arms, combined with the usual Perry and Gripping Beast bits and pices. Really like the Oathmark humans, a little short next to Perry but full of character.
(https://i.imgur.com/Y2iDWT8.jpg)
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The Oathmark and Perry kitbashes above will be mixed with Claymore Castings metals to make larger units. While working on the spearmen, I've also had a few other models on the go. This Claymore French Man at Arms got a Conquest archer head, and to me the model just screams Ned Stark. I gave him a grey-streaked beard as per the book, and just love how this turned out. What do you think?
(https://i.imgur.com/x8HMsFd.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/nDqSuYU.jpg)
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Great job on the kitbashing and conversions!
Are the brigandine bodies for the infantry from the Oathmark kit? They look really suited to sellswords, Northmen and Night's Watch types!
Excellent work on the Ned figure too!
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Great job on the kitbashing and conversions!
Are the brigandine bodies for the infantry from the Oathmark kit? They look really suited to sellswords, Northmen and Night's Watch types!
Excellent work on the Ned figure too!
Thank you. Yes, they are. It's a lovely kit, even if the spears are a bit crude. Front left on that photo is a straight build from the kit, but I swapped the spear. Centre left is an Oathmark human body with Oathmark Elf arms and a Perry head.
There are a couple of lovely hooded heads in the kit that would make for great Night's Watch rangers or outlaws of some kind.
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Ned Stark is magnificent, really looks the part and your kit bashing for the northerners is cracking stuff, will look forward to seeing these guys painted up. Great thread, goid tobsee GOT hasn't died because its off the box.
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Lovely work on Ned Stark
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Together with Ned I've painted up a bunch of the new Oathmark kitbashes, Claymore metals and a couple more Perry bodies sprinkled in. First unit of 25 spearmen is now ready, and I've got a few other models done too. Still a lot of models on the painting table, and more coming. What do you think about the heater shields with transfers? I'm not completely sure on them....
(https://i.imgur.com/vwsV5LM.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/k5t169k.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ujMRf6J.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Qi530gV.jpg)
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I actually like the heater shields as you've done them where are the transfers from.
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Some excellent creations there :)
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Lovely work.
The transfers look good as well...not sure I’d fancy painting that many shields.
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Thank you all! I will stick with the transfers, I just wish they were as good as the Little Big Men studios I got for my Saga irish.
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I agree, the transfers look good on the shields. I like the grey -> white gradient you've got on the shields too!
Silly question, but are the hoods/collars/fur cloaks on some of the infantry sculpted, or part of the plastic bodies?
Keep up the good work!
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I agree, the transfers look good on the shields. I like the grey -> white gradient you've got on the shields too!
Silly question, but are the hoods/collars/fur cloaks on some of the infantry sculpted, or part of the plastic bodies?
Keep up the good work!
Thank you! The fur is sculpted. The oathmark bodies have quite distinct hoods/collars/cloaks on them though and there are nice hooded heads in the set.
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White Harbor and House Manderly worship the Seven, not the Old Gods, because of their heritage in the Riverlands. A rich town, it can afford to field heavily armoured knights in battle. They are famously betrayed by Ramsay Bolton at the Battle of Winterfell, while the sons of Lord Wendel fare poorly, being captured and killed during the events of the Red Wedding.
Either way, I have been eying the Knights of Dol Amroth from GW for an alternative source of knight parts. Perry MAA are nice, but to Late Medieval for my vision, while Fireforge are useful but lacking in several areas. I love Claymore's offerings, but they have a single set of metal Crecy-era knights. Taking the opportunity to get some new terrain I had been looking at from GW, I finally got this kit which is only available on direct order. Arrived yesterday and of course I spent all day today building.
Six knights mostly made from Dol Amroth parts with Perry heads (I randomly picked a Sallet, and stuck with it through the unit), and Perry lances. A Claymore knight to round out numbers alongside a trumpeter from Perry Light Cavalry.
The leader is Ser Wyllis Manderly, made from a Perry body (Duc de Orleans maybe, from the Joan of Arc set). The pregnency frock style of surcoat does the job at suggesting a somewhat more portly constitution in my opinion. Bare head from Dol Amroth set with obligatory mustache.
What do you guys think?
(https://i.imgur.com/zlwBUVG.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/EWYC1AL.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/IIn7aEf.jpg)'
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Nice tache!
They certainly look the part
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Excellent use of those Swan Knights - with regular hats, they suddenly fit fantastically well as ornate but realistically equipped figures.
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Thank you both! Pretty happy with these, already started painting them.
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She's been on my painting desk for a long time, but finally finished! Brienne is of course one of the must have characters from the series. I've chosen to depict her with the shield of Ser Duncan the Tall, which she takes for herself when she goes of on her solo adventure later in the books. The model is Perry's Joan of Arc, a simple parallel and pretty nice miniature. Just added a shield to get that Westeros feel.
(https://i.imgur.com/znF2jE7.jpg)
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Looks good! :)
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Also found the time today to finish my White Harbor knights. There's no way I'm free handing a Merman, so their arms are a trident held by a green hand, referencing the knightly order of the Green Hand which pre-dates the Targaryen conquest.
Again, parts are GW Dol Amroth knights, Perry mounted MAA and a metal character from their Joan of Arc set, and a Claymore castings knight from the John the Blind set. I've bashed together my last John the Blind knight and put him on a plastic horse to round the unit out to ten, but for now enjoy these. What do you think?
(https://i.imgur.com/0ijmmBm.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/SQAJdxH.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ouHKM7u.jpg)
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Really liking those White Harbour knights! The Perry heads fit in really well with the bodies!
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Those knights are fantastic - great work! :)
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Those knights are great...I’m jealous of the bases as well
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Really nice minis!
I saw your Brienne, which is great! Maybe you have seen mine? If not:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=55740.msg1058656#msg1058656
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Thank you all, really pleased with these.
Gandalf, love the shield work on yours!
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And a tenth White Harbor knight complete. This guy is a real frankenstein's, with a body and head from Claymore John the Blind, the lance arm from a Dol Amroth knight holding a Perry lance and a 1st Corps shield, riding a Fireforge horse with a Perry head.
(https://i.imgur.com/Bv0UNoq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/iMCkSuX.jpg)
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Also found the time to finish a few more soldiers this weekend. Really struggled with getting the camera to focus, this is as good as I got it. My lightbox is ok for individual figures, but there seems to be insufficient light for units, and I should maybe try to get a macro lens for the camera because it does not like macro photography.
Anyway, the usual mix of Perry, Fireforge, Oathmark and Claymore Castings models. Decided to go for a variety of shield types. I imagine these soldiers are not always soldiering, and so use whatever equipment they are given. What do you guys think about these?
(https://i.imgur.com/Z5ZeVy3.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/gVlV9Ts.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8n9GtZq.jpg)
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I think the variety of kit/shields works really well. I always imagine the Starks as a bit more “practical” than some of the other Houses....none of your fancy parade armour in the North :D
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I really like that 2nd from right head in the last photo. May need that for my own Westerosi.
Great painting! Very convincing Stark men!
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I really like that 2nd from right head in the last photo. May need that for my own Westerosi.
Great painting! Very convincing Stark men!
He's a single piece metal model from Claymore Castings, absolutely lovely sculpts. Hadn't thought about it, but his helment's pretty close to the TV-series Starks, isnt it?
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It is! Although for me it has more an Arryn vibe for some reason.
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First unit of the year! Two rebased, one freshly painted Dire Wolf. The two gray are Otherworld minis, Ghost is a Bad Squiddo Fenris. Based for Oathmark or 9th Age.
(https://i.imgur.com/SmiAhV8.jpg)
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And I finished another unit of Stark soliders. Some kind of billmen, axemen or men-at-arms (if you use Fantasy terminology). Some Oathmark bodies, some of the usual Perry conversions, and quite a lot of Claymore Castings excellent new-ish French infantry. The leader of the unit is a Hasslefree model from their kickstarter last year.
(https://i.imgur.com/hdPkzCZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3dykGAD.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/87DpKiJ.jpg)
What do you think?
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The blend of figure manufacturers works really well for the Starks - love the dire wolves as well.
I’ve always pictured the Northern Houses as much less uniform than the Southerners, based upon they’ve got more ground to cover, the weather being harsher, smaller runs of equipment etc.
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Ghost is a Bad Squiddo Fenris.
(https://i.imgur.com/SmiAhV8.jpg)
I've looked all over the Bad Squiddo site but can't find the wold mini, do you have a link please?
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I've looked all over the Bad Squiddo site but can't find the wold mini, do you have a link please?
Got it in a KS. Will have a look for you when I get home.
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Starks look really battle ready and true northern!
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Starks look really battle ready and true northern!
Even the musician looks like he’d nut a woolly mammoth.
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Nice work on those Starks! Those Claymore Castings infantry are pretty rad, I like how dynamically they're posed!
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Thanks everyone for the positive comments! Helps keep the motivation going.
@Akula: Really agree there about the uniformity. If I was going to go back and work on Lannisters I would want them all in the same gear, probably straight builds from the same kits.
@Dr De'ath: Found the link, Bad Squiddo Fenrir (https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Fenrir/p/102509302/category=28174965)
@HappyChappy: Agree, love Claymore. The sculpts are some of the best I've had from any company or game, and they just get better and better. If you go back a bit, I used a lot of parts from their one mounted set to build my Lannister knights.
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Thought I'd get a quick shot of the full force. As you can see I've rebased most of the models posted previously in the thread.
(https://i.imgur.com/teA5epA.jpg)
Now onto some light cavalry. I've taken some of the builds I posted earlier, and decided to do a unit of all clansmen, so Wulls, Liddles and so on.
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Splendid 8)
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Lovin. This thread, look forward to seeing your take on the clansmen
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Nicely done! Really impressive to see the full force arrayed together!
(Also those wolves are HUGE)
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It's strange how I much prefer your conversions to the "official" ASOIAF miniatures line. The ASOIAF minis are lovely sculpts in their own right, but yours have a lot more soul to them and each soldier is clearly an individual - that's something really special especially when found in a "horde" army like this one.
Regrettably I have to say that I may steal the idea for using Fenrir models from Bad Squiddo from you. They're fantastic and have a lot of presence.
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Thank you!
Go ahead and steal any idea you like. Only one wolf is Bad Squiddo, the other two are Dire Wolves from Otherworld Miniatures.
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"The quarrelsome clans of the rugged northwest are a hardy people who, like other northmen, claim descent from the First Men and worship the old gods. There are roughly forty mountain clans, large and small, the most prominent of which are the First Flints, the Wulls, the Norreys, the Burleys, the Harclays, the Liddles, and the Knotts. The most powerful of the clans are the Wulls.
The Flints and Norreys live closest to the Gift, and are thus the most exposed to wildling raiders who cross the Gorge. Clan Norrey in particular is a noted friend of the Night's Watch. Living along the Bay of Ice, the Wulls and other clans have also clashed with the ironborn in the past. These threats and their own inter-clan feuds have instilled a fierce martial spirit in the mountain folk.
In battle, clan champions fight with huge two-handed greatswords or axes and sometimes armor themselves with mail byrnies. The common men sling stones or wield staffs of mountain ash. Clansmen wear ragged skins and studded leathers. Some disguise themselves with leaves and brush for arboreal fighting. They breed hardy mounts in their high valleys and mountain meadows."
- A Wiki of ice and fire
I revisited some of my earlier Light Cavalry builds with the purpose of assembling a unit of ten light cavalry. In 9th Age the list I'm looking at can only field light cavalry with spears, not bows.
I put together a couple of more of Gripping Beast's Dark Age cavalry and found that with some headswaps they are really nice. The horses are a little smaller, but work for hardy mountain ponies. There are also a couple of Fireforge bodies and two Bad Squiddo shieldmaidens in there. The painting is not my best work, but it will do the job on the tabletop.
What do you think?
(https://i.imgur.com/Kp6Kvm3.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/HiSmrbG.jpg)
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I think they really look the part
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Very nice!
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Very nice work! Though I just noticed the duck on the front guy's base, what an adorable lil' guy
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So after a little bit of worry, my Perry Agincourt knights turned up. I may have bothered the Perrys about delivery for no reason, just didn't get a shipping notice.
Either way, I've set about making another unit of Northern heavy cavalry. These will be House Stark household heavy cavalry, so knights, minor nobles and well equiped retainers from Winterfell. This way I will have a unit of 10 White Harbor knights and a unit of 10 Winterfell heavy cavalry. These don't get barding as the northern houses don't really care for southern knightly fashions.
These first two are almost straight builds from the Perry box, righty has arms from the Light Cavalry set:
(https://i.imgur.com/26wnJyX.jpg)
And the left one here has a Conquest head frankensteined onto a Perry body. Captain Blood of course came up with the idea to trim Perry heads down to the gorget to get a bare head onto the 100YW bodies. The other is a straight build, but I put plate arms onto the gambesson body to make a heavily armoured freerider or soldier.
(https://i.imgur.com/4pYyWNS.jpg)
These two are a little more involved. I cut the legs from Fireforge bodies, and took the greaves of two Perry legs to make greaved and surcoated bodies. Works decently in my opinion. The one on the right has arms from Perry WotR Light Cavalry. Lefty has a cloak from the Frostgrave female soldiers and Perry 100YW arms.
(https://i.imgur.com/ccKlU8G.jpg)
Lefty here is simply a Fireforge body with Perry arms. Right is a light cavalry body with 100YW arms and Fireforge head and cloak.
(https://i.imgur.com/Q8MZOcb.jpg)
What do you guys think about these?
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These are some good builds! How do you find the greathelms fit on the Perry bodies by the way?
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Takes some work. The 100YW bodies have the gorgets or great bacinets, so haven't really tried to work with those. The WotR bodies have separate heads, but a different neck joint, so you need to put something in there to fill some space. I use a thin slice of ~2mm plastic rod. The helms are also pretty large, but then, they are great helms so I think they look fine.
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They certainly look the part...must get myself some of the latest Perry offering
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And here they are painted! Just need to do sigils on the shields and snow on the bases, but I was out of patience for the first and out of snow flock for the second.
The models posted above are joined by Rob Stark, seen earlier in the thread who's a Perry WotR MAA with a Fireforge cloak and a Warlord celt head. The bearded knight is also a build from earlier, but I swapped his arms for new ones from the Agincourt set. All in all, a ten man unit for Oathmark or 9th Age.
(https://i.imgur.com/c92zuMU.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/UgomBis.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/wzXuNur.jpg)
What do you think?
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You didn’t hang around with those.
Great job, they fit the bill - will look even better with the wolf sigil
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I've been really enjoying painting units since converting this to a mass battle project. 45 models painted in January just for this, plus a a few random models and a game table built for Rangers of Shadow Deep is probably a record.
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they look fantastic :-*
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Wow! You got them done quick! They've turned out great!
I really like the gradient effect you've got on the shields too
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Thank you! Did a tiny bit of two-brush blending, but it's not a technique I'm super comfy with.
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Bloody hell. You really don’t hang around, do you?! lol
Good job.
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Some fantastic work there sir!
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Thank you both. Really happy with how this is coming along, and there are just more and more great models being released.
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Just a couple more Perry/Fireforge mashups. I envision this unit of House Mormont not-quite light cavalry, who patrol Bear Island and brutally beat up any Wildling raiders they encounter. Might add fur to these later. What do you guys think? Fur or no fur?
(https://i.imgur.com/AM8gXsG.jpg)
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They look great!
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How about a compromise, fur round the neck and shoulders and a normal clock thereafter?
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The cavalry look great so far!
As to the fur/no-fur question, the two chaps on the left with the Perry torsos look pretty bundled up already, so could do some fur on the other guy and cloth on the more padded ones?
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Fur...lots of fur....they could be wearing a bear - Happychappy has got Ramsey Bolton wearing someone’s face after all
;) lol
Personally, for some of the Northern Houses, Starks included, I think fur is more of a luxury for the officers/nobles, but given the Mormont’s sigil, location, and that mounted troops tend to be regarded of higher station than the poor plebs given a spear and a shield, I’d give them some fur.
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Got a whole unit built now, just need to do the last greenstuff work. Will probably end up putting some fur on them.
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So here's where we ended up on the Mormont outriders. They will be joined by two character models to make a full unit of ten. I did a couple of headswaps on some Perry bodies, and then the biggest conversion is the female rider on the left. She has a torso cut from a Shieldwolf body attached to the legs of a Perry knight. The arms are from the Light Cavalry set, but the axe is from the Shieldwolf Shieldmaiden kit. The head is a Statuesque bald head that I greenstuffed some hair on. Had to bend her cloak to fit over the back of the horse.
What do you think?
(https://i.imgur.com/viCdtPf.jpg)
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Very effective & some tidy puttywork
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Excellent builds there! Can't wait to see them painted!
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They look great!
Speaking of quasi-medieval cavalry, most plastic horses look good but a bit too generic. It's too bad there are so few really meaty chargers with shaggy pastern because they look really good for Northern knights. I have a few eBob destriers which I am saving for my Glovers and Forresters.
The Swedish 'Nordsvensk' or the Norwegian 'Dölhäst' embodies much of of what I am thinking of, even if they are bed for dragging timber rather than war (well, the Swedish alpine jägers , 4th dragoons, used them well into the 50s, but probably not for charges).
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/D2X7498-markiz-memeliz-henry-von-platen.jpg)
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Thank you! Agree on the horses Hammers. I did add some extra fluff around the hooves of my early northern cavalry, but it was a pain in the butt so I haven't done it to these. Incidentally, that is pretty much the exact colour I was going to try for this unit.
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Took some photos for another place, and it occured to me that there are a few things that I haven't shown here.
The dismounted Brienne here is previously unposted; she's a Hasslefree mini:
(https://i.imgur.com/PeP2s7R.jpg)
There's at least one new Claymore french man at arms in here:
(https://i.imgur.com/cN71FxJ.jpg)
And this is what the White Harbor knights look like at their full strength:
(https://i.imgur.com/saCALiT.jpg)
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Nooicee 8)
Must add some Claymore Castings to my paint table.
Yet again, i wish we could get all of these different GoT projects in one place at one time.
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Nice work! Love how dynamic the Claymore MAA poses are!
And I only just noticed the *powerful* mustache on the guy behind Brienne!
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Thanks guys, can't recommend Claymore enough, I could've happily built an army from just them.
HappyChappy: That's one of the Manderly brothers. His mounted brother also sports a gentlemanly mustache:
(https://i.imgur.com/cwoJpuF.jpg)
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Amazing work since I've been away attending to RL demands. You are prodigious!!!
What system do you game with? KOW?
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Thank you! I intend to play with Oathmark from Osprey when it comes out later this year. Written by Joseph McCullough of Frostgrave fame.
In the meantime, I have had a few games of 9th Age quick starter rules. They released a northern themed army list with giant wolves, so easy fit there.
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Thank you! I intend to play with Oathmark from Osprey when it comes out later this year. Written by Joseph McCullough of Frostgrave fame.
In the meantime, I have had a few games of 9th Age quick starter rules. They released a northern themed army list with giant wolves, so easy fit there.
Will be interested to see how they operate - I’m after a simple fast play set myself.
:)
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Not been as productive in February as January, despite a week long holiday. Did finally manage to finish these though, Mormont outriders.
As you can see they have been joined by two characters, Bad Squiddo's lovely Lyanna Mormont model and a ten year old Eowyn model. One of the first models I painted after getting back into wargaming as an adult. Still a paintjob I'm very happy with, though I have touched up a few spots. Mostly as an excuse to field the model I figure she could be say Alysanne Mormont, middle sister to Dacey and Lyanna. Still alive in the books as far as I recall.
(https://i.imgur.com/kUkrBUb.jpg)
What you think?
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They gel really well as a unit - I’d missed the lady Mormont figure...now added to my next shopping list.
8)
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Agreed, they look great together as a unit! And the choice of shade of green really stands out, well done!
I missed him before, but is the guy to Eowyn's right one of the new Perry HYW plastics, but with a Light Cavalry head? How did you find the head fit on him? Was a lot of cutting and filing needed?
Keep up the great work!
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No, it's a light cavalry body with Agincourt arms. Forgot to mention it (just plain forgot about it) in the build post. In the back row are two head swapped Agincourt models, but they use larger heads from Oathmark/Fireforge. It's doable but better if you plan on covering the join with a cloak or fur collar or something.
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A splendid body of men. And women.
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Thank you Captain!
Oh and HappyChappy, the base for the green is P3 Iosan Green, shaded with Scale75 Boreal Green and highlighted with a mix of Iosan Green and Wurm Green, also P3.
While not super keen on freehanding more bears, I am thinking I might go back in with some Boreal Green and paint outlines of pine trees on their shield. I had been thinking the Mormont coat of arms was a black bear on plain green, but going into the wiki it is listed as "Their blazon is a black bear over a green wood".
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Ah! Thanks for the explanation! The greens work really well, and I wouldn't worry about the bears if you're not super sold on the idea! They're pretty recognisably Mormonts, being visually fur-cloaked Northerners in green with women in their units sets them apart from the other houses as-is!
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Got some more work done. Painted up a bunch of northern Men at arms to fill out my units of heavy infantry.
First up, two banner bearers, one from House Locke of Oldcastle, and one Tallhart.
(https://i.imgur.com/afU4T02.jpg)
Five knights with shields, two Blackwoods, a Tallhart, a Flint (not the mountain Flints, but the Widow's Watch flints) and a Cerwyn:
(https://i.imgur.com/LbQd3RV.jpg)
And four with heavy weapons. A rare Crannogman fighter, a Hornwood, a Stark and another Cerwyn.
(https://i.imgur.com/1fH7CYQ.jpg)
Same mixes of Perry Agincourt, Fireforge Teutons and Claymore french as usual. The Tallhart banner bearer has arms from the Oathmark elf kit.
What do you guys think? I kind of want to make more Crannogmen. The official miniatures were just released, and they have a nice Ranger wibe to them. Thinking of using LotR gondorian rangers to make a unit of Crannogmen archers to kind of match that style. I just like painting forest green and hoods.
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Nice to see such a colourful array of Northmen (and a few Riverlanders)!
The LotR rangers would be a good fit for Crannogmen, especially given how most of what we hear about their style of warfare involves either spears (tridents?) or bows!
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Fantastic to see such a variety of Houses.
Rangers for Crannogmen sounds like a good idea.
:)
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You could also use ribaulds and kerns from Antidiluvian's (formerly Claymore) line
https://antediluvianminiatures.wordpress.com/2018/02/07/shop-historical-range/
I envision Crannogmen as more primitive looking than the GW Gondorian Rangers. But that's me.
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Thanks guys! Kerns is a good idea, but honestly I like the excuse to get to paint the Middle Earth Rangers. I've liked the look of them ever since I played the War of the Ring game a decade ago.
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nice additions
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Just a pair of midweek builds here, pre-greenstuff. Dug two generations of GW Empire spearmen bits out of my bits box, heads from the original '99 or '00 Empire Soldiers kit, and arms from the kit that replaced them, somewhere around what.... 2006? Stuck them on a pair of Oathmark bodies just to see how they would look. They may or may not end up in a unit of Spearmen from some of the smaller northern hourses.
(https://i.imgur.com/xtOWHfH.jpg)
Thoughts?
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Not too shabby! <nods approvingly>
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Size wise the parts look good together, but the tassels on the spears dont seem all that northern to me.
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Yeah, good point. Maybe that's why I can't make up my mind on these.
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Well I mean if you needed them more Northern, worst case, could always mold the tassels up a bit and paint them as rabbit pelts, like Benfred Tallhart's Wild Hares have on their spears, right?
I'm impressed how well the parts fit size-wise though! They're good kitbashes them!
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Size wise the parts look good together, but the tassels on the spears dont seem all that northern to me.
File. Them. Off.
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Just a pair of midweek builds here, pre-greenstuff. Dug two generations of GW Empire spearmen bits out of my bits box, heads from the original '99 or '00 Empire Soldiers kit, and arms from the kit that replaced them, somewhere around what.... 2006? Stuck them on a pair of Oathmark bodies just to see how they would look. They may or may not end up in a unit of Spearmen from some of the smaller northern hourses.
(https://i.imgur.com/xtOWHfH.jpg)
Thoughts?
They're looking very promising. Are those Empire plastic kits still available. That "jabbing" stance is very dynamic.
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I really like the stances too, maybe the tassles could work for another force, someone fancy and overdressed like the Lannisters or Tyrells?
Alternatively just replace the ends of the spears with Oathmark spears?
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Hammer, they might still be, I don't know. Think they are called Freeguild now, not Empire.
Might have a look at modding them on the weekend.
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Interesting update - I like the poses, the stance reminds me of the Bolton troops in the Battle of the B@st@rds. Would agree though that the tassles are a bit more softy southerner ...possibly even Dornish.
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Interesting update - I like the poses, the stance reminds me of the Bolton troops in the Battle of the B@st@rds. Would agree though that the tassles are a bit more softy southerner ...possibly even Dornish.
I would expect GW Empire troops to be slightly bigger than Frostgrave or Oathmark, right? The mashup looks quitr alright though.
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Yeah, I don't think you could put GW bodies in the same unit, but the right bits can work as the Oathmark bodies are fairly stout for their height. Sleeves look loose instead of oversized like they would on a Fireforge body.
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It's been a while since I posted to this thread, but that does not mean my Starks have been idle. We've been playing SAGA Age of Magic and the Great Kingdoms faction is great to model any Game of Thrones force. Maybe dull to play only GoT forces, unless you got some Wildlings or White Walkers but a great way to play weeknight games with the models.
Here's a shot from tonight's game:
(https://i.imgur.com/2K892xE.jpg)
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Welcome back! And nice to see your Starks in action!
How do you find AoM to play?
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Welcome back! And nice to see your Starks in action!
How do you find AoM to play?
I wrote a little reflection in the Age of Magic thread earlier this week, but in brief I really enjoy it. It changes up SAGA in a positive way, and we haven't found any terrible imbalances yet.
The dynamic of the game is a little different, there is more list building to ponder compared to the other universes, and magic is a little bit like rolling extra saga dice during the turn instead of at the start of the turn.
So far so good, people have had a good time coming up with themes for the different factions. I'm probably going to bash together a ranger style army over the summer holiday.
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My new Fireforge Northmen turned up the other day from their kickstarter. I got a bunch of boxes not knowing exactly what I wanted to do with them, but hey, plastics!
First impressions are alright, detail and sculpts are solid, better than other Fireforge offerings. However, I would have loved more choice of heads, and was a bit disappointed that they reuse heads between the infantry and cavalry especially. The size is better than I had hoped, I was worried they would be too big to combine well with Oathmark and Frostgrave, but they seem like they will do fine.
Overall I would say they are not quite up there with Victrix new vikings, but they are a step above Fireforge's old range.
I snapped some size comparisons:
Archers first, Perry Agincourt, Claymore Crecy English, Fireforge Northman, Frostgrave Soldier, Conquest Medieval Archer
(https://i.imgur.com/PhQO1Ui.jpg)
Cavalry:
Fireforge Templar with Perry arms, Gripping Beast Dark Age Cavalry, Fireforge Northman, Perry Agincourt Knight
(https://i.imgur.com/gLV9rW0.jpg)
Infantry:
Frostgrave Barbarian, Victrix Viking, Perry Agincourt French, Frostgrave Soldier, Fireforge Northman, Fireforge Teuton Infantry, Claymore Pavisier, Oathmark Human
(https://i.imgur.com/vSARyvs.jpg)
My first plan for these is to use the armoured horses and put Perry Agincourt knights on them. There are a number of snazzy cloaks in the Northmen kits that I'm eyeing for this unit as well. After that, we'll see. Probably a unit of spears.
Speaking of spears, I tinkered a little more with the Oathmark/GW Empire solider hybrids and replaced their spears with more regular looking ones.
(https://i.imgur.com/Qm9zNYH.jpg)
What do you think?
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Welcome back!
Thanks for the overview on the new Fireforge range, I was worried they'd turn out being a bit too chunky compared to the other plastic ranges!
I'm liking the Oathmark/Empire-spear lads, they've got a good militia/irregulars look to them, could probably even get away with using them as some of ol' Gregor Clegane's followers
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The poses are still great and the simpler spears are perfect :)
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I notice the Fireforge Northmen are about the same height as the Frostgrave and Oathmark humans...when the latter are on thicker basing. But then, the Northmen seem to have a better upright posture. It's still a little hard for me to tell.
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They are a little bigger, and noticeably wide across the chest compared to Oathmark/Frostgrave. Within my tolerance.
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First prototype of a new unit of Heavy Cavalry. Perry rider on Fireforge horse, with Fireforge cloak. Extra horse armour from the Perry agincourt set. Whadd'ya think?
(https://i.imgur.com/q2lsvwn.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/dAgMbS8.jpg)
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I like it! Is the padded horse-armour from the new Fireforge set too?
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Yeah, it's molded on the horses for the Northmen Cavalry. The chainmail is from the Perry kit.
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One more bits and pieces update; the Fireforge Northmen kickstarter included resin wolf head round shields and I bought a bunch of them just in case they turned out nice.
The resin from the kickstarter is very questionable, very soft and the character models have obvious 3d-printer lines still on the casts but the shields are fine. I decided to grab all the soldiers with heater shields and Schieldsmiede transfers, and replace them with Fireforge shields.
This is how they turned out, what do you think?
(https://i.imgur.com/DV1ekdD.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/BE2mgyy.jpg)
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Liking the shields, and they're looking good on the unit itself! Though, it might just be the lighting, but the wolf design itself might be a little dark, which hides the detail a little!
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Just came across this thread and what a great one. :-* :-*
Love the kitbashing and GS on your miniatures.
Will follow with great interest. :)
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Thank you!
HappyChappy, yeah, I can see that. The photos make it worse, but they are dark. Will have a think about some highlights.
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Love the new mounted figure, looking forward to seeing a whole unit of them.
The shields look the part on the northmen, but I’d echo HC’s comment about some highlights, great job though
:)
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The paintjob is a bit rough, and as I took these photos I spotted a couple of things that really need fixing but I'm calling it done. I've been using this in games for months now and not gotten around to finishing the paintjob, but this will do. I tried to paint it all assembled, which was a bad idea.
Either way, I'm happy with the build itself. It's a Warlord roman catapult, with some Perry english archer bits mostly.
(https://i.imgur.com/yuG2jo9.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/aLowU5i.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/XbTICLA.jpg)
What do you think?
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I like it! Definitely gets across the feel of the lighter sort of siege equipment you'd expect to see in the War of 5 Kings!
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Love it - reminds me, I need some crew for my catapult
:)
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Don't know how I haven't replied for a while, but really like the catapult. There's not enough good options for medieval-era siege artillery and you did a great job converting the Roman one with appropriate crew.
Also I love your unique take on the Forgotten World cavalry. Been working on something similar myself but combining it with the Perry barding was an inspired idea.
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Thank you all!
Knight-Captain Tyr, here I've been thinking about copying your take on the same models :D
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Nice one. I agree it works well for a field piece
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Now that round 4 LPL is on, here is my round 3 contribution. While the competition photo is dark, it also covers some sins of rushing these to finish on the deadline. I almost didn't make it into LPL at all, and as you can see in the second photo, they do need a good bit of touching up to be completely finished.
The models are Claymore's English Archers, the newer two sets. They have just shown another eight unique sculpts to be released, and I'll have to get those to round out the unit. A couple of Perry plastics and we should have a nice unit of 20 longbowmen.
I imagine these as a mix Crannogmen from the Neck, and huntsmen from the Wolfswood.
(https://i.imgur.com/e2TuZAJ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/gN8fQ8S.jpg)
What do you think?
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Excellent work, I love the sculpts on them! I was going to use some to represent Freys
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A great mix of poses and gear - lovely paint jobs as well
;)
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I love those Claymore miniatures, very dynamic poses.
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Great stuff, the use of the different period elements for the catapult set up is inspired 8)
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I like them. Very evocative sculpts from Mr Hicks, and I like the grungy peasant colours on them.
The catapult and crew are rather good too :)
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Thank you all!
Captain, I believe it's Matt Bickley who sculpts for Claymore, but nevertheless, they are wonderful sculpts. Eagerly awaiting the release of the next eight archers.
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Oh yes, of course it is! Doh. The talented Mr Bickley :)
I was momentarily seduced by the faces, which have that slightly pinched look of many of Paul’s sculpts.
Either way, they’re very nice figures :)
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Excellent stuff. How have you found the Perry plastics to compare to Claymore scalewise, if I may ask? Loving the muted earthern tones (but then I would...)
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I find they match up really well. They share very similar proportions as well. I snapped a couple of comparisons just for interest.
Perry Agincourt French/English, Claymore French Infantry
(https://i.imgur.com/o8W4YaQ.jpg)
Perry Agincourt English, Claymore English Archers
(https://i.imgur.com/fvWgxuL.jpg)
Claymore French Men-at-arms, Perry Agincourt and Perry War of the Roses Men-at-arms
(https://i.imgur.com/o4ydJTu.jpg)
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Going through some old photos, I never posted this little slice of life, did I?
Reckognize the building Knight-Captain Tyr? I still have one that I haven't bothered assembling.
(https://i.imgur.com/9DqUA4H.jpg)
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I've got a week's holiday at the moment and have been able to get a bunch of hobby done, so here's picture number three for today.
Loved Knight-Captain Tyr's take on Fireforge's Northmen, so I had a go myself and I'm really happy. Think I'll make a whole ten man unit of these.
(https://i.imgur.com/flJClEK.jpg)
What do you think?
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I like the look of it! At first I thought the Perry arms might be a little scrawny on the Fireforge body, but in retrospect they look fine, especially given how much padding is on the Northmen bodies! Looking forward to seeing more!
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Going through some old photos, I never posted this little slice of life, did I?
Reckognize the building Knight-Captain Tyr? I still have one that I haven't bothered assembling.
Assembling these was honestly one of the worst experiences hobbywise - all the more so since Norba use a really nasty type of resin I seem to be mildly allergic to. That said, yours seems to have gone together far better and more seamlessly than mine did - looks really good.
Cheers for the comparison pics. Might have tipped me toward buying a few of the Claymore range.
And the mounted knight looks excellent. Really nice work sculpting the furs - happy to have inspired :) Which House will they end up as?
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Thank you!
For the knights, I think they will be Starks. They would work well as Umbers or Karstarks, but I think I want a mounted Jon Snow to lead the unit so Stark is more natural.
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I haven’t got any of the FF northmen yet, but I like what you’ve done with that one...going to add some to my next order
:)
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Knight-Captain Tyr's excellent work with the Fireforge Northmen in his Black Order thread inspired me to get started on my own.
Previous units in this army have come about in a more ad hoc fashion, slowly building with what was released and became available. While the Northmen shouldn't be too uniform I wanted a little bit more in the ranks. I'm in the process of inventory and replacing some models from the other infantry units, but I've also build a new unit of spears.
For these I limited myself to three kits; Fireforge Northmen infantry, Oathmark human infantry and Victrix vikings. All the models in the unit wear some form of brigandine/coat of plates, and have the same model of spear which helps the uniformity. They will also all have round shields, but probably an even mix of wolf's head shields and plain rounds.
(https://i.imgur.com/BxxB7Bj.jpg)
One of the exceptions to the above kit limitations, the standard bearer has a Frostgrave Barbarian head:
(https://i.imgur.com/KwL0lmo.jpg)
Nine models using Fireforge bodies and arms with Victrix and Oathmark :
(https://i.imgur.com/Unxk1EM.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3KFdxqI.jpg)
And nine with Oathmark bodies, Fireforge arms and Victrix/Oathmark/Frostgrave heads:
(https://i.imgur.com/u8D6kbq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/qEz6eCn.jpg)
What do you think?
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I'm liking how the Victrix heads look on them! Out of interest, where'd the Resin officer chap come from?
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They are both from Fireforge's kickstarter with the Northmen. The quality has apparently been varied. Mine have visible 3d-printer striations on heads and cloaks and the weapons are soft to the point of useless but I have heard that quality has improved. The sculpts themselves are solid, just the casts and resin that's iffy.
Edit: It occured to me now that it's a kickstarter exclusive, so you won't find it on their store.
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A really effective looking mix
:)
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Fresh from competing in the LPL, five heavy Northern cavalry using Fireforge Northmen bodies, Teuton heads and Perry knight arms. I painted their shields grey, and the leader model dark haired and with black fur thinking he could represent Jon Snow mounted since my other Winterfell Knight unit is lead by Rob Stark. He is built from Fireforge's Young Wolf mounted, but with arms replaced and using plastic horse and legs instead of the resin. The resin horse could barely stand it was so wobbly.
Unfortunately I only snapped an unpainted picture without proper background, but you can see the build and the greenstuff work:
(https://i.imgur.com/BURB1H9.jpg)
And painted, slightly larger than LPL allows:
(https://i.imgur.com/ISjhQhZ.jpg)
What do you think?
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think they look fantastic !
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Agree completely, you’ve done an excellent job with the cavalry...makes me want to go and buy some of the new FF sprues immediately.
Have you thought about unit sizes or are you more focussed upon churning out more goodness?
:)
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Mostly I build for fun, but I am sticking to even fives because I believe that is what Oathmark will use. I have at least one opponent who may be interested in some mass battle at some point, but we're really just playing skrimish games at the moment so I have more figures than I ever use.
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Looking excellent! Keep it up!
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Just a quick size comparison for you guys. Got my Fireforge peasants delivered today, the second part of their kickstarter. Took a quick comparison with a Frostgrave soldier and an Oathmark human. The peasants are just slightly taller than Oathmark/Frostgrave, but share similar proportions and should mix well with those kits. I could easily see making an unarmoured warrior by combining Oathmark and Fireforge.
(https://i.imgur.com/Ww9iCXh.jpg)
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Very useful mate - thanks for posting
:)
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Height difference is barely noticeable with them based that way. Amazing what the thickness of a base can do. :)
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I got my Fireforge peasants and dead peasants last week, looks like I should pick up some frostgrave soldiers to kitbash them with.
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It rises from the dead! I have not painted anything Game of Thrones in a little while, been busy with SAGA and Oathmark projects. Managed to paint the next two packs of Claymore Castings english archers yesterday though, so now I have all 16 in that set painted. Absolutely brilliant sculpts from Matt Bickley.
The new models:
(https://i.imgur.com/H9vQUOF.jpg)
Whole unit:
(https://i.imgur.com/VQbPasA.jpg)
What do you think?
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Brilliant!
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Great brushwork!
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Oooh, I've been meaning to pick up a few packs of these archers! Thanks for sharing!
Though, given the wide stances they have, I'm guessing fitting them onto a 20mmx20mm base is a bit of a challenge!
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Those Claymore Archers are great additions to your project - excellent blend of colour choice
:)
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Oooh, I've been meaning to pick up a few packs of these archers! Thanks for sharing!
Though, given the wide stances they have, I'm guessing fitting them onto a 20mmx20mm base is a bit of a challenge!
Yes, they are tricky enough to rank up with my 25mm squares, 20 would take some serious planning.
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do like all those nice conversions, great job
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Missed the Longbowmen update! They look super. I've been tempted by Claymore for a while now. You make them look great, as usual.
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Thank you both! Always fun to see the old thread pop up on it's own. I have the next unit for this force on the painting table, but not sure when they will be done.
Missed the Longbowmen update! They look super. I've been tempted by Claymore for a while now. You make them look great, as usual.
I can not recommend them enough. Beside the quality of sculpts they also tend to have some very nice clean casts. There's a second cavalry set coming out soon that I am really looking forward to getting.
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There's a second cavalry set coming out soon that I am really looking forward to getting.
Excellent...hadn’t heard that, but will be on my ever expanding wish list as well
:)
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I said I had an update in the works, but it is not this one. This one is simply my attention deficit kitbashing addiction kicking in. Just got a fresh box of Perry Agincourt French that I have been intending to supplement and update my Stark infantry with so tonight I cracked that box open, grabbed a few other sprues from the shelf and set to work instead of working on the paint queue.
After the first build I decided that these guys will be a unit of House Tully infantry. Tried to keep them fairly uniform looking. Bits from Perrys various Agincourt sprues, both Oathmark Elf sprues and Fireforge's Teutonic Infantry.
(https://i.imgur.com/1nBiq4g.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/gPLTRcC.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/f7gxZTh.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/wr0PIzj.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/5JelHyb.jpg)
Thoughts?
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Looking good! The Oathmark arms seem to scale up with the Perry parts nicely, Fireforge arms seem to be a bit chunkier sometimes!
Looking forward to seeing them painted up! Which variant of the Tully sigil are you planning on using? The TV show seems to split the field horizontally, but the book one looks like it gets done vertically (at least according to World of Ice and Fire!)
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Great looking kitbashes!
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Thank you both! Hadn't yet considered the sigil when posting these as I have a few bits and bobs to paint first. I tend to stick to the Wiki of Ice and Fire in this project, which is book rather than show. Exceptions of course are the wolf head shields I got from Fireforge but that is more for convenience.
So yes, I will probably stick closer to the book sigil unless I decide on a simplified version of my own make.
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Those are perhaps some of my favourites of your recent work. Totally sold me on the Elf kit now. I had no idea the armoured arms would fit so well with Perry and Fireforge.
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Good to see you making more progress on your GoT project for a purely selfish point of view, it keeps me motivated as well :)
That is going to be a really impressive unit of Tully’s once painted up....a good choice of figures...they look like they mean business.
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Thank you both! Really love the little mini-community of Game of Thrones projects on here.
Anyway, here is the update that I had actually been working on for a little bit. As you may know by now I obsessively buy all Mat Bickley sculpts from Claymore, but he also makes a small range of 14th century Scots for Antediviluvian miniatures. I finally got around to ordering some during the spring and they arrived a while back and this combined with left over Claymore french gave me enough for a full unit of Spearmen. I needed some more Infantry for Oathmark anyway, as while my armies are lots of points I could use a bit more infantry for a solid centre.
These are painted as House Tallhart, one of my favourite vassals of House Stark, just because I really like their colours. First shown is the standard unit, then with alternative leader (for when I want a Champion instead of an Officer) and then just the Champion models. One of my absolute favourites of the Claymore foot knight range.
(https://i.imgur.com/pIrVDPt.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3mvsmX5.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/4JSdxdC.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/yKpwoDt.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hJReGbe.jpg)
What do you think?
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Looking good mate! Nice sculpts and good brushwork bringing them to life.
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They are great sculpts (I’ve got some of the Claymore ones in my paint queue, but haven’t bought any of the antediluvian ones yet), and your paint jobs really do them justice.
I see what you mean about the Tallhart colours...the black spears are striking as well.
:)
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Looks great! Really dynamic models!
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Oooh I like those. Lovely figures, lovely colours. Nice job sir.
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Looking good! Nice to see the Antediluvian Scots get some love, they're great sculpts!
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Thanks everyone, glad you like them.
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Damn these look great! Like the elf oathmark sword and shield combo when I can leave the wall again I'll put them on some southerners.
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Thank you!
Another mini update for today as I'm feeling productive. I liked the idea of having a Knight designated as Champion for the unit (in Oathmark Champions are basically upgraded unit leaders who are mostly just better at fighting) from the Tallhart crew, so I threw together a Tully Knight for their Swordsmen. A simple build really, Light Elf champion longsword put onto a French agincourt knight.
(https://i.imgur.com/zzEeWcv.jpg)
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Lovely.
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Really looking forward to seeing the Tully's painted! Looking great so far.
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Tullys are progressing, so should be able to show painted pictures soon-ish. For today I have a mini-update with one more House Tallhart spearman. When I first assembled the unit I ran out of spears so I used a Claymore Castings casuality marker to fill out the back row, a panicked soldier covering his face which I wasn't super happy with. Got some resupplies and converted this guy; Perry arms on an Antediluvian Scot body.
(https://i.imgur.com/P8x9wGu.jpg)
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Nice conversion!
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Tbh, it hadn’t even occurred to me to convert any of the metal claymore/antediluvian metal figures, so busy have we all been with plastics, but it looks great
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Tbh, it hadn’t even occurred to me to convert any of the metal claymore/antediluvian metal figures, so busy have we all been with plastics, but it looks great
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To be honest I accidentaly broke his arm of with a pair of pliers trying to gently repose him. Necessity being the mother of invention and all that.
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And here we are, the Tullys are completed. I went with a simplified take on the book coat of arms.
(https://i.imgur.com/Fg5v2mb.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/j01ouzV.jpg)
I see there being three distinct groups in this unit, first the old guard who were soldiers already before the war. These have good quality castle forged weapons and heavier armour:
(https://i.imgur.com/UEcJakL.jpg)
The second group was levied at the beginning of the war, they have decent equipment with chainmail or gambessons:
(https://i.imgur.com/9o2EwnJ.jpg)
And the last group are the newest recruits, happy to have a helmet and a mail hood:
(https://i.imgur.com/9aBbl3b.jpg)
And as shown before I made a Knight for these as well, for when I want a Champion to lead them:
(https://i.imgur.com/qD5PxZ2.jpg)
What do you think?
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They look great! And I really like the 'chronology' of the different levels of experience in there too, for a nice bit of worldbuilding!
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Wow! They look amazing! And, yeah i love the story in the regiment! Have you thought about paiting up some of the Tully characters? (or maybe they are hidden somewhere in your previous pages?)
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Yet another brilliant concept and execution. I really like your train of thought on these. And as usual, great kitbashing.
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Excellent work - the simplified sigil makes sense, easily identifiable and mass produced in an age before props departments.
I like the thought thats gone into the distinctive kit and experience of the figures...a nice touch.
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Thanks guys! Really happy with these.
@Lau: This is my frist real foray into the Riverlands except these two House Blackwood knights that I did last year. May do some Tully characters, maybe a Blackfish at some point but no plans right now.
(https://i.imgur.com/LbQd3RV.jpg)
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The regiment looks great, I really like the striking blue and red.
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No real update today, just a little comparison post. I bought a proper lightbox the other day and set it up to test. This is a quick shot with minimal fixing, only cropping and slightly upping the gamma. I think it does a better job of showing all the figures in the unit, but maybe colours are not quite as bright as before?
(https://i.imgur.com/1VOSYIV.jpg)
What do you think?
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Scratch that, here is a small update for today. Going to go back and redo some of the old units for the Starks to make sure we have a more consistent look. Some of these builds and paintjobs are five years old and it is starting to show. I was not used to 28mm really when I started this thread.
In short I need a few more Spearmen to have a unit of 20 that I can be happy with, and I came to the conclusion that my favorite kitbashes from the old unit were Oathmark bodies with Perry bits, and I needed a few more to make up numbers.
Really happy with the middle guy especially. All of them are Oathmark bodies with Perry French arms, heads and bits.
(https://i.imgur.com/FeDAafx.jpg)
Thoughts?
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The Oathmark bodies are slowly growing on me, although they seem a little short sometimes next to some of the more upright Fireforge bodies - they certainly seem t work well with Perry’s, as you’ve demonstrated ably again today.
The middle one is my favourite as well...has that tired looking posture of someone that has been on guard duty all night in the freezing cold/rain.
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The Oathmark bodies are slowly growing on me, although they seem a little short sometimes next to some of the more upright Fireforge bodies - they certainly seem t work well with Perry’s, as you’ve demonstrated ably again today.
The middle one is my favourite as well...has that tired looking posture of someone that has been on guard duty all night in the freezing cold/rain.
I quite like them and have gone through almost two boxes by now. A little short next to many others but not so as to be a problem in my opinion, they look fine as short and stocky dudes.
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The Oathmark bodies are slowly growing on me, although they seem a little short sometimes next to some of the more upright Fireforge bodies - they certainly seem t work well with Perry’s, as you’ve demonstrated ably again today.
The middle one is my favourite as well...has that tired looking posture of someone that has been on guard duty all night in the freezing cold/rain.
Definitely agree, I was skeptical of them at first, but seeing them in-use with other kits, and painted up has really warmed me up to them!
(Thanks for showcasing them Ogrob!)
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Really happy with the middle guy especially. All of them are Oathmark bodies with Perry French arms, heads and bits.
Thoughts?
I saw these and went straight to ebay to get myself a couple of those Perry sprue's to splice with my Oathmark stuff, so I'd say it works :D
Also - great thread, so many amazing things to see - I need to go back through it for a closer look!
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Started working again after a long summer holiday so productivity has been a bit down but I did manage to finish the additional spearmen I mentioned last page.
Only managed passable photos of how the whole unit turned out. I am still learning to use my new light box, it seems to pack a good deal more light than the last one as photos came out rather overexposed. Still, should be excellent when I get the hang of it.
So, this is what the unit of Stark spearmen now looks like. I kept the models I was happiest with and made some new ones to bring them up to strength. Most of them are Claymore French pavisiers, with some Oathmark/Perry kitbashes mixed in.
(https://i.imgur.com/RF1sFmc.jpg)
Thoughts?
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I really like your shields, even the ones without the direwolf look the part 8)
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I really like your shields, even the ones without the direwolf look the part 8)
Thank you! The direwolf ones are Fireforge resin bits but the resin is so hard to get paint to stick to that I've gone with plastic round shields for newer models.
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Thank you! The direwolf ones are Fireforge resin bits but the resin is so hard to get paint to stick to that I've gone with plastic round shields for newer models.
I’m guessing you’ve already tried washing the resin shields in soapy water (to get rid of any release agent)?
If that didn’t work, have you tried a light coat of Matt varnish spray, and then applying a primer? Might sound daft, but that has worked for me in the past.
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Looking good!
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They look great!
I’m guessing you’ve already tried washing the resin shields in soapy water (to get rid of any release agent)?
If that didn’t work, have you tried a light coat of Matt varnish spray, and then applying a primer? Might sound daft, but that has worked for me in the past.
I've not tried that before, I'll have to give that a shot as well!
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I've not tried that before, I'll have to give that a shot as well!
Me either, will definitly give it a go. Thanks Akula!
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Me either, will definitly give it a go. Thanks Akula!
Try it on a couple of shields, rather than a whole regiment...I’d hate to be accused of turning your prized builds into molten slag.... ;) :D
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Been a very slow autumn for me as far as hobbying goes. I've been playing less and painting has been almost non-existant.
However, I did find myself at the hobby desk for a bit today and had a bit of an idea that I liked well enough to photograph and post here. In an earlier post I showed a unit of spearmen mostly made from Antedlivian scots, and that same company has four Scottish knights that I grabbed at the same time. Pike equipped knights doesn't really work for me though, so I had a go at putting some Perry arms on one of the bodies.
(https://i.imgur.com/jwqWLVQ.jpg)
I think he looks pretty decent, what do you think?
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Nice cavalry.
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I'd say the kitbash looks good!
And agreed, as much as I love the sculpts, I'm not sure where I'd field the pike-armed knights! The Perry arms make a good fit in that case!
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Love it!
Slightly biased, as my guys have lots of similar conversions, but I think it'll really suit your style - keen to see him painted. As ever, enjoying your work!
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That's a very effective conversion! The pose looks great, as if he's bracing himself to hack the legs from a charging horse coming his way.
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Thanks guys, pretty happy with him. One of the other poses felt like it would be pretty workable for this treatment as well:
(https://i.imgur.com/7ZyK12J.jpg)
What house do you think they should be from?
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The foot knight conversions are lovely! Really good idea.
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Love the conversions mate, look forward to more.
What house do you think they should be from?
Interesting combo of kit, they cry out the Stormlands for me 8)
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Beesbury was the first house which came to mind.
Otherwise Dondarrion, Dayne or Connington
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Hello again! Small update as I plug away at random models. These are four Scottish archers from Antediluvian miniatures, sculpted by Matt Bickley.
They will join my 16 claymore english archers, also sculpted by Matt, in this unit of 20 human rangers for Oathmark. Styles are not an exact match, but close enough.
I see these as men recruited from the hunters and trappers of the Wolfswood. They wear more natural colours to distinguish them from the uniformed Archers.
New additions:
(https://i.imgur.com/pW4ux3Z.jpg)
Whole unit:
(https://i.imgur.com/xagyQoN.jpg)
What do you think?
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Nice work, and they look good as a unit (obviously helps that Matt sculpted them all)
I really like that subdued almost purple brown as well
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Got these three finished as well, three more Bickley Scots. Two have had their arms swapped for Perry agincourt bits. Ended up painting these as Starks and a Karstark.
(https://i.imgur.com/iLBXR5G.jpg)
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Great work! I particularly like those archers!
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Great work! I particularly like those archers!
Agreed! Excellent work!
The Agincourt arms on the foot knights work really well too!
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Those are really great looking archers! Antediluvian and Claymore both have beautiful sculpted archers.
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Thanks all! Akula, the purple brown is scale75s red leather, quite a nice shade indeed.
Those are really great looking archers! Antediluvian and Claymore both have beautiful sculpted archers.
They do indeed! Matt has also done some lovely Saxon archers for Footsore which I have just started painting.
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As ever, you've done a super job with those guys. They really fit your painting style, I'm more and more tempted to jump in on them.
Did you ever play a game called For Honor? The rightmost knight looks very similar to the Warden from that game (only with a polearm, not a longsword).
Looking forward to seeing more :)
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Nice painting. Those archers are especially good.
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As ever, you've done a super job with those guys. They really fit your painting style, I'm more and more tempted to jump in on them.
Did you ever play a game called For Honor? The rightmost knight looks very similar to the Warden from that game (only with a polearm, not a longsword).
Looking forward to seeing more :)
Not played the game, but with a quick google I can definitly see what you mean.